News: Groups mark World AIDS Day 2007 Posted by Bob Grant [Entry posted at 30th November 2007 07:15 PM GMT] Tomorrow (Dec. 1) is the 20th annual World AIDS Day, several health, advocacy, and research organizations are marking the event. Several ... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: Pluripotency without tumors? Posted by Alla Katsnelson [Entry posted at 30th November 2007 06:54 PM GMT] Japanese researchers who reprogrammed pluripotency into adult human skin cells say they have improved the technique, according to a ... Click to continue View comment (1) | Comment on this news story News: NIH botched biolab safety study: NRC Posted by Kerry Grens [Entry posted at 30th November 2007 06:12 PM GMT] The NIH's safety assessment of a controversial Boston University laboratory did not thoroughly develop worst case scenarios or adequately compare safety risks at other proposed sites, finds a ... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: Embargoes, the NY Times, and the WHO Posted by Ivan Oransky [Entry posted at 30th November 2007 05:26 PM GMT] For the next two weeks, if you want news about the World Health Organization (WHO), you may have to consult sources other than The New York Times. According to an Email I just received from the WHO, the organization has suspended the Times ... Click to continue View comments (3) | Comment on this news story News: Banned scientist now at Schering-Plough Posted by Kerry Grens [Entry posted at 30th November 2007 03:56 AM GMT] A scientist that the University of Washington found guilty of research misconduct is now an employee of the pharmaceutical company, Schering-Plough. In an Email to The Scientist, a company spokesperson, Stephen ... Click to continue View comment (1) | Comment on this news story News: Scientists love social media Posted by Edyta Zielinska [Entry posted at 29th November 2007 10:47 PM GMT] Do you use LinkedIn? What about Friendster? If the answer is "no" to both of these questions, or "what is LinkedIn?", you're probably in the minority. According to a survey by ... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: Chair named for ousted surgeon Posted by Kerry Grens [Entry posted at 29th November 2007 05:06 PM GMT] After spending millions on behalf of a heart surgeon's legal dispute, the University of Minnesota has agreed to shell out another half million honoring his name. John Najarian, a ... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: Circulating stem cells add roaming immunity Posted by Kerry Grens [Entry posted at 29th November 2007 05:02 PM GMT] Circulating stem cells from bone marrow recognize tissues in distress and stimulate an innate immune response, according to findings published today in ... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: U Wash HIV researcher faked data Posted by Kerry Grens [Entry posted at 29th November 2007 04:02 PM GMT] A former University of Washington researcher has lost a lawsuit against the Seattle Times over the disclosure of a report detailing his research misconduct. Scott Brodie, who studied ... Click to continue View comments (2) | Comment on this news story News: US, Indonesia spar over virus samples Posted by Bob Grant [Entry posted at 28th November 2007 10:55 PM GMT] The Indonesian health minister has criticized an American scientist for taking tissue samples from a man suffering from a severe viral infection and exporting them out of the Southeast Asian country. The minister, Siti Fadilah Supari, said that ... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: Tumor suppressor regulates reproduction? Posted by Andrea Gawrylewski [Entry posted at 28th November 2007 08:47 PM GMT] The tumor suppressor p53 is a crucial player in the successful impregnation of mice, and plays a surprising new role in reproduction, according to a study published today in Nature. Arnold ... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: Fox Chase Cancer Center in building dispute Posted by Kerry Grens [Entry posted at 27th November 2007 06:22 PM GMT] A leading cancer center in Philadelphia appears to be winning a battle with city residents to expand its clinical and research facilities. Fox Chase Cancer Center received the green light from a City Council committee Monday night to go ahead with ... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: NY med school stops teaching with dogs Posted by Edyta Zielinska [Entry posted at 27th November 2007 05:59 PM GMT] New York Medical College in Valhalla announced yesterday that it will no longer use live dogs in physiology classrooms. According to ... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: YouTube for BioMed Central Posted by Alla Katsnelson [Entry posted at 27th November 2007 02:38 PM GMT] Videos are on the rise in science publishing, as we reported in August. On Friday, BioMed Central, sister company to The Scientist, joined the video crew with the ... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: UK foot and mouth lab leaks again Posted by Alla Katsnelson [Entry posted at 26th November 2007 08:07 PM GMT] A Surrey, UK, lab thought to be the source of a foot and mouth disease (FMD) outbreak in August again ran afoul of biosafety practices last week, when a leaking valve likely released live FMD ... