According to a new report, the US Fish and Wildlife Service ignored science advisors and shrunk protected habitats for endangered species from 2002 to 2007.
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The United Kingdom's Wellcome Trust announces that it will begin sanctioning researchers who do not submit manuscripts to the public UK PubMed Central database.
An advisory committee urges the federal funding agency to take steps to counter racial bias in the granting process.
A public interest legal group has renewed the fight against DNA patenting.
The UK government releases its recommendation that open access be “the main vehicle for the publication of research,” though it warns of the costs that could entail.
The Senate approves an increase of about 0.3 percent for the 2013 NIH budget, but the Department of Energy doesn’t fare as well.
A United Kingdom ethics council approves altering human egg cells, which could allow doctors to correct mitochondrial disease in IVF patients.
A petition to require researchers funded by US federal science agencies to share their results now has enough signatures to prompt a response from the White House.
A Texas cancer institute is taking a second look at the largest grant it ever awarded after concerns were raised that the proposal never received proper scientific review.
A postdoc at Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women’s Hospital is found guilty of falsifying his findings in a lung cancer study.
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