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NIH to tighten rules on conflicts
New regulations would increase oversight of payments to researchers.
- Meredith Wadman
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UK doctors demand research reform
Cumbersome rules for clinical trials are driving research overseas, medical scientists warn.
- Daniel Cressey
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Review prioritizes NASA's astrophysics missions
Space agency's committee sifts winners from losers.
- Eric Hand
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Editorial |
Open to all
A new approach to technology assessment would supplement expert opinion with input from society.
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Financial pain should focus universities
The tightening of the US science budgets could improve both teaching and research, argues Diane Auer Jones — by forcing academics and their institutions to play to their strengths.
- Diane Auer Jones
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European funding may get simpler
Research commissioner promises to cut red tape in framework programmes.
- Alison Abbott
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Greeks hope crisis may spark reform
Financial troubles could be the stimulus for a fairer distribution of science research funding.
- Alison Abbott
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Nurse wants elite UK science focus
Incoming head of Royal Society sets out his agenda.
- Geoff Brumfiel
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Russia to boost university science
But can it break the dominance of the Russian Academy of Sciences without breaking the research base?
- Quirin Schiermeier
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Winners take all
Scientific competition is lacking in Japan, and efforts to increase it are not always best focused.
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Pentagon turns to 'softer' sciences
US defence research to focus more on biology, cybersecurity and social sciences to help win conflicts.
- Sharon Weinberger
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Stem-cell funding in sight
Most popular cell lines close to approval for US federal funding.
- Meredith Wadman
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World view: Moment of reckoning
Tough choices lie ahead in UK research policy, and they need to be debated openly in the general election campaign, says Colin Macilwain.
- Colin Macilwain
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Panel to take broad view of bioethics
President Obama appoints commission to advise on stem cells, clinical trials and more.
- Brendan Borrell
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Japan rolls out elite science funds
FIRST scheme targets large grants to world-leading researchers.
- David Cyranoski
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US nuclear policy could boost basic research
National laboratories to see funding increases.
- Jeff Tollefson
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Ethiopia launches first science academy
Hopes for government funding and independence remain high despite concerns over academic freedom.
- Linda Nordling
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Future funding for agricultural research uncertain
Financial donors wrangle over global research group's strategy.
- Natasha Gilbert
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Synching Europe's big science facilities
Momentum grows for body to coordinate the continent's research infrastructure.
- Cristina Jiménez
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Fixing a grant system in crisis
Facing a flood of applications from researchers, a UK funding agency is taking drastic steps — and partners around the world are watching how it plays out. Richard Van Noorden and Geoff Brumfiel report.
- Richard Van Noorden
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Turkish law could cripple bioscience
Research involving transgenic organisms may be strangled by red tape.
- Alison Abbott
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China boosts African research links
Expanded programme of academic collaboration promised.
- David Cyranoski
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World view: What can little Europe do?
Scientists must engage with the European Union's redesign of its research programmes to shore up the continent's competitive position.
- Colin Macilwain
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Europe's research future
The region's member states must follow through on their political and scientific commitments.
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A rescue plan for UK physics funding
Research council faces restructuring to resolve financial woes.
- Geoff Brumfiel
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Securing UK science
Royal Society sets out case for investment in research.
- Richard Van Noorden
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The labours of Fotis Kafatos
Launching the European Research Council was a Herculean effort, says its outgoing president.
- Natasha Gilbert
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Career Brief |
Research output falls
Russia is one of only two countries whose science-paper publishing rate has fallen.
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Big Apple biotech
More start-ups may be sticking around in New York City, as the city looks to a new science park, prizes and tax breaks to help kick-start a life-sciences cluster. Anne Harding reports.
- Anne Harding
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South African science: black, white and grey
The release of Nelson Mandela sent optimism coursing through South Africa's research community. Twenty years on, Michael Cherry finds that it is still struggling to get on its feet.
- Michael Cherry
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Career Brief |
Plug-and-play DNA
Bioengineering lab is hiring 29 scientists and engineers to develop synthetic biology 'parts'.
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Boost for brain research
Fellowship aims to boost collaborative research at European academic institutions and industrial labs.
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Stand and deliver
Science has done well in the proposed US budget. Researchers need to justify the funding boost.
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Obama budget backs basic science
Climate and clean energy receive a boost but NASA's Moon mission bites the dust.
- Janet Fang
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False alarms
British scientists must adopt a positive tone if they hope to protect their gains in funding.
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Responsible work plans
Booklet offers tips to help animal researchers avoid action by activists.
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Debt crisis threatens UK science
As Britain's researchers face fierce budget cuts, Nature finds out how labs are preparing for hard times.
- Geoff Brumfiel
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Career Brief |
Small rise for US postdocs
NIH stipend increase not enough, says US National Postdoctoral Association.
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Call for a bigger vision
Science in Canada cannot realize its full potential without clear direction from government.
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