News: [Entry posted at 29th October 2008 08:27 PM GMT] Pharma giant Wyeth announced plans yesterday to eliminate research in half of its disease research areas. The company has not yet said what, if any, jobs will be cut in the process.
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News: [Entry posted at 27th October 2008 09:24 PM GMT] The Web site of the student-run Harvard Health Policy Review is up and running after about a week of mysterious down time, and the journal's editor has apologized for running a controversial article without proper bias ... Click to continue
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News: [Entry posted at 27th October 2008 07:52 PM GMT] Local lawmakers in Bremen, Germany, are refusing to renew a prominent neuroscientist's license to conduct research on primates, despite the fact that his research was approved by a national regulatory body.
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News: [Entry posted at 22nd October 2008 08:48 PM GMT] Merck plans to eliminate 7,200 jobs by the end of 2011, according to their 2008 third quarter financial report, released today. The cuts are part of ongoing restructuring ... Click to continue
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News: [Entry posted at 17th October 2008 05:02 PM GMT] A fungus that has eradicated more than 100 frog species across the globe has spread to an ecosystem in Panama that researchers hoped might hold out from infection a while longer.
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News: [Entry posted at 17th October 2008 02:58 PM GMT] The first clinical trial treatment based on embryonic stem cells may soon get the go ahead.
In May, the Food and Drug Administration placed a hold on a clinical trial application submitted by ... Click to continue
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News: [Entry posted at 14th October 2008 08:27 PM GMT] Iceland biotech deCODE Genetics is taking a hit from the global financial downswing. The company's stock price has plunged 54% since September to $0.45 a share.
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News: [Entry posted at 13th October 2008 05:00 PM GMT] A diseased mammalian embryonic heart boosts its production of heart muscle cells to spur its own regeneration, according to a study appearing tomorrow in ... Click to continue
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News: [Entry posted at 10th October 2008 06:45 PM GMT] Will BioMed Central, the publishing house that's been the flagship for open access for nearly a decade, be in good hands with Springer?
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News: [Entry posted at 7th October 2008 05:17 PM GMT] A former member of a high profile stem cell biology research team at the University of Minnesota has been found guilty of falsifying data, a university investigatory panel has ruled.
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News: [Entry posted at 7th October 2008 03:22 PM GMT] The world's largest open access publisher, BioMed Central, has been sold to Springer.
BioMed Central (a former sister company of The Scientist) publishes 180 peer-reviewed journals under the open access publishing model, meaning that anyone can ... Click to continue
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News: [Entry posted at 7th October 2008 02:22 PM GMT] Researchers in the UK should report more details than they currently do about how much their lab animals are suffering, according to recent recommendations by a UK working group. But one prominent pain researcher thinks such requirements are ... Click to continue
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