News: Psychiatrist kills ads to pay ransom Posted by Ivan Oransky [Entry posted at 20th December 2007 10:52 PM GMT] A leading child psychiatrist got thousands of emails this week criticizing a provocative advertising campaign by his center to raise awareness of mental illness in children. The New York Times ... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: How are you doing, Bruce Alberts? Posted by Alison McCook [Entry posted at 20th December 2007 09:07 PM GMT] For Bruce Alberts, the week Science announced he would be the journal's new chief editor was, decidedly, "hectic." Already, "I've got a lot of people sending me advice on ... Click to continue View comment (1) | Comment on this news story News: Unwinding DNA replication Posted by Kerry Grens [Entry posted at 20th December 2007 07:08 PM GMT] Scientists have sorted out another piece of the DNA replication puzzle by showing what might happen to histones through the process of unwinding DNA. The findings, published in today's (December 20) Science, ... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: Cha vs. Flamm court drama continues Posted by Bob Grant [Entry posted at 20th December 2007 06:21 PM GMT] A fertility researcher who published a study suggesting that prayer improves in vitro fertilization success rates has renewed his legal battle against an obstetrician/gynecologist who has criticized his work. Kwang-Yul Cha, a fertility researcher ... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: How we review peer review Posted by Alison McCook [Entry posted at 20th December 2007 04:00 PM GMT] In case you have never attended an open house workshop at the NIH's Center for Scientific Review, in which people who participate in NIH peer review gather to discuss how the process is going and could improve, here's how it typically ... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: Congress passes NIH budget Posted by Kerry Grens [Entry posted at 19th December 2007 11:03 PM GMT] Both chambers of Congress this afternoon (December 19) agreed to a suite of government spending bills that included roughly $29 billion for the National Institutes of Health, according to Nancy Granese from the Campaign for Medical Research. This ... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: NIH grants for human microbe work Posted by Bob Grant [Entry posted at 19th December 2007 07:46 PM GMT] The National Institutes of Health launched a project today (Dec. 19) aimed at sequencing the myriad ... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: Altered role for stem cell regulator Posted by Andrea Gawrylewski [Entry posted at 19th December 2007 05:12 PM GMT] The protein Nanog, long considered essential to maintaining pluripotency and promoting differentiation in embryonic stem cells, may play a lesser role in those processes, according to a ... Click to continue View comment (1) | Comment on this news story News: FDA approves race-tested drug Posted by Kerry Grens [Entry posted at 18th December 2007 05:18 PM GMT] The US Food and Drug Administration yesterday (December 17) approved a beta blocker that I wrote about last month in an ... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: Open access lives in NIH bill Posted by Bob Grant [Entry posted at 18th December 2007 04:42 PM GMT] A provision mandating public access to research published by NIH-funded scientists has survived in the funding bill making its way through Congress this week. The provision was originally ... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: Hwang back to research? Posted by Andrea Gawrylewski [Entry posted at 18th December 2007 03:11 PM GMT] Hwang Woo-Suk, the disgraced South Korean stem cell scientist, is part of a research team in South Korea requesting permission to work on human embryonic stem cells, the Associated Press ... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: Alberts move to Science hailed Posted by Alison McCook [Entry posted at 18th December 2007 04:13 AM GMT] Bruce Alberts' colleagues are -- not surprisingly -- celebrating his decision to be the 18th editor-in-chief of Science, which the journal announced Monday (December 17). "I don't think [the journal] could have picked a better ... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: Small raise for NIH, CDC budgets Posted by Kerry Grens [Entry posted at 17th December 2007 08:17 PM GMT] The latest proposal for the 2008 budget for the National Institutes of Health and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention gives the agencies a slight bump over last year's levels. Over the weekend, Congress prepared a new version of ... Click to continue View comments (2) | Comment on this news story News: Bruce Alberts new Science chief Posted by Alison McCook [Entry posted at 17th December 2007 03:13 PM GMT] I just received a call from Science - the new editor in chief is Bruce Alberts. The journal made him the offer, and he accepted over the weekend. Alberts will assume his duties March 1. Current editor-in-chief Don Kennedy will remain in the ... Click to continue View comments (2) | Comment on this news story News: Kessler out as UCSF dean Posted by Ivan Oransky [Entry posted at 17th December 2007 03:39 AM GMT] The University of California, San Francisco fired dean David Kessler on Thursday, after he refused a request to resign earlier in the year. In announcements about the firing on Friday, ... