News: [Entry posted at 27th February 2009 03:55 PM GMT] Two senior senators reintroduced a Senate bill yesterday (Feb. 26) that would lift the US ban on federal funding for stem cell research.
Senators Tom Harkin (left), ArlenSpecter and Orrin HatchImage: A.C. Glenn/UPI/Newscom/APThe bipartisan measure ... Click to continue
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News: [Entry posted at 23rd February 2009 06:05 PM GMT] Thirty years after the toppling of the Shah in Iran, the nation is undergoing another revolution of sorts. Iran is investing heavily in stem cell research, and despite researchers working with limited access to laboratory equipment and resources, ... Click to continue
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News: [Entry posted at 23rd February 2009 05:36 PM GMT] Love hurts -- especially for the female fruit fly. A new study published online in the Journal of Evolutionary Biology shows that after fruit flies mate, ... Click to continue
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News: [Entry posted at 19th February 2009 07:01 PM GMT] Free online availability of scientific articles increases the likelihood of papers getting cited, especially in the developing world and in the biomedical sciences, according to a new ... Click to continue
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News: [Entry posted at 19th February 2009 04:39 PM GMT] Rather than funding new grants, the NIH's Office of the Director will spend the vast majority of its $8.2 billion stimulus check to finance grants that have already been reviewed and to supplement existing grants.
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News: [Entry posted at 17th February 2009 02:35 PM GMT] A Japanese researcher falsified figures in three published papers while working as a visiting postdoc at the NIH's National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research (NIDCR), the Office of Research Integrity (ORI) ... Click to continue
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News: [Entry posted at 16th February 2009 03:55 PM GMT] A University of California, San Francisco, postdoc ripped off images from a colleague and jiggered data files, the NIH's Office of Research Integrity (ORI) recently reported.
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News: [Entry posted at 5th February 2009 10:43 PM GMT] A bill aimed at undoing the NIH's mandate to make federally-funded research manuscripts freely available on PubMed Central within a year of publication was re-introduced in the US House of Representatives on Tuesday night (Feb. 3).
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News: [Entry posted at 5th February 2009 05:15 PM GMT] In the latest milestone on the road toward reprogramming cells to pluripotency without permanent genetic modification, researchers have successfully turned the clock back on adult stem cells using only a single transcription factor, according to a ... Click to continue
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News: [Entry posted at 3rd February 2009 10:13 PM GMT] The Broad Institute of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard laid off 24 of its MIT employees last week, citing an upgrade to next-generation, high-throughput, genome sequencing technologies that made those jobs obsolete.
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News: [Entry posted at 2nd February 2009 06:04 PM GMT] The governing board of the California stem cell agency is delaying $58 million in new grants until March to wait out the poor economy and credit market.
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