regulation, policy

Removal of the 14-day limit for culturing human embryos is one of the main changes in the revised recommendations from the International Society for Stem Cell Research.

A regulatory change initiated during the Obama administration appears set to be put into practice, allowing more than one supplier of cannabis research products.

The Trump-era regulation, which allowed certain studies to be downplayed in the development of environmental regulations, drew sharp criticism from scientists and environmental groups.

As COVID-19 therapies get emergency-use green lights, the Biden administration must organize a therapeutic review board to help identify what’s working and what’s not.

The International Commission on the Clinical Use of Human Germline Genome Editing claims the technology is still too risky for therapeutic use.

The US lacks standardized methods to assess products for potency and safety. That’s a big problem for the labs tasked with doing the testing.

Most of the panel’s members were appointed by the Trump administration.

The repeal will return the US to water standards from 1986.

After the release of an undercover investigation, Corteva Agrisciences announces it will release 36 beagles for rehoming.

The advisors’ recommendations follow news of ethically dubious gene-editing work carried out by He Jiankui late last year.

A newly expanded genetic alphabet that includes four synthetic nucleotides highlights the need for strict boundaries on their use.

Scientists say that increasingly rigorous licensing procedures have complicated research efforts—and in some cases, stopped experiments completely.

Becoming a neuroscientist with a service dog by your side presents numerous challenges. Joey Ramp, who went back to college to study her own post-traumatic stress disorder, is learning this the hard way.

Conceived as a way to resolve differences between government regulators and academics over the chemical’s effects, the CLARITY-BPA collaboration instead highlights divisions.

It will be more than a year before the agency institutes or rejects the controversial changes proposed by former EPA head Scott Pruitt.

Joey Ramp went back to college to study post-traumatic stress disorder. But the dogs that help her manage her own PTSD complicate her research career.

The European Court of Justice has decided that organisms made with precision techniques such as CRISPR will be subject to the same rules as transgenic plants or animals.

Reshaping how the Endangered Species Act is implemented is seen as a way to streamline bureaucracy, but critics of the plan say it will leave species at greater risk of extinction.

Opponents of the guidelines, which would bar results of many public health studies from use in policy making, include scientific and healthcare organizations.