News: Glaxo stalls new patent rules Posted by Alla Katsnelson [Entry posted at 31st October 2007 10:15 PM GMT] At an 11-th hour hearing, a Federal court in Virginia today issued an injunction that will temporarily block controversial new patent rules from taking effect tomorrow (November 1). The court hearing concerned the... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: Animal rights group targets neuroscientist Posted by Alla Katsnelson [Entry posted at 31st October 2007 07:39 PM GMT] An animal rights group says it vandalized the home of a Los Angeles neuroscientist, adding yet another incident to a string of recent attacks on UCLA researchers. The incident is being investigated by the FBI and local authorities. An anonymous... Click to continue View comments (5) | Comment on this news story News: Hummus, with a side of salmonella Posted by Ivan Oransky [Entry posted at 30th October 2007 02:53 PM GMT] One of my favorite email digests I receive every day is from ProMEDmail, the Program for Monitoring Emerging Diseases. It's an endless source of story ideas, from chikungunya to... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: A bad review, reviewed Posted by Alison McCook [Entry posted at 26th October 2007 09:21 PM GMT] A science journalist and university president are trading barbs this week over the administrator's less-than-glowing book review in Nature. Last week, Nature published a... Click to continue View comment (1) | Comment on this news story News: RIP, pygmy rabbit Posted by Ivan Oransky [Entry posted at 26th October 2007 07:29 PM GMT] Readers who have been following my coverage of attempts to save the endangered pygmy rabbit may remember Onyx, a male rabbit I... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: The Complete Idiot's Guide to Idiots Posted by Ivan Oransky [Entry posted at 25th October 2007 11:29 PM GMT] Every now and then, I get an Email that makes me wonder whether people are idiots. OK, more than every now and then. Today, it was a job posting from a science writers' association that caught my eye. ''I am searching for a psychiatrist or... Click to continue View comments (2) | Comment on this news story News: UNH prof. cleared of criminal charges Posted by Andrea Gawrylewski [Entry posted at 25th October 2007 10:42 PM GMT] A University of New Hampshire biochemistry professor who has been embroiled in a dispute with another faculty member was cleared of criminal charges on Tuesday (October 23). The district court of Durham, N.H., cleared ... Click to continue View comments (4) | Comment on this news story News: Retracting findings after 52 years Posted by Alla Katsnelson [Entry posted at 25th October 2007 08:44 PM GMT] What would you do if you realized you'd made a mistake in a paper you wrote half a century ago? When an 84-year-old retired chemist Googled himself ("I wanted to see, what have I done in all these many years?") he wasn't so happy with what he... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: White House "eviscerated" CDC report, says official Posted by Alla Katsnelson [Entry posted at 25th October 2007 03:10 PM GMT] CDC director Julie Gerberding spoke on Tuesday (Oct. 23) at a Senate hearing about the public health effects of climate... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: Watson makes it official Posted by Alison McCook [Entry posted at 25th October 2007 03:03 PM GMT] James Watson is immediately stepping down as chancellor of Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory in New York. The move follows days of public criticism of his remarks to a UK newspaper that people of... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: NIH nearing the end of peer review review Posted by Alla Katsnelson [Entry posted at 25th October 2007 02:51 AM GMT] NIH will hold a final working group meeting tomorrow (October 25) to discuss how to amend peer review. The agency kicked off its review... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: Senate passes bill with open access provision Posted by Andrea Gawrylewski [Entry posted at 24th October 2007 09:26 PM GMT] Yesterday the U.S. Senate passed the 2008 appropriations bill that -- if not vetoed by the President -- will be a big step forward for open access. By a voting margin of 75 to 19 the Senate passed the 2008 appropriations bill that includes $150... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: Congress investigates NIH lung trial integrity Posted by Andrea Gawrylewski [Entry posted at 23rd October 2007 10:10 PM GMT] A congressional committee is investigating whether researchers have a conflict of interest in their work on tobacco effects. The Chronicle of Higher Education... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: AIDS drug development wins economics award Posted by Kerry Grens [Entry posted at 23rd October 2007 03:40 PM GMT] Two economists from the University of Chicago won the Eugene Garfield Economic Impact of Medical and Health Research Award this month, given out by the advocacy group... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: New World flora and fauna, circa 1585 Posted by Ivan Oransky [Entry posted at 23rd October 2007 03:38 AM GMT] In May, Bill Sharfman wrote about a London exhibit of works by John White, a 16th-century painter and traveler. They are of what might be considered well-known items: A pineapple, a plantain,... