Biosciences

Tributes paid to Brighton microbiologist

Advancing capabilities of stem cells could mean researchers run into legal difficulties once more, European academies warn

Developers working with academics compete for $150,000 prize

Swedish-based academic Ahmadreza Djalali will be executed following 'grossly unfair trial', says Amnesty International

Three scientists, based in UK, US and Switzerland, share prize for making it possible to see biological material at atomic level

Publisher argues Topics platform will provide ‘breadth, depth and currency of knowledge’, and remove the need to leave its website

Major investment in advanced medical manufacturing announced by government

Extent of freely accessible literature could ‘tip scales’ for libraries to cancel subscription packages, says study

Presence of top university is a draw card to locate organisation in Stockholm, says offer document

More than half of doctoral candidates surveyed at one university reported “abnormal” levels of stress and depression

Cancer expert whose research was shaped by her experience of the disease remembered

Ability to access the cutting-edge technology needed for such research is one key factor behind the success of institutions featuring in the latest THE cluster analysis

His experiences on a panel reviewing Canadian grant allocation has convinced Jonathan Grant that the evidence base for current practice needs serious reinforcement

Educationalist who transformed teacher training in Singapore remembered

Americans produce nearly twice as many highly cited papers in key fields, with China also catching up on EU

One in three scholars in field ‘deeply concerned’ about future research career prospects

Peer review process punishes academics who ‘challenge the dogma’ of their field, scientists claim

Prizes of £80,000 in unrestricted funding up for grabs for best junior principal investigators

Analysis of more than 700,000 biomedical texts reveals growing use of jargon

Health and environmental agencies face savage reductions as defence spending soars

Life science is a big part of the UK government’s industrial strategy, but neglecting basic research will drive top researchers abroad and threaten the flow of translatable discoveries, says Philippe Froguel

Terence Kealey, former head of the University of Buckingham, tells THE it’s sometimes helpful to think of scientists as ‘lying bastards’

If lab misconduct is linked to personality traits, there is a case for assessing these when hiring scientists, say researchers

Validating antibodies used in experiments could ‘free up billions of research dollars’, head of standards institute says

A microbiologist who revolutionised the classification of bacteria has died

Why are postgraduates and postdocs so expendable and professors so untouchable, asks a geneticist subjected to a paranoid boss’ abuse

As the £650 million Crick Institute officially opens, here are some key facts about Europe’s largest biomedical research laboratory

Levels of nepotism in scientific publishing have been revealed by report

We talk tuberculosis, tough decisions and pancake races with the Manchester vice-chancellor

A new book by Bruno Lemaitre considers whether science is suffering from being led by the self-obsessed

A pioneering researcher into the viruses that can cause cancer has died

Knowledge of our genetic code has been used for good as well as ill, Charalambos Kyriacou says

Book of the week: There’s a strong political current running through a bold study skewering myths, says Louise Whiteley

A leading authority on genetics and genetics education has died

Committee of MPs comes to no firm conclusion on whether common framework for research and commercialisation is good for the UK

Winston Morgan explores what his career might reveal about the position of ethnic minority academics

Sharing knowledge and information widely is no waste of time, says Philip Moriarty

Drug company hopes to provide a new home for studies that try to replicate previous experimental results

A cancer researcher who greatly enriched our understanding of the processes of tumour formation has died

Warning comes after stories about Coca-Cola’s spending on science hit the headlines last year

Plos Biology launches new section looking at how experiments are run and incentive systems for scientists

Investment in knowledge is one of Britain’s USPs, explains Mark Samuels

Iain Foulkes on how scientists can win part of huge grant to push forward the frontiers of cancer research

UK is top in life sciences while Asia performance varies

Reports question whether scientists are removing sources of bias in experiments involving animals

Sample list of questions says applicants were asked about bankers’ pay and invited to carry out an engineering experiment with a ruler

Scientists from Japan, China and Ireland awarded for their work tackling parasitic diseases

Partnership with Cornwall College Group will see tourist attraction open its doors to undergraduates

Majority of academics publishing in journals with lax peer review are from Asia, study concludes

Multi-partner initiative launched by University Alliance institutions mirrors the doctoral training centre model

Peer review system ‘lacks capacity’ to deal with ‘flood’ of new papers, meaning some could be unjustly dismissed

Postponement of responsive mode grants partly aimed at preserving success rates while research council makes ‘additional large investments’

A researcher who made a major contribution to our understanding of cancer – and paved the way for several new classes of drug – has died

Crick and Watson's landmark papers on the structure of DNA would have been rejected by modern editors for lack of data, researcher argues

Pressure from senior management at Uclan to increase student numbers led to pharmacy school over-recruiting, General Pharmaceutical Council finds

Bibliometric analysis concludes lower-quality thresholds in 2014 are more likely explanation for doubling of top-rated research

Scholars invite attendees to urinate in special toilet to harness their pee power

Simon Underdown discusses an evolutionary counterfactual