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• South Korean R&D budget to soar - Premium content

  Materials science and green technology should win large funding increases.

  19 November 2009

• Japanese science faces deep cuts - Premium content

  The government's election promises vowed more support for science, but so far budgets look set to shrink.

  17 November 2009

• China moves to help high-tech firms - Premium content

  But initiatives meet with mixed response.

  10 November 2009

• The dog cloner - Premium content

  Woo Suk Hwang's former collaborator emerges from the shadow of scandal.

  10 November 2009

• Woo Suk Hwang convicted, but not of fraud - Premium content

  Cloning pioneer gets two years for embezzlement and bioethics breach.

  26 October 2009

• Hwang verdict imminent - Premium content

  Disgraced stem-cell researcher may face time in jail.

  21 October 2009

• Flies get fright from false memories - Premium content

  Scientists use light activation to pinpoint where learning happens in fruit flies.

  15 October 2009

• Japan to slash huge grant scheme - Premium content

  Upstart government brings fresh priorities to science.

  13 October 2009

• RIKEN scientist arrested - Premium content

  Japanese researcher allegedly misused institutional funds.

  15 September 2009

• DNA swap could avoid inherited diseases - Premium content

  Experiments in monkeys show how mothers can avoid passing on mitochondrial DNA mutations to their offspring.

  26 August 2009

• Science education: Reading, writing and nanofabrication - Premium content

  With its electron microscope, genetic sequencing machines and observatory, the Yokohama Science Frontier High School is equipped like no other. Will future scientists be inspired there, asks David Cyranoski.

  08 July 2009

• Microscopic marvels: The big and the bold - Premium content

  03 June 2009

• Developmental biology: Two by two - Premium content

  Could genes explain the remarkable rate of identical twins born in some remote villages around the world? David Cyranoski investigates a long-standing biological curiosity.

  15 April 2009

• Materials science: China's crystal cache - Premium content

  A Chinese laboratory is the only source of a valuable crystal. David Cyranoski investigates why it won't share its supplies.

  18 February 2009

• Renewable energy: Beijing's windy bet - Premium content

  After spurning wind power, China has swung around and embraced this clean energy. But the nation's love affair with wind may be spinning out of control, finds David Cyranoski.

  21 January 2009

• Pharmaceutical futures: Made in China? - Premium content

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

  29 October 2008

• China: Visions of China - Premium content

  Can the Chinese government meet its ambitious targets on space, the environment, research, energy and health? David Cyranoski takes a look at China today and what it hopes to be tomorrow.

  23 July 2008

• Stem cells: 5 things to know before jumping on the iPS bandwagon - Premium content

  Induced pluripotent stem cells look just like embryonic stem cells, but are easier to create and free of the heavy ethics baggage. David Cyranoski separates fact from fiction in a burgeoning field.

  26 March 2008

• Profile: Innate ability - Premium content

  With keen immunological insight and a knockout mouse 'factory', Shizuo Akira leads by quiet example. David Cyranoski visits the world's most-cited scientist as he prepares to run one of Japan's premier research centres.

  21 November 2007

• Philanthropy: A country without alms - Premium content

  The Japanese make few charitable donations. David Cyranoski meets a patient advocate and scientist working to change a cultural reticence about giving.

  31 October 2007