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China's one-child policy has resulted in scientists with families having experiences that are very different to those elsewhere in the world.

A collaboration between several pharmaceutical companies provides a unique resource of high-quality chemical probes and associated data from the companies to the academic community.

A compendium of critical genomic numbers for viruses through the lenses of different viral classification systems.

How does a scientist balance establishing a career and starting a family?

Women scientists across India are working together to build and advocate for family-friendly policies at their institutes.

eLife is publishing a collection of articles and interviews with scientists who are parents to explore how to get the best of both worlds.

Research institutions could do more to support scientists who are pregnant or have young children.

A more balanced distribution of NIH grant funding among investigators would strengthen the diversity of the research enterprise, increase the likelihood of scientific breakthroughs, and lead to a greater return on taxpayers' investments.

The availability of almost all articles from toll access journals in the Sci-Hub repository will disrupt scholarly publishing towards more open models.

More than 30 published articles have suggested that a protein kinase called MELK is an attractive therapeutic target in human cancer, but three recent reports describe compelling evidence that it is not.