NewsBlog: [Entry posted at 19th December 2007 05:12 PM GMT] The protein Nanog, long considered essential to maintaining pluripotency and promoting differentiation in embryonic stem cells, may play a lesser role in those processes, according to a study published this week in Nature.
"The previous paradigm was that Nanog was infinitely coupled to differentiation," Ian Chambers of the University of Edinburgh, lead author of the study, told The Scientist. This new work has shown,... Click to continue
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NewsBlog: [Entry posted at 18th December 2007 03:11 PM GMT] Hwang Woo-Suk, the disgraced South Korean stem cell scientist, is part of a research team in South Korea requesting permission to work on human embryonic stem cells, the Associated Press reported yesterday.
Hwang was one of eight researchers from the Suam Biotechnology Institute, a lab he founded last year, who filed the request, an anonymous... Click to continue
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NewsBlog: [Entry posted at 14th December 2007 04:01 PM GMT] Despite billions of dollars invested by the Singapore government to turn the country into a global biomedical research hub, another prominent researcher is leaving, The Chronicle of Higher Education reported yesterday. Alan Colman, who contributed to cloning Dolly the sheep, is abandoning his post as executive director of the Singapore Stem Cell Consortium. He is the... Click to continue
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NewsBlog: [Entry posted at 7th December 2007 05:14 PM GMT] Nature Publishing Group has adopted a new formal policy that will allow researchers to freely access, distribute, and reuse all papers which provide organisms' genomic sequences, according to a Nature editorial published online Wednesday (December 5).
The policy does not mark a big change in practice -- Nature has always made genomic papers immediately and freely available on their Web site. But the new "creative... Click to continue
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NewsBlog: [Entry posted at 5th December 2007 05:42 PM GMT] The British government has finalized a contentious plan to build a new medical research center in the heart of London, according to a statement posted by the Medical Research Council (MRC) today (December 5).
British Prime Minister Gordon Brown will sell a plot of land next to the British Library and the new Eurostar train station for the construction of the UK Centre for Medical Research and Innovation (UKCMRI) -- scheduled to be... Click to continue
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