News: [Entry posted at 26th June 2008 03:54 PM GMT] After three contentious stem cell patents were upheld in the US earlier this year, the debate over one of the patents continues this week in Europe.
The Board of Appeal at the European Patent Office heard a dispute on Tuesday (June 24) on awarding ... Click to continue
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News: [Entry posted at 20th June 2008 06:54 PM GMT] The NIH is a step closer to getting a $150 million boost by September. Last night (June 19) the House of Representatives passed a supplementary 2008 appropriations bill that includes a hefty chunk to the agency.
Of $400 million that the Senate ... Click to continue
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News: [Entry posted at 13th June 2008 09:53 PM GMT] The technical challenges of using retroviruses to reprogram cells to a pluripotent state could be worked out within the year, researchers said today in a press conference at the annual meeting of the International Society for Stem Cell Research in ... Click to continue
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News: [Entry posted at 12th June 2008 09:36 PM GMT] New compounds that target leukemia stem cells are moving into the clinic this summer. But researchers have yet to pin down exactly how some of these compounds do their job.
Today at the International Society for Stem Cell Research's (ISSCR) annual ... Click to continue
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News: [Entry posted at 12th June 2008 04:28 PM GMT] You can now have your say about regulations on bringing stem cell therapies to the clinic.
A special task force set up to create guidelines for bringing stem cell therapies from bench to bedside will be accepting public commentary on the ... Click to continue
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News: [Entry posted at 10th June 2008 03:31 PM GMT] The Food and Drug Administration has disqualified seven investigators so far this year for misconduct, according to an FDA document. The ruling bars the doctors from conducting clinical ... Click to continue
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News: [Entry posted at 9th June 2008 09:24 PM GMT] The NIH's $1 billion plan to improve peer review also includes compensation for reviewers: Grant reviewers will be compensated $250,000 for six years of service, if they qualify, The Chronicle ... Click to continue
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News: [Entry posted at 5th June 2008 07:49 PM GMT] In a world where most companies seem to be cutting jobs, one company is looking to up their ranks by 25%.
MedImmune announced today that they are looking to fill more than 800 positions in research and development and the clinic.
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News: [Entry posted at 5th June 2008 03:19 PM GMT] A new funding guideline for the National Institutes of Health is making its way through Congress.
Yesterday the Senate approved a budget resolution that includes $59.7 billion for health categories, including the NIH. This represents nearly 6% ... Click to continue
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News: [Entry posted at 4th June 2008 05:08 PM GMT] A new study confirms a seemingly obvious assumption about human embryonic stem cell research: Countries with fewer restrictions on research outperform countries with more restrictions. But the picture may be more complex than that, according to some ... Click to continue
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News: [Entry posted at 2nd June 2008 05:42 PM GMT] Jacob Robbins, an NIH thyroid researcher and co-discoverer of the active form of thyroid hormone, died on May 12 in Bethesda, Md, of heart failure. He was 85 years old.
In the 1950s Robbins and colleague Joseph Rall, both then at Memorial ... Click to continue
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