A consortium of pharmaceutical companies hopes to improve the success rate of experimental cancer therapies by getting cancer researchers to share data from clinical trials.
An experiment being conducted at the U.S. National Science Foundation indicates that NSF may be turning down deserving research proposals because of potential biases in the grant-review process.
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