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A Case Western dermatologist has admitted to plagiarizing a grant she reviewed, plus taking text from eight research papers and a patent application.

Progress in science is dependent on the diversity of its workforce.

A new report details the ways in which the federal science agency boost the US economy by stimulating the private sector.

A new working group is seeking to define rigorous standards for the study of mesenchymal stem cells.

Congress subcommittees have proposed increased funding for NIH and NSF.

The NIH will significantly reduce the use of chimpanzees in biomedical research and retire the majority of its chimps to sanctuaries.

Scientific societies in Japan contend that a plan for an NIH-like agency to oversee the country’s science ministries will squash basic research.

Academic scientists and the pharmaceutical industry will collaborate on a new program to speed up the drug development process.

A proposal to grant captive chimpanzees the same endangered species status as wild chimps could hamper medical research.

Following criticism of a National Cancer Institute communications office budget, biologists defend the spending.

The NIH remains a Caucasian-dominated workforce. Why haven’t the agency’s efforts to diversify been successful?

Rules regarding the use of cells derived from human embryos will deny many US researchers the chance to study new stem-cell lines created by cloning.

Top brass at the US science agency aired monetary grievances before a Senate committee last week.

HHS tells an open-access publisher to stop using the NIH, the names of its employees, and its scientific literature databases in a “misleading manner.”

The agency released details of the sequester’s effects.

Ten fresh faces will join the panel of experts that helps identify areas of emerging scientific opportunity.

Representative Lamar Smith (R-TX) is writing legislation to change the rules of the NSF’s grant review process.

Researchers welcome a new ruling saying that financial holdings will no longer need to be published in an online database.

Crowds flooded into a Washington, DC, park to protest NIH budget cuts and rally for greater investment in potentially life-saving biomedical research. 

A study concludes that the open access repository is decreasing biomedical journal readership.