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: No protection for giant spitting earthworm Posted by Ivan Oransky [Entry posted at 22nd October 2007 10:56 PM GMT] Earlier this month, the US Fish and Wildlife Service denied protection under the Endangered Species Act to the giant Palouse earthworm. I can't describe the ... Click to continue View comment (1) | Comment on this news story News: Fires threaten experiments in California Posted by Kerry Grens [Entry posted at 22nd October 2007 07:57 PM GMT] This afternoon I was corresponding electronically with Joshua Schimel, a professor in the department of Ecology, Evolution and Marine Biology at the University of California, Santa Barbara,... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: Med. school-industry links revealed Posted by Bob Grant [Entry posted at 22nd October 2007 07:42 PM GMT] Financial relationships between industry and the nation's medical schools and large teaching hospitals are widespread, according to a study published in the October 17 issue of JAMA.... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: Senate open access mandate at risk Posted by Andrea Gawrylewski [Entry posted at 22nd October 2007 05:45 PM GMT] The open access movement will take a hit if two amendments are voted into a bill currently on the Senate floor. The two amendments were filed in the Senate on Friday to either strike or modify language from a Senate appropriations bill that would... Click to continue View comment (1) | Comment on this news story News: Sense prevails on MRI rules Posted by Stephen Pincock [Entry posted at 22nd October 2007 02:53 PM GMT] Scientists in Europe have been expressing relief this week at the news that the European Union is dropping rules on the levels of radiation medical staff can be exposed... Click to continue View comment (1) | Comment on this news story News: More good news for pygmy rabbits Posted by Ivan Oransky [Entry posted at 22nd October 2007 12:38 AM GMT] Last month, a judge ruled that the US Fish and Wildlife Service had to revisit a 2004 decision denying pygmy rabbits outside of the Columbia River basin protection under the... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: Watson cancels book tour Posted by Alla Katsnelson [Entry posted at 19th October 2007 04:45 PM GMT] According to the Science Media Center in the UK, James Watson has cancelled all his remaining speaking engagements in the UK and will be returning to the US, in the aftermath of the ... Click to continue View comment (1) | Comment on this news story News: CSHL suspends Watson's duties Posted by Ivan Oransky [Entry posted at 19th October 2007 03:09 AM GMT] In a statement issued tonight, the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Board of Trustees said that they had "decided to suspend the administrative responsibilities of Chancellor James D.... Click to continue View comments (4) | Comment on this news story News: Watson faces harsh criticisms Posted by Alison McCook [Entry posted at 18th October 2007 05:52 PM GMT] James Watson is coming under fire for telling the Sunday Times that he believed people of African descent are less intelligent. Yesterday (October 17), Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (where Watson is Chancellor) Board of Trustees and President Bruce... Click to continue View comment (1) | Comment on this news story News: UC rejects tobacco money ban Posted by Andrea Gawrylewski [Entry posted at 18th October 2007 05:16 PM GMT] The University of California finally made the decision to allow researchers to accept funding from tobacco companies last month, the Sacramento Bee reported . As I... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: Senate drops stem cell provision; OA likely to pass Posted by Andrea Gawrylewski [Entry posted at 18th October 2007 04:29 PM GMT] The US Senate dropped language from a bill yesterday that would have directed federal money to research on stem cell lines derived before June 15, 2007, the ... Click to continue View comment (1) | Comment on this news story News: FDA approves second novel HIV drug Posted by Alla Katsnelson [Entry posted at 16th October 2007 02:07 AM GMT] Till recently, just two classes of antiretroviral drugs, reverse transcriptase inhibitors and protease inhibitors, were on the market to treat HIV infection. Last week, the FDA... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: Geneticist pleads guilty to misdemeanor in "art bioterror" case Posted by Alla Katsnelson [Entry posted at 12th October 2007 07:27 PM GMT] Robert Ferrell, a geneticist at the University of Pittsburgh who was indicted in June, 2004, along with Steven Kurtz, an artist at the State University of New York in Buffalo, after Ferrell... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: Gore, IPCC win Nobel Peace Prize Posted by Alla Katsnelson [Entry posted at 12th October 2007 04:51 PM GMT] This morning former vice president Al Gore and the Intergovernmental Panel for Climate Change (IPCC) were awarded the 2007 Nobel Prize "for their efforts to build up and disseminate... