Research at the heart of the country's biggest ever investment plan

Researchers stop work, angered by government legislative plans that ignore low salaries

Researchers say the government is disregarding their views in planning a big science shake-up

The German arm of the environmental lobby group Greenpeace is disputing a patent on the grounds that it allows the commercial exploitation of human stem cells.

Despite a lack of support from the government, scientists are starting to return home

A month after Chirac said a new law was weeks away, a decision is still distant

As the government prepares to overhaul science, the biotech industry puts its oar in

A major meeting of scientists, politicians, and economists backs 24 concrete proposals

Lack of European winners in scientific Nobel prizes blamed on poor research environment

Greenpeace in Germany challenges a stem cell patent granted to a leading researcher

Researchers are cheered by developments that allow human embryonic stem cell research to start

Government has offered 1 billion euros, but the scientists' union is unimpressed