Experts in Washington have reached an agreement over how to fund avian influenza research.
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Advocacy groups are petitioning Congress to avoid sequestration, which could leave funding for science billions of dollars short in 2013.
New research suggests that some smokers may carry a gene variant that makes them less likely to quit simply because cigarette taxes are raised.
An official investigation into a controversial GM rice study carried out with Chinese schoolchildren has resulted in the removal of three China-based researchers.
The National Institutes of Health is considering a pilot program that would keep the identity of grant applicants hidden from reviewers.
A new initiative lead by the UK’s National Health Service aims to sequence the genomes of as many as 100,000 patients, a project that will cost £100 million.
A Chinese biotech company is angling to buy California-based Complete Genomics, but federal regulators are expressing security concerns and may scuttle the deal.
The Supreme Court agrees to hear a case deciding if two cancer genes should continue to be protected by patent.
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