Last fall, a year after the anthrax attacks sounded a bioterrorism alarm, Anthony S. Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, promised that he would strive to ...

The federal government is more likely to fund curiosity-driven basic research, while industry is more likely to support ...

While translational research can happen at any stage of the research process, a recent investigation of behavioral and social science research awards granted by the NIH between 2008 and 2014 revealed ...

In our era of intense innovation-based global competition, policymakers increasingly look for demonstrable connections between public investment in research and tangible economic and security benefits ...

Matt Valle, left, of the C.M. Rick Tomato Genetics Resource Center, plants seeds with greenhouse manager Eric Haddix in a UC Davis greenhouse. (UC Davis photo) While we’re enjoying the last days of ...

A consensus is forming in Washington that the federal government is not doing enough to help American innovation. New research suggests that federal underinvestment is contributing to sluggish ...