News: No to gene patents, says Euro group Posted by Elie Dolgin [Entry posted at 28th April 2008 07:04 PM GMT] Patents should be granted only for genetic tests, not for genes and DNA sequences, a working party from the European Society of Human Genetics (ESHG) and ... Click to continue View comments (2) | Comment on this news story News: Rooting out plant stress responses Posted by Elie Dolgin [Entry posted at 24th April 2008 07:44 PM GMT] Plant cellular responses are much more locally and temporally specialized than previously thought, a new study suggests. In growing Arabidopsis roots, different tissue layers respond to stressful conditions in highly cell-type specific ways, ... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: Game, set, matching umpire calls in tennis Posted by Elie Dolgin [Entry posted at 16th April 2008 02:30 PM GMT] Umpires at Wimbledon, Roland Garros, and Arthur Ashe Stadium might deserve a break, according to a new study published online this week in Proceedings of the Royal Society B. The ... Click to continue View comment (1) | Comment on this news story News: Brain-freeze reveals auditory pathways Posted by Elie Dolgin [Entry posted at 13th April 2008 08:25 PM GMT] The brain's sound processing areas are split into two distinct regions — one which determines what a sound is, the other which tracks where it's coming from, according to ... Click to continue View comments (3) | Comment on this news story News: Germany eases stem cell law Posted by Elie Dolgin [Entry posted at 11th April 2008 04:01 PM GMT] The German parliament voted today (April 11) to ease restrictions on stem cell research, according to Reuters. The ... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: Bacteria blending into single species? Posted by Elie Dolgin [Entry posted at 10th April 2008 08:04 PM GMT] Two bacterial species found in the guts of chickens, pigs and other animals are merging into a single species after the domestication of livestock brought the two microbes together, according to a ... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: Hybrid embryos challenged Posted by Elie Dolgin [Entry posted at 9th April 2008 08:45 PM GMT] Two Christian groups launched legal action today (Apr. 9) challenging licenses granted to UK scientists to create human-animal hybrid embryos for research purposes, according to the ... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: Neuroscience peer-review posse grows Posted by Elie Dolgin [Entry posted at 7th April 2008 06:32 PM GMT] Nature Neuroscience is joining an alliance of journals that share manuscript peer-reviews, according to the journal's April editorial. The ... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: Citizens and the art of maintaining science Posted by Elie Dolgin [Entry posted at 4th April 2008 01:59 PM GMT] Wouldn't it be nice to have thousands of collaborators, collecting data and sharing observations, who didn't demand a salary at all? A nation-wide initiative called Project Budburst is enlisting the help of so-called "citizen scientists" to nip the ... Click to continue View comments (6) | Comment on this news story News: UK lab creates hybrid embryo Posted by Elie Dolgin [Entry posted at 2nd April 2008 03:31 PM GMT] Hybrid embryos containing both human and animal material have been created for the first time in the UK, the BBC reported yesterday (April 1). Scientists at Newcastle University led by Lyle ... Click to continue Comment on this news story

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