News: CIRM to pay for eggs? Posted by Elie Dolgin [Entry posted at 27th March 2008 06:16 PM GMT] Recent comments by California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM) President Alan Trounson imply that the agency may be looking for ways to pay women for their eggs for stem cell research. Currently, laws in California and Massachusetts ... Click to continue View comments (3) | Comment on this news story News: Conscientious embryo vote ok: UK Posted by Elie Dolgin [Entry posted at 25th March 2008 07:39 PM GMT] Labour party politicians can vote with their conscience on three "ethical" parts of the proposed legislation on embryo research, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown announced today (March ... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: Publishing bias out of the bottle Posted by Elie Dolgin [Entry posted at 18th March 2008 08:06 PM GMT] Tomáš Grim, an ornithologist at Palacky University in the notoriously beer besotted Czech Republic, came down with a bad case of mononucleosis in 1999. His illness prohibited him ... Click to continue View comments (6) | Comment on this news story News: Egg yolk gene loss was mammals' gain Posted by Elie Dolgin [Entry posted at 18th March 2008 01:57 PM GMT] Mammals lost their egg yolk genes after acquiring genes for milk proteins, according to a study published yesterday in PLoS Biology. The results ... Click to continue View comments (3) | Comment on this news story News: Peer review dig denied by court Posted by Elie Dolgin [Entry posted at 17th March 2008 06:08 PM GMT] A federal judge in Chicago last Friday denied Pfizer's efforts to obtain confidential peer review documents related to two of its drugs from the New England Journal of Medicine, stating ... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: Sex, bugs, and videotape Posted by Elie Dolgin [Entry posted at 13th March 2008 09:12 PM GMT] Though bacteria usually reproduce asexually, they do occasionally yield to baser desires and have sex; or at least they ... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: You say tomato, I say retrotransposon Posted by Elie Dolgin [Entry posted at 13th March 2008 08:56 PM GMT] The oblong shape of some tomatoes arose from a gene duplication caused by a selfish genetic element, according to a study published today in Science. Before tomatoes were ... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: New UK animal disease lab? Posted by Elie Dolgin [Entry posted at 12th March 2008 05:07 PM GMT] The "shabby and dilapidated" animal disease research laboratory in Pilbright, UK — the site of last summer's foot-and-mouth disease leak — must be replaced by a new, expanded ... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: 'Lab-made' gamete ban to be lifted in UK? Posted by Elie Dolgin [Entry posted at 10th March 2008 07:33 PM GMT] The British government said yesterday it is considering lifting a ban that prevents babies from being conceived using sperm and eggs derived from stem cells. Currently, gametes derived from stem cells are used for medical research, but British law ... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: British MPs can opt out on embryo bill Posted by Elie Dolgin [Entry posted at 7th March 2008 10:42 PM GMT] Members of the British government will be able to abstain from voting on the controversial Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill, senior Labour MP, Geoff Hoon, announced today. The bill ... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: Transfer RNA transforms tree of life Posted by Elie Dolgin [Entry posted at 7th March 2008 01:05 PM GMT] A comparison of transfer RNAs has revealed the roots of the tree of life, indicating ancient origins for Archaea and viruses, according to research published yesterday in ... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: Retracted author denies wrongdoing Posted by Elie Dolgin [Entry posted at 6th March 2008 09:51 PM GMT] The co-lead author of an olfactory paper retracted yesterday from Nature by Nobel laureate Linda Buck says he stands behind the conclusions and does not admit any wrongdoing. Zhihua Zou, an ... Click to continue View comment (1) | Comment on this news story News: Nobel laureate retracts Nature paper Posted by Elie Dolgin [Entry posted at 5th March 2008 08:08 PM GMT] Nobel laureate and olfactory researcher Linda Buck has retracted a paper published in Nature in 2001, after her team failed to reproduce the results. In the ... Click to continue View comments (7) | Comment on this news story News: Brazil court to rule on stem cells Posted by Elie Dolgin [Entry posted at 5th March 2008 06:45 PM GMT] Brazil's Supreme Court will rule today (March 5) on the legal status of scientists using human embryos, following an appeal that embryonic stem cell research is "unconstitutional." In ... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: Korean researcher fired for fraud Posted by Elie Dolgin [Entry posted at 3rd March 2008 09:19 PM GMT] A South Korean scientist who once said he wanted "to become another Hwang Woo-Suk for Korea" has come ironically close to his goal. Kim Tae-kook, a bioscience professor at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) in the central ... Click to continue View comments (11) | Comment on this news story

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