science policy

February 2015's selection of notable quotes

The President requests $215 million to launch his push for personalized clinical care.

The President is launching a new initiative to help researchers and clinicians fully realize the dream of “precision medicine.”

But at least one science advocate isn’t buying it.

Grad students and postdoctoral fellows supported by US National Institutes of Health National Research Service Awards land a 2 percent stipend bump in 2015.

A new agreement in the European Union allows genetically engineered crops to be approved without member-state votes, likely allowing several GMO foods to enter the market.

December 2014's selection of notable quotes

Rush Holt, a research physicist and former teacher who is leaving the US House of Representatives, will become executive publisher of the Science journals.

Researchers in Europe are universally dismayed over the decision to eliminate the European Commission’s Chief Scientific Advisor role.

The president exercises his authority to expand an existing marine reserve, making it the largest in the world.

The US government releases its policy on so-called dual-use research involving dangerous pathogens that could be used for biological terrorist attacks.

Graduate students and postdoctoral researchers should be taking part in discussions on the future of biomedical research.

The federal agency will convene a two-day workshop in October to discuss the development of drugs to treat the issue.

So-called laboratory-developed tests will eventually face regulations similar to those that currently govern diagnostic tests or kits that are sold to hospitals.

Addiction is one among many potential adverse effects of the increasingly popular drug, according to the National Institute on Drug Abuse.

The U.K.’s human embryo research agency says that a new mitochondrial replacement technique is safe and could be approved soon, paving the way for three-parent IVF.

The National Science Foundation’s governing board calls for the easing of administrative requirements so that scientists can focus on their work.

Genome-wide effects of trisomy 21; RNA-based signs of transgenerational stress; depression and resilience; a call to overhaul US biomedical research system

Four prominent academics call for an overhaul of the US biomedical research workforce.

How to successfully inform policy when scientific evidence is not plainly evident.