News: Glaxo stalls new patent rules Posted by Alla Katsnelson [Entry posted at 31st October 2007 10:15 PM GMT] At an 11-th hour hearing, a Federal court in Virginia today issued an injunction that will temporarily block controversial new patent rules from taking effect tomorrow (November 1). The court hearing concerned the ... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: Animal rights group targets neuroscientist Posted by Alla Katsnelson [Entry posted at 31st October 2007 07:39 PM GMT] An animal rights group says it vandalized the home of a Los Angeles neuroscientist, adding yet another incident to a string of recent attacks on UCLA researchers. The incident is being investigated by the FBI and local authorities. An anonymous ... Click to continue View comments (5) | Comment on this news story News: Retracting findings after 52 years Posted by Alla Katsnelson [Entry posted at 25th October 2007 08:44 PM GMT] What would you do if you realized you'd made a mistake in a paper you wrote half a century ago? When an 84-year-old retired chemist Googled himself ("I wanted to see, what have I done in all these many years?") he wasn't so happy with what he ... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: White House "eviscerated" CDC report, says official Posted by Alla Katsnelson [Entry posted at 25th October 2007 03:10 PM GMT] CDC director Julie Gerberding spoke on Tuesday (Oct. 23) at a Senate hearing about the public health effects of climate ... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: NIH nearing the end of peer review review Posted by Alla Katsnelson [Entry posted at 25th October 2007 02:51 AM GMT] NIH will hold a final working group meeting tomorrow (October 25) to discuss how to amend peer review. The agency kicked off its review ... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: Watson cancels book tour Posted by Alla Katsnelson [Entry posted at 19th October 2007 04:45 PM GMT] According to the Science Media Center in the UK, James Watson has cancelled all his remaining speaking engagements in the UK and will be returning to the US, in the aftermath of the ... Click to continue View comment (1) | Comment on this news story News: FDA approves second novel HIV drug Posted by Alla Katsnelson [Entry posted at 16th October 2007 02:07 AM GMT] Till recently, just two classes of antiretroviral drugs, reverse transcriptase inhibitors and protease inhibitors, were on the market to treat HIV infection. Last week, the FDA ... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: Geneticist pleads guilty to misdemeanor in "art bioterror" case Posted by Alla Katsnelson [Entry posted at 12th October 2007 07:27 PM GMT] Robert Ferrell, a geneticist at the University of Pittsburgh who was indicted in June, 2004, along with Steven Kurtz, an artist at the State University of New York in Buffalo, after Ferrell ... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: Gore, IPCC win Nobel Peace Prize Posted by Alla Katsnelson [Entry posted at 12th October 2007 04:51 PM GMT] This morning former vice president Al Gore and the Intergovernmental Panel for Climate Change (IPCC) were awarded the 2007 Nobel Prize "for their efforts to build up and disseminate ... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: Gerhard Ertl takes 2007 Chemistry Nobel for solid surface chemistry Posted by Alla Katsnelson [Entry posted at 10th October 2007 12:52 PM GMT] Gerhard Ertl, a German physical chemist, was awarded the Nobel Prize for Chemistry this morning for research that defined how molecules interact at interface between solids and ... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: Venter makes synthetic chromosome... or does he? Posted by Alla Katsnelson [Entry posted at 8th October 2007 08:51 PM GMT] Rumors of J. Craig Venter's achievements in creating artificial life are again circulating in the press - the Guardian reported this weekend that Venter has successfully ... Click to continue View comments (2) | Comment on this news story News: Stem cells to test medicines? Posted by Alla Katsnelson [Entry posted at 3rd October 2007 07:05 PM GMT] The British government and three big pharma companies announced a partnership today (October 3) to develop techniques for using stem cells to test the safety of new medicines, the ... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: Biosafety accidents on the rise Posted by Alla Katsnelson [Entry posted at 3rd October 2007 02:44 AM GMT] On the heels of recent revelations of unreported accidents in Texas university labs and breaches of safety regulations at the University of Wisconsin, an AP article today ... Click to continue Comment on this news story

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