News: Big numbers, new tools at Keystone Posted by Jeff Perkel [Entry posted at 31st January 2006 06:22 AM GMT] One thing's certain at the Keystone Symposia on Structural Genomics and ... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: Keystone, like chromatin, all wrapped up Posted by Brendan Maher [Entry posted at 26th January 2006 01:28 AM GMT] Well the Keystone meeting on Epigenetics and Chromatin Modeling in Development has wrapped, and the reaction from participants was very positive, indication that the epigenetics field -- which has broadened significantly to include much of the ... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: KillerRed: The Hypoxia Connection Posted by Jeff Perkel [Entry posted at 25th January 2006 05:35 PM GMT] A few days ago I blogged on a new fluorescent protein called KillerRed. Upon irradiation with green light KillerRed produces reactive oxygen species in sufficient quantities to kill both ... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: Systems biology gets a shot in the arm Posted by Jeff Perkel [Entry posted at 23rd January 2006 10:42 PM GMT] A fundamental goal of systems biology is to define a biological system precisely, such that it becomes possible to predict the outcome of perturbing that system. Yesterday (Jan. 22) a team of researchers from German drug discovery firm Cellzome and ... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: Polycomb getting its due at Keystone Posted by Brendan Maher [Entry posted at 23rd January 2006 06:50 AM GMT] I didn?t want to give the impression from my last two posts that it?s all RNAi all the time at this year?s Keystone Symposium on Epigenetics and Chromatin Remodeling in Development. Polycomb group complex (PgC) proteins, their binding sites, and/or ... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: Getting Repetitive in Keystone Posted by Brendan Maher [Entry posted at 22nd January 2006 06:54 AM GMT] Repeats appear important in gene silencing. Repeats appear important in gene silencing. At least two talks at the Keystone Symposium Conference on Epigenetics and Chromatin Remodeling in Development implicate the power of tandem repeats in ... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: Tangled up in Keystone Posted by Brendan Maher [Entry posted at 21st January 2006 06:00 AM GMT] A funny thing happened to the Keystone symposium on epigenetics and development, apparently a few years back it got invaded by chromatin people. At my first day at the symposium, I uncovered just a little grumbling that the histone modifications ... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: Why Google is Good for Science Posted by Jeff Perkel [Entry posted at 20th January 2006 10:50 PM GMT] Poking around on the iSpecies blog today, I found a comment alerting readers to ... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: Beer review Posted by Alison McCook [Entry posted at 20th January 2006 09:57 PM GMT] Noted Harvard epidemiologist Meir Stampfer has decided that he no longer wants to publicly tout the benefits of beer anymore at benefits sponsored by? surprise, Anheuser-Busch, brewer of ... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: Fraud: Do as I say, not as I do Posted by Ivan Oransky [Entry posted at 20th January 2006 07:04 PM GMT] Despite the fact that he appears to have fabricated at least half of the patients in a 2005 Lancet study , Norwegian researcher Jon Sudbo has an opinion on the ethics of 'rigorously conducted ... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: H&Q Round-up Posted by Justin Silver [Entry posted at 20th January 2006 03:14 PM GMT] A week later: I have been revitalized and am sitting comfortably in my office at Ferghana Partners in New York. I have written 50 meeting memo?s and have cultivated some very interesting new business. H&Q 2006 was an incredible success! Looking ... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: When things go from bad to worse?then get better Posted by Alison McCook [Entry posted at 19th January 2006 08:00 PM GMT] When you come across a worst case scenario -- say someone who had a well-paying job but fell on hard times and lost everything ? do you think of that person as an outlier, or an example of what can happen to anyone? The other day, I heard about Jo ... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: Turkeys: The world's smartest birds Posted by Ivan Oransky [Entry posted at 18th January 2006 11:59 PM GMT] Now that 21 people have been infected with avian flu in Turkey, there has been a proliferation of news about the bird which Ben Franklin, who celebrated his 300th birthday yesterday , ... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: Trace Archive Tops Billion-Record Mark Posted by Jeff Perkel [Entry posted at 18th January 2006 02:40 PM GMT] Yesterday (Jan. 17) the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute announced that its World Trace Archive database had just crossed the 1 billion sequence mark. The ... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: There's fraud -- and then there's fraud Posted by Stephen Pincock [Entry posted at 18th January 2006 02:14 PM GMT] As if things weren't bleak enough for disgraced South Korean cloner Hwang Woo-suk, it emerged last night that he has been offered public support by Clonaid, the UFO cult founded by a former French sports ... