academia, collaboration

In efforts to translate basic-science results into pharmaceuticals and other technologies, success cannot be taken for granted.

An exploration of the genetics of earlobe attachment is just the latest collaborative research project to come out of the personal genetic testing company.

Study finds that male full professors are more likely than high-ranking female academics to collaborate with more junior colleagues of the same sex.

While scientific output has suffered in evolutionary biology departments, individual researchers are churning out more than ever, thanks in part to geographically distant collaborations.

A report by a Canadian organization finds that industry-academia relationships compromise university investigators' liberty.  

Institutional funding and research support is critical to academics during this time of continued budgetary belt-tightening across government agencies.
 

Financial “conflicts of interest” should not be so quickly condemned. Industry relationships are unequivocally beneficial.

A judge says that government and university labs have to share the patent rights to the successful cancer drug Velcade.