NewsBlog: EHP narrows search for editor Posted by Bob Grant [Entry posted at 28th September 2007 04:13 PM GMT] Environmental Health Perspectives, a leading public health journal published by NIH's National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, will have a new editor-in-chief soon. An NIEHS spokesperson Emailed the list of finalists for the position to The Scientist. The three finalists, all of them government employees, are: Mike Cunningham - Toxicologist, National Toxicology Program,... Click to continue Comment on this blog NewsBlog: Congress questions acting NIEHS director Posted by Bob Grant [Entry posted at 26th September 2007 03:38 AM GMT] Samuel Wilson, acting director of NIH's National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, said today that he intends to restore cuts to NIEHS programs that focus on disease prevention, long-term epidemiological research, education and outreach. His comments came at a congressional hearing held by the House Subcommittee on Domestic Policy. ... Click to continue Comment on this blog NewsBlog: DNA barcoding in Taipei, Part 4 Posted by Bob Grant [Entry posted at 21st September 2007 08:32 PM GMT] The plant barcoding group meeting here at the end of the 2nd International Barcode of Life Conference in Taipei was as addled with confusion and obfuscation as I had heard it might be. In supreme contrast to animal barcoding working groups (like FishBOL), that are humming along identifying species and thinking about how to attract funding agencies and end users, the plant working group seems to be straining under the... Click to continue Comment on this blog NewsBlog: DNA barcoding in Taipei, Part 3 Posted by Bob Grant [Entry posted at 19th September 2007 07:26 PM GMT] Played a rousing game of table tennis tonight. And by "rousing game" I mean to say that I was soundly drubbed by a Taiwanese gentleman (his name escapes me) who appears to be some sort of national champion. Even my scorching serves were parried with effortless flicks of his supple wrist. Though my game may have been tough, it was nothing compared to the game that ... Click to continue Comment on this blog NewsBlog: DNA barcoding in Taipei, Part 2 Posted by Bob Grant [Entry posted at 18th September 2007 09:42 PM GMT] I spent Monday listening to ichthyologists and fisheries biologists discuss their efforts to barcode the planet?s fish species (an initiative called the Fish barcode of life, or FishBOL) . During the FishBOL session, researchers discussed the issue of seafood consumer fraud, where puffer fish might be mislabeled as monk fish or some lesser... Click to continue Comment on this blog NewsBlog: DNA barcoding in Taipei, Part 1 Posted by Bob Grant [Entry posted at 17th September 2007 09:16 AM GMT] Spent the night talking human disease vectors with Daniel Boakye, a Ghanaian biologist (I call him a mosquito man). I'm in Taipei, Taiwan attending the 2nd International Barcode of Life Conference. What initially attracted me to the concept of barcoding is the sheer magnitude of taxonomic ignorance under which all biologists operate. Science has identified only about 1.8 million of the estimated 10 million species of plant, animal,... Click to continue View comment (1) | Comment on this blog NewsBlog: More money for Calif. stem cell research Posted by Bob Grant [Entry posted at 7th September 2007 10:24 PM GMT] A bit of good news for California's stem cell researchers who have watched as the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine has weathered some changes lately: California officials announced this week that $250 million in taxable general obligation bonds will be sold on September 27 with the proceeds going to CIRM, the regulatory body that oversees the state's stem cell... Click to continue Comment on this blog NewsBlog: Culprit of bee woes identified? Posted by Bob Grant [Entry posted at 6th September 2007 08:43 PM GMT] Researchers have identified a virus that may be at least partially to blame for the dramatic disappearances of some honeybees in the United States recently. In a study published online today in Science, scientists report that they've found Israeli acute paralysis virus (IAPV) in many of the US bee colonies that have been suffering from ... Click to continue Comment on this blog

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