News: Conflicts on HHS stem cell council Posted by Bob Grant [Entry posted at 28th April 2008 09:04 PM GMT] Nearly half the voting members of a Department of Health and Human Services stem cell advisory council have financial conflicts of interest despite the committee's pledge to limit these ... Click to continue View comments (3) | Comment on this news story News: Dissecting a massive squid: live Posted by Bob Grant [Entry posted at 28th April 2008 05:07 PM GMT] Ever seen a colossal squid dissected? Me neither. In fact, few biologists have glimpsed an intact specimen of the rare and elusive squid species, much less observed one being probed and ... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: House passes biotech funding bill Posted by Bob Grant [Entry posted at 24th April 2008 10:15 PM GMT] The US House of Representatives passed a bill yesterday (Apr 23) that extends two programs providing federal grants to early-stage biotechs and other startups with promising ideas. ... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: HIV vaccine research: crisis of faith? Posted by Bob Grant [Entry posted at 24th April 2008 08:27 PM GMT] HIV/AIDS researchers are despondent over the waning prospects of ever creating an effective vaccine against the virus, according to a ... Click to continue View comments (4) | Comment on this news story News: Legal spat over prayer study ends Posted by Bob Grant [Entry posted at 21st April 2008 10:47 PM GMT] The ongoing legal battle between a fertility researcher who published a controversial 2001 ... Click to continue View comment (1) | Comment on this news story News: Legal shield for Calif. researchers? Posted by Bob Grant [Entry posted at 21st April 2008 04:23 PM GMT] University scientists in California who use animals in their research may get some legal protection from animal rights groups, which have attacked and ... Click to continue View comments (2) | Comment on this news story News: NIH report omits specific blame? Posted by Bob Grant [Entry posted at 17th April 2008 09:08 PM GMT] Researchers at the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences are saying the recent NIH report on mismanagement at the agency fails to pinpoint some root causes of the problems. The ... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: Like frog, like mouse Posted by Bob Grant [Entry posted at 17th April 2008 05:06 PM GMT] For the first time, scientists have identified in mammals an essential mechanism used by amphibians to adjust to low-oxygen environments. According to a ... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: FDA's 1st Chief Scientist speaks Posted by Bob Grant [Entry posted at 16th April 2008 09:21 PM GMT] Last week, the US Food and Drug Administration named cancer biologist Frank Torti as the agency's first ever Chief Scientist. ... Click to continue View comments (2) | Comment on this news story News: Problems linger at NIEHS Posted by Bob Grant [Entry posted at 16th April 2008 04:29 PM GMT] A report from the National Institutes of Health has detailed a suite of management and ethics problems at the agency's National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences. The ... Click to continue View comment (1) | Comment on this news story News: Haitian clinic weathers riots Posted by Bob Grant [Entry posted at 15th April 2008 11:08 PM GMT] The Haitian HIV/AIDS clinic that I visited earlier this year and wrote about in the March issue of The Scientist has resumed normal ... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: Plagiarists beware Posted by Bob Grant [Entry posted at 11th April 2008 10:39 PM GMT] We here at The Scientist do our best to keep an eye out for instances of scientific misconduct and publishing irregularities. In the past we've not only reported on ... Click to continue View comments (5) | Comment on this news story News: Thousands of NIH laptops unprotected Posted by Bob Grant [Entry posted at 11th April 2008 08:35 PM GMT] Earlier this week I posted a blog on the digital security problems at NIH, which revealed the agency cannot encrypt sensitive data, such as the personal information (including social security ... Click to continue View comments (5) | Comment on this news story News: Giuseppe Attardi dies Posted by Bob Grant [Entry posted at 10th April 2008 11:08 PM GMT] Giuseppe Attardi, the California Institute of Technology researcher who identified all the genes in human mtDNA and uncovered the mitochondrial genome's role in degenerative diseases and ... Click to continue View comment (1) | Comment on this news story News: Arabidopsis evolution study pulled Posted by Bob Grant [Entry posted at 10th April 2008 07:05 PM GMT] Plant biologists have withdrawn a study on Arabidopsis thaliana evolution published in a 2004 issue of Science, saying one of its conclusions was marred by contamination, according ... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: Security risks at NIH? Posted by Bob Grant [Entry posted at 10th April 2008 06:11 PM GMT] The National Institutes of Health this week warned its employees that Apple Macintosh laptops cannot be encrypted using the agency's software, leaving unprotected sensitive data such as personal information (including ... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: Ge-what-ics?: Nation's teenagers Posted by Bob Grant [Entry posted at 9th April 2008 10:21 PM GMT] A significant portion of American high schoolers have seriously flawed ideas about genetics, according to a study conducted by the country's largest society for genetics ... Click to continue View comments (9) | Comment on this news story News: Say your prayers, cane toads Posted by Bob Grant [Entry posted at 4th April 2008 09:23 PM GMT] Though Australian scientists are working to engineer a virus to control the invasive pests, an Aussie politician has suggested a less subtle solution: kill 'em all. Shane Knuth, a ... Click to continue View comments (4) | Comment on this news story News: New metastasis mechanism revealed Posted by Bob Grant [Entry posted at 3rd April 2008 04:36 PM GMT] A signaling molecule commonly found in cancerous tissue primes some breast tumor cells to metastasize to lung but not bone tissue, according to a study to be published in ... Click to continue View comments (2) | Comment on this news story News: HHMI president steps down Posted by Bob Grant [Entry posted at 1st April 2008 10:16 PM GMT] Thomas Cech, a Nobel laureate who studied the catalytic properties of RNA, has announced plans to step down from the top spot at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, according to the ... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: The perils of DNA import/export Posted by Bob Grant [Entry posted at 1st April 2008 03:45 PM GMT] Ever had trouble transporting DNA across international borders? I was in Taiwan last year covering a conference on DNA barcoding, ... 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