News: NIH recovery grants top $5 billion Posted by Bob Grant [Entry posted at 30th September 2009 04:27 PM GMT] Grants to be announced today (September 30) will bring the total amount of recovery act funding spent by the National Institutes of Health to more than $5 billion, top officials said this morning. The NIH has awarded 12,000 biomedical research ... Click to continue View comments (11) | Comment on this news story News: Q&A: Is stem cell research misguided? Posted by Bob Grant [Entry posted at 29th September 2009 05:08 PM GMT] Searching for a set of molecular characteristics common to all stem cells is, at best, a quixotic quest, argues a systems biologist in an opinion piece recently published in the Journal of Biology. This ... Click to continue View comments (11) | Comment on this news story News: The young and the bold, funded Posted by Bob Grant [Entry posted at 24th September 2009 09:01 PM GMT] The National Institutes of Health awarded more than 100 new grants for high-risk research or innovative work being done by young investigators, the agency announced today (September ... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: HIV vax testers react to Thai trial Posted by Bob Grant [Entry posted at 24th September 2009 05:02 PM GMT] Positive results in an HIV vaccine trial conducted in more than 16,000 Thai volunteers, announced this morning, need to be examined more closely to analyze data on subgroup analyses and specific immune responses so that subsequent trials can absorb ... Click to continue View comments (6) | Comment on this news story News: Nature to launch OA journal Posted by Bob Grant [Entry posted at 23rd September 2009 04:10 PM GMT] Nature Publishing Group (NPG) is adding an online-only, open-access publication to its roster of scientific journals, the publishing juggernaut announced today (September 23). Nature Communications is set to launch in April 2010, and the hybrid ... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: Swine flu windfall Posted by Bob Grant [Entry posted at 23rd September 2009 03:15 PM GMT] Though a worrisome flu season is knocking at the Northern Hemisphere's door, the five biopharmaceutical companies awarded massive contracts by the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) for development and production of more than 195 ... Click to continue View comments (5) | Comment on this news story News: More regulatory science: FDA chief Posted by Bob Grant [Entry posted at 17th September 2009 04:58 PM GMT] The US must bolster study on how to best craft regulations that bring drugs, medical devices and vaccines to market, the commissioner of the US Food and Drug Administration stressed in a speech delivered yesterday (September 16th) in ... Click to continue View comments (4) | Comment on this news story News: Q&A: Hail to the chief (of staff) Posted by Bob Grant [Entry posted at 15th September 2009 02:52 PM GMT] At the beginning of September, the new director of the National Institutes of Health, Francis Collins, welcomed a friend and colleague back into the NIH fold. He named ... Click to continue View comments (6) | Comment on this news story News: Norman Borlaug dies Posted by Bob Grant [Entry posted at 14th September 2009 05:06 PM GMT] The Nobel Peace Prize-winning researcher who developed a high-yielding variety of disease resistant wheat and improved varieties of other crop plants that fed legions of starving people died this Saturday (September 12). Norman Borlaug won the 1970 ... Click to continue View comments (6) | Comment on this news story News: PNAS scraps special submission Posted by Bob Grant [Entry posted at 10th September 2009 03:39 PM GMT] A leading scientific journal has done away with a manuscript submission option that allowed members of the National Academy of Sciences to usher papers from non-members through the peer review process. The Proceedings of the National Academy of ... Click to continue View comments (4) | Comment on this news story News: New round of Gates grants Posted by Bob Grant [Entry posted at 3rd September 2009 07:06 PM GMT] The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation is taking applications for a new round of funding under its Grand Challenges Explorations grant program. The program, in its second year, aims to fund research that tackles developing world problems using ... Click to continue View comments (5) | Comment on this news story News: NSF adopts new ethics rules Posted by Bob Grant [Entry posted at 3rd September 2009 03:56 PM GMT] Starting in 2010, all researchers applying for funding from the National Science Foundation will have to provide some evidence that they will educate their students and postdocs in the responsible and ethical conduct of research. According to an ... Click to continue View comments (2) | Comment on this news story News: Mass spec business consolidated Posted by Bob Grant [Entry posted at 2nd September 2009 10:29 PM GMT] A $1.1 billion deal announced today (Sept. 2) has brought an industry-leading joint venture in mass spectrometry instrumentation supply under the roof of a single manufacturing and technology company. Danaher Corporation will shell out more than $1 ... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: NIH calls for risky research Posted by Bob Grant [Entry posted at 1st September 2009 04:14 PM GMT] The National Institutes of Health is once again sounding the call for research proposals that push the innovation envelope. The agency will award nearly $93 million to about 50 biomedical researchers through two grant programs: The NIH Director's ... Click to continue View comments (3) | Comment on this news story

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