News: Finding Nemo with electricity Posted by Elie Dolgin [Entry posted at 26th November 2008 12:04 AM GMT] Researchers have discovered an electrifying love story in the turbid rivers of the lower Congo rapids. Elephant-nosed electric fish find and recognize their mates through crackling communications, according a study published today (Nov. 25) in ... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: Health research call to action? Posted by Elie Dolgin [Entry posted at 21st November 2008 04:16 PM GMT] Ministers from more than 60 developing world nations called for urgent action to improve health research this week, although it's unclear what on-the-ground changes will actually be made. Governments should invest 2% of their ... Click to continue View comment (1) | Comment on this news story News: 1st ever retraction for JEB Posted by Elie Dolgin [Entry posted at 19th November 2008 10:26 PM GMT] The Journal of Experimental Biology (JEB) has issued the first retraction in its 85 year history, the journal reported in an editorial and a ... Click to continue View comments (3) | Comment on this news story News: Pharma, UK cut drug cost deal Posted by Elie Dolgin [Entry posted at 19th November 2008 09:19 PM GMT] The British government and the pharmaceutical industry have struck a deal to allow flexible drug pricing arrangements, a scheme which could shave millions of pounds off the total amount that the government-funded National Health Service (NHS) pays ... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: Tentacles test tenets of evolution Posted by Elie Dolgin [Entry posted at 18th November 2008 02:42 AM GMT] Novel genes, rather than regulatory DNA, underlie the evolution of morphological traits, according to research published today (Nov. 17) in PLoS Biology. The new ... Click to continue View comments (7) | Comment on this news story News: Battle of the X's Posted by Elie Dolgin [Entry posted at 14th November 2008 10:03 PM GMT] In the course of human history, something wonky happened to the levels of genetic diversity on the X chromosome -- scientists just can't agree on what. Two research teams reported conflicting reports about X chromosome diversity yesterday (Nov. 13) ... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: Stress strikes cytogenetics Posted by Elie Dolgin [Entry posted at 14th November 2008 03:23 AM GMT] Cellular stress during replication induces many small deletions and duplications in the genome, adding fuel for human diversity and disease, researchers reported today (Nov. 13) at the American Society of Human Genetics ... Click to continue View comment (1) | Comment on this news story News: Skin microbes mapped Posted by Elie Dolgin [Entry posted at 13th November 2008 08:42 PM GMT] Beauty may be skin deep, but our body's outer coating has an ugly side, too: microbes. Researchers reported at the American Society of Human Genetics ... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: New autism loci discovered Posted by Elie Dolgin [Entry posted at 12th November 2008 07:56 PM GMT] Two large-scale genetic analyses have turned up a trio of new sites associated with autism, including a large-effect allele that seems to reduce the risk of developing the debilitating brain disorder, researchers reported today (Nov. 12) at the ... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: Oxford opens animal lab Posted by Elie Dolgin [Entry posted at 11th November 2008 10:00 PM GMT] Five years after construction first started, then stopped, then started again, Oxford University's controversial animal research lab officially opened its doors today (Nov. 11). Construction of the £18 million ($28 million) ... Click to continue View comments (2) | Comment on this news story News: Iowa biologist falsified figures Posted by Elie Dolgin [Entry posted at 11th November 2008 03:55 PM GMT] Former University of Iowa molecular biologist, Jusan Yang, falsified several figures in an unpublished manuscript and at two scientific meetings, the US Public Health Service's Office of Research Integrity (ORI) ... Click to continue View comments (8) | Comment on this news story News: Fat chance for long life Posted by Elie Dolgin [Entry posted at 6th November 2008 07:28 PM GMT] Scientists have discovered a surprising link in the trade-off between reproducing and aging -- fat metabolism. A fat-burning enzyme in Caenorhabditis elegans is activated after germline stem cells stop proliferating, leading to leaner and ... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: EU proposes great ape research ban Posted by Elie Dolgin [Entry posted at 5th November 2008 10:30 PM GMT] The European Commission unveiled a draft protocol on animal welfare today (Nov. 5) that proposes to ban testing on great apes including gorillas, chimpanzees, ... Click to continue View comments (2) | Comment on this news story News: Oldest forensic DNA sample obtained Posted by Elie Dolgin [Entry posted at 5th November 2008 05:13 PM GMT] Forensic experts have obtained a DNA profile of the unknown killer of a schoolgirl raped and shot dead 62 years ago near Swansea, Wales. Scientists isolated the killer's DNA from a semen stain on the raincoat of the 12-year-old victim, Muriel ... Click to continue Comment on this news story

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