Philadelphia's Academy of Natural Sciences was crawling with bugs, and The Scientist went down to join in the fun.

New draft policies for safeguarding government research from political influence—and protecting those who bring such misconduct to light—could be improved, according to advocacy groups.

The social media site enforces its rule that pages should allow social interaction through comments, even on drug company pages.

Advocacy groups say the University of Virginia is releasing too much of its climate researcher's documents.

A new microfluidics chip lets researchers analyze the nucleic acids of 300 individual cells simultaneously.

A researcher is repeating the controversial experiments that suggested a bacterium used arsenic rather than phosphorus in its DNA—with the world watching.

The government says regulatory requirements for generic biological therapies will have to be tailored to the treatment in question.

The Nobel Prize winner who discovered the gene that encodes the major histocompatibility complex passes away at age 90.

An initiative that would require universities to post their researchers' industry ties online has faltered.

A snapshot of the most highly ranked articles in microbiology and related areas, from Faculty of 1000

Pro-evolution bumper stickers and emblems are being removed from the cars of biologists in Florida.

The 2011 flu vaccine will be based on the same virus strains as last year’s vaccine.