News: Using the liver to make the pancreas Posted by Alison McCook [Entry posted at 30th March 2006 02:59 PM GMT] Who would guess that it kind of makes sense to use the liver to produce beta cells, the vehicles for easing the problem of type 1 diabetes? Well, I was convinced of just that during a talk I attended yesterday at this year?s ... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: Sending stem cells back in time Posted by Alison McCook [Entry posted at 29th March 2006 09:44 PM GMT] Scientists at the University of Central Florida have devised a creative way to obtain stem cells with embryonic properties -- by coaxing mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) to return to their roots, and display embryonic qualities. To achieve this, ... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: More reprogramming clues ? maybe Posted by Alison McCook [Entry posted at 29th March 2006 02:57 PM GMT] One of the biggest holy grails in biology involves finding a means to generate pluripotent and infinitely replicating stem cells without generating an embryo. One Japanese team presented some potent clues last night at the ... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: Stem cells: Ethics before science Posted by Alison McCook [Entry posted at 28th March 2006 03:14 PM GMT] This year?s Keystone meeting on stem cells -- surrounded by the dreamy mountains of Whistler, British Columbia -- started not with science, but with ethics. ... Click to continue View comments (7) | Comment on this news story News: Heavyweight bout: Encyclopedia Britannica vs. Nature Posted by Richard Gallagher [Entry posted at 27th March 2006 12:40 AM GMT] Roll up for the public battering of the publishing heavyweights. In the red corner, from London, England, 'the world's top multidisciplinary science journal,' and in the blue corner, from Chicago, Illinois, 'the oldest continuously published ... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: CMAJ earns award nom Posted by Alison McCook [Entry posted at 24th March 2006 09:54 PM GMT] The Michener Awards Foundation has nominated the beleaguered Canadian Medical Association Journal (CMAJ) for the 2005 Michener Award for "meritorious public service ... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: Advertising censure for PeTA Posted by Stephen Pincock [Entry posted at 22nd March 2006 02:18 AM GMT] British supporters of animal research are claiming a minor victory this week in their seemingly endless battle with animal rights activists, after the UK?s advertising standards watchdog censured ... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: Canadian publisher responds to mass resignations Posted by Alison McCook [Entry posted at 17th March 2006 10:03 PM GMT] Today, the Canadian Medical Association (CMA) released an Open Letter to the majority of the Editorial board members of the ... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: How not to launch a journal Posted by Ivan Oransky [Entry posted at 16th March 2006 01:25 PM GMT] Asking prominent people to serve on a journal's editorial board is no simple task. First, you have to identify the leaders in your field. That usually means reading lots of papers, going to meetings, and speaking to a network of experts you trust, ... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: Music in the genes Posted by Brendan Maher [Entry posted at 14th March 2006 10:56 PM GMT] I caught wind of a study at Newcastle Upon Tyne on musicality the other day. Take a brief internet test to determine whether you can tell brief snippets of midi fashioned melodies apart. The goal, ... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: Win a free LC/MS! Posted by Jeff Perkel [Entry posted at 14th March 2006 06:06 PM GMT] Have you been wanting to break into proteomics or metabolomics but just haven?t had the resources? Well you could be in ... Click to continue View comments (5) | Comment on this news story News: No grizzly hunt, after all Posted by Alison McCook [Entry posted at 10th March 2006 04:15 PM GMT] The Alberta government has decided to suspend its annual spring grizzly bear hunt for the first time in five years. Last month, we reported that conservationists had accused the province of ... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: Old mice wanted Posted by Brendan Maher [Entry posted at 7th March 2006 09:43 PM GMT] Interested in getting in on some big cash prizes but don?t have the sequencing capacity or rocketry experience to compete in the more well known ... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: Hooray for boobies Posted by Brendan Maher [Entry posted at 1st March 2006 09:57 PM GMT] I went to the Franklin Institute last night to watch a test screening of Galapagos a 1999 IMAX film that may be returning to the screen in Philadelphia. The movie is gorgeous, presenting the ... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: Australia gets another part-time science advisor Posted by Stephen Pincock [Entry posted at 1st March 2006 05:57 AM GMT] More than eight months after Australia's last Chief Scientist, Robin Batterham, stepped down from the post, the government has named Jim Peacock, president of the Australian Academy of Science, as his successor. Peacock, a plant scientist, has ... Click to continue Comment on this news story

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