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Military's Plan to Buy Biofuels Hits Roadblock in U.S. House

by Robert F. Service

The U.S. House blocked the DOD from buying more costly substitutes for petroleum-based fuels

25 March 2012 | ScienceNOW

DNA Sequencing, Without the Fuss

by Robert F. Service and Elizabeth Pennisi

New technology could simplify and accelerate genome analysis

7 December 2011 | ScienceNOW

Live Chat: Solar Cells Go Nano

by Robert F. Service

Experts answer your questions on the latest in solar cell technology

13 July 2011 | ScienceNOW

Live Chat: Green Energy's Forgotten Past, Uncertain Future

by Eli Kintisch

Experts answer your questions about the failures and future of the green energy revolution

26 January 2010 | ScienceNOW

The End of the Line for NASA's Mars Rover

by Science News Staff

Plus more highlights from Science's policy blog, ScienceInsider

13 October 2009 | ScienceNOW

Swine Flu Complacency and a Win for Biotech

by Science News Staff

Plus more from Science's policy blog, ScienceInsider

23 June 2009 | ScienceNOW

Free Vaccines, Big Money for Small Business Research

by Science News Staff

Plus more from Science's policy blog, ScienceInsider

6 February 2009 | ScienceNOW

French Researchers Throw Shoes, U.S. Scientists Censor Themselves

by Science News Staff

Plus more, from Science's new policy blog, ScienceInsider

18 November 2008 | ScienceNOW

When a Flood Beats a Trickle

by Phil Berardelli

Old-fashioned irrigation saves water

7 November 2008 | ScienceNOW

DeCODE Genetics on the Ropes

by Jennifer Couzin

Company that mines the DNA of Iceland's population seeks merger to survive financial crisis

6 October 2004 | ScienceNOW

Flu Shot Fiasco

by Martin Enserink

Manufacturing snafu underscores vulnerability of vaccine supplies

19 May 2004 | ScienceNOW

Premium for Ancient Poop

by Helen Fields

Museum tries to price a very special specimen

16 March 2004 | ScienceNOW

"Open" Versus "Free" Journals

by David Malakoff

Science societies defend publishing practices

2 March 2004 | ScienceNOW

Harvard Enters Stem Cell Fray

by Andrew Lawler

Private money, multidisciplinary approach for new research institute

1 August 2003 | ScienceNOW

Universities Tackle Drug Development

by Jennifer Couzin-Frankel

New California consortium hopes to make pharmaceutical research pay

24 June 2003 | ScienceNOW

The State of Biotech

by Alicia Ault

Global report foresees industry profitability by 2010

11 March 2003 | ScienceNOW

Patent Headache for Rochester University

by David Malakoff

Court says patent for blockbuster anti-inflammatory drugs is invalid

23 September 2002 | ScienceNOW

Engineer Suffers Setback in Laser Lawsuit

by Dennis Normile

Japanese court rules that patent for blue LED belongs to inventor's employer

12 September 2002 | ScienceNOW

Reining in Patent Laws

by Science News Staff

Report urges leeway for the developing world

29 August 2002 | ScienceNOW

Comic Infringement in Nanotech Warfare

by Charles Seife

MIT used a cartoon heroine knock-off to win Army contract

29 May 2002 | ScienceNOW

Supreme Court Blocks Patent Pirates

by David Malakoff

Festo decision reverses controversial ruling on copycat inventions

27 March 2001 | ScienceNOW

DNA Chip Makers Bury the Hatchet

by Eliot Marshall

Deal frees Affymetrix to focus on other problems

1 November 2000 | ScienceNOW

Digital Music Safeguard May Need Retuning

by Charles Seife

Proposed methods may already have been cracked

8 September 2000 | ScienceNOW

Busted! Couple Imprisoned for Faking Data

by John MacNeil

Multiyear sentences for drug company exec and nurse for scam to inflate pharmaceutical stock

23 February 2000 | ScienceNOW

Patent on HIV Receptor Provokes an Outcry

by Eliot Marshall

Academic scientists are stewing about a recently issued patent that gives a private company the rights to CCR5, a human gene that plays a key role in HIV infection. The...

