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Barbara Culliton became a reporter at Science Magazine as a reporter in 1972 and in the 18 years that followed became one of the most respected journalists in the country for her coverage biomedical research and policy. Later, she was appointed the first News Editor, overseeing both the News & Comment and Research News sections of the magazine. Her articles covered a wide range of topics including:

• The Sloan-Kettering Affair: A story without a hero. (1974)
• The Sloan-Kettering Affair (II): An uneasy resolution. (1974)
• Grave-robbing: The charge against four from Boston City Hospital. (1974)
• Manslaughter: The charge against Edelin of Boston City Hospital.(1974)
• Abortion and manslaughter: A Boston doctor goes on trial. (1974)
• Edelin Trial: Jury not persuaded by scientists for the defense. (1974)
• Mammography controversy: NIH's entrée into evaluating technology. (1977)
• The Mystery of the Shroud of Turin Challenges 20th-Century Science. (1978)
• The academic-industrial complex. (1982)
• The Hoechst department at Mass General. (1982)
• Monsanto give Washington U. $23.5 million. (1982)
• Medicine as Business: Are Doctors Entrepreneurs? (1986)
• A Bitter Battle Over Error: A long-running and still unresolved dispute among scientists over possible error in a published paper has erupted into a cause célèbre in Congress. (June 1988)
• A Bitter Battle Over Error (II): Two researchers' post-publication "audit" of a scientific paper has led to allegations of error and a debate about the role of unofficial watchdogs in assuring accuracy in the literature. (July 1988)
• Dingell v. Baltimore (April 1989)
• NIH, Inc.: The CRADA Boom. (September 1989)