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Critics say government forced into allowing more time for discussion.

Microarray researchers support data-sharing but still struggle to fund repositories.

Annual increases put health agency on track to billion-dollar budget.

Scientists broadly support idea of new pan-European research body.

Advocates declare victory: NIH budget-doubling complete and NSF biology getting its due.

Spanish National Cardiovascular Centre launched amid uncertainty over leadership.

A job in the higher reaches of academia is good training for parliamentary life, if Ian Gibson, Labour Member of Parliament (MP) for Norwich North, is to be believed. Now chair of the House of Commons select committee on science and technology, Gibson was Dean of biological sciences at the University of East Anglia until his election to parliament in 1997. Ambition, he says, and back-stabbing are common to both.Yet it is hard to escape the conviction that Gibson revels in political life. It is a

Bigwigs urge new infrastructure and focus on finding and delivering health applications.

Select group of scientists sign-up to support teaching evolution.

Journal editors propose international guidelines to prevent publication of sensitive information.

Engineer and defense industry veteran tapped to manage DHS science

Carl R. Woese recognized for his discovery of the Archaea.