Disagreement over court ruling's significance for basic science patents.

New Web site will feature research ideas rejected by NIH.

Group demands tighter ethics rules for appointments to US scientific advisory panels.

Courtesy of Neil Brake, Vanderbilt University  MARK III TANGO: Duke is dancing in court with former professor to control use of a free-electron laser like this one at Vanderbilt University. John M.J. Madey, long known as the father of the free-electron laser, has made his career in academic research, not business or law. So Madey did not craft the legal weapon that may close the patent law loophole allowing academic researchers to use patented technology without risking infringement suit

Judge rules Rochester researchers' basic science doesn't earn them royalties on final drug.

Theft of swine bacteria from Michigan State staged to hide grant misuse, investigators say

Congressional committee hears whistleblowers' charges of Univ. of California mismanagement.

Towering presence in sociology and pioneering sociologist of science dies, aged 92.

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

Engineer and defense industry veteran tapped to manage DHS science

Growing frustration over losing research and good will due to barriers to foreign scholars.

Image: Artville US Justice Department investigators want to know how academic scientists spend their time and the government's money. The department is making quiet inquiries at research institutions to determine how they've used their federal funding. Research executives would not say which schools the Department of Justice (DOJ) has approached, and department officials refuse to comment, as is their policy with matters under investigation. The inquiries could go nowhere, or they could heral