This paper describes the implementation of oral exams, a more authentic and potentially more informative form of assessment than written exams, at a large scale (over 600 students), in the context ...

Californians to decide if they want the state to borrow $8.4 billion to support research that aims to deliver cures for cancer, Alzheimer’s and heart disease “in our lifetime.”

The industry’s approach to safety will guarantee more failures unless something changes.

I have some exciting news (again!). I got money from the region (Occitanie) to hire a postdoc (and later an engineer / technician) to work on drug resistance evolution in malaria (P. faciparum) and…

Theory can help address cell and molecular biology’s major challenges, particularly those arising from large omics datasets.

Jeffrey Eugenides’s new novel, “The Marriage Plot,” has scenes describing yeast genetic studies that ring so true, many assume that researchers had to have given him some in-depth help.

Cultivation-dependent techniques, computational analyses and genome-scale metabolic models show widespread amino acid auxotrophies, suggesting that soil microorganisms exist within integrated ecologic...

High-dimensional data are visualized through representation on tree structures.

Saturation mutagenesis of the FCY1 promoter in budding yeast shows that adaptation to 5-fluorocytosine is not accessible through single cis-regulatory mutations, despite large mutational effects on pr...

Working/Functional Title Presidential Postdoctoral Fellow Position Summary We encourage applications from candidates in any early career stage, from finishing Ph.D. students to current postdoctoral sc...

Language is included to delay the president’s move to put political appointees in charge of grant approval.

You can see AI everywhere except in the productivity statistics

Federal officials said in court documents that they halted billions of dollars in funding for energy projects to states “based solely” on whether they backed President Trump in the 2024 election.

Federal officials said in court documents that they halted billions of dollars in funding for energy projects to states “based solely” on whether they backed President Trump in the 2024 election.

"Science: A New Golden Age" tries to reframe the conversation away from the ongoing destruction of American science, writes Cole Donovan.

Michael Kratsios, President Trump’s science adviser, proposed overhauling how the government funds research. Democrats said Mr. Trump’s actions had weakened science.

Analyses of deidentified data reveal complex interactions that quantify success at elite general science journals.

Docket: OMB-2026-0034, Submitted by: Jenna M Norton, PhD, MPH in a personal capacity

Submit a comment on OMB’s proposed revision to uniform guidance by July 13

Microbial communities play vital roles in diverse ecosystems and are key drivers of numerous industrial or health-related applications. In many cases,…

In January of 2025, at the ICTP ICTS winter school at NCBS, Priyanga Amarasekare offered to take me and a few other students out for my birthday. She didn't have to do that.

It happened at around 6:15 p.m. Friday near the intersection of Standard Avenue and Warner Avenue, Santa Ana Police Department officers said in a news release shared on social media.