News: Biggest losers win pennant Posted by Richard Gallagher [Entry posted at 30th September 2007 11:44 PM GMT] A couple of months ago I compared the ineptitude of the Philadelphia Phillies with the pharma industry. Well, good news! The Phillies have turned things around. Having picked up the 10,000th ... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: Inspector General: FDA flunking clinical trials oversight Posted by Alla Katsnelson [Entry posted at 28th September 2007 07:11 PM GMT] A report released today by the Department of Health and Human Services reveals that the FDA is woefully lax in monitoring ... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: EHP narrows search for editor Posted by Bob Grant [Entry posted at 28th September 2007 04:13 PM GMT] Environmental Health Perspectives, a leading public health journal published by NIH's National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, will have a new editor-in-chief soon. An NIEHS spokesperson Emailed the ... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: MRC confirms new chief Posted by Alla Katsnelson [Entry posted at 28th September 2007 12:35 AM GMT] Stephen Pincock reports: Leszek Borysiewicz , deputy rector of Imperial College London, was officially named today (September 28) as the ... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: Scientists' beef with ID moviemakers Posted by Kerry Grens [Entry posted at 27th September 2007 10:33 PM GMT] Scientists say they were duped into agreeing to interviews for an upcoming movie promoting intelligent design. In a New York Times article today, evolutionary ... Click to continue View comments (2) | Comment on this news story News: Congress questions acting NIEHS director Posted by Bob Grant [Entry posted at 26th September 2007 03:38 AM GMT] Samuel Wilson, acting director of NIH's National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, said today that he intends to restore cuts to NIEHS programs that focus on disease prevention, ... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: HIV vaccine trials stopped Posted by Kerry Grens [Entry posted at 25th September 2007 07:03 PM GMT] Merck halted its Phase IIb clinical trials of an HIV vaccine last week, after data showed a lack of efficacy. According to a news release from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease (NIAID), "the ... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: DNA barcoding in Taipei, Part 4 Posted by Bob Grant [Entry posted at 21st September 2007 08:32 PM GMT] The plant barcoding group meeting here at the end of the 2nd International Barcode of Life Conference in Taipei was as addled with confusion and obfuscation as I had heard it might be. In supreme contrast to animal barcoding working groups (like ... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: NIH stem cell news - or is it? Posted by Alison McCook [Entry posted at 20th September 2007 09:53 PM GMT] An interesting news release from the NIH landed in my inbox Tuesday (September 18). The headline said the agency "Announces Plan to Implement President's Stem Cell Executive ... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: Biosafety concerns at U of Wisconsin Ebola lab Posted by Alla Katsnelson [Entry posted at 20th September 2007 07:25 PM GMT] A University of Wisconsin researcher working with the Ebola virus operated his lab under lower biosafety standards than are required for working with the deadly pathogen, according to the Sunshine Project, an Austin-based biosafety watchdog ... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: Texas universities bombing biosafety? Posted by Alla Katsnelson [Entry posted at 19th September 2007 11:35 PM GMT] Recent biosafety breaches have occurred at three University of Texas schools, the Chronicle of Higher Education reports . At UT Austin, officials failed ... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: DNA barcoding in Taipei, Part 3 Posted by Bob Grant [Entry posted at 19th September 2007 07:26 PM GMT] Played a rousing game of table tennis tonight. And by "rousing game" I mean to say that I was soundly drubbed by a Taiwanese gentleman (his name escapes me) who appears to be some sort of national ... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: DNA barcoding in Taipei, Part 2 Posted by Bob Grant [Entry posted at 18th September 2007 09:42 PM GMT] I spent Monday listening to ichthyologists and fisheries biologists discuss their efforts to barcode the planet?s fish species (an initiative called the Fish barcode of life, or FishBOL) . During the FishBOL session, ... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: Re-analysis raises ghosts in neuroscience Posted by Alla Katsnelson [Entry posted at 18th September 2007 02:05 AM GMT] A news story in this week's Nature reports on problems with research that in the last quarter-century has spawned a controversial but influential theory in neurophysiology. According ... Click to continue View comment (1) | Comment on this news story News: Calif. stem cell institute appoints president Posted by Alla Katsnelson [Entry posted at 17th September 2007 07:03 PM GMT] After a contentious search, the California Institute of Regenerative Medicine on Friday named Australian stem cell research Alan Trounson as the new president of the institute. Trounson, ... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: DNA barcoding in Taipei, Part 1 Posted by Bob Grant [Entry posted at 17th September 2007 09:16 AM GMT] Spent the night talking human disease vectors with Daniel Boakye, a Ghanaian biologist (I call him a mosquito man). I'm in Taipei, Taiwan attending the 2nd International Barcode of Life Conference. What initially attracted me to the concept of ... Click to continue View comment (1) | Comment on this news story News: 2007 Lasker Awards announced Posted by Edyta Zielinska [Entry posted at 14th September 2007 11:15 PM GMT] Discovery of dendritic cells, invention of prosthetic heart valves and programs in AIDS treatment and biodefense are honored Ralph Steinman of the Rockefeller University in New York ... