Crowds flooded into a Washington, DC, park to protest NIH budget cuts and rally for greater investment in potentially life-saving biomedical research.
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Academic research universities and cancer centers will have a large hunk of their funding cut because of the government sequester.
Computer programs that trawl research papers can reveal important large-scale patterns and facilitate further research, but publishers are wary.
A new analysis suggests that only 14 percent of published biomedical results are wrong, despite prominent opinions to the contrary.
A National Institutes of Health working group urges the agency to send most of its chimpanzees to a national sanctuary and halt half of the experiments involving such animals.
Biomedical groups propose a simplified system for the disclosure of potential conflicts of interests.
A senior cardiovascular disease and diabetes researcher at the University of Kentucky has been found guilty of falsifying data over the past 10 years.
Lab inspection reports and internal documents reveal incidents involving the mistreatment of research animals at the University of California, San Francisco.
The closure of an independent biomedical research institute near Boston has drawn attention to the similar predicament of other private labs that rely on federal grants.
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