News: One step to human pluripotency Posted by Jef Akst [Entry posted at 28th August 2009 05:00 PM GMT] Researchers have regressed human stem cells to an embryonic state using just a single transcription factor, as opposed to the four factors previously needed to induce pluripotency in human cells, according to a study published online today (August ... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: Cysts stall stem cell trial? Posted by Jef Akst [Entry posted at 27th August 2009 07:38 PM GMT] Just over a week after the Geron Corporation announced that the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) had ... Click to continue View comment (1) | Comment on this news story News: Bird sex gene found Posted by Jef Akst [Entry posted at 26th August 2009 06:00 PM GMT] Researchers have cracked the long-time mystery of how sex is determined in birds: A dose-dependent effect of a single gene on one of the sex chromosomes does the trick, according to a study published this week in Nature. Image: Wikimedia commons, ... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: Safety review for obesity drug Posted by Jef Akst [Entry posted at 25th August 2009 03:13 PM GMT] The US Food and Drug Administration ... Click to continue View comments (4) | Comment on this news story News: Four years in jail for Hwang? Posted by Jef Akst [Entry posted at 24th August 2009 03:26 PM GMT] Disgraced stem cell researcher Hwang Woo-suk may face jail time, if South Korean prosecutors have anything to do with it. The prosecutors told the Seoul court today (August 24) that fabricating research findings on human stem cell lines and misusing ... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: Student fudged immunology data Posted by Jef Akst [Entry posted at 21st August 2009 09:13 PM GMT] A former graduate student studying the link between immune function and symptoms of high cholesterol at the Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center-Shreveport fudged data in three published ... Click to continue View comments (15) | Comment on this news story News: Battle of the nostrils? Posted by Jef Akst [Entry posted at 20th August 2009 05:00 PM GMT] When the nostrils sense different smells, they may be duking it out for the brain's attention, according to a study published online today (August 20) in Current Biology. Such rivalry, well-documented in other sensory systems, has never before been ... Click to continue View comment (1) | Comment on this news story News: Human stem cell trial on hold Posted by Jef Akst [Entry posted at 20th August 2009 04:06 PM GMT] The Geron Corporation announced on Tuesday (August 18) that its stem cell study of spinal cord injury -- the first-ever clinical trial using human embryonic stem ... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: Worm glue to repair bones Posted by Jef Akst [Entry posted at 17th August 2009 09:10 PM GMT] Mimicking an adhesive naturally produced by marine worms, researchers have created a new glue that may help surgeons reconstruct shattered bone, they reported today (August 17) at the ... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: Two stem cell lines lead studies Posted by Jef Akst [Entry posted at 12th August 2009 06:59 PM GMT] In a decade of research on human embryonic stem cells (hESCs), scientists have largely depended on just two cell lines, greatly limiting the diversity of research in the budding field, according to a ... Click to continue View comments (2) | Comment on this news story News: Stem cell fraud...again? Posted by Jef Akst [Entry posted at 6th August 2009 04:03 PM GMT] Stem cell researchers at the University of Minnesota are once again under investigation for falsifying data, ... Click to continue View comments (8) | Comment on this news story News: Contract research on the rise Posted by Jef Akst [Entry posted at 5th August 2009 08:42 PM GMT] The global economic crisis has got most businesses pinching pennies just to stay afloat, and the drug development industry is no exception. But at least one area of the biotechnology sector -- contract research organizations (CROs) -- is on the ... Click to continue View comments (5) | Comment on this news story

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