Biotechnology

• Chief scientist quits California stem-cell agency

  Departure raises questions over leadership at flagship centre.

  30 June 2009

• Research parks feel the economic pinch - Premium content

  Once lauded as incubators of high-tech jobs, science parks find themselves struggling in the new financial environment.

  17 June 2009

• Californian universities caught in budget hell - Premium content

  State-wide cash crisis shuts down building projects and recruitment plans.

  8 June 2009

• Briefing: US ramps up swine flu protection - Premium content

  New technologies may help boost H1N1 vaccine production.

  3 June 2009

• Mouse patent sparks 'uncivil' spat - Premium content

  Academic institutes lock horns in legal action over mutant mice.

  3 June 2009

• Stem-cell therapies closer to the clinic - Premium content

  Human induced pluripotent stem cells made without addition of genes.

  28 May 2009

• Swine flu attention turns to the tropics - Premium content

  New flu strains are more likely to arise in equatorial countries, where influenza is present the year round and surveillance is poor.

  27 May 2009

• Marmoset model takes centre stage - Premium content

  Newly created transgenic primate may become an alternative disease model to rhesus macaques.

  27 May 2009

• IN BRIEF: Canadian charged with smuggling Ebola - Premium content

  20 May 2009

• IN BRIEF: Lawsuit targets validity of human-gene patents - Premium content

  20 May 2009