News: Nature press on errors Posted by Brendan Maher [Entry posted at 30th August 2006 03:48 PM GMT] After issuing two post-press corrections to the release notes for a headline grabbing news story about human embryonic stem cells last... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: The Embryo Corrections Posted by Brendan Maher [Entry posted at 25th August 2006 09:54 PM GMT] When Robert Lanza?s group at Advanced Cell Technology reported this week creating so-called ethically clean ES cell lines (establishing colonies from an early human embryo without destroying... Click to continue View comments (3) | Comment on this news story News: Decoding the code code Posted by Brendan Maher [Entry posted at 21st August 2006 07:05 PM GMT] A few weeks ago I chided Nick Wade (lovingly! I?m a huge fan, after all) for invoking the ?code? word when describing a study on nucleosome positioning. It surprised me when my post spurred... Click to continue View comment (1) | Comment on this news story News: Government lab unites science journalists Posted by Ivan Oransky [Entry posted at 16th August 2006 04:55 PM GMT] Earlier this week, I and several other editorial staffers here at The Scientist started receiving Emails titled ?User Quarantine Release Notification? from an ?inel.gov? address, presumably from the Idaho National Laboratory. Nothing terribly... Click to continue View comment (1) | Comment on this news story News: Stem cell reprogramming clues revealed Posted by Alison McCook [Entry posted at 11th August 2006 09:10 PM GMT] During one of the most memorable conference sessions I attended, a researcher from Japan wowed an entire Keystone meeting on stem cells by announcing he had found a way to reprogram adult stem... Click to continue View comments (5) | Comment on this news story News: Cloning in Iran Posted by Stephen Pincock [Entry posted at 11th August 2006 12:59 AM GMT] Iranian biosciences aren?t exactly top of the news agenda these days, so I was interested to read this week that researchers at Tehran?s ... Click to continue View comments (2) | Comment on this news story News: Another sad anniversary Posted by Brendan Maher [Entry posted at 9th August 2006 01:38 PM GMT] It?s been a summer of depressing anniversaries, but not until now have I had the occasion to remember, vividly, the actual events. I was too young to remember the first reports of ... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: Consumer genetic tests on trial Posted by Brendan Maher [Entry posted at 2nd August 2006 01:30 PM GMT] I was glad to see that someone?s taking direct-to-consumer genetic testing to trial. Nutrigenetics and nutrigenomics is a burgeoning experimental science as we?ll be writing about in September, but the common refrain among many experts -- ?It?s not... Click to continue View comments (3) | Comment on this news story

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