31 January 2000 | ScienceNOW

Biotech Treaty Finally Agreed Upon

by Laura Helmuth

After 5 years of bitter negotiations, delegates from 130 countries finally hammered out a global treaty that will govern the trade of genetically modified organisms (GMOs). The treaty formalizes the...

25 January 2000 | ScienceNOW

Company Gets Rights to Cloned Human Embryos

by Gretchen Vogel

A U.S. company has received two British patents that appear to grant it commercial rights to human embryos created by cloning. The precedent-setting patents, issued last week on the cloning...

21 January 2000 | ScienceNOW

NIH Cuts Mouse Deal

by Eliot Marshall

A new agreement cuts away some of the red tape snarling cancer research. The policy, announced by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) on 19 January, allows NIH-funded scientists doing...

20 December 1999 | ScienceNOW

Monsanto Merges, Spins Off Agritech

by Martin Enserink

Two powerhouses in the life sciences, U.S. Monsanto and U.S.-Swedish Pharmacia & Upjohn, yesterday announced that they plan to merge, creating a new pharmaceutical company with a market capitalization of...

22 November 1999 | ScienceNOW

Genentech Settles Huge Patent Case

by Marcia Barinaga

SAN FRANCISCO--A bitter episode in biotech history was finally put to rest last week when biotech pioneer Genentech agreed to pay the University of California (UC) $200 million to settle...

16 November 1999 | ScienceNOW

Genentech and UC Settle Patent Battle

by Marcia Barinaga

One of the longest patent fights in biotech history may at last be over. Today, the Los Angeles Times reported that Genentech Inc. of South San Francisco had agreed to...

12 October 1999 | ScienceNOW

Austria Moves to Beef Up Bioinformatics

by Robert Koenig

BERN, SWITZERLAND--Austria, whose life-sciences researchers have tended to work in the shadows of their colleagues in neighboring Germany and Switzerland, is now making a move to attract top-flight scientists with...

25 May 1999 | ScienceNOW

NIH Proposes Rules for Materials Exchange

by Martin Enserink

Over the last 2 decades, scientists have witnessed the gradual erosion of a cornerstone of scientific progress: the free exchange of research materials like reagents, cells, and animals. The invasion...

5 May 1999 | ScienceNOW

Startling Revelations in UC-Genentech Battle

by Eliot Marshall

A former researcher at Genentech Inc. of South San Francisco has testified that he secretly removed a bacterial clone from a lab he had recently left at the University of...

15 April 1999 | ScienceNOW

Drug Firms Give Geneticists Genome Map

by Eliot Marshall

Geneticists are about to get a brand new tool, thanks to a remarkable public-private venture announced today. Ten large, fiercely competitive pharmaceutical companies and the Wellcome Trust, a British charity,...

13 April 1999 | ScienceNOW

Mega-Publisher Snaps Up Cell

by Helen Gavaghan

Elsevier Science of the Netherlands has bought Cell Press, publisher of the journal Cell and its sister publications Immunity, Neuron, and Molecular Cell. Clearly regarding the acquisition as a coup,...

30 March 1999 | ScienceNOW

Bioprospecting: Delayed ... or Dead?

by David Malakoff

A federal judge has ruled that the National Park Service must complete an environmental review before it can move ahead with a controversial bioprospecting contract. Government analysts say the ruling...

29 January 1999 | ScienceNOW

British Government Unveils Plan for Food Safety Agency

by Helen Gavaghan

HEBDEN BRIDGE, U.K.--In a bill sent to Parliament on Wednesday, the British government revealed its long-awaited plan to establish an independent Food Standards Agency (FSA), charged with guarding food safety....

27 October 1998 | ScienceNOW

Terminator Seeds Sow Discord

by Robert F. Service

WASHINGTON, D.C.--A battle is brewing over a new plant technology that allows companies to ensure that genetically modified plants produce sterile seeds--a feat that will keep farmers coming back for...

22 September 1998 | ScienceNOW

Raising the Stakes in the Race for New Malaria Drugs

by Jocelyn Kaiser

A group of scientists and funders last week gave an initial thumbs-up to a new strategy for bankrolling what could amount to a $30-million-a-year program to develop drugs against malaria....

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