Bamboo sharks still developing in their egg cases respond to a predator presence by ceasing movement and even breathing.
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Bamboo sharks still developing in their egg cases respond to a predator presence by ceasing movement and even breathing.
A conservative republican, and supporter of research, will be the chair of the House appropriations committee that controls the budgets for the National Institutes of Health.
Last minute legislation passed by Congress to avert immediate across-the-board budget cuts will not prevent major reductions in research spending.
Carl Woese, the discoverer of the third domain of life, has passed away at age 84.
Experts in Washington have reached an agreement over how to fund avian influenza research.
Advocacy groups are petitioning Congress to avoid sequestration, which could leave funding for science billions of dollars short in 2013.
The National Institutes of Health is considering a pilot program that would keep the identity of grant applicants hidden from reviewers.
Researchers are getting closer to detecting abnormal tumor DNA circulating in the bloodstream.
The National Institutes of Health will get tough on grantees who fail to comply with its open-access funding rule.
An estimated 360 million Euros from the coffers of EU research funding was spent mistakenly; auditors blame overly complicated funding rules.