News: Bush's stem cell ban to end? Posted by Bob Grant [Entry posted at 30th January 2009 04:33 PM GMT] The rumors around Washington, DC say that President Barack Obama could overturn George W. Bush's 2001 federal funding ban on embryonic stem cell research using lines that were derived after August 9 of that year as soon as next week. ... Click to continue View comment (1) | Comment on this news story News: China gunning for brain gain Posted by Bob Grant [Entry posted at 21st January 2009 03:49 PM GMT] A scientific organization in the world's most populous nation is trying to lure foreign researchers to work on short-term contracts within its borders with offers of robust funding. The Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) announced last week that it ... Click to continue View comments (4) | Comment on this news story News: Bailing out life science Posted by Bob Grant [Entry posted at 15th January 2009 04:54 PM GMT] Life sciences will indeed receive a boost in funding in President-Elect Barack Obama's sprawling economic recovery plan, according to figures from the House Appropriations Committee released today. A statement from the committee says that the ... Click to continue View comments (4) | Comment on this news story News: FDA stinks at policing conflicts Posted by Bob Grant [Entry posted at 12th January 2009 03:57 PM GMT] Just when you thought nobody could be worse than the National Institutes of Health at managing financial conflicts of interest among trial investigators... The Inspector General of the Department of Health and Human Services released a ... Click to continue View comment (1) | Comment on this news story News: The between team Posted by Bob Grant [Entry posted at 12th January 2009 02:28 PM GMT] Executives at the Department of Health and Human Services have named a few acting agency heads as the US government prepares to transition into a new administration under President-Elect Barack Obama. There are no real surprises, with deputies or ... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: Rethinking TB Posted by Bob Grant [Entry posted at 8th January 2009 05:00 PM GMT] New observations of the early stages of tuberculosis infection may turn scientists' understanding of the bug's pathogenesis on its head: clumps of immune cells, called granulomas, long thought to protect hosts from the disease instead appear to be ... Click to continue View comments (2) | Comment on this news story News: FDA's morale spending irks Congress Posted by Bob Grant [Entry posted at 8th January 2009 04:28 PM GMT] The US Food and Drug Administration is raising hackles on Capitol Hill where lawmakers are peeved that the agency has paid a consultant more than one million dollars to raise the spirits of FDA employees. Morale at the FDA seems to have hit an all ... Click to continue View comments (5) | Comment on this news story News: Big Pharma backs CMV vaccine Posted by Bob Grant [Entry posted at 5th January 2009 10:13 PM GMT] Swiss pharmaceutical giant Novartis has teamed up with an American biotech company to develop the first commercial vaccine for cytomegalovirus (CMV), which kills or disables tens of thousands of infants every year. Because CMV infection does not ... Click to continue View comment (1) | Comment on this news story

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