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Reduced support from the US National Library of Medicine threatens to shut down five popular biological databases.

Researchers look to the emerging phenomenon of "crowdfunding" to pay for their work

The market for drugs that target rare diseases is expected to rival big pharma blockbusters in the coming decades.

Proposals from researchers receiving more than $1 million a year in NIH funding will be carefully picked over to avoid overlap with ongoing research.

The rise in the amount of federal money requested through research grants is due to a rise in the overall number of applicants.

The United Kingdom's Wellcome Trust announces that it will begin sanctioning researchers who do not submit manuscripts to the public UK PubMed Central database.

The Senate approves an increase of about 0.3 percent for the 2013 NIH budget, but the Department of Energy doesn’t fare as well.

A Texas cancer institute is taking a second look at the largest grant it ever awarded after concerns were raised that the proposal never received proper scientific review.

Plant research remains grossly underfunded, despite the demand for increased crop production to support a growing population.

A petition asking for online, readable publication of all government-funded research is making its way to the White House.

The University of Michigan is funding exploratory ideas that cross disciplinary boundaries with $20,000 a pop.

Aging satellites and NASA funding cuts threaten to put a serious dent in scientists’ ability to observe Earth’s processes from above.

Principal investigators with medical training have a slightly higher NIH funding rate than those with just a PhD.

Petitions asking for more funding for the federal research agency are gaining bipartisan support in both the House and Senate.

Congress sets aside a large pot of pork-barrel funds for research projects in 2012, but not nearly as much as seen in pre-recession years.

The Obama administration pledges $200 million for better ways of managing and extracting information from large data sets.

In the introduction to the book, author Marc J. Kuchner tells the story of how one scientist used tricks of the marketing trade to save the Endangered Species Act from the political axe.

The NIH plans an extra layer of review for scientists with at least $1.5 million in existing grants.

Graduate students ask for more federal research support.

Through a confluence of events, academic medical centers could lose 10 percent of their revenue in the coming years.