News: Yom Kippur and the Nobels Posted by Ivan Oransky [Entry posted at 28th September 2006 01:09 PM GMT] On Monday, the Karolinska Institute will announce the 2006 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, kicking off a week of science Nobel announcements. And millions of Jews around the world will be in synagogue, observing the holiest day of the Jewish ... Click to continue View comment (1) | Comment on this news story News: Results on islet cell transplants Posted by Ivan Oransky [Entry posted at 28th September 2006 12:39 AM GMT] In May, James Shapiro wrote in our pages about progress using the Edmonton Protocol to transplant islet cells into patients with type 1 diabetes. In this week?s New England Journal of ... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: Find out what your candidates think of research Posted by Ivan Oransky [Entry posted at 18th September 2006 04:18 PM GMT] Research!America today launched the 2006 Your Candidates ? Your Health Voter Guide -- a site designed to help voters figure out how the candidates seeking their support feel about scientific research. ... Click to continue View comments (2) | Comment on this news story News: Laskers reward telomerase work Posted by Ivan Oransky [Entry posted at 16th September 2006 09:09 PM GMT] Announced today: The 2006 Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research is shared by Elizabeth Blackburn of the University of California, San Francisco, Carol Greider at Johns Hopkins University, and Jack Szostak ... Click to continue Comment on this news story

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