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The Royal Society will conduct peer review of standard applicants as the designated body for applications in the fields of medical and natural sciences and will also administer the other fast track routes.Box 1 Paths to obtaining a visa through the Global Talent route Senior appointments—Fast track endorsement for people who have accepted a post of professor, associate professor, reader, senior group leader, or equivalent at any UK higher education institution or eligible research institute, subject to certain recruitment requirements. The prime minister, Boris Johnson, mentioned the new scheme last summer as part of a commitment to prioritise science, research, and innovation, amid warnings from leading UK scientists that Brexit could cripple UK science by stifling the flow of researchers, ideas, funding, and collaboration.2 After the full announcement this week, Johnson said, “As we leave the EU I want to send a message that the UK is open to the most talented minds in the world, and stand ready to support them to turn their ideas into reality.” Venki Ramakrishnan, president of the Royal Society, said, “The government has listened to the research community, and this is an important first step in creating the visa system that we need for attracting global scientific talent—one that is welcoming, faster and more flexible, and takes into account the long term aspirations of scientists and their families.”

British scientists are ramping up preparations for a 'no deal' Brexit on 29 March - a situation that would instantly affect travel, data collection, clinical trials and crucial laboratory supplies. The Medical Research Council Laboratory for Molecular Cell Biology, based at UCL, is stocking up on fly food as well as Danish-made Petri dishes and tissue-culture plates, says De Bruin. The UK health department has pledged to charter a plane to fly in radioisotopes essential for medical screening for conditions such as liver disease and cancer.

A study of protein databases shows that discoverers who are second to publish still end up getting a substantial portion of the recognition. A study of protein databases shows that discoverers who are second to publish still end up getting a substantial portion of the recognition.

[...]Horizon 2020 funding for UK science dropped by around €500 million (US$560 million), said Royal Society president Venki Ramakrishnan in a statement. [...]the Liberal government has boosted research funding, freed government researchers to speak to the public without first getting permission from the administration, and raised the profile of environmental concerns such as climate change and ocean conservation. Early detection could improve cancer treatment: five-year survival rates for six types of cancer are more than three times higher when the cancer is diagnosed at its earliest stage, compared with survival if the cancer is caught only after it has become more advanced and has started to spread to other locations in the body.

Perutz had shared the Nobel Prize in Chemistry the year before with his colleague John Kendrew, of the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge, UK. In 2009, he received his own Nobel Prize in Chemistry (shared with Venkatraman Ramakrishnan and Ada E. Yonath) for his contribution to solving the immensely complex structure of the ribosome, the structure that translates genetic information into proteins in cells. By 2000, their team had solved the structure of the '50S subunit' of the bacterial ribosome, the part that assembles amino acids into proteins.

According to the Nature Index, collaborative articles by UK-EU researchers in five leading journals (Nature, Science, Proceedings ofthe National Academy of Sciences, Nature Communications and Science Advances) grew by 36% between 2015 and 2018, although for reasons still not clear, the growth in collaborative articles across all 82 journals tracked by the index has stalled since before 2016, when the vote to leave the EU was taken. The UK government has also tried to reassure the domestic research community with a string of policy announcements, such as reaffirming a commitment to increase national spending on research and development to at least 2.4% of GDP by 2027. Smith says the new visa systems must cover all levels of the scientific workforce, including lab technicians and postdoctoral researchers, and adds that the costs of the system will be a key issue for early-career researchers.

What are the political parties’ promises for research and development after the election, asks Jacqui Wise, as research academies and charities call for a research friendly Brexit outcome

Reif, head of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge, wrote an open letter in praise of diversity last month, after Chinese and Chinese American members of the institute's community reported being interviewed by law-enforcement agencies and asked about their links to China. Threats to the United States from China's government and its companies were among the top discussion items at last September's FBI Academic Summit - the annual gathering at which university and research leaders discuss security with representatives from lawenforcement, intelligence and security agencies. GROWING SCRUTINY Grassley's committee has been in correspondence with the US National Science Foundation (NSF) and the National Institutes of Health (NIH), demanding to know how they vet their grant recipients, how much they spend on policing misconduct, and the measures being taken to \"punish foreign agents\".