News: The black box of pluripotency Posted by Andrea Gawrylewski [Entry posted at 24th April 2008 02:26 PM GMT] What keeps stem cells pluripotent? In the past six months researchers have reprogrammed human progenitor skin cells and ... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: EPA whistleblower sues university Posted by Andrea Gawrylewski [Entry posted at 21st April 2008 09:32 PM GMT] A University of Georgia (UGA) microbiologist and whistleblower at the Environmental Protection Agency is suing the university Board of Regents, the university research foundation, and five faculty members for accepting federal grant money to publish ... Click to continue View comments (3) | Comment on this news story News: Researchers explore pluripotency Posted by Andrea Gawrylewski [Entry posted at 17th April 2008 09:15 PM GMT] Partially or fully differentiated cells can acquire, or be reprogrammed for, stem cell-like pluripotency, according to two studies published this week. The research adds to a growing body of work on the subtleties of pluripotency, since last ... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: Tenured Nevada prof. fired Posted by Andrea Gawrylewski [Entry posted at 17th April 2008 03:16 PM GMT] Last week, the University of Nevada, Reno, fired and banned from campus an animal nutrition researcher, according to a university spokesperson. Hussein Hussein, associate professor in the department of animal biotechnology, told the ... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: FDA mulls embryonic stem cell therapy Posted by Andrea Gawrylewski [Entry posted at 11th April 2008 07:05 PM GMT] With biotech companies inching up on clinical trials for human embryonic stem cell-based therapies, the US Food and Drug Administration held a meeting yesterday to discuss scientific issues in properly deriving and characterizing the cells, as well ... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: Public access begins Posted by Andrea Gawrylewski [Entry posted at 7th April 2008 04:26 PM GMT] Today (April 7) is the start day of the National Institutes of Health mandate requiring that all research funded by NIH dollars be deposited into PubMed Central within one year of publication. Any articles arising from NIH funds that are accepted ... Click to continue View comments (2) | Comment on this news story News: Antibiotics feed bacteria Posted by Andrea Gawrylewski [Entry posted at 3rd April 2008 07:05 PM GMT] Hundreds of bacteria isolated from soil samples are able to live exclusively on antibiotics as a food source, according to a report published today (April 3) in Science. The ... Click to continue View comment (1) | Comment on this news story News: Does blogged peer review work? Posted by Andrea Gawrylewski [Entry posted at 2nd April 2008 05:00 PM GMT] Can the blogosphere work as well as the traditional peer review system? Over the past two months one researcher has been trying to find out. Based on his and his publisher's early assessment ... Click to continue Comment on this news story

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