News: Making sense of floral scents Posted by Bob Grant [Entry posted at 28th August 2008 07:08 PM GMT] The nectar of plants may be more than just nourishment for the birds and bees that feed off of them - instead, suggests a study ... Click to continue View comment (1) | Comment on this news story News: Head of Austrian med school canned Posted by Bob Grant [Entry posted at 27th August 2008 09:16 PM GMT] The rector of a prominent Austrian medical university has been fired in the midst of a scientific misconduct investigation that has plagued the institution for months. The Medical University ... Click to continue View comments (3) | Comment on this news story News: Dems promise support for science Posted by Bob Grant [Entry posted at 26th August 2008 04:56 PM GMT] Upon last night's opening of the giant pep rally known as the Democratic National Convention, Democrats formally approved their platform, pledging to ... Click to continue View comments (2) | Comment on this news story News: Biden VP pick good for research Posted by Bob Grant [Entry posted at 26th August 2008 04:52 PM GMT] Barack Obama added Senator Joe Biden (D-DE) to the Democratic electoral ticket over the weekend, and Obama's choice of vice ... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: Bill for CA animal researchers Posted by Bob Grant [Entry posted at 25th August 2008 10:02 PM GMT] Legislation seeking to criminalize some of the key methods used by animal rights protesters to target researchers was passed by the ... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: eBay score: a new insect species Posted by Bob Grant [Entry posted at 20th August 2008 09:33 PM GMT] Sure, you can score vintage cars, one-of-a-kind guitar straps, even the odd mass spectrometer on eBay. But now it seems that a ... Click to continue View comments (2) | Comment on this news story News: Psychiatry researcher steps down Posted by Bob Grant [Entry posted at 15th August 2008 08:13 PM GMT] Embattled Stanford psychiatrist and president-elect of the American Psychiatric Association, Alan Schatzberg, has resigned leadership of an NIH-funded research project ... Click to continue View comments (4) | Comment on this news story News: Calif. bill to protect researchers Posted by Bob Grant [Entry posted at 15th August 2008 04:21 PM GMT] A bill that would criminalize some of the key methods used by animal rights protestors to target researchers cleared a California senate committee yesterday (Aug 14). Bill ... Click to continue View comments (3) | Comment on this news story News: Stem cell study trouble Posted by Bob Grant [Entry posted at 14th August 2008 09:46 PM GMT] Ethical lapses and procedural breakdowns plagued an Austrian clinical trial of a stem cell therapy that used patients' own cells to ... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: FDA rolls out new conflict rules Posted by Bob Grant [Entry posted at 5th August 2008 10:27 PM GMT] The Food and Drug Administration unveiled new, tougher conflict of interest rules yesterday (Aug 4). Key among the regulations was ... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: Calif. animal scientists attacked Posted by Bob Grant [Entry posted at 4th August 2008 03:44 PM GMT] A house and car belonging to two University of California, Santa Cruz researchers were firebombed in the wee hours of Saturday (Aug 2) morning. The attacks occurred after ... Click to continue View comment (1) | Comment on this news story News: More Calif. animal research trouble Posted by Bob Grant [Entry posted at 1st August 2008 05:51 PM GMT] Biomedical researchers at the University of California, Santa Cruz have again been targeted by animal rights activists opposed to their use of experimental laboratory animals. According to the ... Click to continue Comment on this news story

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