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Men received both more and larger grants than women did, ending up with three times as much funding on average.

The increase is associated with travel to Europe, where large outbreaks are occurring.

Alzheimer’s researcher John Hardy calls the departure “an unmitigated disaster” for science and healthcare in Britain.

Scientists in the U.K., in collaboration with members of the judiciary, have launched the first in a series of explanatory documents designed to help integrate science into the courtroom.

Watch Niamh Nic Daéid’s TedX talk about forensic evidence in the courtroom.

Tissue recipients were treated as “guinea pigs,” says investigation leader.

The $88 million agreement is part of efforts by the UK government to increase transatlantic collaboration as the country prepares to leave the European Union.

Some researchers have already been negatively affected by the U.K.’s decision to leave the European Union, though opinions on the eventual outcome remain mixed.

The government’s new position paper on science and innovation after leaving the E.U. takes a positive tone, but has frustrated researchers with its lack of detail.

Experiments involving animals dropped by more than 200,000, or 5 percent, in 2016.

Immunologist Mark Walport will shift from his position as chief science advisor to the UK government to head its new science funding agency.

Researchers in the U.K. report that badgers may be passing tuberculosis to farm animals not through direct contact, as was previously suspected, but through exposure to urine and feces.

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Researchers at the Francis Crick Institute in London will use CRISPR/Cas9 to modify genes in early human embryos.

A survey finds that arts, humanities, and social science faculty members in the U.K. engage more with the general public than their counterparts in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics.

An independent reviewer suggests that England’s seven research councils, which award government research funding, should be put under the umbrella of a new agency that would manage the grant money.

The British House of Lords has approved new rules regarding the creation of embryos using genetic material from three donors.