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The US Chamber of Commerce is set to challenge recent changes to the Freedom of Information Act following their request for sensitive information from the Environmental Protection Agency.
A task force of the International Mammalian Genome Society has proposed standardization of Material Transfer Agreements to maximise free exchange of research tools but other researchers disagree.
Clinical trials in developing countries may be required to provide long term benefits to the health infrastructure of the host country, according to the US National Bioethics Advisory Commission.
The merger of Glaxo Wellcome and SmithKline Beecham will create a pharmaceutical giant which may rank number one in the world in terms of spending on research and development.
The US National Research Council believes that the discrepancy between satellite-based and ground-based measurements of average global temperature does not invalidate the fact that the Earth's atmosphere is warming up.
International negotiators are gathering in Montreal to try and negotiate a biosafety protocol that would regulate the international movement of living organisms but it is unlikely that this meeting will result in an agreement.
A white paper released by the education minister David Kemp has been criticized as being "flawed" because the government refuses to accept that Australia's research base needs major additional investment.
The latest figures from the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research show that the Netherlands is facing a crisis in the recruitment of postdoctoral researchers as a result of the increase in short term posts.
A group of Californian scientists have developed a do-it-yourself kit for DNA chips. Available on the web, this will allow laboratories on tight budgets to produce their own chips.
By juggling with a trapped atom, physicists have been able to probe the mysterious quantum-mechanical process that links the quantum to the everyday, classical world.
An ingenious new molecular cube may comprise the world's most powerful chemical explosive. It also raises questions about chemistry's social contract, says Philip Ball.
Many parts of plants and animals are constantly replenished by stem cells. But what keeps these versatile cells ready for anything? Eleanor Lawrence reports on the latest theory.
The bacteria Wolbachia drives some female butterflies in which it lives to take desperate measures in their hunt for new mates, reports Eleanor Lawrence.
