News: Unwinding DNA replication Posted by Kerry Grens [Entry posted at 20th December 2007 07:08 PM GMT] Scientists have sorted out another piece of the DNA replication puzzle by showing what might happen to histones through the process of unwinding DNA. The findings, published in today's (December 20) Science, ... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: Congress passes NIH budget Posted by Kerry Grens [Entry posted at 19th December 2007 11:03 PM GMT] Both chambers of Congress this afternoon (December 19) agreed to a suite of government spending bills that included roughly $29 billion for the National Institutes of Health, according to Nancy Granese from the Campaign for Medical Research. This ... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: FDA approves race-tested drug Posted by Kerry Grens [Entry posted at 18th December 2007 05:18 PM GMT] The US Food and Drug Administration yesterday (December 17) approved a beta blocker that I wrote about last month in an ... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: Small raise for NIH, CDC budgets Posted by Kerry Grens [Entry posted at 17th December 2007 08:17 PM GMT] The latest proposal for the 2008 budget for the National Institutes of Health and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention gives the agencies a slight bump over last year's levels. Over the weekend, Congress prepared a new version of ... Click to continue View comments (2) | Comment on this news story News: Fox Chase gets expansion OK Posted by Kerry Grens [Entry posted at 14th December 2007 09:14 PM GMT] Following a lengthy dispute with community residents, Fox Chase Cancer Center in Philadelphia got approval from the city council last night (December 13) on its master plan for an $800 million ... Click to continue View comment (1) | Comment on this news story News: Cat trouble brewing Posted by Kerry Grens [Entry posted at 14th December 2007 08:53 PM GMT] Allerca - the company that claims to breed and sell hypoallergenic cats - may have just exhausted at least one more of its nine lives. I learned this week that the company has skipped out on filing three years' worth of state taxes, and recently ... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: Hope for paused AIDS vaccine Posted by Kerry Grens [Entry posted at 13th December 2007 09:32 PM GMT] Following the recent failure of a Merck HIV vaccine, the NIH has still not decided whether to continue with planned clinical trials of ... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: Glow-in-the-dark cats Posted by Kerry Grens [Entry posted at 13th December 2007 06:22 PM GMT] What a year for felines - first a company claims to have bred them to be hypoallergenic and now South Korean scientists have made them glow in the dark. According to news ... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: Canned creationist sues Woods Hole Posted by Kerry Grens [Entry posted at 7th December 2007 04:29 PM GMT] Doing research in an evolutionary biology lab and not believing in evolution might spell trouble for your career - at least it did for Nathaniel Abraham. The former postdoc at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution is suing the institution because ... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: New push for more NIH funds Posted by Kerry Grens [Entry posted at 6th December 2007 10:08 PM GMT] Following President Bush's veto of a spending bill that included $30 billion for the National Institutes of Health, Congress continues ... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: NSF looks at university cost-sharing Posted by Kerry Grens [Entry posted at 6th December 2007 08:32 PM GMT] When it comes to the quality of research, does it matter who foots the research bill? A government task force will gather on Friday (December 7) to study whether a ... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: FDA's scientific base eroded, report says Posted by Kerry Grens [Entry posted at 3rd December 2007 06:52 PM GMT] The US Food and Drug Administration suffers from "serious scientific deficiencies," potentially compromising the agency's ability to protect the health and safety of consumers, a ... Click to continue Comment on this news story

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