News: ERCC Issues a Call to Arms Posted by Jeff Perkel [Entry posted at 30th September 2005 07:46 PM GMT] Microarray data quality is an issue that has been covered extensively in The Scientist (see, for instance, here and here). The basic issue is this: how reliable are the sometimes-subtle changes in gene expression levels these experiments yield, and ... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: ID Crushes First Amendment Rights, Again! Posted by Brendan Maher [Entry posted at 28th September 2005 11:05 PM GMT] A second first amendments rights case broke out amidst the brouhaha over the legality of teaching intelligent design in a Dover school district. But this battle, over the freedom of the press, is nearing a denouement that?s left me a bit ambivalent. ... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: The Human Interactome, Take 2 Posted by Jeff Perkel [Entry posted at 28th September 2005 06:15 PM GMT] Four weeks after Erich Wanker?s team published its human interactome paper, Marc Vidal?s group at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston has followed suit. In today?s (Sept. 28) online edition of Nature Vidal?s team reports its analysis of ... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: No United Front for Intelligent Design Posted by Brendan Maher [Entry posted at 28th September 2005 12:45 AM GMT] In the weeks before the battle over first amendment rights ramped up in Dover, the Discovery Institute folks said they didn?t support intelligent design mandates in science curricula, saying that such cases will only be politically divisive. Now, ... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: Intelligent design in thirty minutes or less Posted by Brendan Maher [Entry posted at 26th September 2005 11:09 PM GMT] Looks like I can harden my reserve to never again eat Domino?s pizza ? not that I liked it much anyway. The Thomas Moore Law Center, founded by ?za magnate Thomas Monaghan, is representing the defending Dover school board that tried passing off ... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: Plague in New Jersey? Posted by Alison McCook [Entry posted at 17th September 2005 11:32 PM GMT] On Thursday, the Associated Press reported that mice carrying Yersinia pestis ? the bacteria that cause bubonic plague -- had disappeared from a laboratory at the Public Health Research Institute, part of the campus of the University of Medicine and ... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: We Came, We Saw, We Computed Posted by Jeff Perkel [Entry posted at 16th September 2005 04:36 PM GMT] I never thought I'd say this, but I participated in a flash mob last night (Sept. 15). We didn?t congregate on a street corner and start chanting or anything like that. Instead, we solved a molecular dynamics problem. ?Flash mob computing?, the ... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: The I of the Storm Posted by Brendan Maher [Entry posted at 16th September 2005 04:14 PM GMT] I was talking Katrina aftermath with a yeast scientist, George Santangelo, at the University of Southern Miss in Hattiesburg. Things were ?a little nasty? he said, even that far inland -- he?s roughly 50 miles from the Gulf. But he ?obviously has no ... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: 16 days and counting Posted by Zeev Rosenzweig [Entry posted at 15th September 2005 03:34 AM GMT] Many colleagues, friends and former co-workers have contacted me following my last two blog entries to express sympathy and offer help. These days scientists from New Orleans who were displaced by Hurricane Katrina have many options. I, for example, ... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: Passion of the Penguins Posted by Alison McCook [Entry posted at 14th September 2005 11:01 PM GMT] The Science Times section of the New York Times ran a story yesterday describing how the increasingly popular documentary ?March of the Penguins? is being used by conservatives to justify their positions on abortion, monogamy and intelligent design. ... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: The Human Interactome: Published, but not Complete Posted by Jeff Perkel [Entry posted at 13th September 2005 05:55 PM GMT] It has been said that the journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. Functional genomicists took that proverbial step earlier this month when a group led by Erich Wanker, of Berlin?s Max Delbruck Center for Molecular Medicine, reported ... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: After Katrina: Temporary relocation Posted by Zeev Rosenzweig [Entry posted at 10th September 2005 09:50 PM GMT] Since my last entry, all the faculty members of the chemistry department at University of New Orleans (UNO) have been found. The department established an alternative e-mail network to deliver information to faculty and students about UNO issues. ... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: Katrina and the University of New Orleans chemistry department Posted by Zeev Rosenzweig [Entry posted at 8th September 2005 03:55 AM GMT] Like the entire city of New Orleans, the University of New Orleans chemistry department -- of which I am a member -- was blown away by Hurricane Katrina. Most of the faculty and students evacuated the city ahead of the storm. This is a routine for ... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: ?Big pharmaceuticals are up there with arms dealers? Posted by Richard Gallagher [Entry posted at 1st September 2005 05:45 PM GMT] So says a leading character in the just-released movie ?The Constant Gardener.? Having seen the film, I can tell you that he means big pharmaceutical companies, not very large pills. The message that pharma is evil is drilled home repeatedly, like ... Click to continue Comment on this news story

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