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An Illinois judge cleared the way for a couple to sue a Chicago fertility clinic for wrongful death after clinic workers accidentally disposed of a healthy embryo.

Intramural researchers suggest fewer restrictions on consulting and stock ownership

Overseas students to start benefiting from changes to employment contracts

German agriculture minister called a halt to studies into the safety of modified crops

President's 2006 budget would cut such spending at DOE by two thirds

Staff members praise British mediator's fairness in report on relocation row

Winner of prestigious German scientific award under scrutiny after anonymous allegation

Endocast studies suggest that overall brain shape of Homo floresiensis resembles Homo erectus

Study by Chandra had been questioned since 2003

758 microbiologists sign letter saying basic research at NIH is being compromised

Handover is unlikely to resolve scientific and ethical issues over Homo floresiensis

Biologists often get angry about the publication of studies defending "intelligent design," the notion that biochemical systems could not have been produced by evolution because they are "irreducibly complex," and as such, must have been "designed" by an unknown entity.