News: Goodbye, science writing mentor Posted by Ivan Oransky [Entry posted at 25th April 2006 08:58 PM GMT] I didn't know Laura van Dam particularly well, but I did have the chance to work with her. In 1993, while I was in college, I was an intern at Technology Review, where she was a senior editor. It was a good experience for me, thanks in no small part ... Click to continue View comment (1) | Comment on this news story News: A genome center on a chip? Posted by Jeff Perkel [Entry posted at 25th April 2006 04:21 PM GMT] A nifty paper in yesterday's online edition of PNAS could presage the future of microfluidics development -- not to mention of sequencing technology. Richard Mathies of the ... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: Petition backs animal research Posted by Stephen Pincock [Entry posted at 21st April 2006 01:43 AM GMT] In the UK, the battle for people's hearts and minds over animal research continues apace. For a long time, opponents of animal research dominated the news but these days the tables seem to ... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: Chips spark surge in epigenetics Posted by Jeff Perkel [Entry posted at 20th April 2006 07:51 PM GMT] Since my colleague Brendan Maher returned from a chromatin meeting in January, it seems there's been a burst of activity in the epigenetics field, much of it covered here in The Scientist. On March 17, for instance, I ... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: Clinical diagnostics in a Starbucks package Posted by Brendan Maher [Entry posted at 13th April 2006 08:20 PM GMT] The New York Times has an interesting business story on the growth of high-priced clinical diagnostic tests involving genomic and proteomic technologies. One chief scientific ... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: Bill Clinton wants corn Posted by Alison McCook [Entry posted at 12th April 2006 05:06 PM GMT] The mood at BIO yesterday preceding Bill Clinton's speech felt more like a rock concert than a keynote address. In fact, I was very nearly carried away in a stampede when the conference organizers finally opened the ... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: Clinton is at BIO-- or is he? Posted by Alison McCook [Entry posted at 11th April 2006 03:50 PM GMT] Former president Bill Clinton is scheduled to speak at the 2006 BIO meeting today. But when I arrived this morning, I saw large signs alerting the media that the event was closed to the press. Why would BIO ... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: Is pharma putting more money into early R&D? Posted by Alison McCook [Entry posted at 11th April 2006 12:21 AM GMT] This morning at the 2006 ... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: Research gems in Botswana Posted by Stephen Pincock [Entry posted at 8th April 2006 04:32 PM GMT] Gaborone, the capital of Botswana, is a small city with roughly 200,000 residents. After Windhoek in Namibia where I was yesterday, it seems a little rough around the edges. I'm in town as ... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: Is bird flu in the UK? Posted by Stephen Pincock [Entry posted at 6th April 2006 01:34 PM GMT] British scientists are expected to reveal today (Thursday) whether a dead swan found on the Scottish coast was infected with H5N1 avian influenza, Scottish authorities said last night. ... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: Namibia's academic appeal Posted by Stephen Pincock [Entry posted at 5th April 2006 04:50 PM GMT] I arrived in Windhoek, the capital city of Namibia, this morning, as part of a 10 day trip to Africa on behalf of The Scientist to talk to researchers about the state of science on the ... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: The state of science in South Africa Posted by Stephen Pincock [Entry posted at 4th April 2006 05:38 PM GMT] Sixty-one years ago, South Africa's Council for Scientific and Industrial Research was established by a parliamentary decree that specifically required it to undertake research that ... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: Meeting key figure in African science Posted by Stephen Pincock [Entry posted at 4th April 2006 05:32 PM GMT] Today was the first day of a 10 day trip to Africa on behalf of The Scientist to talk to researchers about the state of science on the continent. On my inaugural stop, I visited John ... Click to continue View comment (1) | Comment on this news story News: Glimpses of stem cell medicine Posted by Alison McCook [Entry posted at 1st April 2006 04:55 AM GMT] After three days of discussions about stem cell machinery, the organizers concluded the Keystone meeting on stem cell biology today by treating participants to data ... Click to continue View comment (1) | Comment on this news story News: Epi-embryonic stem cells? Posted by Alison McCook [Entry posted at 1st April 2006 12:05 AM GMT] Researchers have provided clues about a potentially new source of human stem cells that are physically close to the actual embryo, but miles away from the controversy surrounding its use in research. Last night, at the ... Click to continue Comment on this news story

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