Budget kills off US biological service and cuts research

Budget cuts and the plight of postdocs.

Calling on scientists to fight budget cuts.

THE FUNDING LEVELS REQUESTED BY THE Bush Administration for 2006 (“Caught in the squeeze,” J. Mervis, News Focus, 11 Feb., p. 832) represent a decrease in science and technology funding across the board. This budget and its priorities do not bode well for American science and technology or for America’s scientists and science students. Underfunding science and technology research and education ...

Policy Punctuations : US Budget

p53 cuts off invading cells

In Focus • THE JOURNAL OF CELL BIOLOGY p53 cuts off invading cells T he tumor suppressor p53 does all it can to prevent oncogenes from inducing tumorigenesis, killing defective cells or pushing them into senes-cence. Sometimes, oncogenes manage to initiate tumor development in the presence of p53, but, even then, the tumor suppressor doesn't give up and focuses its efforts instead on limiting t...

The Impact of State Budget Cuts on U.S. Postsecondary Attainment

Increasing postsecondary attainment rates is an important economic priority, yet little is known about whether public subsidies can increase college attendance and completion. This paper studies the impact of state budget cuts to higher education on all U.S. public postsecondary institutions between 1990 and 2013. Using a budget shock measure driven by historical reliance on state appropriation...