News: [Entry posted at 23rd December 2008 05:19 PM GMT] Four British animal rights activists were found guilty today (Dec. 23) of blackmailing companies that supplied Huntingdon Life Sciences (HLS), a contract animal-testing company based near Cambridge, England.
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News: [Entry posted at 18th December 2008 02:49 PM GMT] We at The Scientist are all a-flitter because we're now on Twitter. Starting this week, you can sign up to receive our "tweets" at twitter.com/TheScientistLLC.
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News: [Entry posted at 17th December 2008 09:33 PM GMT] A team of French life sciences grad students has launched an online repository of fraudulent scientific papers, and is calling on researchers to report studies tainted by misconduct.
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News: [Entry posted at 15th December 2008 07:18 PM GMT] D. Carleton Gajdusek, a virologist and anthropologist who won the 1976 Nobel Prize for his work on the infectious brain agents now known as prions, died last Friday (Dec. 12) in Tromso, Norway. He was 85.
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News: [Entry posted at 12th December 2008 05:29 PM GMT] University College London is offering new unorthodox research grants for its staff without peer review, deadlines, directives, or milestones.
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News: [Entry posted at 11th December 2008 10:52 PM GMT] Officials have halted enrollment in more than 600 human research studies taking place in Seattle this week after a federal audit found shoddy paperwork in some consent forms.
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News: [Entry posted at 9th December 2008 10:33 PM GMT] Merck is planning to sell generic copies of blockbuster biotech drugs, the drug maker announced today (Dec. 9) at the annual business briefing at its New Jersey headquarters.
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News: [Entry posted at 5th December 2008 05:22 PM GMT] Twenty-two leaders from the British biotech sector pleaded for a government bailout yesterday (Dec. 4) to save the industry's "survival and future viability" in the face of the global financial crisis.
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News: [Entry posted at 5th December 2008 04:33 AM GMT] Britain's largest ever single-shot investment in doctoral student training will be rolled out today (Dec. 5th) by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC), with goodies in store for prospective applied biology PhD ... Click to continue
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News: [Entry posted at 4th December 2008 04:37 PM GMT] Tenured professors who were given the pink slip last week by the University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB) in Galveston said they felt "shocked" and "betrayed" by the action, and have been given little rationale for why they were singled out, and ... Click to continue
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News: [Entry posted at 3rd December 2008 04:32 PM GMT] A Texas stem cell researcher falsified data by mucking around with her results in Photoshop, according to an Office of Research Integrity (ORI) ruling.
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News: [Entry posted at 2nd December 2008 09:58 PM GMT] An association representing faculty members at 85 University of Texas institutions is suing university officials on behalf of more than 3,000 University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB) employees given the pink slip last week in the aftermath of ... Click to continue
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