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A slow university investigation into serious accusations of misconduct benefits no one.
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Therapeutic success stifles medical progress
Drug development loses momentum as patients shun clinical trials for tried and tested treatments. Could payment for participation be the answer?
- Heidi Ledford
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Online reputations: Best face forward
A Nature poll reveals how researchers guard, and sometimes burnish, their online image.
- Eugenie Samuel Reich
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California ponders cell-banking venture
State agency grapples with technical and ethical challenges.
- Erika Check Hayden
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Medicine: Blood feud
A history of early transfusions mixes experiment and ethics with Anglo-French rivalry, finds W. F. Bynum
- W. F. Bynum
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Neuroethics: The origins of morality
Our values may have biological roots, finds Adina Roskies, but we still need philosophy.
- Adina L. Roskies
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Biofuels need enforceable ethical standards
Europe's renewable energy targets have 'backfired'.
- Natasha Gilbert
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Muscular dystrophy findings fuel French stem cell debate
Work shows the value of human embryonic stem cells for disease research.
- Alison Abbott
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Europe rules against stem-cell patents
Work with human embryonic stem cells is 'contrary to ethics'.
- Alison Abbott
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US free-speech law offers protection — at a price
Some fear that law to aid whistle-blowers will expose researchers to smear campaigns.
- Eugenie Samuel Reich
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Hidden toll of embryo ethics war
Federal funds continue to be withheld for stem cells derived without destroying embryos.
- Heidi Ledford
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European Court of Justice rejects stem-cell patents
Researchers surprised by judge's conservative stance.
- Alison Abbott
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Notes on a scandal
Events this month have shown that government stances on academic misbehaviour differ wildly.
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Animal testing: TV or not TV?
Two views on whether scientists who believe that animal experimentation is necessary should become public advocates, or work quietly behind the scenes.
- Tipu Aziz
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A metaphor too far
Philip Ball asks whether scientists are addicted to using imagery at the cost of misleading the public and themselves.
- Philip Ball
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Animal Research: The radical
Researcher by day and activist by night, Joseph Harris was leading an untenable double life that eventually landed him in prison.
- Shanta Barley
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Faculty members in conflict with president of Japanese university
Allegations over research results highlight the difficulties of investigating high-ranking administrators.
- David Cyranoski
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Animal research: Battle scars
Nearly one-quarter of biologists say they have been affected by animal activists. A Nature poll looks at the impact.
- Daniel Cressey
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Letting the bugs out of the bag
The public should be properly consulted ahead of any release of experimental insects. But what do they need to know, and whose job is it to ensure the message gets across?
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Controversy over GM maize in Peru
- Luis Fernando Rimachi Gamarra
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Books in brief
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Death-row drug dilemma
Lack of anaesthetic used in lethal injection exposes ethics gaps in the supply chain.
- Emma Marris
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Scholars' awards go mainly to men
- Anne E. Lincoln
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Get ready for the flood of fetal gene screening
Regulators, doctors and patients need to prepare for the ethical, legal and practical effects of sequencing fetal genomes from mothers' blood, says Henry T. Greely.
- Henry T. Greely
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Ethics: The good life
Pascal Boyer assesses what science has to say about morals.
- Pascal Boyer
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France mulls embryo research reform
Scientists and clinicians push for a clearer, more permissive law on human embryonic stem-cell work.
- Declan Butler
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Lab fakery explored in interactive training tool
Video offers a multi-perspective take on scientific conduct at the bench.
- Erika Check Hayden
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First do no harm
Simple tools to diagnose mental illness should not be offered without sound supporting evidence.
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Books in brief
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Cancer trial errors revealed
University officials admit data withheld from review panel before misconduct charges arose.
- Eugenie Samuel Reich
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Fraud investigation rocks Danish university
Neuroscientist quits after accusations of academic misconduct.
- Ewen Callaway
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US report sets ground rules for artificial life
Synthetic biology needs oversight not over-regulation, commission finds.
- Meredith Wadman
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German research centre widens misconduct probe
Investigation digs deeper after finding images were manipulated in six papers.
- Quirin Schiermeier
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Animal instinct
Germany must better explain the scientific use of animals to remain a major biomedical force.
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Basel Declaration defends animal research
Dialogue with public is key to reducing opposition over the use of lab animals.
- Alison Abbott
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Nobel document triggers debate
Critics say that explanation of the 2010 award in physics slights other contributions to graphene research.
- Eugenie Samuel Reich
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Closing the Climategate
The official inquiry might have exonerated scientists, but attitude changes are needed for science to ensure it holds the public's trust.