Paul Berg

Property owners -- both residential and commercial -- can learn more about a Brownfield Community Assessment Grant that the city is applying for through the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency at a meeting Monday. The meeting will start at 6:30 p.m....

Nature took its toll on Lake County in 2007, sweeping away lives and homes with its violent winds and leaving thousands to walk the long road to recovery. It also was a year of explosive political and economic developments, as county commissioners raised...

For all the excitement, big questions remain about how to turn this week's stem cell breakthrough into new treatments for the sick. And it's not clear when they'll be answered. Scientists have to learn more about the new kind of cell the landmark...

Recent winners of the Nobel Prize in chemistry, and their research, according to the Nobel Foundation: * __ * 2006: American Roger D. Kornberg for his studies of how cells take information from genes to produce proteins. * 2005: France's Yves...

1865 Experimenting with common garden peas, Austrian monk Gregor Mendel shows how traits like color and height are passed from one generation to the next. 1868 Swiss scientist Fredrich Miescher discovers DNA — what he calls "nuclein" — in human pus...

On May 22, 1989, doctors at the National Cancer Institute in Bethesda, Md., hovered over the bedside of their patient, a 52-year-old man dying of cancer. A nurse hooked up a plastic intravenous bag containing a milky fluid. The man and his wife held...