Australian stem cell researchers got some bad news today when newspapers reported that senior ministers in the national government are going to ignore the linkurl:advice;http://www.the-scientist.com/news/display/23355/ of an independent review that had recommended somatic cell nuclear transfer be permitted for research. That might have been the advice, but at a Cabinet meeting today ministers are expected to retain the status quo. Two of the main figures behind the decision are health minister

European politicians also vote to increase budget, but amount falls short of requests by the European Commission

Stanford immunologist gets $446,000 award for his role in developing fluorescence activated cell sorter

For the first time since 1986, countries in favor of whaling will likely be in the majority at the International Whaling Commission

The UK’s Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council announced a couple of days ago that it had appointed Michael Wakelam, currently of the University of Birmingham, to be its director as of January 1 next year.

Credit: © COURTESY OF THE CDC" /> Credit: © COURTESY OF THE CDCIf the sight of a cockroach scuttling across your kitchen floor is enough to trigger paroxysms of disgust, then you'd be well advised to take a deep breath before browsing through "Cockroaches in the Home, Cockroaches Everywhere!!!" This exceptionally well-named publication was written by a team led by Sesai Mpuchane, associate professor of biological sciences at the University of Botswana, and it is meant to be scar

Credit: © WILLIAM LORENZ" /> Credit: © WILLIAM LORENZ The adult African elephant (Loxodonta africana) eats between 150 and 170 kilograms of food and drinks as much as 200 liters of water every day. Now imagine keeping 7,000 of those animals fed.That's the task of the staff at Kruger National Park, a 2-million hectare reserve that stretches 350 kilometers along South Africa's border with Mozambique. The elephant's appetite has an enormous impact on the surrounding envi

Biosimilars: Europe Says Yes

Is African Science - Long Plagued by a Lack of Equipment and Resources - Poised for a Comeback?

New rules ensuring more long-term employment are due to come into force in July; the country?s first national postdoc body is formed

The European Research Council looks for a chief executive, releases launch strategy

Pharmaceutical watchdog reaffirms that an unexpected biological effect of TGN1412 probably caused reactions in six men