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: Former McLean head admits misconduct Posted by Kerry Grens [Entry posted at 11th October 2007 04:09 PM GMT] The former president of McLean Hospital outside Boston has admitted to sexual misconduct and is now under investigation. The Boston Globe reported this week that Jack Gorman, who... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: Company displeased with scientists' skepticism Posted by Kerry Grens [Entry posted at 11th October 2007 02:57 PM GMT] A company that develops "stem cell enhancers" as dietary supplements posted a complaint over 1,000 words in length on its website regarding an article I wrote... Click to continue View comment (1) | Comment on this news story News: Gerhard Ertl takes 2007 Chemistry Nobel for solid surface chemistry Posted by Alla Katsnelson [Entry posted at 10th October 2007 12:52 PM GMT] Gerhard Ertl, a German physical chemist, was awarded the Nobel Prize for Chemistry this morning for research that defined how molecules interact at interface between solids and... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: Cha sues over IVF critique Posted by Alison McCook [Entry posted at 9th October 2007 11:19 PM GMT] Bruce Flamm, a doctor and former research chairman is being sued for defamation by Kwang Yul Cha, the co-author of a 2001 paper that showed couples who were prayed for (but didn't know it) were more likely to conceive during in vitro... Click to continue View comments (2) | Comment on this news story News: MA relaxes stem cell restrictions Posted by Edyta Zielinska [Entry posted at 9th October 2007 08:19 PM GMT] Massachusetts is getting ready to overturn regulations that restrict the use of stem cells for research, according to the ... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: Venter makes synthetic chromosome... or does he? Posted by Alla Katsnelson [Entry posted at 8th October 2007 08:51 PM GMT] Rumors of J. Craig Venter's achievements in creating artificial life are again circulating in the press - the Guardian reported this weekend that Venter has successfully... Click to continue View comments (2) | Comment on this news story News: Nobel Prize in Medicine announced Posted by Edyta Zielinska [Entry posted at 8th October 2007 11:47 AM GMT] This year's Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine goes to Mario Capecchi , Martin J. Evans and Oliver Smithies for developing the method of gene targeting in mice leading to the "knock out"... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: Clinton wants TV show about scientists Posted by Ivan Oransky [Entry posted at 6th October 2007 03:58 PM GMT] New York Democratic senator and presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton told a Carnegie Institution audience on Thursday that a fictional TV show like CSI... Click to continue View comment (1) | Comment on this news story News: Anti-open access group loses another supporter Posted by Andrea Gawrylewski [Entry posted at 5th October 2007 06:01 PM GMT] Another university press has disassociated itself from PRISM -- the Partnership for Integrity in Science and Medicine -- an anti-open access advocacy group established by the ... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: 2007 Nobel: Place your bets! Posted by Alison McCook [Entry posted at 5th October 2007 04:35 PM GMT] We'll all find out who takes this year's Nobel Prizes the morning they do (sometime next week), but there are some early predictions. Thomson Scientific predicts this year's ... Click to continue View comment (1) | Comment on this news story News: Congress admits biosafety gaps Posted by Alison McCook [Entry posted at 4th October 2007 10:23 PM GMT] This in from news editor Alla Katsnelson: At a congressional hearing on biosafety today (October 4), the Government Accountability Office reported that the federal government doesn't know... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: Thyroid hormone in utero and vision Posted by Kerry Grens [Entry posted at 4th October 2007 08:01 PM GMT] This morning, at the annual meeting of the American Thyroid Association, I was captivated by a talk that included a very resourceful experimental design. ... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: Stem cells to test medicines? Posted by Alla Katsnelson [Entry posted at 3rd October 2007 07:05 PM GMT] The British government and three big pharma companies announced a partnership today (October 3) to develop techniques for using stem cells to test the safety of new medicines, the ... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: Biosafety accidents on the rise Posted by Alla Katsnelson [Entry posted at 3rd October 2007 02:44 AM GMT] On the heels of recent revelations of unreported accidents in Texas university labs and breaches of safety regulations at the University of Wisconsin, an AP article today... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: Framingham study data goes online Posted by Bob Grant [Entry posted at 2nd October 2007 06:23 PM GMT] The National Institutes of Health has made public more than 50 years worth of data from the Framingham Heart Study. The data from that study are the first to go live as part of the... Click to continue Comment on this news story

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