NewsBlog: Cloned wolf real, panel says Posted by Alison McCook [Entry posted at 27th April 2007 09:29 PM GMT] A South Korean panel that investigated a pulled wolf cloning study ruled today (April 27) that the research team indeed cloned gray wolves, but committed errors in presenting their findings. The journal Cloning and Stem Cells pulled the study earlier this month after the authors asked to make changes to the text. Stay tuned for more in-depth coverage on... Click to continue Comment on this blog NewsBlog: Journal retracts duplicate publication Posted by Alison McCook [Entry posted at 26th April 2007 08:33 PM GMT] The journal Fertility and Sterility has retracted a duplicate paper about the use of real-time PCR in premature ovarian failure, following a Korean researcher's claim that the work was copied from another paper he co-authored in a Korean journal. The scientist listed on both papers has been barred from contributing to the journal for three years. The paper was retracted... Click to continue Comment on this blog NewsBlog: Flagellar tangle Posted by Brendan Maher [Entry posted at 25th April 2007 09:03 PM GMT] Call it a row, a kerfluffle, a spat, or what have you. A paper in PNAS has whipped up some convoluted discussion in science and non-science blogs. Here's the basic run down: 1. A group publishes an explanation for the stepwise evolution of the flagellum, an interesting scientific question, which ... Click to continue Comment on this blog NewsBlog: 50 plum new grants from HHMI Posted by Brendan Maher [Entry posted at 12th April 2007 03:12 PM GMT] Howard Hughes Medical Institute is opening a new competition for US investigators. It plans to fund as many as 50 new researchers by Spring 2008 representing an investment of $600 million. Unlike the traditional HHMI investigator programs which have relied on nominations from the investigator's institution these are open to direct application (similar to a plan they announced in a smaller scale for physician scientists last November). The grants are meant for early career investigators... Click to continue View comment (1) | Comment on this blog NewsBlog: We may have been right on Senate stem cell vote Posted by Ivan Oransky [Entry posted at 12th April 2007 12:12 AM GMT] In December, following the November US midterm elections, Richard Gallagher, the editor of The Scientist, wrote a hopeful editorial on the future of stem cell funding in the US. In it, he suggested that the Senate was just one vote shy of the 67-33 vote it would need to overturn a Presidential veto on the bill. He may have been right. Yesterday, the Senate voted 63-34 to approve the Stem Cell Research Enhancement Act. The three... Click to continue Comment on this blog NewsBlog: Feudin? genetics style Posted by Brendan Maher [Entry posted at 9th April 2007 04:28 PM GMT] A nice AP story talks about the hypothesis that much of the fuel for the famed Hatfield-McCoy feud might be attributed to Von Hippel-Lindau disease, a rare genetic disorder that predisposes those affected to highly-vascularized tumors. The reasoning is that adrenal tumors might be responsible for many of the McCoys' notorious tempers. There are some great quotes from actual family... Click to continue View comment (1) | Comment on this blog NewsBlog: Stem cell patent dispute: Wisc. fights back Posted by Alison McCook [Entry posted at 4th April 2007 07:22 PM GMT] In the fallout from a major decision by the US patent agency to reject key stem cell patents for embryonic stem cell research held by the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (WARF), Wisconsin Governor Jim Doyle has taken to the airwaves to defend the state's intellectual property. In a statement released... Click to continue View comments (2) | Comment on this blog NewsBlog: NY stem cells get green light Posted by Andrea Gawrylewski [Entry posted at 2nd April 2007 08:53 PM GMT] The New York State legislature completed its budget yesterday, including a $600 million appropriation to fund stem cell research. For 2007, the state will provide the first $100 million, and the remainder of the money will come out of the Health Insurance Plan (HIP) of New York, with a $50-million-a-year cap not exceeding $500 million. However, it is unclear when the HIP funds will become available. As reported in The Scientist, a few... Click to continue Comment on this blog

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