NewsBlog: Fraud on the wing Posted by Brendan Maher [Entry posted at 29th May 2006 07:34 PM GMT] The New Yorker delves into a scientific fraud this week (see below). This one, upward of five decades old, was uncovered largely by ornithologist Pamela Rasmussen, an assistant prof at Michigan State who is co-author of ?Birds of South Asia: The Ripley Guide,? reviewed here. In preparing the guide, she took to task one Colonel Richard Meinertzhagen, member of the Royal Fusiliers,... Click to continue Comment on this blog NewsBlog: Support for histone code? Posted by Brendan Maher [Entry posted at 22nd May 2006 01:56 PM GMT] Four papers released online today detail some of the work from David Allis? group and others that?s detailed in our recent article on chromatin remodeling. In two Nature papers released today, Allis, a Rockefeller chromatin researcher, along with postdocs Joanna Wysocka and Tomek Swigut and a team led by structural biologist Dinshaw Patel, from Memorial Sloan Kettering, report on BPTF, the largest subunit of the nucleosome remodeling... Click to continue View comment (1) | Comment on this blog NewsBlog: Studying protein complexes with structural genomics Posted by Jeff Perkel [Entry posted at 18th May 2006 07:21 PM GMT] Proteins in vivo often function in complexes, and indeed, that?s how many individual structural biology efforts approach them. Not structural genomics efforts, though: For all their high-throughput methods, structural genomics pipelines typically treat proteins individually, in isolation. A paper released May 11 in PNAS could help bridge this gap. The new method, developed by ... Click to continue View comment (1) | Comment on this blog NewsBlog: The FDA's identity crisis Posted by Ishani Ganguli [Entry posted at 17th May 2006 08:17 PM GMT] On its hundredth birthday, the Food and Drug Administration is having a bit of an identity crisis. The FDA has long been conflicted as to whether it is primarily a regulatory or a scientific entity, said Peter Barton Hutt, former chief counsel for the administration, at yesterday?s FDA Centennial Conference in Philadelphia. In fact, it was the subject of what Hutt called "one of the funniest congressional debates I?ve sat through" during his FDA tenure in the 1970s. Now, as various... Click to continue View comments (2) | Comment on this blog NewsBlog: Surprise, surprise. Sussex backs chemistry Posted by Stephen Pincock [Entry posted at 15th May 2006 01:16 PM GMT] Over the past few weeks, the leadership of the University of Sussex, in England, has faced a barrage of criticism from scientists, media and politicians over plans to reshape its chemistry department in favor of biological chemistry. The planned restructuring, widely seen as the brainchild of vice chancellor Alasdair Smith, was denigrated by a Nobel Laureate, protested against by... Click to continue Comment on this blog NewsBlog: Hwang charged with fraud, embezzlement Posted by Alison McCook [Entry posted at 12th May 2006 04:06 PM GMT] Hwang Woo-suk, the South Korean researcher who admitted fabricating data on human stem cell lines, has been charged with criminal fraud and embezzlement, and now potentially faces years in jail, prosecutors announced Friday (May 12). In a statement provided to Reuters, prosecutor Lee In-kyu accused Hwang of being the lead actor in an elaborate plot to... Click to continue Comment on this blog NewsBlog: Histones are everywhere Posted by Brendan Maher [Entry posted at 11th May 2006 08:14 PM GMT] Just the other day I was talking to a researcher on the phone whose work had unexpectedly intersected with nucleosome remodeling. I get the feeling it?s not an uncommon occurrence. I?ve enjoyed following the explosion of research on this topic in the past decade, in part because the analogies are irresistible. As the now pat intro to numerous papers on the subject says, with the sequence of the human genome at hand, scientists are... Click to continue Comment on this blog NewsBlog: A word about BioMedCentral Posted by Richard Gallagher [Entry posted at 1st May 2006 04:58 PM GMT] Some of you may be wondering why The Scientist is today publishing a news story that on the face of it seems quite critical of BioMedCentral, our sister company. It's a fair question, and one with a simple answer: We are commited to covering significant developments, in science publishing and elsewhere, that are likely to be of interest to our readers, irrespective of the source of the story. This particular article is a test of the... Click to continue Comment on this blog

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