Ten people who mattered this year.

The University of California, Berkeley, and the Broad Institute are vying for lucrative rights to the gene-editing system.

The trend of turning universities into businesses is limiting research freedoms in traditionally liberal institutes in northern Europe.

If funding applications were made under open access, science would benefit from more universal scrutiny.

Proposal would keep funding flat for most research agencies, but cuts could come early next year.

Elsevier’s CiteScore uses a larger database — and provides different results for the quality of journals.

The government will accept applications for the job until 27 January 2017. It is not yet clear how large the adviser’s staff will be, or how the post will be funded.

Economic woes wrought by globalization are only part of the cause.

Institutions struggle to respond after court blocks regulations that would have increased wages for junior researchers.

Consortium backed by US NIH is first major biology programme to mandate online publication of results ahead of peer review.

Following a £2 billion research pledge, questions remain around commitment to boost science investment.

Pressure to barrel through a PhD can make taking a break seem daunting — but there are ways to limit career damage.

Davide Vannoni is barred from offering a controversial stem-cell therapy in Italy but may be continuing his work abroad.

Biologists in particular are writing their papers in a less formal style.

Cap at current spending levels could spell 'end of science in Brazil', researchers say.

The move by Chinese scientists could spark a biomedical duel between China and the United States.