Diet-related illnesses are some of the biggest killers today. Can we tailor our food intake to prevent these diseases? Large international projects are underway to find out.

Research on the contents of milk and how breast-feeding benefits a growing child is surprising scientists.

International negotiators did what they needed to do in Canc

We need to break with the past to develop new medicines, says Garret FitzGerald. An interdisciplinary NIH centre points the way.

Irresponsible policies could cause an epidemic of malignant lung disease. (Editorial)

To learn the chemical language of plants, Ian Baldwin has built up a German research empire that engineers seeds

Cancer epidemics in Turkey could hold the secret to staving off a public health disaster in North Dakota.

Hybridization in polar species could hit biodiversity hard, say Brendan Kelly, Andrew Whiteley and David Tallmon.

On the basis of projected losses of their essential sea-ice habitats, a United States Geological Survey research team concluded in 2007 that two-thirds of the world

Germany must better explain the scientific use of animals to remain a major biomedical force. (Editorial)