News: [Entry posted at 29th February 2008 10:16 PM GMT] A company developing therapeutics using RNA interference (RNAi) today (February 29) announced positive results of a clinical trial in humans ? ... Click to continue
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News: [Entry posted at 20th February 2008 11:12 PM GMT] Texas A&M University will pay an unprecedented $1 million in fines for more than a dozen safety violations in its research program on bioterrorism agents, the university announced today (February 20).
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News: [Entry posted at 19th February 2008 06:54 PM GMT] Who should the next US president appoint as director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy?
That and more than 50 other science-related positions in the executive branch will more ... Click to continue
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News: [Entry posted at 19th February 2008 12:16 AM GMT] Geneticist and genetic engineering pioneer Ray Wu died on February 10 of cardiac arrest. He was 79.
In 1970, Wu developed a new location-specific primer-extension technique that became the first method of sequencing DNA. In the following decade, ... Click to continue
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News: [Entry posted at 14th February 2008 06:04 PM GMT] Can plants suffer from autoimmunity? The term is generally reserved for organisms with an adaptive immune system, but one of the speakers last night at the Keystone meeting on plant signaling and immunity described a scenario that she called "the ... Click to continue
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News: [Entry posted at 14th February 2008 04:41 AM GMT] Last night's session (February 12) on hormones networks at the joint Keystone meeting on plant signaling and immunity in Keystone, Co, began with Charlie Chaplin. Specifically, the audience was treated to a video clip of the scene in Modern Times ... Click to continue
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News: [Entry posted at 12th February 2008 08:03 PM GMT] What if our textbooks aren't quite correct, and the plant cell wall isn't just the purely structural organ it's thought to be? That's the theory Shauna Somerville of Stanford's ... Click to continue
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News: [Entry posted at 8th February 2008 05:57 PM GMT] The Sunshine Project, a Texas-based group that has monitored safety and oversight issues in research on bioterror agents, suspended operations on February 1, according to the group's ... Click to continue
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News: [Entry posted at 7th February 2008 04:38 PM GMT] Researchers have identified a new strategy for circumventing the safety problems that have plagued gene therapy according to a ... Click to continue
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News: [Entry posted at 6th February 2008 04:28 PM GMT] As a young lab leader at the University of Wisconsin in the 1950s, Joshua Lederberg and his first wife Esther, a microbiologist, would invite lab members to their home once a week to discuss ... Click to continue
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News: [Entry posted at 5th February 2008 06:31 PM GMT] In response to a petition from researchers, the UK government has backed down on restrictions to stem cell research proposed in a new bill.
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News: [Entry posted at 1st February 2008 08:56 PM GMT] Additional safety studies for Boston's planned Biosafety Level 4 lab, demanded by the Massachusetts Supreme Court last year, will further delay the opening of the facility, according to court documents filed by the NIH this week.
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