News: Senate passes NIH funding Posted by Andrea Gawrylewski [Entry posted at 23rd May 2008 06:16 PM GMT] Yesterday the US Senate approved a bill that includes $400 million for NIH funding. The provision is part of the Senate's Supplemental Appropriations bill for 2008, primarily intended to ... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: Foldit for fun Posted by Andrea Gawrylewski [Entry posted at 23rd May 2008 01:35 PM GMT] When I first heard about a computer game based on folding proteins, I must admit, I was skeptical. How fun could it possibly be to manipulate a virtual protein for points? Well, after countless hours of first hand experimentation I've arrived at an ... Click to continue View comments (2) | Comment on this news story News: Virginia U in secretive tobacco deal Posted by Andrea Gawrylewski [Entry posted at 22nd May 2008 04:18 PM GMT] Another US university has been found in bed with big tobacco, this time on the down-low. The New York Times reported today that Virginia Commonwealth University entered into a ... Click to continue View comments (3) | Comment on this news story News: Monkey model for Huntington disease Posted by Andrea Gawrylewski [Entry posted at 19th May 2008 03:41 PM GMT] Scientists have created the first transgenic monkey model of Huntington disease (HD), according to a report that appeared yesterday in Nature. But it's unclear how ... Click to continue View comments (2) | Comment on this news story News: Still hope for NIH funding boost? Posted by Andrea Gawrylewski [Entry posted at 16th May 2008 08:42 PM GMT] There still may be hope for a boost to National Institutes of Health funding in 2008. Yesterday the US Senate snuck some $400 million into a bill approved by the House earlier this week for funding the Iraq war. At the end of last year, President ... Click to continue View comment (1) | Comment on this news story News: First embryonic stem cell trial stalled Posted by Andrea Gawrylewski [Entry posted at 15th May 2008 03:41 PM GMT] The FDA has delayed approval of an application for the first human embryonic stem cell clinical trial by Geron Corporation, the company announced yesterday. Geron's compound, GRNOPC1, is ... Click to continue View comments (4) | Comment on this news story News: Mutant p53 thwarts cancer therapy Posted by Andrea Gawrylewski [Entry posted at 14th May 2008 10:07 PM GMT] Some potential cancer therapies may do more harm than good: A class of compounds intended to boost tumor suppressor p53 activity may actually promote mutant versions of the gene, a ... Click to continue View comments (2) | Comment on this news story News: Fighting toads, with toads? Posted by Andrea Gawrylewski [Entry posted at 8th May 2008 03:41 PM GMT] An Australian research group is proposing a surprising technique to alleviate the ecological damage that the invasive cane toad has caused to many regions of Australia. Rick Shine at ... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: Publisher gives authors copyright Posted by Andrea Gawrylewski [Entry posted at 1st May 2008 07:07 PM GMT] A medical publisher has changed its copyright policy to ease the process for authors to comply with the federal public access mandate. Starting today (May 1), authors will automatically retain copyright of manuscripts submitted to Rockefeller ... Click to continue View comment (1) | Comment on this news story News: How to track a stem cell Posted by Andrea Gawrylewski [Entry posted at 1st May 2008 03:32 PM GMT] Before therapies using human embryonic stem cells can be approved by the Food and Drug Administration, researchers will have to answer one key question: where do the cells go when they are injected into the patient? During an FDA meeting earlier ... Click to continue Comment on this news story

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