NewsBlog: [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 Keystone meeting on stem cell biology.
Jonathan M.W. Slack of the University of Bath in the UK and his colleagues have been studying the use of... Click to continue
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NewsBlog: [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, Angel Alvarez and his co-author Kiminobu Sugaya "dedifferentiated" MSCs by over expression of the ESC gene nanog, using gene transfection. The resulting cells developed a reduced size and formed cellular... Click to continue
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NewsBlog: [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 Keystone conference on stem cell biology -- but stem cell researchers will need a few more bread crumbs before they can put this potentially exciting information to use.
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NewsBlog: [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. Specifically, the ethics of embryonic stem cell research, and what the scientists who study them need to remember.
Anne McLaren of the Wellcome Trust/Cancer Research UK Gordon Institute, Cambridge... Click to continue
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NewsBlog: [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 reference work in the English language.' Ding! Ding!
Round 1: Nature lands the opening blow with a news article on December 14 that compared the accuracy of science coverage from... Click to continue
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NewsBlog: [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 journalism." The article that earned the journal their latest nod is the same article at the heart of recent debates over editorial practice at the journal, which has seen the resignations of the majority of editors and editorial board members.
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NewsBlog: [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 People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PeTA).
The decision was made against a fundraising leaflet that PeTA had mailed across the UK. The Advertising Standards Authority... Click to continue
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NewsBlog: [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 Canadian Medical Association Journal (CMAJ) who resigned this week after ongoing disputes with the CMA over the journal?s editorial independence.
In the letter, CMA president Ruth Collins-Nakai says she "takes great exception" to the former... Click to continue
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NewsBlog: [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, among other strategies. For Bentham Science Publishers Ltd, ?a major STM journal publisher of 70 online and print journals, and 4 print/online book (series)? that ?answers the informational needs of the pharmaceutical, biomedical and medical research... Click to continue
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NewsBlog: [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, presumably, is sussing out people with amusia. It?s no secret that some can?t carry a tune. Some folks are simply terrible, off-key singers and don?t recognize it no matter what anyone tells them, but a small percentage of folks actually can?t distinguish... Click to continue
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NewsBlog: [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 luck.
Agilent Technologies will launch Wednesday (March 15) its "Agilent 6000 Series LC/MS Lab Makeover" sweepstakes -- the winner of which will take home a brand-new... Click to continue
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NewsBlog: [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 hiding DNA data on the health of the grizzly population and stripping a critic of the grizzly hunt of his unofficial position as the "go-to" expert on grizzlies.
The government has insisted that it was not withholding DNA data, and was... Click to continue
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NewsBlog: [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 Galapagos islands as a ?little world within themselves? quoting Darwin, and one ?still in the process of creation,? marking the only time the c-word gets used. From the sparse, seemingly uninhabitiable volcanic lava floes, to shorelines teeming with... Click to continue
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NewsBlog: [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 been given a ringing endorsement from many in the research world. John Mullarvey, CEO of the Australian Vice-Chancellor's Committee, for example, said he had made a strong contribution to science both nationally and internationally. ?I am sure [he] will... Click to continue
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