culture, policy

A year’s worth of noteworthy quotes

Following natural disasters or violent political turmoil, DNA science can help identify victims. But what if a country can’t afford the technology?

Why so few scientists make the leap to policy-making positions, and why more should give it a try

The crucial importance of language in the debate over the regulation of direct-to-consumer genetic tests

As federal budgets tighten, the US government is getting serious about enforcing reporting and administrative rules that accompany academic grants.

An advisory committee urges the federal funding agency to take steps to counter racial bias in the granting process.

The UK government releases its recommendation that open access be “the main vehicle for the publication of research,” though it warns of the costs that could entail.

A new law opens the door to teaching creationism and climate change denialism in the state's public schools.

The 2009 stimulus funding channeled into the National Institutes of Health helped put scores of researchers and their support staffs to work.

A draft 2012 spending bill would cut the maximum salary paid to biomedical scientists by grants from NIH, CDC, and other federal agencies.

As Congress prepares a strategy to trim the national deficit by more than $1 trillion over the next decade, legislators suggest cuts to government research.

Investing more federal dollars in life science research may save the US economy.

Government and industry are the biggest funders of research, basic and otherwise. Here is how science funding in the US and European Union has shaped up in the past two and a half decades. 

History repeats itself, and so do trends in research funding.

A selection of quotes from past issues of The Scientist.

America's key federal biomedical research agency officially releases its new policy on conflicts of interest.

A new study reveals that African American researchers are 10 percent less likely to receive funding from the federal agency than their white peers.

Administrators have taken over US universities, and they’re steering institutions of higher learning away from the goal of serving as beacons of knowledge.

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.

The path to eradicating malaria in Africa involves much more than just a vaccine.