Michael Wigler made a series of important discoveries that had major impact on the progress of modern molecular biology and genetics during the last three decades. He participated in the early experiments that allowed the transfer and stable...

John Banville's Ghost Story AXEL PROSE SHROUD By John Banville Knopf, 256 pp., $25 John Banville's 13th novel begins where Nietzsche's intellectual life ended: in Turin, where in 1889 the philosopher suffered an irreversible nervous collapse. One hundred years later, the...

The tea leaf readers at Pat McGovern's International Data Corp. feel that the star of Axel Leblois, the fair-haired French import who seemed to occupy the No. 2 spot at the company, has lost some luster of late. A series of management changes carried...

Recent winners of the Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine, and their research, according to the Nobel Foundation:_ 2006: Andrew Z. Fire and Craig C. Mello, of the United States, for their work in controlling the flow of genetic information._ 2005: Barry J. Marshall and...

Recent winners of the Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine, and their research, according to the Nobel Foundation:_ 2007: Mario R. Capecchi and Oliver Smithies of the United States and Martin J. Evans of the United Kingdom, for their discoveries leading to a powerful technique...