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Large increases to the budget of the US National Institutes of Health can spur wide investment, but also increase competition among junior researchers.
Postdocs and PhD students around the world require professional training to prepare them for a possible career outside academia, finds the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development.
Researchers worldwide have turned to analysing data, planning experiments and writing and reviewing more papers as their lab time has been disrupted, a global survey finds.