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The United Kingdom government has devoted £10 million towards the goal of making all of the research it funds open access by next spring.
The federal agency is shuffling around its programs to streamline management and promote international scientific collaboration.
Reduced support from the US National Library of Medicine threatens to shut down five popular biological databases.
With a cardboard box, a light source, and some filters, roadside clinics can accurately test for tuberculosis.
The market for drugs that target rare diseases is expected to rival big pharma blockbusters in the coming decades.
Proposals from researchers receiving more than $1 million a year in NIH funding will be carefully picked over to avoid overlap with ongoing research.
The rise in the amount of federal money requested through research grants is due to a rise in the overall number of applicants.
The first full computer model of a single-celled organism mimics the bacterium’s behaviors and paves the way to more complete disease models.
Rather than rely on plant-derived products, biotech companies are engineering bacteria and yeast to produce ingredients for fragrances.
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