NewsBlog: NIH to fund ''wild and crazy'' research Posted by Edyta Zielinska [Entry posted at 31st July 2007 11:39 PM GMT] Scientists who have been complaining about flat NIH funding may get relief in the form of a new funding scheme. But run-of-the-mill researchers need not apply. This grant initiative is only for exceptionally innovative and unconventional proposals. "The wild and crazy projects," that Laurie Tompkins , a program... Click to continue View comment (1) | Comment on this blog NewsBlog: Congratulations, Nancy Hopkins Posted by Alison McCook [Entry posted at 31st July 2007 01:45 PM GMT] This Sunday's New York Times devoted an entire article to Nancy Hopkins, a professor of molecular biology at MIT and member of the National Academy of Sciences. She is an accomplished researcher, who spent many Saturday nights working, and never building up much of a social life. "That's what was required for women of my generation to be taken seriously, " said Hopkins, 64, who has written about women in science href="/blog/display/53448/"> Click to continue Comment on this blog NewsBlog: Health care reporters on the take? Posted by Ivan Oransky [Entry posted at 30th July 2007 11:44 AM GMT] In a reminder that members of Congress -- oh, and bloggers, too -- need fact-checkers as much as journalists do, Rep. Pete Stark (D-Calif.) felt the need to put out a press release Friday apologizing to three prominent health care reporters. Here's what happened: On July 23, Daily Kos reported that ABC's Nancy Snyderman, NBC's Robert Bazell, and PBS' Susan Dentzer were members of the Speakers Network at America's Health Insurance Plans... Click to continue Comment on this blog NewsBlog: Gonzo journalism about cats? Posted by Kerry Grens [Entry posted at 26th July 2007 05:07 PM GMT] This week one of my sources sent me a recent newsletter from Allerca, a "lifestyle pets" company now headquartered in Delaware that claims to have developed hypoallergenic cats. I was interested to read a rant by the company's founder, Simon Brodie, about the "gonzo journalists" who "trumpeted absolute falsehoods and downright lies" regarding the company. I imagine Brodie might be referring to yours truly. Not because I lied in my... Click to continue Comment on this blog NewsBlog: Mass files life science legislation Posted by Edyta Zielinska [Entry posted at 20th July 2007 06:02 PM GMT] Yesterday, Massachusetts governor Deval Patrick proposed life science research legislation that he first suggested in May. When I covered the discussion on this bill last month , Governor Patrick's administration was still hammering out the details for the $1 billion, 10 year spending plan,... Click to continue View comment (1) | Comment on this blog NewsBlog: Why is US citation share dropping? Posted by Kerry Grens [Entry posted at 20th July 2007 11:51 AM GMT] The National Science Foundation released two reports to the public this week that examine a puzzling trend: Why, during times of increasing investment in science, is the share of US publications dropping? As I reported in November of last year, US publication numbers plateaued from 1992 to 2002, and the global percentage of publications coming out of the US dropped from 38% in 1973 to 30% in 2003. Meanwhile, the report shows US academic... Click to continue Comment on this blog NewsBlog: Breathing freely over TB patient Posted by Alison McCook [Entry posted at 3rd July 2007 05:51 PM GMT] Officials at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are likely taking a collective sigh of relief. This just in from The Scientist intern Kelly Chi: Today (July 3) representatives from the National Jewish Medical Research Center and the CDC revealed that Andrew Speaker, a patient who sparked international concern after traveling with a highly-resistant form of TB, has multi-drug resistant TB (MDR-TB), not extensively drug-resistant TB (XDR-TB). This means that he can be... Click to continue Comment on this blog NewsBlog: More labs go green all over Posted by Bob Grant [Entry posted at 3rd July 2007 03:38 PM GMT] It appears that the link between science and building green is strengthening with each passing day. Last week, Arizona State University announced its choice of HDR Architects and Steven Ehrlich Architects to design its new Interdisciplinary Science and Technology Building (ISTB) IV scheduled for completion on its Tempe campus by 2010. The university plans to seek a minimum of LEED Silver status for the 250,000-square-foot building, which will house offices and laboratories for ASU's School of... Click to continue Comment on this blog NewsBlog: For one patient, stem cells show promise Posted by Ivan Oransky [Entry posted at 2nd July 2007 11:14 AM GMT] In this week's Lancet, several Norwegian cardiologists urge caution before testing stem cell therapies in patients following heart attacks. Three of the clinical trials so far haven't shown any positive effects, and the one that did was questionable, they write. At least one patient in Michigan didn't like being subjected to one such experiment in 2003; he's... Click to continue View comment (1) | Comment on this blog

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