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: Gene therapy trial set to resume Posted by Bob Grant [Entry posted at 26th November 2007 07:24 PM GMT] The US Food and Drug Administration is allowing a controversial gene therapy trial to resume, after the trial was ... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: EU pushes for open access research Posted by Andrea Gawrylewski [Entry posted at 26th November 2007 06:26 PM GMT] The Council of the European Union released recommendations on Friday (November 23) encouraging member states to study open access, but open access advocates are ... Click to continue View comment (1) | Comment on this news story News: Academic publishers make open access deal Posted by Alla Katsnelson [Entry posted at 21st November 2007 09:30 PM GMT] The fifth-largest academic journal publisher, SAGE, yesterday (November 20) announced an agreement with open access science and medicine publisher, Hindawi, to launch a new series of open ... Click to continue View comment (1) | Comment on this news story News: Pharma reaches out for ghostwriter Posted by Alla Katsnelson [Entry posted at 21st November 2007 06:33 PM GMT] Earlier this week, The Scientist reported on a trial comparing the efficacy of a hypertension drug, nebivolol, in African American and white American patients. It seems that Forest Laboratories, ... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: Judge throws out libel suit against scientist Posted by Bob Grant [Entry posted at 20th November 2007 10:11 PM GMT] A Los Angeles Superior Court judge threw out a defamation suit today (November 20) filed by a Korean fertility researcher against a scientist who wrote an opinion piece criticizing his ... Click to continue View comment (1) | Comment on this news story News: Who's Dolly's daddy? Posted by Bob Grant [Entry posted at 20th November 2007 08:03 PM GMT] We at The Scientist take the time to carefully read each and every press release we're sent, especially those from our elected officials in Washington, D.C. (OK, not really.) Today, we got one from Capitol Hill that still has us scratching our ... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: Medical group threatens to sue journal Posted by Bob Grant [Entry posted at 20th November 2007 06:23 PM GMT] A professional medical association has threatened to sue a scientific journal over an article accusing the group of pandering to industry. The article was published in the most recent issue ... Click to continue View comments (11) | Comment on this news story News: Two teams reprogram skin cells for pluripotency Posted by Andrea Gawrylewski [Entry posted at 20th November 2007 04:52 PM GMT] Two studies published today report that human somatic cells can be reprogrammed into a pluripotent state that resembles human embryonic stem cells. As reported in Cell , Shinya ... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: Job opportunities in Europe Posted by Edyta Zielinska [Entry posted at 19th November 2007 11:23 PM GMT] For those of you who have dreamed of doing science in Europe but don't know how to find the jobs, MIT is hosting a European Career Fair from February 2nd to the 4th, to introduce job-hunting researchers to ... Click to continue View comment (1) | Comment on this news story News: Wilmut leaves nuclear transfer behind Posted by Kerry Grens [Entry posted at 19th November 2007 04:49 PM GMT] Ian Wilmut, the Scottish scientist who championed somatic-cell nuclear transfer -- most famously with the cloned sheep Dolly -- is choosing a different technique for his future research in stem ... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: Defense research spending up, NIH bill fails Posted by Bob Grant [Entry posted at 16th November 2007 05:05 PM GMT] On Tuesday (Nov. 13) President Bush signed a defense bill ... Click to continue View comment (1) | Comment on this news story News: Will epigeneticist make Person of the Year? Posted by Kerry Grens [Entry posted at 16th November 2007 04:39 PM GMT] It's not every year you read "epigenetics" in a nomination for Time's Person of the Year. Duke professor ... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: HIPAA hinders studies, researchers say Posted by Andrea Gawrylewski [Entry posted at 16th November 2007 03:58 PM GMT] Laws intended to protect patient privacy are a hindrance to research, according to a study in the Journal of the American Medical Association. Nearly 70 percent of 1,527 epidemiologists ... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: Researchers clone primate embryos Posted by Bob Grant [Entry posted at 14th November 2007 05:29 PM GMT] Scientists in Oregon claim to have successfully produced rhesus macaque embryos using somatic cell nuclear transfer with egg and skin cells taken from adult monkeys. The Scientist first ... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: Uniform grant progress reports? Posted by Edyta Zielinska [Entry posted at 14th November 2007 03:11 PM GMT] The NSF is looking to save researchers time and effort by creating one standard progress report form for all granting agencies. Currently each agency has its own interim report form. While agencies like the EPA or the NIH use different language to ... