NewsBlog: [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, identify a complex that can shuttle histones from parent to daughter strands of DNA as it replicates.
As the replication fork moves along a strand of DNA, the nucleosomes - the 4-histone pair... Click to continue
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NewsBlog: [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 budget, for FY08, is $130 million more than FY07. The raise was smaller than some medical and research organizations had hoped for. In a press release from CMR, the group's chairman, G. Steven... Click to continue
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NewsBlog: [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 article about the value of race-based medicine.
The FDA's approval notice did not mention any particular race or ethnicity, and a press release from the drug's manufacturer noted that the drug,... Click to continue
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NewsBlog: [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 appropriations following President George Bush's veto of previous bill in November. This new bill includes $760 million less for NIH and $240 million less for CDC than the vetoed bill, according to... Click to continue
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NewsBlog: [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 expansion. According to Fox Chase's website, this is the first of two ordnances to get approval. The next step - and the point of contention with opponents - will be to get the council's... Click to continue
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NewsBlog: [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 penalized a customer and told her they would refund her deposit because of comments she wrote on The Scientist's website.
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NewsBlog: [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 a similar HIV vaccine.
Yesterday (December 12), the AIDS Vaccine Research Committee of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases met to discuss the PAVE100 study, which was suspended after ... Click to continue
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NewsBlog: [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 reports this week, Kong Il-keun at Gyeongsang National University cloned Turkish Angora cats with red fluorescent protein inserted into their genome. According to Korea.net, Il-keun is excited about the possibility of using the cat as... Click to continue
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NewsBlog: [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 he says he was fired for his creationist beliefs, the Boston Globe reports today.
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NewsBlog: [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 to work on revised appropriations levels for fiscal year 08, which began two months ago. With a temporary funding resolution running out next week and the holiday break looming ahead, lawmakers are pushing to get a bill to the President next week.
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NewsBlog: [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 2004 decision to reduce universities' share of the cost of federally funded projects might have had some negative consequences.
The current funding deal is that institutions have to chip in 1% of National Science... Click to continue
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NewsBlog: [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 report by the FDA's science board has concluded. The agency has had the most trouble regulating areas such as systems biology, nanotechnology, and ... Click to continue
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