News: Have a question about pandas? Posted by Ivan Oransky [Entry posted at 31st August 2007 12:10 AM GMT] In May, we brought you a story by Jerry Guo, who traveled to China to report on efforts to boost that country's population of pandas. (See a slideshow about the panda facility ... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: Questions about NIH agency chief linger Posted by Bob Grant [Entry posted at 29th August 2007 06:42 PM GMT] One lawmaker has levied more allegations of mismanagement against David Schwartz , director of the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences. Last week, Schwartz temporarily stepped ... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: NIH to bank genome-wide association data Posted by Alla Katsnelson [Entry posted at 29th August 2007 04:46 AM GMT] As of January 25, 2008, researchers conducting genome-wide association studies with NIH funding will be required to submit their data, stripped of information that could identify individual study participants, to the a ... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: Head scientist leaves CIRM Posted by Bob Grant [Entry posted at 27th August 2007 08:37 PM GMT] Arlene Chiu, the interim chief scientific officer at the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine , has announced that she will step down from her post at the end of October. In a ... Click to continue View comment (1) | Comment on this news story News: HHMI pays for open access Posted by Alison McCook [Entry posted at 21st August 2007 04:04 PM GMT] The Howard Hughes Medical Institute has decided to pay article processing charges if HHMI-funded scientists choose to publish in open access journals from BioMed Central (BMC). Articles published in BMC journals will be immediately free on the Web. ... Click to continue View comment (1) | Comment on this news story News: Has pharmacogenomics arrived? Posted by Alla Katsnelson [Entry posted at 17th August 2007 04:25 PM GMT] The FDA yesterday updated the label on a widely used blood thinner, warfarin, to include information about how a patient's genes will ... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: Anthrax incident in Mississippi Posted by Andrea Gawrylewski [Entry posted at 15th August 2007 07:09 PM GMT] A graduate researcher at the University of Mississippi Medical Center (UMC) in Jackson, Mississippi, was treated for exposure to anthrax on Saturday (August 11), according to a news release from the University of ... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: No backing down on bisphenol A Posted by Alison McCook [Entry posted at 13th August 2007 05:48 PM GMT] A 12-member NIH panel is disagreeing with a scientific consensus statement published this month about the health hazards of ... Click to continue View comment (1) | Comment on this news story News: Hold members of Congress accountable Posted by Alla Katsnelson [Entry posted at 13th August 2007 04:16 PM GMT] When Research!America polled the US public in July on biomedical research and health care issues, 70% of registered voters who participated believed that the country's primacy in biomedical research is ... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: Buy a bond, an NIH bond Posted by Edyta Zielinska [Entry posted at 10th August 2007 09:06 PM GMT] The NIH needs money, and now, everyone can pitch in. If legislation proposed August 3 passes Congress, you will be able to buy a US Treasury bond and send 10% of the interest to the NIH ... Click to continue View comments (2) | Comment on this news story News: CIRM doesn't want an active scientist president Posted by Bob Grant [Entry posted at 10th August 2007 08:02 PM GMT] Shortly after posting my news story on incoming California Institute for Regenerative Medicine interim president Richard Murphy, Robert ... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: New head of Calif. stem cell group Posted by Alison McCook [Entry posted at 9th August 2007 06:19 PM GMT] Richard Murphy, former head of the Salk Institute for Biological Studies, will assume the role of interim president of the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine, the agency announced yesterday. Murphy will take over for Lori Hoffman, who ... Click to continue View comment (1) | Comment on this news story News: And the supercomputing award goes to... Posted by Andrea Gawrylewski [Entry posted at 9th August 2007 05:27 PM GMT] The wait is over for those eager to know who will be building the fastest computer in the world. Yesterday, August 8, the NSF decided to award $208 million to the ... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: A small step for postdoc mentoring Posted by Edyta Zielinska [Entry posted at 9th August 2007 04:49 PM GMT] Today, President Bush is scheduled to sign the America COMPETES Act (the full title is "American Creating Opportunities to Meaningfully Promote Excellence in ... Click to continue View comment (1) | Comment on this news story News: Foot and mouth source still mysterious Posted by Alla Katsnelson [Entry posted at 8th August 2007 05:20 AM GMT] The UK government has issued some preliminary findings into an investigation of the source of foot and mouth disease (FMD) virus that started an outbreak in cattle near two research labs in ... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: Study the economic impact of research? Win $5,000 Posted by Kerry Grens [Entry posted at 7th August 2007 10:27 PM GMT] As I found in my reporting of a July feature called "Is science a good bet," it is a daunting task to figure out the economic impacts of investing in research. For decades economists have tried, but ... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: Online evolution at The Scientist -- part 1 Posted by Simon Frantz [Entry posted at 6th August 2007 09:27 PM GMT] As you will have noticed our website has a new look, which marks the first of several changes that will be occurring on our site over the coming months. This first round of changes is more than just a nifty change of color. We've streamlined a lot ... Click to continue View comments (4) | Comment on this news story News: A wee pat on the back Posted by Richard Gallagher [Entry posted at 3rd August 2007 04:50 PM GMT] It's always nice to get some stroking, and The Scientist staff has been purring over the last couple of weeks. Last night we took home the national Gold Azbee award -- that's the top one -- for Publication Redesign in the under-80,000 category at ... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: Nature on the slide? Posted by Richard Gallagher [Entry posted at 3rd August 2007 04:00 PM GMT] In the beauty contest that is the annual citation report from ISI, Nature has tripped and fallen off the stage. Having been the top journal in 2004 with an impact factor of 31.9, they slipped ... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: Three syllables, sounds like "cabana" Posted by Bob Grant [Entry posted at 2nd August 2007 11:33 PM GMT] Behavioral research has provided another insight into the mental workings of our fellow apes: orangutans can play charades . This finding enriches our concept of primate communication, a ... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: Just in: Fake ID linked to drinking Posted by Alison McCook [Entry posted at 2nd August 2007 05:37 PM GMT] One of our notebooks in the August issue takes a close look at press releases about research, and why some press offices choose to cover seemingly obvious research. We only mentioned one ... Click to continue View comment (1) | Comment on this news story News: Desert Gold Posted by Bob Grant [Entry posted at 1st August 2007 07:45 PM GMT] In our June issue, I wrote about environmentally friendly laboratories and last month, I wrote about Arizona State University's Interdisciplinary Science and Technology Building IV, which is ... Click to continue Comment on this news story

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