News: Questioned arthritis paper pulled Posted by Alison McCook [Entry posted at 30th January 2008 05:57 PM GMT] A journal retracted a 2004 paper this week that was among the 70,000 papers ... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: How biotechs get on CSI Posted by Alison McCook [Entry posted at 24th January 2008 11:44 PM GMT] A new Web site launched this week from a biotech company around for nearly 50 years contains something you won't see on other biotech sites: A clip from one of the most popular television shows, ... Click to continue View comments (4) | Comment on this news story News: Double vision in biomedicine Posted by Alison McCook [Entry posted at 24th January 2008 04:51 PM GMT] A significant portion of biomedical research papers contain plagiarism, according to a report in this week's Nature. Researchers at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical ... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: Is blogging for biotech? Posted by Alison McCook [Entry posted at 24th January 2008 04:14 PM GMT] Should biotechs stake out real estate in the blogosphere? This question came up at a media panel I attended yesterday in Delaware, hosted by the Delaware ... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: NIH meetings move west Posted by Alison McCook [Entry posted at 22nd January 2008 07:09 PM GMT] NIH peer reviewers based on the West Coast now have less far to travel for study section meetings, according to the Center for Scientific Review, the gateway for all NIH grant applications. For reviewers based far away from DC who have lamented the ... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: Peer reviewed, or just blogged? Posted by Alison McCook [Entry posted at 22nd January 2008 04:46 PM GMT] A University of California, San Diego communications professor is starting an unusual experiment today (Jan 22): He's testing whether a large online community of academic bloggers are better at peer review than a few hand-picked experts. To ... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: What should NIH peer review look like? Posted by Alison McCook [Entry posted at 18th January 2008 03:06 PM GMT] Lawrence Tabak, who is spearheading the NIH's review of peer review, has read every single one of the thousands of responses submitted to the NIH last year, after the agency asked the biomedical community to weigh in on how it should ... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: Your candidates on science Posted by Alison McCook [Entry posted at 17th January 2008 03:35 PM GMT] If you're interested in how your elected representatives feel about science, Scientists and Engineers for America have just launched a new wiki-type site that tracks how politicians have behaved. The network already includes more than 500 Web ... Click to continue View comments (2) | Comment on this news story News: Folkman remembered as creative, kind Posted by Alison McCook [Entry posted at 15th January 2008 10:37 PM GMT] This afternoon, I spoke with Harold Dvorak, a colleague of Judah Folkman's at Harvard, who reacted to his colleague's sudden passing yesterday. He said that he's spent the day ... Click to continue View comment (1) | Comment on this news story News: Judah Folkman dies Posted by Alison McCook [Entry posted at 15th January 2008 07:37 PM GMT] Judah Folkman, a proponent of the idea that halting angiogenesis could starve tumors, died yesterday at the age of 74. According to news reports, the cause of death was a heart attack. The promise of anti-angiogenesis therapies led to many high ... Click to continue View comments (3) | Comment on this news story News: Let's grow organs Posted by Alison McCook [Entry posted at 15th January 2008 05:01 PM GMT] This week's news about researchers growing a new heart from baby cells was exciting, no doubt - a team of researchers from the University of Minnesota, led by Doris Taylor, grew a beating rat heart by adding heart cells from newborn rats to the ... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: $100 million more from Gates Posted by Alison McCook [Entry posted at 14th January 2008 03:48 PM GMT] The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has established a new five-year $100 million fast-track grant program for global health research. Each project will receive $100,000, with the option of ... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: NIH peer review: An inside look Posted by Alison McCook [Entry posted at 10th January 2008 03:30 PM GMT] What are the most important questions and technologies that will hit your discipline within the next 10 years? Do you believe your NIH grant applications are aligned in the most appropriate study sections? Should grant reviewers serve as mentors to ... Click to continue View comments (4) | Comment on this news story News: Elsevier gets spammed Posted by Alison McCook [Entry posted at 8th January 2008 05:33 PM GMT] Anyone get an Email that looks like it's from Elsevier, asking for papers? Only, it's not really Elsevier, and you shouldn't click on any of the links. The Email, entitled "Elsevier: Building insights; breaking boundaries" and ... Click to continue View comments (2) | Comment on this news story News: Reviewer rewards from the NIH Posted by Alison McCook [Entry posted at 4th January 2008 07:17 PM GMT] In an effort to keep good peer reviewers coming back, the National Institutes of Health is letting "permanent" reviewers, who typically serve for four years on chartered study sections, submit their own R01, R21, and R34 grant applications at any ... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: Science vs. science Posted by Alison McCook [Entry posted at 3rd January 2008 03:52 PM GMT] It's the first day of voting today in Iowa, and a perfect time to talk about...science? So says a group of scientists who have joined Sciencedebate2008, now urging the candidates for US ... Click to continue View comments (4) | Comment on this news story News: Top NIH grants, grantees in 2007 Posted by Alison McCook [Entry posted at 2nd January 2008 04:31 PM GMT] It's the end of the year, so time to count the number of pennies the NIH has doled out in the last 12 months. Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology News published a list of the top ... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: Blakemore denied Sir - again Posted by Alison McCook [Entry posted at 2nd January 2008 04:27 PM GMT] In case you missed this over the holiday, former Medical Research Council head Colin Blakemore was denied knighthood by the UK, where news reports have attributed the decision to his support of animal research. In 2003, Blakemore was also ... Click to continue Comment on this news story

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