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I can happily report that something has indeed changed at NSERC and the number of postdoctoral fellowships being awarded is definitely recovering.

This U.S. act allows biotech startups to use patented technology for the purposes of generating data for FDA approval without needing to take out costly licenses.

Kevin Leland created Halo, a curated fundraising platform for medical research, so that promising discoveries had a fighting chance to make it across the valley.

These committees review and provide input into scientific endeavors, but perhaps the merit of a project should also be assessed by how difficult it is to assemble this panel of experts.

Why should universities continue to own and profit from publicly funded work? If the public pays for it, why shouldn’t the public own it?

How the Techna Institute’s team of professionals helps start-ups in Toronto by providing experts for secondment, in a cost-recovery model.

Equal access to information, experiences and diverse viewpoints needs to be made available to the wider scientific community.

A guide to changing the institutional thinking of translational research programs.

Undergraduate colleagues make you a better researcher and teacher. Here’s how.

Our readers continue to favour articles on mental health in academic life.

This recommendation was born out of the observation that discontinuity in funding leads to losing trained personnel and trainees through dismantling of collaborations.

Taking time out to ask why we do what we do in the way that we do it is really important.

Quebec’s chief scientist, Rémi Quirion, talks about the effect of knowledge on society and his role as a “cheerleader” for research.

Enthusiastic volunteers help researchers with the labour-intensive task of collecting data and specimens in the field.