News: Gut harbors antibiotic resistance Posted by Bob Grant [Entry posted at 27th August 2009 07:00 PM GMT] The millions of microbes that crowd the human intestinal tract are teeming with new antibiotic resistance genes that could jump to disease-causing pathogens, according to researchers from Harvard University.An artist's conception of microbialecology ... Click to continue View comments (5) | Comment on this news story News: Bee calamity clarified Posted by Bob Grant [Entry posted at 24th August 2009 08:45 PM GMT] An illness that has been decimating US honeybees for more than three years probably isn't caused by a single virus, but by multiple viruses that wear down the bees' ability to produce proteins that can guard them against infection, according to a ... Click to continue View comments (11) | Comment on this news story News: Controlling proteins with light Posted by Bob Grant [Entry posted at 19th August 2009 06:00 PM GMT] Researchers have devised a way to control cell movement using flashes of blue light and have used the technique to uncover the function of a protein crucial to cell motility, they report online in ... Click to continue View comment (1) | Comment on this news story News: Collins prepares for budget battle Posted by Bob Grant [Entry posted at 17th August 2009 07:19 PM GMT] Francis Collins, the new director of the National Institutes of Health, said today (17th August) that making sure the NIH's newly-invigorated budget does not "drop off a cliff" once $10 billion in stimulus funding expires at the end of 2010 will be ... Click to continue View comments (4) | Comment on this news story News: Is HIV progression sex-linked? Posted by Bob Grant [Entry posted at 13th August 2009 05:00 PM GMT] A genetic variant on the X chromosome may explain why some HIV-infected women are slower to develop full-blown AIDS than men. Although several human genetic variants have been implicated in the control and spread of HIV within a host, this is the ... Click to continue View comment (1) | Comment on this news story News: Conflicts brewing at the FDA Posted by Bob Grant [Entry posted at 13th August 2009 04:21 PM GMT] The US Food and Drug Administration's chief drug approver has been hit with allegations of a conflict of interest, and the head of the agency's division on medical devices is resigning amid claims that he was making decisions that betrayed close ... Click to continue View comment (1) | Comment on this news story News: Collins confirmed as NIH head Posted by Bob Grant [Entry posted at 7th August 2009 05:46 PM GMT] Geneticist Francis Collins was confirmed by the US Senate this afternoon (7th August) as the next director of the National Institutes of Health, a spokesperson for Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid told The Scientist. Collins's confirmation ... Click to continue View comments (5) | Comment on this news story News: Collins confirmation imminent Posted by Bob Grant [Entry posted at 5th August 2009 06:40 PM GMT] Francis Collins may be just days away from officially being confirmed to lead the National Institutes of Health, according to Congressional staffers close to the issue. Francis CollinsImage: WikipediaA spokesperson for Senator Mike Enzi (R-WY), who ... Click to continue Comment on this news story

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