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: Company: Fungus likely caused gene trial death Posted by Andrea Gawrylewski [Entry posted at 14th September 2007 09:18 PM GMT] Targeted Genetics officials anticipate that the cause of death of a subject in their gene therapy clinical trial in July will be disseminated histoplasmosis -- a fungal infection -- and not connected to the trial drug, H. Stewart Parker, CEO of ... Click to continue View comment (1) | Comment on this news story News: New chief for UK medical research? Posted by Alla Katsnelson [Entry posted at 13th September 2007 11:15 PM GMT] According to a news report in today's Nature, Leszek Borysiewicz, a vaccinologist and deputy rector at Imperial College London, has been selected to become the chief executive ... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: Going anti-anti open access Posted by Alison McCook [Entry posted at 12th September 2007 11:17 PM GMT] The Association of American Publishers' campaign against open access has angered one member of an AAP division so much that he has resigned, according to The Chronicle of Higher Education. James D. Jordan, president and director of Columbia ... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: NIH and NASA firm up space plans Posted by Alla Katsnelson [Entry posted at 12th September 2007 01:36 AM GMT] In July, The Scientist reported on plans for a collaboration between NASA and NIH to conduct life science experiments aboard the International Space Station. Those plans, it seems, are taking ... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: UK identifies foot and mouth source Posted by Alla Katsnelson [Entry posted at 10th September 2007 04:46 PM GMT] The UK Health and Safety Executive (HSE) on Friday released the findings of its investigation on the source of last month's foot and mouth disease outbreak that had been traced to three ... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: Korean crackdown on research Posted by Alison McCook [Entry posted at 10th September 2007 04:00 PM GMT] South Korean universities are apparently cracking down on research fraud following the admission by several high-profile Korean scientists (led by Woo Suk Hwang at Seoul National University) ... Click to continue View comments (2) | Comment on this news story News: Elsevier's open access plan: Advertisers pay Posted by Ivan Oransky [Entry posted at 10th September 2007 03:55 PM GMT] The New York Times reports today that scientific and medical publisher Reed-Elsevier, which publishes 400 journals, has introduced ''a Web portal, ... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: UNH makes offer to banned professor Posted by Andrea Gawrylewski [Entry posted at 10th September 2007 02:04 PM GMT] The University of New Hampshire sent a letter Friday (September 7) to the banned chair of the biochemistry and molecular biology department, saying that he can be reinstated but no longer as the chair of the department, a faculty member in the ... Click to continue View comments (3) | Comment on this news story News: Officials release pygmy rabbit recovery plan Posted by Ivan Oransky [Entry posted at 8th September 2007 07:33 PM GMT] The US Fish and Wildlife Service has released a draft recovery plan for the endangered Columbia Basin pygmy rabbit, a subject I wrote about in our June issue. The tiny rabbits -- on ... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: Time for patent reform? Posted by Alla Katsnelson [Entry posted at 7th September 2007 11:43 PM GMT] The House of Representatives this afternoon approved a bill outlining major changes to the patent process. Attempts at legislation reforming the system have been ... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: More money for Calif. stem cell research Posted by Bob Grant [Entry posted at 7th September 2007 10:24 PM GMT] A bit of good news for California's stem cell researchers who have watched as the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine has weathered some ... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: Endangered wolves don't need passports Posted by Ivan Oransky [Entry posted at 7th September 2007 09:36 PM GMT] As Federal agencies and farmers call for removing the gray wolf from the US endangered species list, a member of a species appears to have killed a calf in rural ... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: Culprit of bee woes identified? Posted by Bob Grant [Entry posted at 6th September 2007 08:43 PM GMT] Researchers have identified a virus that may be at least partially to blame for the dramatic disappearances of some honeybees in the United States recently. In a study published online ... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: New visa rules for postdocs? Posted by Alison McCook [Entry posted at 5th September 2007 09:24 PM GMT] The National Postdoctoral Association is only four years old, but is already weighing in on serious issues in science. Last week, I received a ... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: Microsoft sponsors BMC prizes Posted by Andrea Gawrylewski [Entry posted at 5th September 2007 08:32 PM GMT] BioMed Central (a sister company of The Scientist) announced today that Microsoft will be sponsoring BMC's annual research awards -- funding two $5000 prizes for research of major significance published in any of BMC's ... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: Just another biosafety breach Posted by Alla Katsnelson [Entry posted at 5th September 2007 01:46 AM GMT] An outbreak investigation of a Maine poultry vaccine facility concluded last week that a spill infected about a third of the facility's 74 employees with salmonella poisoning, according to a ... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: Craig Venter's DNA Posted by Alla Katsnelson [Entry posted at 4th September 2007 05:48 PM GMT] J. Craig Venter, famed geneticist (and member of The Scientist's editorial board ) who this summer made headlines with the development of a technique for creating a ... Click to continue View comment (1) | Comment on this news story

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