News: Pluripotency without tumors? Posted by Alla Katsnelson [Entry posted at 30th November 2007 06:54 PM GMT] Japanese researchers who reprogrammed pluripotency into adult human skin cells say they have improved the technique, according to a ... Click to continue View comment (1) | Comment on this news story News: YouTube for BioMed Central Posted by Alla Katsnelson [Entry posted at 27th November 2007 02:38 PM GMT] Videos are on the rise in science publishing, as we reported in August. On Friday, BioMed Central, sister company to The Scientist, joined the video crew with the ... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: UK foot and mouth lab leaks again Posted by Alla Katsnelson [Entry posted at 26th November 2007 08:07 PM GMT] A Surrey, UK, lab thought to be the source of a foot and mouth disease (FMD) outbreak in August again ran afoul of biosafety practices last week, when a leaking valve likely released live FMD ... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: Academic publishers make open access deal Posted by Alla Katsnelson [Entry posted at 21st November 2007 09:30 PM GMT] The fifth-largest academic journal publisher, SAGE, yesterday (November 20) announced an agreement with open access science and medicine publisher, Hindawi, to launch a new series of open ... Click to continue View comment (1) | Comment on this news story News: Pharma reaches out for ghostwriter Posted by Alla Katsnelson [Entry posted at 21st November 2007 06:33 PM GMT] Earlier this week, The Scientist reported on a trial comparing the efficacy of a hypertension drug, nebivolol, in African American and white American patients. It seems that Forest Laboratories, ... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: iGEM parts and patents Posted by Alla Katsnelson [Entry posted at 5th November 2007 12:19 PM GMT] This year's iGEM winners tackled a rather abstract information processing task, but many of the projects had direct health applications. In addition to the bactoblood and HIV project, there ... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: And the iGEM winner is... Posted by Alla Katsnelson [Entry posted at 4th November 2007 11:47 PM GMT] The envelope please: This year's iGEM winner is Peking University. The team's concept was to create division of labor among bacteria. A group of bacteria can respond to stimuli by adapting to ... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: iGEM awards, part one Posted by Alla Katsnelson [Entry posted at 4th November 2007 03:08 PM GMT] After yesterday's intensive day of presentations, some in the iGEM crowd this morning look a little worse for wear. Several are sporting a square orange and black stamp on their cheeks, the stamp of the UCSF all-high school team. It got a little ... Click to continue View comment (1) | Comment on this news story News: iGEM never sleeps Posted by Alla Katsnelson [Entry posted at 4th November 2007 06:36 AM GMT] It's like a dorm party... but not. It's getting close to 9, the techno is blasting, a leftover spread of Mediterranean food goes dry on a long table, and hundreds of undergrads stand around talking in groups. Many of them are still standing by their ... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: iGEM olive oil fix Posted by Alla Katsnelson [Entry posted at 4th November 2007 12:00 AM GMT] Some of you may have read a recent New Yorker expose adulterated olive oil -- in my family of cooks, it caused quite a panic. Well, one of the iGEM teams ... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: iGEM bactoblood Posted by Alla Katsnelson [Entry posted at 3rd November 2007 11:58 PM GMT] A guy named Austin was wandering the halls of MIT's Stata Center this afternoon with a plasma bag. Its contents are a little darker and a little grayer than you'd expect blood to be - maybe the color of well-peppered Bloody Mary mix. It's also a ... Click to continue View comment (1) | Comment on this news story News: What makes an iGEM winner? Posted by Alla Katsnelson [Entry posted at 3rd November 2007 07:04 PM GMT] Covering iGEM is hard: choosing presentations based on what sounds cool won?t get you very far, because almost everything sounds cool. Who would say no to a microbial mass production system for blood (Berkeley) or RNAi components strung together to ... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: iGEM, booze sensors and epidemic models Posted by Alla Katsnelson [Entry posted at 3rd November 2007 03:45 PM GMT] For most of the day today, the iGEM teams are breaking up into groups in which students present their projects. The range of projects is pretty dizzying. They are loosely divided into five tracks - energy, information processing, basic foundational ... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: Open source synthetic biology Posted by Alla Katsnelson [Entry posted at 3rd November 2007 07:41 AM GMT] I arrived in Cambridge tonight and headed out to a pub near MIT to find the iGEM crew, who were supposed to meet up for an informal get-together before the Jamboree, iGEM's international ... Click to continue View comment (1) | Comment on this news story News: Synthetic biology square-off Posted by Alla Katsnelson [Entry posted at 2nd November 2007 03:58 AM GMT] This weekend, 59 teams of undergraduates will be descending on Cambridge, Mass., for the 4th annual International Genetically Engineered Machines competition, aka the iGEM Jamoboree. I'm heading up ... Click to continue Comment on this news story

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