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: A Killer Protein Posted by Jeff Perkel [Entry posted at 17th January 2006 10:09 PM GMT] This month?s Nature Biotechnology includes an article from Sergey Lukyanov that elevates fluorescent proteins from cool to killer. Lukyanov, of the Shemyakin-Ovchinnikov ... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: Ben?s Birthday, Our Present Posted by Brendan Maher [Entry posted at 17th January 2006 09:13 PM GMT] Rice University physicist Neal Lane penned an interesting op-ed in the Houston Chronicle today. On the occasion of Benjamin Franklin?s 300th birthday, Lane asks (and ... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: Fraud: Journals must act now Posted by Richard Gallagher [Entry posted at 16th January 2006 07:32 PM GMT] Today?s science fraud revelation is that a study published in The Lancet, purportedly demonstrating that common painkillers could protect against oral cancer, was pure fiction. The ... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: Can any stem-cell paper be trusted? Posted by Tabitha M. Powledge [Entry posted at 14th January 2006 03:41 PM GMT] So, just how untrustworthy is the stem-cell literature? Very, according to one of the field's leading lights, David Shaywitz of the Harvard Stem Cell Institute. He's the author of ... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: They Don't Call it Peerless Review Posted by Brendan Maher [Entry posted at 13th January 2006 09:44 PM GMT] I received an Email advertising the new journal Autophagy today. In a list of features about the journal, the Email adds: ?We also point out that we have an expedited review process if your paper was rejected from a ?flashy? journal; we all ... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: Feel the Pain Posted by Justin Silver [Entry posted at 13th January 2006 02:39 PM GMT] With the conference winding down, you can clearly feel the change in emotion throughout the halls, lobby and conference rooms of the St. Frances. What was once a vibrant and high energy crowd is now a dwindling group of tired and emotionally drained ... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: International Deals Posted by Justin Silver [Entry posted at 12th January 2006 03:39 PM GMT] My time has been spent in ?Europe.? In the last two days, I have been to Italy four times, London and France each twice and made brief stops in Germany and Switzerland. The series of meetings that I have had with European companies has caused me to ... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: CSI: My Cat Posted by Alison McCook [Entry posted at 11th January 2006 08:43 PM GMT] Some acts of scientific creativity deserve recognition. After finding her dead cat, a Virginia woman named Marylin Christian had a number one suspect: her neighbor?s dog, a German Shepard mix named Lucky. According to the ... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: Early Days Posted by Justin Silver [Entry posted at 10th January 2006 08:08 PM GMT] A beautiful day in San Francisco and although many of the meetings at this year's H&Q conference seemed to spill into the streets surrounding the St. Francis Hotel, with men in suits or casual attire mingling in groups of two and three on the ... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: Crystallography's Grail found in PNAS? Posted by Jeff Perkel [Entry posted at 10th January 2006 06:47 PM GMT] Researchers have, since 1988, been searching for a so-called "universal nucleant," that is, a material that will nucleate crystal formation, much as a grain of sand nucleates the formation of a pearl. Buried in the biophysics section of ... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: Nature got lucky, and so did I Posted by Ivan Oransky [Entry posted at 10th January 2006 06:35 PM GMT] I found out today that I got lucky. Human cloning has always received the lion's share of headlines, but I've always been more fascinated by the cloning of the lions ? animal cloning, in particular the quirky but earnest gang that would like to ... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: Shooting for the stars here on Earth Posted by Brendan Maher [Entry posted at 10th January 2006 02:38 PM GMT] I was grateful for the invitation to witness the return to Earth of NASA?s Stardust mission broadcast live from the American Museum of Natural History this Sunday. While the notion of roaming the ... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: Preparing for the H&Q Posted by Justin Silver [Entry posted at 6th January 2006 06:59 PM GMT] Every January, the movers and shakers of biotech come to the Westin St. Francis in San Francisco to see and be seen, exchange information and move money by funding companies and forming partnerships and other alliances. Thousands of bankers, ... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: Human embryo cloning, stem cell research--and journalism--in Korea Posted by Tabitha M. Powledge [Entry posted at 5th January 2006 05:31 PM GMT] An entirely appropriate stew of scientific vexation and mortification has accompanied revelations that the incredible Korean achievements in human embryonic cloning and stem cell research are exactly that: incredible. But midst the hand-wringing ... Click to continue View comment (1) | Comment on this news story

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