News: Safer iPS cells Posted by Andrea Gawrylewski [Entry posted at 25th September 2008 07:00 PM GMT] Until now, reprogramming fully differentiated cells into a pluripotent state has had a major drawback: the use of genome-integrating retroviruses to do the job. But a new study published ... Click to continue View comment (1) | Comment on this news story News: Stem cell banks galore Posted by Andrea Gawrylewski [Entry posted at 25th September 2008 06:26 PM GMT] In the last several years, stem cell banks and registries have begun springing up across the country and internationally. But are all these facilities helping research, or just duplicating efforts? The latest addition to the list of such facilities ... Click to continue View comment (1) | Comment on this news story News: Pfizer embraces stem cells Posted by Andrea Gawrylewski [Entry posted at 24th September 2008 03:46 PM GMT] Big pharma's interest in stem cell research is picking up speed. Pharmaceutical giant Pfizer is expanding its research into the technology and plans to open a second regenerative medicine ... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: Ancient fingers and toes Posted by Andrea Gawrylewski [Entry posted at 21st September 2008 06:33 PM GMT] Were animals with four limbs the first to evolve fingers and toes-- or did such digits evolve long before? A study published today (September 21) in Nature claims to ... Click to continue View comment (1) | Comment on this news story News: $500 million NIH funds boost? Posted by Andrea Gawrylewski [Entry posted at 17th September 2008 08:56 PM GMT] The National Institutes of Health may be getting a healthy funding boost by year's end. Within the next couple of weeks, the US Senate is expected to debate a supplementary funding package that includes $500 million to NIH for 2008. Senate ... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: 2008 Lasker Awards announced Posted by Andrea Gawrylewski [Entry posted at 13th September 2008 10:05 PM GMT] Three researchers, Victor Ambros, at the University of Massachusetts Medical School, Gary Ruvkun, at Massachusetts General ... Click to continue View comments (2) | Comment on this news story News: Open access recall? Posted by Andrea Gawrylewski [Entry posted at 12th September 2008 04:26 PM GMT] A new bill seeks to undo the NIH mandate requiring federally-funded research papers to be made publicly available within 12 months of acceptance for publication. In a hearing yesterday (September 11) the US House Committee on the Judiciary ... Click to continue View comments (8) | Comment on this news story News: Hearing on open access mandate? Posted by Andrea Gawrylewski [Entry posted at 5th September 2008 10:21 PM GMT] A government hearing set for next week will discuss a bill in the works that may address publishers' concerns with public access laws, according to the Library Journal. The ... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: Jobs for old brain's new neurons Posted by Andrea Gawrylewski [Entry posted at 1st September 2008 10:40 PM GMT] Researchers have known for almost a decade that the adult brain produces new neurons. But a new study appearing yesterday (August 31) online in Nature Neuroscience gets a better look at what ... Click to continue Comment on this news story

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