Will the recently launched Reproducibility Initiative succeed in cleaning up research and reducing retractions?
Will the recently launched Reproducibility Initiative succeed in cleaning up research and reducing retractions?
Giving researchers access to the health records of 52 million people in England could prove invaluable to biomedical scientists.
Reduced support from the US National Library of Medicine threatens to shut down five popular biological databases.
On the 10th anniversary of The Scientist’s survey of life science academics, institutions are contending with tighter budgets and larger administrative staffs, while working to sustain and inspire their researchers.
As we stand on the brink of a new scientific age, how researchers should best communicate their findings and innovations is hotly debated in the publishing trenches.
Facebook is considering allowing scientists to evaluate its user data without breaching its privacy policies.
How to get the most out of your collaboration with bioinformaticians
Growing databanks are invaluable to biomedical researchers, but patients are often unaware of what their information is used for.
The FDA and NIH dispute reports that clinical trial data is being under-reported.
More collaborators and more data are the key ingredients.