A narrow Senate vote ends a 13-month period during which the agency has lacked a permanent commissioner.

In a win for the US Department of Justice’s China Initiative, Charles Lieber was convicted of hiding his financial ties to China from federal agencies.

The glycoprotein researcher and longtime principal deputy director of the National Institutes of Health will take over from Francis Collins on December 20.

The sponsors of upwards of 1,000 clinical trials may be forced to publish data that have gone unpublished over a 10-year period.

Federal science agencies vary in their requirements. Here’s how researchers can follow the rules.

The president’s request for next year’s federal budget includes a 7 percent drop in funding for the National Institutes of Health and reductions for other science agencies.

A reinterpretation of the Migratory Bird Treaty Act of 1918 won’t punish oil and gas companies whose activities kill birds unintentionally, The New York Times reports.

A working group has put forth suggestions for cracking down on misconduct, such as requiring grant applicants to disclose sexual harassment findings.

The country’s new government appears to have heard the call from academics for an independent body to distribute federal research funds.

Two panels devoted to reviewing/recommending policy on marine protected areas and invasive species were eliminated.

The National Labor Relations Board has gone back-and-forth on whether graduate students at private universities can form unions three times in the past 19 years.

The federal government cautions that the drug can affect brain development in both teens and fetuses.

The Duke University emeritus professor was an expert in purine biosynthesis and the genetics of gout.

The president wants to terminate at least a third of all federal advisory committees by the end of September.

More turnover in the agency’s intramural program could boost diversity among laboratory leadership.

A memo distributed to employees of the US Department of Agriculture requires them to include a disclaimer that their peer-reviewed work doesn’t represent agency findings or policy.

Warning letters and lawsuits attempt to regulate an industry providing treatments that may have serious health risks.

The draft budget includes deep cuts for science funding, hacking more than $5.5 billion from the NIH’s allotment, but historically Congress has not accepted the White House’s proposals.

Gottlieb will step down after two years at the helm of the US Food and Drug Administration to spend more time with his family.