News: When a supplier switches Posted by Andrea Gawrylewski [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 ... Click to continue View comments (6) | Comment on this news story News: Tobacco sponsors tomato work, too Posted by Andrea Gawrylewski [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 ... Click to continue View comment (1) | Comment on this news story News: Rumblings over Science retractions Posted by Andrea Gawrylewski [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 ... Click to continue View comments (10) | Comment on this news story News: Publishers ask NIH to delay open access Posted by Andrea Gawrylewski [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 ... Click to continue View comment (1) | Comment on this news story News: Master protein for tumor growth Posted by Andrea Gawrylewski [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 ... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: Have your say about open access Posted by Andrea Gawrylewski [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 to continue View comment (1) | Comment on this news story News: Stem cell patents upheld Posted by Andrea Gawrylewski [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 ... Click to continue View comments (2) | Comment on this news story News: A dozen NIH labs to close? Posted by Andrea Gawrylewski [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 ... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: Can publishers and NIH make OA work? Posted by Andrea Gawrylewski [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 ... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: miRNA controls skin cell growth Posted by Andrea Gawrylewski [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 ... Click to continue View comment (1) | Comment on this news story

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