Lonza will employ more than 200 full-time staff to work at the Texas-based facility, the company says.

The Scientist looks at one such Houston-based purveyor that has been treating patients abroad for years with mesenchymal stem cells.

Marine Science Institute on the Gulf experiences damage; “rideout teams” keep watch over animals and facilities. 

The state’s board of education approves new standards that ease up on having students dig into scientific issues relevant to “intelligent design” arguments.

In an effort to prevent the spread of Zika virus, Harris County officials are in discussions with Oxitec to release insects engineered to produce short-lived offspring.

Despite a committee of educators recommending the removal of language challenging evolution in science curricula, state education board members vote to reintroduce controversial concepts. 

About 100 human brains belonging to a university collection thought lost have turned up at another campus. 

Texas lawmakers lifted a ban on a taxpayer-funded research organization to dole out grants.

Texas’s top officials have authorized the state's troubled cancer research institute to award $71.8 million in recruitment grants that have been on hold since last December.

Can a state-funded research institute regain its footing in the wake of grant scandals and resignations?