News: Light helmet to treat Alzheimer's? Posted by Andrea Gawrylewski [Entry posted at 30th January 2008 09:11 PM GMT] A story by the BBC last week reporting that a treatment of infrared light through the scalp could reverse Alzheimer's disease has scientists -- and skeptical science writers -- scratching their ... Click to continue View comment (1) | Comment on this news story News: Do adult brains learn by neurogenesis? Posted by Andrea Gawrylewski [Entry posted at 30th January 2008 05:25 PM GMT] While researchers agree that the birth of new neurons plays an important role in the adult brain, they have long debated to which aspects of learning, memory and behavior the process ... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: Life sciences lose in State of the Union Posted by Andrea Gawrylewski [Entry posted at 29th January 2008 04:25 PM GMT] In his State of the Union address last night, President Bush asked Congress to double the funding of basic research in the physical sciences, but asked life scientists to keep ... Click to continue View comments (10) | Comment on this news story News: NIH asks UConn to return grant money Posted by Andrea Gawrylewski [Entry posted at 28th January 2008 08:46 PM GMT] The National Institutes of Health is asking that the University of Connecticut return $65,005 in grant money for not complying with animal welfare laws, according to an Email sent to the university health center by the National Eye Institute. The ... Click to continue View comment (1) | Comment on this news story News: Amyloid blockers may be a dead end Posted by Andrea Gawrylewski [Entry posted at 27th January 2008 06:05 PM GMT] With few approved drugs available to treat Alzheimer disease, researchers are working on new compounds that block amyloid formation. But many potential drugs in the pipeline for the disease and other amyloid-associated illnesses may not be as ... Click to continue View comments (5) | Comment on this news story News: New evidence for pancreatic stem cells Posted by Andrea Gawrylewski [Entry posted at 24th January 2008 04:45 PM GMT] Researchers have long debated the presence of stem cells in the pancreas that generate insulin-producing beta cells. Now researchers have shown that beta cells are indeed produced in the adult ... Click to continue View comment (1) | Comment on this news story News: Banned UNH prof. reinstated Posted by Andrea Gawrylewski [Entry posted at 22nd January 2008 06:59 PM GMT] I just got a call from John Collins, former chair of the biochemistry and molecular biology department at the University of New Hampshire, who told me that as of today he is officially reinstated as a professor. Collins had been banned from campus ... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: Stem cell trial death Posted by Andrea Gawrylewski [Entry posted at 22nd January 2008 05:48 PM GMT] A nine-year-old girl enrolled in a stem cell therapy trial has died, according to the company running the trial, StemCells, Inc. An independent committee ruled that the death was not caused by the stem cell treatment. The girl was one of six ... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: Human cloning achievement? Posted by Andrea Gawrylewski [Entry posted at 17th January 2008 03:13 PM GMT] A report published online today that researchers have cloned human embryos is not that much of an advance, according to one stem cell expert, Douglas Melton, at Harvard ... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: Publishers object to OA mandate Posted by Andrea Gawrylewski [Entry posted at 4th January 2008 07:57 PM GMT] The new mandate that requires NIH-funded researchers to make their published papers publicly available threatens publisher and author interests, according to a ... Click to continue Comment on this news story

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