News: [Entry posted at 29th January 2009 10:21 PM GMT] "Big science" genetics research in Canada may be left high and dry after the main agency that funds such work was left out of this year's federal budget.
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News: [Entry posted at 29th January 2009 05:06 PM GMT] Followers bring out the best in their leaders, and leaders elicit better following skills in their minions, according to a new study of stickleback fish published online today (Jan. 29) in ... Click to continue
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News: [Entry posted at 28th January 2009 04:50 PM GMT] Evolutionary biologists are the latest victims of the global economic downturn. In a move that has generated a worldwide outcry, Leiden University in the Netherlands is firing nine evolutionary biologists, half of its total evolution-related ... Click to continue
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News: [Entry posted at 23rd January 2009 09:43 PM GMT] The US Food and Drug Administration's decision to green light a human embryonic stem cell-based therapy for spinal cord injury isn't just good news for the biotech in question, Geron Corp., ... Click to continue
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News: [Entry posted at 23rd January 2009 03:40 PM GMT] California-based biotech company Geron Corp. announced today (Jan. 23) that it has received clearance from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to begin trials for the world's first clinical study on human embryonic stem cell-based ... Click to continue
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News: [Entry posted at 21st January 2009 02:58 PM GMT] Seven animal rights activists who blackmailed companies that supplied Huntingdon Life Sciences, an animal testing laboratory based in the UK, were sentenced today (Jan. 21) to between four and 11 years in ... Click to continue
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News: [Entry posted at 21st January 2009 12:24 AM GMT] Deep in the Amazon jungle, researchers have discovered a dung beetle that doesn't live up to its name, a sign the insect has undergone speciation.
A new study published today (Jan. 20) in Biology Letters reports a dung beetle that shuns its ... Click to continue
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News: [Entry posted at 20th January 2009 04:00 PM GMT] Several top UK universities, including Oxford and Cambridge, stand to lose millions of pounds in research funding as a result of last year's Research Assessment Exercise (RAE), Britain's major review of research quality. However, other institutions ... Click to continue
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News: [Entry posted at 19th January 2009 04:00 PM GMT] In an attempt to provide alternative metrics to the traditional journal impact factor, the open-access journal Public Library of Science ONE announced that it will release a slew of alternative impact data about individual articles in the coming ... Click to continue
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News: [Entry posted at 15th January 2009 08:48 PM GMT] Two very similar studies investigating a single gene's role in pathogen susceptibility have come to pretty much opposite conclusions. A C. elegans gene that was previously shown to affect innate immunity might simply alter the worm's behavior, ... Click to continue
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News: [Entry posted at 15th January 2009 04:31 PM GMT] British grant applicants will have to demonstrate the economic or social impact of their research, according to new funding rules rolled out by Research Councils UK (RCUK), the umbrella body for all of Britain's seven ... Click to continue
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News: [Entry posted at 13th January 2009 04:12 PM GMT] Less than a year after the creation of "admixed" human-animal hybrid embryos for stem cell research was legalized in the UK, investigators with permits to conduct the research have had their grant proposals rejected by two of the country's leading ... Click to continue
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News: [Entry posted at 8th January 2009 07:40 PM GMT] The genetics of a marine protozoan may overturn one of the long-held tenets of protein synthesis. According to conventional wisdom, the genetic code is unambiguous: each DNA triplet, or codon, corresponds to a single amino acid. But a ... Click to continue
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News: [Entry posted at 7th January 2009 07:55 PM GMT] The Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI), an independent organization established by the government in 1997 to fund research infrastructure, announced a new C$45.5 million ($38.2USD million) program last month aimed at providing equipment and ... Click to continue
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News: [Entry posted at 7th January 2009 04:30 PM GMT] A shortage of donated brain tissue is hampering research into diseases such as Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, and dementia, a team of British scientists warned yesterday (Jan. 6).
About 10,000 brains are used for scientific research in the UK. But ... Click to continue
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