Sydney's Royal Botanic Gardens occupy a lovely parcel of harbor-side land, right alongside Australia's biggest downtown district.

The field of pharmacogenetics has been overhyped and is still more than a decade away from living up to its promise in clinical practice, largely due to shortages in researchers and lack of international coordination, according to a recent report from the UK's Royal Society.

European Union legislation designed to limit workers' exposure to electromagnetic radiation will seriously hinder research involving the use of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), leading investigators warned the British government recently.

Barry Marshall and Robin Warren are recognized for discovering the bacterium that causes ulcers

On the morning of September 7, Brian Cass, chief executive of contract research firm Huntingdon Life Sciences, was standing in an anteroom of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) chatting to officials, waiting to go onto the floor of the exchange where Huntingdon's US parent company, Life Sciences Research (LSR) was due to be listed.

of being "connected to the profits of the global arms trade."

The National Institutes of Health has placed the heft of a large academic collaboration, on par in scale with the Human Genome Project, behind a task usually performed by pharmaceutical companies.

UK body says full benefits are 15-20 years away, suggests incentives to spur drug development

A directive to protect workers from radiation could also hamper clinical and basic research

After an appeal, an embryology regulator allows transfer of pronuclei into another woman's egg

J. Craig Venter's part in the race to sequence the human genome secured him a place in the history books.

The average British ambulance is hardly what you'd call spacious, with an interior volume measuring about 12 cubic meters.