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: Why our UNH coverage may seem one-sided Posted by Andrea Gawrylewski [Entry posted at 14th November 2007 03:23 AM GMT] In July, we ran a story about John Collins, chair of the University of New Hampshire biochemistry department who had been arrested for disorderly conduct. His accuser -- Stacia Sower, dean of research -- subsequently filed for a restraining order ... Click to continue View comments (5) | Comment on this news story News: Media bungles open access details Posted by Andrea Gawrylewski [Entry posted at 13th November 2007 08:30 PM GMT] Several news outlets keep misreporting the public access mandate of a congressional funding bill. As open access blogger Peter Suber posted last week, Nature News, ... Click to continue View comment (1) | Comment on this news story News: Bush vetoes NIH funding bill Posted by Bob Grant [Entry posted at 13th November 2007 06:09 PM GMT] This morning (November 13), President Bush vetoed a bill aiming to increase 2008 NIH funding by $1.4 billon, from $28.6 billion ... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: Astronomy blog wins contest Posted by Bob Grant [Entry posted at 9th November 2007 04:25 PM GMT] The votes are in, and Bad Astronomy, a site maintained by erstwhile astronomer Phil Plait, has just barely won the 2007 Weblog Award for Best ... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: Congress passes NIH budget boosting bill Posted by Bob Grant [Entry posted at 9th November 2007 02:43 PM GMT] Last night (November 8th) the U.S. House of Representatives passed a bill aiming to increase NIH funding from $28.6 billion ... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: Britain screens foreign scientists Posted by Edyta Zielinska [Entry posted at 8th November 2007 11:24 PM GMT] The British government has added new requirements for visa applicants, which some say will restrict the flow of talented researchers into the country. All visa applicants from outside of European Economic Area and Switzerland who want to study ... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: Dandruff gets its own genome Posted by Ivan Oransky [Entry posted at 8th November 2007 10:03 PM GMT] I just got a press release that made me go ''huh?'' That's ''huh,'' question mark. Not ''huh!'', or ''huh,'' exclamation point -- which is what I like from press releases. If you don't see what I mean, answer me this: Does dandruff have a ... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: Nanotech sets sail Posted by Alison McCook [Entry posted at 8th November 2007 03:53 PM GMT] This week, Planktos, a nanotech company with the lofty goal of reducing carbon emissions, finally set sail. Planktos aims to reduce carbon emissions by releasing huge amounts of iron into the ocean, with the hope that plankton will take up that ... Click to continue View comments (2) | Comment on this news story News: Science blog award slugfest Posted by Bob Grant [Entry posted at 8th November 2007 03:30 PM GMT] Looks like the 2007 Weblog Award for Best Science Blog has gotten ugly. Along with the usual suspects (last year's winner ... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: Vaccine, immunity no help in HIV Posted by Andrea Gawrylewski [Entry posted at 7th November 2007 09:42 PM GMT] Initial analysis confirmed that an HIV vaccine from a halted trial does not prevent or quell infection, according to data presented today at the HIV Vaccine Trials Network meeting. According ... Click to continue View comment (1) | Comment on this news story News: NJ nixes stem cell research Posted by Alison McCook [Entry posted at 7th November 2007 02:28 PM GMT] New Jersey voters nixed Governor Jon Corzine's proposal to borrow $450 million over 10 years to fund stem cell research yesterday (November 6). Voters defeated the measure by a 53-47 margin. ... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: Environmental Health Perspectives names Tilson editor Posted by Bob Grant [Entry posted at 6th November 2007 09:21 PM GMT] Hugh Tilson, an Environmental Protection Agency administrator, is the new editor-in-chief of Environmental Health Perspectives, the flagship journal of the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences. As we recently reported, he was on the ... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: Fires force grant deadline extensions Posted by Bob Grant [Entry posted at 6th November 2007 06:38 PM GMT] We've seen (and some have felt) the destruction wrought by the wildfires that recently swept through Southern California: homes destroyed, communities displaced, and study sites burned. But ... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: Newt on neuroscience Posted by Kerry Grens [Entry posted at 6th November 2007 03:11 PM GMT] In a talk Monday (Nov 5) that received a standing ovation by several hundred neuroscientists, Newt Gingrich urged scientists to pester lawmakers for greater research funding As the former Speaker ... Click to continue View comment (1) | Comment on this news story News: The brain in silico Posted by Kerry Grens [Entry posted at 5th November 2007 09:44 PM GMT] At the Society for Neuroscience's annual meeting today (Nov 5), Kathie Olsen laughingly introduced ... