Researchers and biotech companies are bringing a universal flu vaccine closer to reality.
Researchers and biotech companies are bringing a universal flu vaccine closer to reality.
A conservative republican, and supporter of research, will be the chair of the House appropriations committee that controls the budgets for the National Institutes of Health.
Experts in Washington have reached an agreement over how to fund avian influenza research.
This year, US politics was dominated by the run-up to October elections, with science policy issues playing a role here and elsewhere around the world.
Advocacy groups are petitioning Congress to avoid sequestration, which could leave funding for science billions of dollars short in 2013.
Fat cells behave differently in obese individuals, causing inflammation and insulin resitance.
In the wake of Hurricane Sandy, climate scientists should make their consensus about climate change known to all who care to listen.
The healing powers of maggots may lie in their secreted proteins, which restrain the human immune response.
Adipose tissue plays an immune role in individuals of normal wieght.
A bill that would increase visas for foreign-born, US-trained science and engineering graduates passes in the House, but is unlikely to get through Senate.