NewsBlog: [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 clinical trials research, according to the New York Times.
The article reports that agency officials don't know how many clinical trials are going, and that just 200... Click to continue
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NewsBlog: [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 next chief executive of Britain's troubled Medical Research Council, replacing Colin Blakemore who steps down this month.
Borysiewicz is best known for his work on oncogenic viruses, including... Click to continue
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NewsBlog: [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 group.
A press release posted on the group's Web site and an AP report filed late last night state that the lab,... Click to continue
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NewsBlog: [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 to report 10 out of 13 incidents that took place over the last seven years. Incidents at the other two schools both took place in April: Workers at the UT Health Sciences Center in Houston were exposed to anthrax, and at UT San Antonio to... Click to continue
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NewsBlog: [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 to the theory, neurotransmitter is released at the synapse in discrete vesicles, each containing approximately equal amounts of neurotransmitter, and with each synaptic bouton... Click to continue
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NewsBlog: [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, director of the immunology and stem cell laboratories at Monash University, is a long-time expert in IVF and stem cell research and founder of the Australian Stem Cell Center. He has also started a handful of companies to commercialize stem cell research... Click to continue
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NewsBlog: [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 of the UK Medical Research Council. Colin Blakemore, who has held the post since 2003, plans to step down at the end of this month. The changeover comes amidst a period of turbulence at... Click to continue
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NewsBlog: [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 off, with the two agencies holding a public signing at the Capitol tomorrow (Sept. 12) of a memorandum sealing the deal.
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NewsBlog: [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 neighboring labs in Pirbright, Surrey, which worked with the virus.
As we reported at the time, original speculations faulted the site's drainage system, which, overwhelmed by heavy rains, could... Click to continue
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NewsBlog: [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 brewing for about five years, but biotech and pharma have vociferously protested some of the proposed changes. Chief among them is its proposal to reduce damages that can be demanded in infringement... Click to continue
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NewsBlog: [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 notice on ProMED-mail, an information service of the International Society for Infectious Diseases.
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NewsBlog: [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 synthetic bacterial cell, once again hit the news with today's publication of his own genome in... Click to continue
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