Russia is aiming to entice foreign researchers with grants of RUB 150 million ($5 million) each, but some critics believe bureaucratic obstacles may hinder the effort. The Education and Science Ministry began offering the grants in April 2010 to try to lure scientists back to Russia after the 1990s, when insufficient salaries and research support […]

China published the second-largest amount of scientific papers from 2006 to 2010, according to Elsevier’s Scopus citation database, but its citation per article, which assesses the value and impact of papers, of 1.47 was the lowest of the major 20 publishing countries. Most citations of papers with Chinese lead authors were made by other Chinese […]

The European Commission’s health-research division is contributing €30 million ($41 million) to the new BLUEPRINT epigenome project. More than 50 European researchers from 41 organizations, which will provide an additional €10 million to the project, will generate at least 100 reference epigenomes, making headway in the International Human Epigenome Consortium’s objective of accumulating 1,000 reference […]

The Chinese Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST) announced earlier this month that it will invest $244 million in 64 projects in protein research, quantum technology, nanotechnology, development and reproductive biology, stem cells, and Earth science. The funding is part of the sixth year of MOST’s National Major Scientific Research Program, which invested $160 million […]