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A Matter of Conscience Editor's Note (March 31). The April issue of The Scientist includes an Opinion entitled "A Matter of Conscience" in which Alexander McPherson laid out his objections to sexual harassment training at the University of California at Irvine. In the meantime McPherson has participated in the training, for reasons given in the update below. The Opinion article follows the update. My conflict with the University of Califo

A fixed percentage of a country's GDP should be committed to research.

Direct investment in market-valued intellectual property could drive translational success.

How one institute leverages overseas talent to develop its research strategy.

A network of international experts is setting up a Supercourse to meet the challenge.

Trainee teachers don't have a clue, and most scientists probably don't either. That's bad news.

Virtual biotechs target and develop translational research.

One program's success in preparing and sustaining women for leadership in the sciences.

How an undergraduate internship helped a student from the projects explore his love of science.

An organization focused on neglected diseases links trainees North and South.

Full partnerships with industry are spawning a new era of translational medicine.

What to do when you know two scientists are competing with each other, and they don't.

Electing a proscience president is only half the battle.

Bioscience innovation is in crisis. What can we do about it?

Two scientists - neither bioethicists - describe the best course they've ever taught.

The country's fading dominance in life sciences research spells trouble for the whole world.

A faculty member and administrator who resigned over conditions at MIT speaks out.

Pooling videos can provide instant evidence of global environmental problems.

Giving out smaller grants, but for larger periods of time, will fix a system in distress.

How the industrialization of academic science has ruined research, and what we can do about it.