NewsBlog: [Entry posted at 31st March 2008 01:39 PM GMT] At the end of last year, The Scientist editors spotted a warning notice on the Quanta Biosciences Web site that their supply relationship with Bio-Rad had been terminated. In particular, certain PCR reagents that Quanta had been manufacturing for Bio-Rad were no longer the same and Bio-Rad was now making its own formulations.
The key question is: Are the reagents any different? If so, how? The answer, so far, has proved elusive.
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NewsBlog: [Entry posted at 26th March 2008 10:05 PM GMT] The New York Times reported today (March 26) that a major tobacco company -- the Liggett Group -- sponsored a controversial lung cancer study last year totaling about $3.6 million in grants. Interestingly enough, I got an Email a couple of weeks ago from Stanton Glantz, University of California... Click to continue
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NewsBlog: [Entry posted at 26th March 2008 09:55 PM GMT] The conversation is not over regarding two recent retractions of papers on enzyme engineering. Two letters published this month in Science say that the explanation of retraction issued by Homme Hellinga's group at Duke University does not account for many of the errors in the original publications. The ... Click to continue
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NewsBlog: [Entry posted at 21st March 2008 04:30 PM GMT] At the National Institutes of Health open meeting on the new public access mandate yesterday (March 20), publishers continued to criticize the plan and called for the agency to delay implementing it.
As part of the Congressional appropriations act for FY2008, all articles arising from research funded by NIH funds must be submitted to PubMed Central within 12 months of publication. ... Click to continue
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NewsBlog: [Entry posted at 12th March 2008 07:02 PM GMT] Researchers have identified a master protein that regulates some 1,000 genes controlling for tumor growth and metastasis in breast cancer, according to a paper published today in Nature.
The researchers, led by Terumi Kohwi-Shigematsu at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, stumbled upon SATB1's heightened expression while screening... Click to continue
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NewsBlog: [Entry posted at 11th March 2008 09:29 PM GMT] The National Institutes of Health is seeking public comment on its new public access mandate, according to an announcement the NIH posted Friday on their Web site. To submit your comment to the NIH click here.
Some 50 commenters will be given five minutes each to present their comments at a meeting next Thursday (March 20) in Bethesda, Md.
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NewsBlog: [Entry posted at 11th March 2008 05:20 PM GMT] The US Patent and Trademark Office has upheld the two remaining stem cell patents out of a contested trio held by the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (WARF), according to the final ruling posted last week by the USPTO.
The third patent was upheld in a ruling last month (read more here) and can still be challenged by appeal. Last week's rulings are final and cannot be appealed.
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NewsBlog: [Entry posted at 10th March 2008 06:48 PM GMT] The National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) will likely close 12 intramural labs, Science reported last Friday.
The NICHD may close the labs as part of $15 million in savings, according to Emails sent to Science and circulated to employees. Michael Gottesman, NIH deputy director of intramural research, said that this isn't the first time the intramural research program has been... Click to continue
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NewsBlog: [Entry posted at 7th March 2008 08:19 PM GMT] The April 7 deadline is rapidly approaching for submitting all publications based on NIH-funded work to PubMed Central. But some publishers are still grumbling about how the NIH plans to implement the public access mandate, which was put in place in January.
Last month, Pennsylvania Senator Arlen Specter asked NIH director Elias Zerhouni in a letter whether the NIH had adequately... Click to continue
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NewsBlog: [Entry posted at 2nd March 2008 07:40 PM GMT] A microRNA mechanism may lie at the heart of why some skin cell growth goes unchecked, according to a paper published today in Nature. The authors found that one microRNA regulates the differentiation of progenitor skin cells into the stratified outer layers of the skin.
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