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A biotech job search can be frustrating, especially if you live away from the biotechnology 'hot spots.'

Forgoing alarmist pronouncements, a National Academies committee makes sensible suggestions about how to address the workforce needs of the Department of Defense.

A protégé pays tribute to the humanity and resilience of immunologist Alan Houghton.

Ups and downs continue during Scott Jackson's interview at ABC Technologies.

In implementing the recommendations of its Biomedical Research Workforce Working Group, NIH decides to play it safe.

Many Spanish trainees have been forced to start their doctorates without financial help.

The ACS report on graduate and postdoc training goes where NIH's workforce working group didn't, recommending limiting Ph.D. production among other bold measures.

The House Judiciary Committee invited experts to discuss the effects of high-skill immigration on the U.S. workforce, but there was little talk about what employers actually need.

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"I would say that there's definitely enough work to go around." --Emma Hitt

Answering these six questions can help you choose your career path without having to make major course corrections.

Despite what grad school admissions committees seem to believe, outside interests are good.

Identifying and addressing self-confidence issues can help early-career scientists make swifter progress.

Answering these six questions can help you choose your career path without having to make major course corrections.

If history shows anything, it's that taking money away from people who have it and giving it to people who don't is a very difficult thing to do, whether it's scientists or serfs, postdocs or the poor.

In almost every work environment the ability to influence others is an essential job skill.

A panel of workforce experts at the 2013 AAAS Annual Meeting urged NIH to be more aggressive in fixing biomedical workforce training.

Experts discussed how mentoring differs for minorities and how it can be tweaked to ensure that scientists don't hit a "mentoring glass ceiling."

One of the last sessions at the 2013 AAAS Annual Meeting looked at transformative research and the factors that facilitate it—or don't.

Recent political pronouncements would be laughable if they weren't potentially so harmful.