Celera Genomics Group

Twenty-five years after the discovery of the virus that causes AIDS, two French researchers were awarded the Nobel Prize in medicine yesterday for their role in that scientific breakthrough. Perhaps more notable than who won the award is who did not: Dr....

Mark DiGanci, Aberdeen: Which CEO (here or elsewhere) is considered to be the poster child of compensatory excess? Kohn: Lots of people look at "excess" in different ways. It's really not just a matter of the number of zeroes in an amount. As we...

The following firms were accused of making unlawful trades from 1999 to 2003 in more than 30 different stocks. The fines that each firm is paying both penalties and is disgorging, or giving up profits, they made on trades in question: · Bear Wagner...

Saying there is little chance of finding any more intact bodies in the World Trade Center wreckage, officials are gearing up for the largest forensic DNA screening operation in history, outstripped only by the decade long Human Genome Project. The...

The biotechnology industry raked in billions of dollars from investors last year as it basked in the spotlight of one of science's great achievements, the sequencing of the human genome. This year, investors will expect the industry to show what can be...

Q.:There was a big announcement in June that the rough draft of the human genome had been completed. What is different about this new announcement? A.: Last June the scientists said they had copied almost all of the chemical letters of the genome. Many...

Bearing hairbrushes, drinking glasses, chewing gum and electric razors once used by victims of the World Trade Center collapse, families by the hundreds have begun helping New York authorities with the largest forensic DNA identification project in...

NEW YORK - As boxes full of victims' toothbrushes travel to laboratories in Albany and the city medical examiner's office sorts through truckloads of remains, a vast and unprecedented DNA identification effort is beginning. Genetic testing has helped...

In a sign of their growing search for outside experts to combat the unfamiliar foe of bioterrorism, Bush administration officials on Thursday named a leading smallpox researcher to head a new office charged with preparing for biological attacks. The...

WASHINGTON -- Lt. Gov. Kathleen Kennedy Townsend collected an estimated $100,000 last night for her Democratic gubernatorial bid during a closed-door fund-raiser at the Washington home of her uncle, Sen. Edward M. Kennedy. "Teddy has been extraordinary...

As the bears mauled stock prices for a second consecutive year, The Courant 100 suffered its share of flesh wounds. The two largest companies bled about $84 billion in stock market value in the 52-week period ended May 17. The Courant 100, as a whole,...

For most of the last year, a white, two-story tent on a dreary side street near the East River has sheltered nearly 20,000 riddles. The 16 refrigerated trailers inside the tent have served as the temporary resting places for 19,906 bits of flesh and bone...