News: NEJM reviewer leaked Avandia study Posted by Bob Grant [Entry posted at 30th January 2008 05:48 PM GMT] A reviewer of last year's meta-analysis of GlaxoSmithKline's diabetes drug, Avandia, leaked the study to the company prior to ... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: Biologists' FY09 funding wish list Posted by Bob Grant [Entry posted at 29th January 2008 06:41 PM GMT] The Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology (FASEB) has outlined its funding hopes for the 2009 fiscal year today (Jan. 29), just a few weeks after Congress passed the FY08 ... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: Cha vs. Flamm: The endless lawsuit Posted by Bob Grant [Entry posted at 25th January 2008 04:52 PM GMT] In yet another twist in an ongoing legal battle, a Los Angeles Superior Court judge yesterday (Jan. 24) reinstated a ... Click to continue View comment (1) | Comment on this news story News: Artificial life, a step closer Posted by Bob Grant [Entry posted at 24th January 2008 06:09 PM GMT] Researchers at the J. Craig Venter Institute in Rockville, Md., say they've joined together chemically synthesized fragments of DNA to assemble the synthetic genome of the world's smallest free-living bacterium. Previously, only viral genomes had ... Click to continue View comment (1) | Comment on this news story News: Stanford denies Big Oil U. status Posted by Bob Grant [Entry posted at 23rd January 2008 03:17 PM GMT] A Stanford University official has denied allegations that the university's climate and energy research is influenced by its corporate sponsors. The ... Click to continue View comments (4) | Comment on this news story News: 1000 genome project launched Posted by Bob Grant [Entry posted at 22nd January 2008 05:19 PM GMT] An international consortium announced today (Jan 22) a plan to sequence at least 1000 genomes from people all over the world. "The 1000 Genome Project" seeks to assemble the most comprehensive map yet of human ... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: Greasing the academic wheel Posted by Bob Grant [Entry posted at 22nd January 2008 04:17 PM GMT] Petrochemical companies hold too much sway over research at some US universities, according to a science watchdog group. The Center for Science in the Public Interest released a report yesterday (Jan ... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: Report faults NIH on conflicts Posted by Bob Grant [Entry posted at 18th January 2008 10:42 PM GMT] More than a year ago, Ned Feder, former National Institutes of Health researcher and now staff scientist at the ... Click to continue View comment (1) | Comment on this news story News: Surf's up for viruses Posted by Bob Grant [Entry posted at 18th January 2008 05:59 PM GMT] In membrane studies, pictures say thousands of words. Wednesday, the closing day of the Keystone symposium on the molecular basis for biological membrane organization, I watched a talk that contained millions of words worth of compelling images. In ... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: Cilia link seeing and peeing Posted by Bob Grant [Entry posted at 16th January 2008 06:04 PM GMT] I've officially heard my favorite one-liner here at the Keystone symposium on the molecular basis for biological membrane organization. In her presentation on the molecular link between polycystic defects such as retinopathies and ... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: Calcium signaling: STIM revisited Posted by Bob Grant [Entry posted at 15th January 2008 07:36 PM GMT] In cell signaling, calcium is king. The flux of calcium ions across cell membranes regulates cellular activities from muscle contraction to neuron firing to immune cell function. A talk I saw here at the Keystone symposium on the molecular basis for ... Click to continue View comment (1) | Comment on this news story News: New networking site for scientists Posted by Bob Grant [Entry posted at 8th January 2008 01:53 AM GMT] There's a new kid on the ever-growing virtual bock of social networking websites. Last year I wrote about how scientists might use these sites to optimize their impact in the scientific ... Click to continue View comment (1) | Comment on this news story News: Clocking monarch migration Posted by Bob Grant [Entry posted at 7th January 2008 09:23 PM GMT] Researchers have uncovered key genetic mechanisms underlying one of the most impressive feats of animal migration on Earth: the autumnal voyage of monarch butterflies from eastern North ... Click to continue Comment on this news story

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