Organizers continue to allocate funds and adopt guidelines, but some work has slowed due to pending lawsuit

Some agency scientists say loopholes in drafted law would allow unethical pesticide studies

In a rare occurrence, New York VA researcher receives 71 months in jail for altering patient records

They argue policy allowing transgenic wheat could wipe out natural varieties in the place where wheat was born

Anne Swanson can't think of a time when she wasn't fascinated by science.

Being a woman helped Diane Pennica to make the greatest breakthrough of her career, but not in a way one might expect.

Not too long ago, filing a new drug application with the US Food and Drug Administration could mean sending four 48-foot trucks stuffed with 100,000 pages of documentation off to the agency's headquarters in Rockville, Md.

You've just cloned and sequenced a gene, but you don't know what it does.

It is a lament heard in labs everywhere, usually on Friday nights: "I can't go out, I've got to run a gel."

Thomas P. Mathers realized in late 2003 that it was time to pump up Peptimmune's pipeline.

For David Baker, landing a job in 1990 meant paging through newspaper help wanted sections, visiting the career center at University of California, Los Angeles to research biotech companies, sending lots of snail mail, and waiting weeks for an offer.

D are finding that a decades-old technique called performance management can produce dramatic results without adding costs.