NewsBlog: [Entry posted at 28th April 2008 04:47 PM GMT] Can the biotech and pharma make money in space? That was the question Congress posed at a hearing on the International Space Station's future, held on Thursday (April 24).
"I think I can," Tom Pickens, CEO of a spaceflight services company-turned biotech called SPACEHAB, told Congress. SPACEHAB has been sending up science payloads for the past 23 years. The company has mostly worked with government scientists, but when Pickens... Click to continue
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NewsBlog: [Entry posted at 17th April 2008 06:41 PM GMT] SARS, avian flu, and other lung diseases destroy the lungs via a common mechanism, researcher report in Cell today. That mechanism, based on innate immunity, could provide new targets for treating severe lung damage, the researchers say.
Joseph Penninger, from the Institute of Molecular Biotechnology of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, and colleagues set up an intensive care unit for mice in his lab in order... Click to continue
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NewsBlog: [Entry posted at 10th April 2008 09:40 PM GMT] When I profiled Millennium Pharmaceuticals' chief scientific officer, Joe Bolen, in last month's issue of The Scientist, he described some amusing airport foibles that had taken place during a recent trip to Japan. Now the whole company is going to Japan - at least on paper. Today, Millennium Pharmaceuticals, one of the first genomics companies in the US, was... Click to continue
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NewsBlog: [Entry posted at 10th April 2008 03:34 PM GMT] Last August, I reported on Mohammad Sajid, a UK citizen who was barred from returning to the US pending several months of background checks - twice. On Monday I got an e-mail from Sajid saying he is leaving his lab in the US, where he works on anti-malarial drugs, to take a job at Leiden University in the Netherlands.
"It's been a really tough choice," Sajid said. "The main reason is the travel. It's as simple as that." When I last... Click to continue
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NewsBlog: [Entry posted at 9th April 2008 06:46 PM GMT] The supply of scientists and engineers continues to grow in the US, and that unemployment rate, at 2.5 percent, is the lowest it's been since the early 1990s, the National Science Foundation reported last week. There's no need to worry about the US's ability to fill science jobs, the agency said in a press release which described a recent analysis of its 2006 science and engineering surveys.
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