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The United States should invest in developing-world health and science for diplomatic and ethical reasons, argues one of its top science advisers.

Following 40 years of persecution and governmental indifference, science and scientists are back on the Argentinian agenda.

David Baltimore, Nobel laureate and last year's AAAS president, tells SciDev.Net what it takes to develop good scientific institutions.

T. V. Padma reports on Bhutan's dilemma: how to reconcile conservation, economic development and happiness in a modern world.

China's political and economic environment is partly responsible for problems in the State Food and Drug Administration, writes Jia Hepeng.

Nigerian scientists are hoping that the new president's science background will prioritise science for development. Semiu Babalola reports.