News: "Study ethics, NIH!" Posted by Bob Grant [Entry posted at 17th November 2009 06:37 PM GMT] The government agency tasked with funding crucial life science research needs to focus more attention on ethical quandaries and nefarious business practices that often obscure the path from discovery to public benefit, says a strongly worded ... Click to continue View comments (12) | Comment on this news story News: HIV trial vector specter Posted by Bob Grant [Entry posted at 17th November 2009 03:58 PM GMT] Did patients in a failed HIV vaccine trial halted in 2007 become more susceptible to the virus due to the adenoviral vector used to deliver the experimental vaccine? Researchers have speculated this may have been the case, and a new study proposes a ... Click to continue View comments (2) | Comment on this news story News: The blogopharmasphere? Posted by Bob Grant [Entry posted at 10th November 2009 04:07 PM GMT] This year has been a busy one for Big Pharma: Billion dollar legal settlements, game-changing mergers, and labor cutbacks of epic proportions have kept the industry (and industry watchers) off balance for much of 2009. But all the turmoil hasn't ... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: Paul Zamecnik dies Posted by Bob Grant [Entry posted at 9th November 2009 04:16 PM GMT] Paul Zamecnik, a Lasker award-winning biologist who co-discovered transfer RNA, died late last month at the age of 96. Zamecnik died at his Boston home after battling cancer. Paul ZamecnikImage: Massachusetts General HospitalIn the mid-1950s, along ... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: One stop research shopping Posted by Bob Grant [Entry posted at 3rd November 2009 12:43 AM GMT] Ever spent days combing the internet for that one reagent or cell line that could take your research to the next level --- to no avail? A new effort, funded by a ... Click to continue View comment (1) | Comment on this news story News: Conflicted psychiatrist leaves Emory Posted by Bob Grant [Entry posted at 2nd November 2009 03:31 PM GMT] The Emory University psychiatry researcher who failed to report hundreds of thousands of dollars in pharmaceutical company payouts while receiving millions of dollars in funding from the National Institutes of Health to study the company's ... Click to continue View comments (7) | Comment on this news story

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