NewsBlog: HHMI pays for open access Posted by Alison McCook [Entry posted at 21st August 2007 04:04 PM GMT] The Howard Hughes Medical Institute has decided to pay article processing charges if HHMI-funded scientists choose to publish in open access journals from BioMed Central (BMC). Articles published in BMC journals will be immediately free on the Web. The current BMC article-processing charge ranges from $500 to $2400, depending on the journal. These charges will not come out of an HHMI investigator's budget, so will therefore be in... Click to continue View comment (1) | Comment on this blog NewsBlog: No backing down on bisphenol A Posted by Alison McCook [Entry posted at 13th August 2007 05:48 PM GMT] A 12-member NIH panel is disagreeing with a scientific consensus statement published this month about the health hazards of bisphenol A, a common component of plastics. In the statement, in Reproductive Toxicology, 38 scientists warn that the product may cause serious human reproductive disorders. As ... Click to continue View comment (1) | Comment on this blog NewsBlog: New head of Calif. stem cell group Posted by Alison McCook [Entry posted at 9th August 2007 06:19 PM GMT] Richard Murphy, former head of the Salk Institute for Biological Studies, will assume the role of interim president of the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine, the agency announced yesterday. Murphy will take over for Lori Hoffman, who served as acting present since the spring, when Zach Hall resigned from CIRM's top position. "We are grateful that Dr. Murphy has agreed to assume this responsibility for a period up... Click to continue View comment (1) | Comment on this blog NewsBlog: Just in: Fake ID linked to drinking Posted by Alison McCook [Entry posted at 2nd August 2007 05:37 PM GMT] One of our notebooks in the August issue takes a close look at press releases about research, and why some press offices choose to cover seemingly obvious research. We only mentioned one university-based press office, but it's not just Ohio State University that "sells the self-evident," as a press release that landed in my inbox last week demonstrates. "Mizzou study shows that possessing a fake ID results in more drinking by... Click to continue View comment (1) | Comment on this blog

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