NewsBlog: Introducing Janelia Posted by Kerry Grens [Entry posted at 29th September 2006 10:12 PM GMT] The Howard Hughes Medical Institute's new $500 million Janelia farm campus opens its doors officially next week. This week I toured the main building, which will house 26 labs, during a gathering of HHMI's international researchers. The building is striking. It's shaped like a C and tucked into the side of a hill. The roof is covered with grass and serves as such a convincing meadow that several deer have trotted off the edge. Many of the walls are made of... Click to continue View comment (1) | Comment on this blog NewsBlog: Yom Kippur and the Nobels Posted by Ivan Oransky [Entry posted at 28th September 2006 01:09 PM GMT] On Monday, the Karolinska Institute will announce the 2006 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, kicking off a week of science Nobel announcements. And millions of Jews around the world will be in synagogue, observing the holiest day of the Jewish calendar, Yom Kippur. Orthodox Jews, and even some Conservative Jews, like my family, don?t answer the phone on the holiday, even if they?re home. So that begs a question: What if an observant Jew is among the winners of the Physiology or Medicine... Click to continue View comment (1) | Comment on this blog NewsBlog: Results on islet cell transplants Posted by Ivan Oransky [Entry posted at 28th September 2006 12:39 AM GMT] In May, James Shapiro wrote in our pages about progress using the Edmonton Protocol to transplant islet cells into patients with type 1 diabetes. In this week?s New England Journal of Medicine, he and a number of colleagues around the world report the results of a phase 1-2 trial of the protocol in 36 patients. The findings were consistent which previous studies that Shapiro... Click to continue Comment on this blog NewsBlog: Metagenomics probes a gutless wonder Posted by Jeff Perkel [Entry posted at 25th September 2006 10:33 PM GMT] The last week has seen the appearance of two interesting reports on the use of metagenomics to probe the biology of microbial communities ? reports that demonstrate the emerging power of this technique to untangle metabolic mysteries in organisms that cannot be grown in the lab. The first, published Sept. 17 in Nature, involves the annelid worm,... Click to continue Comment on this blog NewsBlog: Find out what your candidates think of research Posted by Ivan Oransky [Entry posted at 18th September 2006 04:18 PM GMT] Research!America today launched the 2006 Your Candidates ? Your Health Voter Guide -- a site designed to help voters figure out how the candidates seeking their support feel about scientific research. The group sent 10 questions on subjects such as the CDC budget and basic science funding to all House and Senate candidates. To find out how they responded, plug in your zip code. This is an important and timely effort, with the US midterm... Click to continue View comments (2) | Comment on this blog NewsBlog: Laskers reward telomerase work Posted by Ivan Oransky [Entry posted at 16th September 2006 09:09 PM GMT] Announced today: The 2006 Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research is shared by Elizabeth Blackburn of the University of California, San Francisco, Carol Greider at Johns Hopkins University, and Jack Szostak of Harvard Medical School for their research on telomerase, the enzyme responsible for maintaining the length of linear chromosomes. In addition, Joseph Gall of the Carnegie Institution is being honored for his lifetime of discovery and innovation as... Click to continue Comment on this blog NewsBlog: MAQC Unveils Microarray Magnum Opus Posted by Jeff Perkel [Entry posted at 12th September 2006 12:11 AM GMT] The microarray research community and industry got a big boost last week with the release by the Microarray Quality Control (MAQC) Project Consortium, of a massive collection of data attesting to the reproducibility and reliability of microarray-based gene-expression profiling. Attempting to lay to rest, once and for all, the question of ... Click to continue View comment (1) | Comment on this blog NewsBlog: Who's up for top WHO job? Posted by Stephen Pincock [Entry posted at 7th September 2006 12:25 PM GMT] The field candidates for the top job at the World Health Organization is dominated by a list of current and former WHO insiders, it emerged on Wednesday. Of the 13 nominees to fill the post of director general that was left vacant earlier this year by the death of Lee Jong-Wook, four currently hold senior WHO posts and three have former connections to the agency. Lee?s unexpected passing in May forced the WHO to put in place an... Click to continue View comments (2) | Comment on this blog NewsBlog: A scientist hits the streets Posted by Brendan Maher [Entry posted at 5th September 2006 02:20 PM GMT] The photo shoot for this month?s feature on the postdoc glut was obviously a spoof. At least that?s what we thought. Standing on the median of Broad street with a sign that says ?Have PhD, Will Work For Food,? Kevin Duffy expected to garner a few stares, but not much else. ?Some guy gave me his business card,? he told me. Someone walking on the set of the shoot asked what they were doing. Even though Kevin told them they were working on... Click to continue Comment on this blog

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