More than 100 researchers have left a neuroscience institute in Brazil in the last couple of weeks, protesting managerial problems they say are thwarting their work.
More than 100 researchers have left a neuroscience institute in Brazil in the last couple of weeks, protesting managerial problems they say are thwarting their work.
Researchers identify an antibody profile that may mark patients who suffer persistent symptoms of the tick-borne disease.
The United Kingdom is revamping its intellectual property laws for published research.
The Nobel Prize winner who discovered the gene that encodes the major histocompatibility complex passes away at age 90.
A new educational framework swaps breadth of scientific disciplines for depth and emphasizes the process of science.
A snapshot of the most highly ranked articles in microbiology and related areas, from Faculty of 1000
| August 1, 2011
In Chapter 6, "Research and Teaching at the All-Administrative University," author Benjamin Ginsberg describes the perils of pursuing scholarship and teaching in the industrial environment of today's American institutions of higher learning.
Administrators have taken over US universities, and they’re steering institutions of higher learning away from the goal of serving as beacons of knowledge.
A young botanist pays tribute to his mentor by naming a newly discovered, rare species in his honor.