Most recent stories

• 'Raft' offers route for drug treatments

  Therapeutics could hitch a ride on cellular machinery.

  02 May 2008

• Doctors accused of doing illegal stem-cell trials

  Patients in Austria may have been misled.

  30 April 2008

• Swiss 'dignity' law is threat to plant biology

  Government ethics-committee guidelines could halt techniques such as hybridization of roses.

  23 April 2008

• The fraudster returns...

  Hans Gottinger is back on the scientific scene.

  09 April 2008

• Neglected diseases get vaccine research boost

  Drug company opens non-profit centre in Italy.

  27 February 2008

• Lessons from the dark side

  What role did German scientists and their funding organization play in supporting Nazi policies during 1933-45? In a bid to find out, Germany's research council, the DFG, sponsored a seven-year investigation into its own history that ended last month. One of the historians who led the study, Ulrich Herbert of the University of Freiburg, discusses the findings.

  13 February 2008

• Brain electrodes can improve learning

  Memory-prompting abilities of brain stimulation discovered by accident.

  29 January 2008

• Novartis Foundation to close its doors

  Time runs out for acclaimed scientific symposia.

  16 January 2008

• Showdown for Europe

  The European Union is set to make a landmark decision on genetically modified crops, as Alison Abbott and Quirin Schiermeier report.

  12 December 2007

• Saudi-Italian biomedical institute gets go-ahead

  Hospital and cancer-research centre will form part of Red Sea development.

  05 December 2007