News: Inspector General: FDA flunking clinical trials oversight Posted by Alla Katsnelson [Entry posted at 28th September 2007 07:11 PM GMT] A report released today by the Department of Health and Human Services reveals that the FDA is woefully lax in monitoring ... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: MRC confirms new chief Posted by Alla Katsnelson [Entry posted at 28th September 2007 12:35 AM GMT] Stephen Pincock reports: Leszek Borysiewicz , deputy rector of Imperial College London, was officially named today (September 28) as the ... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: Biosafety concerns at U of Wisconsin Ebola lab Posted by Alla Katsnelson [Entry posted at 20th September 2007 07:25 PM GMT] A University of Wisconsin researcher working with the Ebola virus operated his lab under lower biosafety standards than are required for working with the deadly pathogen, according to the Sunshine Project, an Austin-based biosafety watchdog ... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: Texas universities bombing biosafety? Posted by Alla Katsnelson [Entry posted at 19th September 2007 11:35 PM GMT] Recent biosafety breaches have occurred at three University of Texas schools, the Chronicle of Higher Education reports . At UT Austin, officials failed ... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: Re-analysis raises ghosts in neuroscience Posted by Alla Katsnelson [Entry posted at 18th September 2007 02:05 AM GMT] A news story in this week's Nature reports on problems with research that in the last quarter-century has spawned a controversial but influential theory in neurophysiology. According ... Click to continue View comment (1) | Comment on this news story News: Calif. stem cell institute appoints president Posted by Alla Katsnelson [Entry posted at 17th September 2007 07:03 PM GMT] After a contentious search, the California Institute of Regenerative Medicine on Friday named Australian stem cell research Alan Trounson as the new president of the institute. Trounson, ... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: New chief for UK medical research? Posted by Alla Katsnelson [Entry posted at 13th September 2007 11:15 PM GMT] According to a news report in today's Nature, Leszek Borysiewicz, a vaccinologist and deputy rector at Imperial College London, has been selected to become the chief executive ... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: NIH and NASA firm up space plans Posted by Alla Katsnelson [Entry posted at 12th September 2007 01:36 AM GMT] In July, The Scientist reported on plans for a collaboration between NASA and NIH to conduct life science experiments aboard the International Space Station. Those plans, it seems, are taking ... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: UK identifies foot and mouth source Posted by Alla Katsnelson [Entry posted at 10th September 2007 04:46 PM GMT] The UK Health and Safety Executive (HSE) on Friday released the findings of its investigation on the source of last month's foot and mouth disease outbreak that had been traced to three ... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: Time for patent reform? Posted by Alla Katsnelson [Entry posted at 7th September 2007 11:43 PM GMT] The House of Representatives this afternoon approved a bill outlining major changes to the patent process. Attempts at legislation reforming the system have been ... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: Just another biosafety breach Posted by Alla Katsnelson [Entry posted at 5th September 2007 01:46 AM GMT] An outbreak investigation of a Maine poultry vaccine facility concluded last week that a spill infected about a third of the facility's 74 employees with salmonella poisoning, according to a ... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: Craig Venter's DNA Posted by Alla Katsnelson [Entry posted at 4th September 2007 05:48 PM GMT] J. Craig Venter, famed geneticist (and member of The Scientist's editorial board ) who this summer made headlines with the development of a technique for creating a ... Click to continue View comment (1) | Comment on this news story

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