News: Congressional pork fatter than ever Posted by Bob Grant [Entry posted at 26th March 2008 10:24 PM GMT] In FY2008, more Congressional pork-barrel project money flowed into US academic institutions that ever before, according to an analysis published in this week's issue of The Chronicle of ... Click to continue View comment (1) | Comment on this news story News: HIV vaccines: Back to basics? Posted by Bob Grant [Entry posted at 25th March 2008 10:25 PM GMT] With the recent failure of HIV vaccine clinical trials, the HIV/AIDS research community has resolved to concentrate more on the basic science behind the disease, shifting the main focus from ... Click to continue View comments (5) | Comment on this news story News: Fungi-farming ants: a new phylogeny Posted by Bob Grant [Entry posted at 24th March 2008 10:05 PM GMT] Species of ants that practice a complex form of fungi agriculture developed their knack for farming about 50 million years ago and have employed several different, successful strategies to culture their crops in the intervening millennia, according ... Click to continue View comments (7) | Comment on this news story News: Synaptic activity protects neurons Posted by Bob Grant [Entry posted at 23rd March 2008 11:20 PM GMT] Chatter between neurons can help protect them from the ravages of free radical damage, according to a report published today (Mar 23) in Nature. Free radical, or ... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: Fired prof's racism claim rejected Posted by Bob Grant [Entry posted at 21st March 2008 07:30 PM GMT] A federal agency has told an African-American MIT stem cell researcher, who last year went on a 12-day hunger strike in to protest his tenure denial, that his claim of racial discrimination ... Click to continue View comments (2) | Comment on this news story News: Changes to federal biotech grants? Posted by Bob Grant [Entry posted at 20th March 2008 10:54 PM GMT] The House Committee on Small Business is calling on legislators to overhaul the federal Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program, which awarded ... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: NJ med. school reaccredited Posted by Bob Grant [Entry posted at 19th March 2008 09:38 PM GMT] The embattled University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey (UMDNJ) got a rare bit of good news today, when it was taken off probation and its accreditation was restored, according to ... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: First Lady visits Haiti Posted by Bob Grant [Entry posted at 18th March 2008 07:58 PM GMT] Laura Bush was in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, last week, and she visited the GHESKIO HIV/AIDS clinic, which I visited this past January for an ... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: EPA cutbacks hurt science: Congress Posted by Bob Grant [Entry posted at 14th March 2008 08:42 PM GMT] The Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) closure of several of its research libraries is flawed, unjustified and is depriving academics, government employees, and the public of crucial ... Click to continue View comments (2) | Comment on this news story News: Teen's cancer study wins Intel prize Posted by Bob Grant [Entry posted at 13th March 2008 04:22 PM GMT] A 17-year-old high school student from North Carolina has won the 2008 Intel Science Talent Search for developing a genetic method that predicts the likelihood of relapse in early-stage colon ... Click to continue View comments (2) | Comment on this news story News: We can eradicate malaria: report Posted by Bob Grant [Entry posted at 12th March 2008 02:24 PM GMT] Wiping out malaria in much of sub-Saharan Africa is an attainable goal that can be reached with targeted and consistent intervention, ... Click to continue View comments (3) | Comment on this news story News: Elsevier expands biopharma base Posted by Bob Grant [Entry posted at 11th March 2008 05:41 PM GMT] Science and health publishing giant Elsevier has acquired Windhover Information Inc., a leading biotech and pharma business intelligence provider. Windhover publishes several journals, such as In ... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: Doctor double dip Posted by Bob Grant [Entry posted at 7th March 2008 03:35 PM GMT] Editorial administrator Margaret Guthrie reports Who hasn't invoked the five second rule? After all, food that falls to the kitchen floor is still safe to eat, if you pick it up fast enough. Isn't it? ... Click to continue View comments (8) | Comment on this news story News: Farewell to pharma freebies? Posted by Bob Grant [Entry posted at 4th March 2008 06:06 PM GMT] Massachusetts may become the first state with a complete ban on pharmaceutical company freebies to doctors. The president of the Massachusetts Senate, Therese Murray (D), yesterday (March 3) filed a ... Click to continue Comment on this news story

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