Numerous candidates with STEM backgrounds are running for federal seats, and record numbers are competing in local races across the country.

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Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer Doudna reprogrammed the bacterial immune response into one of the most popular tools for genetics and molecular biology.

Harvey Alter, Michael Houghton, and Charles Rice share the Physiology or Medicine award for their contributions to identifying the virus and demonstrating that it was responsible for hepatitis among blood transfusion recipients.

As the hiring season gets underway, academic listings are still way down from last year, but there are signs of the job market picking back up.

The pandemic has forced scientists everywhere to rethink in-person conferences, but some researchers have already been urging changes.  

Danforth founded the Donald Danforth Plant Science Center and expanded scientific research at Washington University and beyond campus in St. Louis.

Other recipients of the award for laugh-worthy achievements experimented with alligators on helium and vibrating worms.

Several organizations suggest that a case against a University of Kansas professor is the latest example of the US government targeting researchers for their ethnicity.