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This guide, adapted from AAMC, provides answers to frequently asked questions about M.D.-Ph.D. programs.

Workplace stress is intensifying in the sciences. Here are some ways of dealing with it.

The key to success is being flexible and open to change as well as having a collaborative spirit.

Presenting your work effectively is an important part of a scientific career, but dealing with the anxiety it provokes is rarely taught.

A developmental biologist turned design expert thinks there are better ways to present scientific information.

His daughter still in the embryonic stage, our columnist wonders whether it's too early to steer her toward a career in science.

Translational research programs bring together physicians, bench scientists, bioengineers, epidemiologists, patent experts, and more. The goal is learning to communicate across disciplines to achieve advances in health care.

Postdoc Liz Cirulli started out in plant genetics but now co-leads Duke's Centenarian Project, which aims to find gene variants that account for longevity.

Another needless death at a university research facility points up the scandal of lax safety standards in academe.

Read the full transcript of an interview with clinician-investigator David Solit of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York.

His unconventional training allowed theoretical condensed matter physicist Philip Phillips to tackle superconductivity using a novel and indirect approach.

Humor can be an added bonus in scientific talks, provided you know when and how to use it.

Training courses outline the challenges and opportunities in conducting cancer clinical trials.

With the dawn of personalized medicine, a burst of information has been brought forth that needs wrangling in order to advance cancer diagnosis and treatment.

An industry spokesperson claims the ghostwriting problem is fixed, but critics of the practice disagree.

Can young scientists publish without a mentor's support?

Need to find out who's who inside a company? Here's how the pros do it.

Biomedical ontology is growing as an informatics specialty, and ontologies are proving to be powerful software and data-mining tools.

It's not always clear how or where to share clinical data in a way that protects patients' privacy.

Can pretenured scientists blog about science without damaging their careers? It depends.