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: Remembering Reich Posted by Alison McCook [Entry posted at 5th November 2007 05:06 PM GMT] In case you missed it, Saturday (Nov 3) marked the 50th anniversary of the death of Wilhelm Reich, who passed away in federal prison. He was serving out a two year sentence for ignoring an injunction obtained by the Food and Drug Administration that ... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: iGEM parts and patents Posted by Alla Katsnelson [Entry posted at 5th November 2007 12:19 PM GMT] This year's iGEM winners tackled a rather abstract information processing task, but many of the projects had direct health applications. In addition to the bactoblood and HIV project, there ... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: And the iGEM winner is... Posted by Alla Katsnelson [Entry posted at 4th November 2007 11:47 PM GMT] The envelope please: This year's iGEM winner is Peking University. The team's concept was to create division of labor among bacteria. A group of bacteria can respond to stimuli by adapting to ... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: iGEM awards, part one Posted by Alla Katsnelson [Entry posted at 4th November 2007 03:08 PM GMT] After yesterday's intensive day of presentations, some in the iGEM crowd this morning look a little worse for wear. Several are sporting a square orange and black stamp on their cheeks, the stamp of the UCSF all-high school team. It got a little ... Click to continue View comment (1) | Comment on this news story News: iGEM never sleeps Posted by Alla Katsnelson [Entry posted at 4th November 2007 06:36 AM GMT] It's like a dorm party... but not. It's getting close to 9, the techno is blasting, a leftover spread of Mediterranean food goes dry on a long table, and hundreds of undergrads stand around talking in groups. Many of them are still standing by their ... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: iGEM olive oil fix Posted by Alla Katsnelson [Entry posted at 4th November 2007 12:00 AM GMT] Some of you may have read a recent New Yorker expose adulterated olive oil -- in my family of cooks, it caused quite a panic. Well, one of the iGEM teams ... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: iGEM bactoblood Posted by Alla Katsnelson [Entry posted at 3rd November 2007 11:58 PM GMT] A guy named Austin was wandering the halls of MIT's Stata Center this afternoon with a plasma bag. Its contents are a little darker and a little grayer than you'd expect blood to be - maybe the color of well-peppered Bloody Mary mix. It's also a ... Click to continue View comment (1) | Comment on this news story News: What makes an iGEM winner? Posted by Alla Katsnelson [Entry posted at 3rd November 2007 07:04 PM GMT] Covering iGEM is hard: choosing presentations based on what sounds cool won?t get you very far, because almost everything sounds cool. Who would say no to a microbial mass production system for blood (Berkeley) or RNAi components strung together to ... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: iGEM, booze sensors and epidemic models Posted by Alla Katsnelson [Entry posted at 3rd November 2007 03:45 PM GMT] For most of the day today, the iGEM teams are breaking up into groups in which students present their projects. The range of projects is pretty dizzying. They are loosely divided into five tracks - energy, information processing, basic foundational ... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: Open source synthetic biology Posted by Alla Katsnelson [Entry posted at 3rd November 2007 07:41 AM GMT] I arrived in Cambridge tonight and headed out to a pub near MIT to find the iGEM crew, who were supposed to meet up for an informal get-together before the Jamboree, iGEM's international ... Click to continue View comment (1) | Comment on this news story News: The PhD pause - longer than ever? Posted by Alison McCook [Entry posted at 2nd November 2007 05:51 PM GMT] Last night (Nov 1), Princeton president Shirley Tilghman elicited an audible response from an audience at the Chemical Heritage Foundation when she announced that the average age at which ... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: Huntingdon lab spared in court Posted by Alison McCook [Entry posted at 2nd November 2007 03:30 PM GMT] A New Jersey court has ruled that an animal rights group cannot file a civil lawsuit against Huntingdon Life Sciences, a contract research organization in the U.S. and U.K. that has ... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: Synthetic biology square-off Posted by Alla Katsnelson [Entry posted at 2nd November 2007 03:58 AM GMT] This weekend, 59 teams of undergraduates will be descending on Cambridge, Mass., for the 4th annual International Genetically Engineered Machines competition, aka the iGEM Jamoboree. I'm heading up ... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: Linguistic chimp dies Posted by Bob Grant [Entry posted at 1st November 2007 04:43 PM GMT] Washoe, a primate pioneer in the study of non-human language acquisition, died Tuesday night (October 30th) of natural causes at her home on the campus of Central Washington University. She was 42 years old. The chimp was one of the first to learn ... Click to continue Comment on this news story

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