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Focus on environmental and medical research with a plan to boost research spending

Contract seen by some as a sign of developing countries move into research

Royal Society fears costs of animal "terrorism" will eat into research budgets

US Air Force workshop designed to improve accuracy of films and encourage science careers

Plans to raise licensing fees 30-fold will stifle embryo research, scientists worry

Two days into hearings by a federal grand jury that is considering bioterrorism charges against a Buffalo art professor, just one of the eight colleagues of the professor subpoenaed has actually testified. Federal prosecutors may also be looking into whether another person may have illegally supplied the Escherichia coli used in one of the exhibits.Steven Kurtz, an associate professor at the Buffalo campus of the State University of New York (SUNY), is being investigated because after he called

Plan includes more money and basic science funding based on excellence, not politics

Group from Newcastle has applied for license to do somatic cell nuclear transfer

Germany's contentious plan to challenge Harvard and Oxford nears approval

Attorney for Steven Kurtz says FBI is 'zeroing in' on anti-bioterrorism spending message

Journal withdraws study involving psychic researcher under house arrest from Web site

Index ranks Salk, EMBL, and MIT at the top, with biotech clusters linked to excellence