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• Plant genetics database at risk as funds run dry - Premium content

  National Science Foundation to cut support for Arabidopsis resource.

  18 November 2009

• Fresh hope for German stem-cell patent case - Premium content

  Referral to European Court may help to harmonize laws on intellectual property.

  16 November 2009

• Faster route to stem-like cells - Premium content

  All adult cells can be reprogrammed, researchers claim.

  08 November 2009

• Lisbon Treaty could give research a boost - Premium content

  European Union set to take a bigger role in climate and space policy.

  05 November 2009

• Research supremo plans for reform in Greece - Premium content

  Achilleas Mitsos hopes to sharpen up Greek science.

  05 November 2009

• Science favoured by German coalition - Premium content

  Budgets set to double as new government backs previous spending commitments.

  03 November 2009

• Chromosome protection scoops Nobel - Premium content

  Prize for physiology or medicine awarded for uncovering role of telomeres.

  05 October 2009

• Flu virus behind infant pneumonia in poor countries - Premium content

  Viral infection precedes an unexpectedly large proportion of childhood pneumonia cases.

  05 October 2009

• Not blind to emotion - Premium content

  Out of sight is not out of mind for facial expressions or body language.

  28 September 2009

• Wanted: a chief scientist for Europe - Premium content

  Commission president pledges to hire top adviser.

  17 September 2009

• Neuroscience: Opening up brain surgery - Premium content

  Neurosurgeons have unparalleled access to the human brain. Now they are teaming up with basic researchers to work out what makes it unique, finds Alison Abbott.

  14 October 2009

• Mouse genetics: The check-up - Premium content

  Patients checking in to the German Mouse Clinic will undergo the most sophisticated medical testing in the world. But, finds Alison Abbott, the waiting list is becoming a problem.

  19 August 2009

• Microscopic marvels: Seeing the system - Premium content

  03 June 2009

• Microscopic marvels: The glorious resolution - Premium content

  03 June 2009

• Greek research: Feast and famine - Premium content

  While researchers in Greece starve for government support, biomedicine is thriving at a lavish new centre in Athens, finds Alison Abbott.

  08 April 2009

• Neuroscience: One hundred years of Rita - Premium content

  From a home lab to the Italian Senate, by way of nerve growth factor — Rita Levi-Montalcini is a scientist like no other. Alison Abbott meets the first Nobel prizewinner set to reach her hundredth birthday.

  01 April 2009

• Neuroscience: The plaque plan - Premium content

  Neuroscientists are pretty sure they know what causes Alzheimer's disease, but their theory has not yet given rise to effective drugs. Alison Abbott asks what's wrong.

  12 November 2008

• Pharmaceutical futures: A fiendish puzzle - Premium content

  Where should the drug industry go to find new ideas? In the first of two features, Alison Abbott asks if the future lies in systems biology -- a field that attempts to piece together 'everything'. In the second, David Cyranoski looks at drug companies' attraction to China.

  29 October 2008

• Psychiatric genetics: The brains of the family - Premium content

  Does the difficulty in finding the genes responsible for mental illness reflect the complexity of the genetics or the poor definitions of psychiatric disorders? Alison Abbott reports.

  09 July 2008

• Portugal: Navigating new waters - Premium content

  Portugal's spending on research is near the lowest in western Europe. Can a single-minded lady with half a billion euros change things, asks Alison Abbott.

  02 April 2008