News: Of men, not mice Posted by Bob Grant [Entry posted at 28th May 2009 07:00 PM GMT] Researchers have identified a protein that plays a central and hitherto-undescribed role in glucose trafficking in humans but isn't even expressed in mice, they report in this week's Science. "We always knew that mice and humans were different ... Click to continue View comments (3) | Comment on this news story News: Ancient organism, modern immunity Posted by Bob Grant [Entry posted at 27th May 2009 06:00 PM GMT] The adaptive immune system, which can recognize, attack, and remember potentially harmful microbes, may have appeared on the evolutionary scene millions of years earlier than scientists thought. The immune system of the sea lamprey, a primitive, ... Click to continue View comment (1) | Comment on this news story News: Report: Collins to lead NIH Posted by Bob Grant [Entry posted at 26th May 2009 02:46 PM GMT] Francis Collins, the geneticist who led the Human Genome Project, is close to taking over the top spot at the National Institutes of Health, according to a ... Click to continue View comments (17) | Comment on this news story News: Video: The oceans of old Posted by Bob Grant [Entry posted at 24th May 2009 07:04 PM GMT] In the distant past giant cod (1.5 meters long) ruled the North Sea. Southern oceans boiled with massive pods of right whales. Gangs of 4-meter-long porpoises cavorted off the British Isles. These are but a few of the surprises turned up by an ... Click to continue View comment (1) | Comment on this news story News: New tool for African genomics Posted by Bob Grant [Entry posted at 24th May 2009 07:01 PM GMT] Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) in Africa are not as straightforward as such research among populations of people of European or Asian ancestry, because African populations are much more genetically diverse. But researchers studying malaria ... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: NIH's new rare disease push Posted by Bob Grant [Entry posted at 21st May 2009 03:48 PM GMT] The National Institutes of Health has thrown its hat into the drug development ring with the announcement of a new program that will seek to bring drugs that treat rare and neglected diseases onto the market. "This is a tremendously important ... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: Obama names new CDC chief Posted by Bob Grant [Entry posted at 15th May 2009 06:49 PM GMT] President Barack Obama today (May 15) named New York City health chief Thomas Frieden to the top spot at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Obama praised Frieden, who spearheaded anti-smoking and cancer screening campaigns in his seven ... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: Primate lab slapped by USDA Posted by Bob Grant [Entry posted at 12th May 2009 03:46 PM GMT] Federal investigators have confirmed reports of primate mistreatment at the largest primate research facility in the US. As The Scientist reported in early March, the New Iberia Research ... Click to continue View comments (6) | Comment on this news story News: NIH finally takes on conflicts Posted by Bob Grant [Entry posted at 11th May 2009 03:52 PM GMT] After several months of intense scrutiny, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) is considering stricter rules on managing financial conflicts among its grantees. The research and funding body put out a call for comments on changing the Department ... Click to continue View comments (4) | Comment on this news story News: Science scores in 2010 US budget Posted by Bob Grant [Entry posted at 7th May 2009 10:29 PM GMT] Overall, federal science fares well in President Barack Obama's recently announced FY2010 budget, but the National Institutes of Health would net a pretty paltry increase under the president's ... Click to continue View comments (3) | Comment on this news story News: Elsevier published 6 fake journals Posted by Bob Grant [Entry posted at 7th May 2009 04:27 PM GMT] Scientific publishing giant Elsevier put out a total of six publications between 2000 and 2005 that were sponsored by unnamed pharmaceutical companies and looked like peer reviewed medical journals, but did not disclose sponsorship, the company has ... Click to continue View comments (31) | Comment on this news story News: Hobbit origins from head to toe Posted by Bob Grant [Entry posted at 6th May 2009 06:00 PM GMT] Ever since 2003, when researchers found the skeletal remains of a diminutive, human-like creature--dubbed the Hobbit--on an island in Indonesia, a debate has raged over whether the find represents a new species or a just deformed population of an ... Click to continue View comments (2) | Comment on this news story

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