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Researchers who work with materials such as fetal tissue and human embryonic stem cells are facing new restrictions, the latest in a long line of regulations, that could impede important advances.

Projects funded by the National Institutes of Health increasingly employ subjective and promotional language in describing research, a study finds.

The Biden administration will by 2026 require that all publicly funded work be deposited in designated repositories immediately on publication.

A review of more than two decades of data finds racial disparities in the success rate of National Science Foundation grant proposals.

After lobbying efforts from lawmakers and science advisors, the new, DARPA-like biomedical research agency will be a part of the National Institutes of Health, but its director will report directly to the secretary of Health and Human Services.

Geneticist Terry Magnuson steps down as vice-chancellor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill after he copied text from multiple sources he found online into a grant application. 

The legislation, which now heads to the House, aims to ensure the country can compete with China technologically by supporting research and development over the next five years.

The 46-person panel will identify instances when politics got in the way of science since 2009.

Senators raise concerns about how Eric Lander of the Broad Institute has handled equality issues.

Tying federal research funding to scientists’ efforts to inform and engage the public can help fix widespread indifference to science.

A bipartisan bill aims to increase the National Science Foundation’s budget over the next five years and form a new technology directorate.

Ronald Davis of Stanford University changed his focus to research on ME/CFS, the disease formerly known as chronic fatigue syndrome, in a bid to help his son and others like him.

More than 3,000 researchers have signed on to a petition that expresses concern over the agency’s 2021 application for the funding program, which emphasizes three areas of computational science and might further disadvantage underrepresented groups.

Rick Bright will no longer head the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority and will instead work at the National Institutes of Health on diagnostics for SARS-CoV-2 infection.

The plan to revitalize the European innovation landscape is entering a transition.

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

Federal grant support for technology transfer at universities will strengthen the national innovation system.

A program to encourage transdisciplinary research at top cancer centers has evolved into a counterproductive national strategy for organizing cancer research.

It’s unclear how the order, which charges academic institutions to follow existing rules regarding the First Amendment, will be implemented and enforced.