News: Texas to sue over biolab site Posted by Alla Katsnelson [Entry posted at 24th April 2009 09:26 PM GMT] A much-contested plan to build a $450 million government biodefense research lab has hit another snag: A group of Texas research organizations that lobbied for San Antonio to house the lab says it will sue the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) ... Click to continue View comments (5) | Comment on this news story News: New cell cycle complexities Posted by Alla Katsnelson [Entry posted at 23rd April 2009 04:25 PM GMT] New findings are calling into question a long-held theory for how a dividing cell decides to stop the process of mitosis and restart the cell cycle. Chromosomes (blue) and mitoticspindle (green) during cell division Image: Oak Ridge Nat'l Lab, via ... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: Troubled IRB closes shop Posted by Alla Katsnelson [Entry posted at 22nd April 2009 10:25 PM GMT] A company that serves as an independent review board for clinical trials and was caught approving a fake medical device study will close, the Wall Street Journal reports. The company, ... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: NIH, stem cells: IVF ok, not SCNT Posted by Alla Katsnelson [Entry posted at 17th April 2009 10:36 PM GMT] Stem cell lines eligible for US federal research dollars must be derived from embryos created for reproductive purposes that are no longer needed for those purposes, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) announced this afternoon (April 17). The ... Click to continue View comments (4) | Comment on this news story News: Brain maps define diseases Posted by Alla Katsnelson [Entry posted at 15th April 2009 05:02 PM GMT] Researchers have identified well-delineated brain networks that are linked to five distinct neurodegenerative diseases, according to a paper published in Neuron today (April 15). Image: ... Click to continue View comments (2) | Comment on this news story News: FDA censures lax IRB Posted by Alla Katsnelson [Entry posted at 14th April 2009 11:29 PM GMT] A company that serves as an independent review board for clinical trials and was the center of a recent Congressional "sting operation" was reprimanded today (April 14) by the US Food and ... Click to continue Comment on this news story

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