The fate of a small animal research company has prompted the UK Government to consider new legislation "to deal with animal rights extremists."

Referees on strike, and a new "template" for academic electronic publishing; sound familiar? This time it's economists on the warpath, and they have figures to shoot with.

500,000 people will help research councils to solve post-genomic puzzles.

Nearly a million children die each year of malaria, but the parasite became resistant to the cheapest drug. Now we know why.

David King, Head of the Department of Chemistry at the University of Cambridge, is the new Chief Scientific Adviser to the UK Government.

Slow synaptic transmission grabs the Nobel for Physiology or Medicine.

Mutual suspicion and hostility in South Africa is dogging strong, practical interventions against AIDS, says UNAIDS chief.

Fear of legal action is hobbling research into a key AIDS threat, which may quadruple the numbers infected with HIV in China.

report published today, the United Nations Population Fund has delivered a devastating attack on the world's unequal treatment of women.

Claims that AIDS originated from trials of a polio vaccine in the 1950s are repudiated, but just won't go away.

The new European Life Sciences Organization (ELSO) is starting with great hopes but a shoestring budget and few members.

Malaria should shiver at a new attack to be mounted against the disease.