News: A bad review, reviewed Posted by Alison McCook [Entry posted at 26th October 2007 09:21 PM GMT] A science journalist and university president are trading barbs this week over the administrator's less-than-glowing book review in Nature. Last week, Nature published a ... Click to continue View comment (1) | Comment on this news story News: Watson makes it official Posted by Alison McCook [Entry posted at 25th October 2007 03:03 PM GMT] James Watson is immediately stepping down as chancellor of Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory in New York. The move follows days of public criticism of his remarks to a UK newspaper that people of ... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: Watson faces harsh criticisms Posted by Alison McCook [Entry posted at 18th October 2007 05:52 PM GMT] James Watson is coming under fire for telling the Sunday Times that he believed people of African descent are less intelligent. Yesterday (October 17), Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (where Watson is Chancellor) Board of Trustees and President Bruce ... Click to continue View comment (1) | Comment on this news story News: Cha sues over IVF critique Posted by Alison McCook [Entry posted at 9th October 2007 11:19 PM GMT] Bruce Flamm, a doctor and former research chairman is being sued for defamation by Kwang Yul Cha, the co-author of a 2001 paper that showed couples who were prayed for (but didn't know it) were more likely to conceive during in vitro ... Click to continue View comments (2) | Comment on this news story News: 2007 Nobel: Place your bets! Posted by Alison McCook [Entry posted at 5th October 2007 04:35 PM GMT] We'll all find out who takes this year's Nobel Prizes the morning they do (sometime next week), but there are some early predictions. Thomson Scientific predicts this year's ... Click to continue View comment (1) | Comment on this news story News: Congress admits biosafety gaps Posted by Alison McCook [Entry posted at 4th October 2007 10:23 PM GMT] This in from news editor Alla Katsnelson: At a congressional hearing on biosafety today (October 4), the Government Accountability Office reported that the federal government doesn't know ... Click to continue Comment on this news story

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