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: NIH scientist terrorized? Posted by Bob Grant [Entry posted at 14th December 2007 10:27 PM GMT] Last week the Animal Liberation Front targeted an obstetrician/gynecologist who is funded by the National Institutes of Health and uses non-human primates in his research. The Associated Press ... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: Fox Chase gets expansion OK Posted by Kerry Grens [Entry posted at 14th December 2007 09:14 PM GMT] Following a lengthy dispute with community residents, Fox Chase Cancer Center in Philadelphia got approval from the city council last night (December 13) on its master plan for an $800 million ... Click to continue View comment (1) | Comment on this news story News: Cat trouble brewing Posted by Kerry Grens [Entry posted at 14th December 2007 08:53 PM GMT] Allerca - the company that claims to breed and sell hypoallergenic cats - may have just exhausted at least one more of its nine lives. I learned this week that the company has skipped out on filing three years' worth of state taxes, and recently ... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: Another bump for Boston biolab Posted by Alla Katsnelson [Entry posted at 14th December 2007 04:51 PM GMT] Plans for a Biosafety Level 4 containment lab at Boston University hit another bump in the road yesterday (December 13), when the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court ruled unanimously that ... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: Singapore loses star stem cell scientist Posted by Andrea Gawrylewski [Entry posted at 14th December 2007 04:01 PM GMT] Despite billions of dollars invested by the Singapore government to turn the country into a global biomedical research hub, another prominent researcher is leaving, The Chronicle of Higher Education ... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: Hope for paused AIDS vaccine Posted by Kerry Grens [Entry posted at 13th December 2007 09:32 PM GMT] Following the recent failure of a Merck HIV vaccine, the NIH has still not decided whether to continue with planned clinical trials of ... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: Canadian reactor to reopen Posted by Bob Grant [Entry posted at 13th December 2007 08:52 PM GMT] A shuttered Canadian nuclear reactor that normally produces radioisotopes crucial to a variety of medical diagnoses will reopen soon. Emergency legislation ... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: Glow-in-the-dark cats Posted by Kerry Grens [Entry posted at 13th December 2007 06:22 PM GMT] What a year for felines - first a company claims to have bred them to be hypoallergenic and now South Korean scientists have made them glow in the dark. According to news ... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: Calif. stem cell grants, conflicts Posted by Bob Grant [Entry posted at 13th December 2007 03:36 PM GMT] The California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM) announced 22 New Faculty Awards yesterday (Dec 12) while releasing the names of five institutions from which applications were rejected for apparent conflicts of interest. The grants, ... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: Stem cells for Duchenne? Posted by Alla Katsnelson [Entry posted at 12th December 2007 06:35 PM GMT] Adult stem cells taken from humans suffering from Duchenne muscular dystrophy can be genetically modified and used to treat the disease in a mouse model, researchers report today in Cell Stem Cell. Duchenne ... Click to continue View comment (1) | Comment on this news story News: Poetic justice for Watson? Posted by Alison McCook [Entry posted at 11th December 2007 10:10 PM GMT] There's an interesting "P.S." to the story of James Watson's early retirement after public outcry when he told a UK newspaper that he believed people of African ancestry were less intelligent - he has 16 times more genes of African ... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: ImClone settles drug patent dispute Posted by Alla Katsnelson [Entry posted at 11th December 2007 09:59 PM GMT] The makers of the antibody-based cancer drug Erbitux have settled a patent dispute with Israeli researchers who claimed to have invented the process for making the drug. Last year, Yeda Research and Development, the tech transfer office of the ... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: Isotope shortage slowing research? Posted by Bob Grant [Entry posted at 11th December 2007 09:50 PM GMT] The shutdown of a Canadian nuclear reactor that produces radioisotopes is causing delays in medical diagnoses and treatments, but nuclear medicine researchers seem unaffected so far. In mid-November, Atomic Energy of Canada Limited (AECL) ... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: Calif. to investigate state stem cell agency Posted by Bob Grant [Entry posted at 11th December 2007 03:54 PM GMT] A California state political oversight commission has agreed to investigate a conflict of interest complaint filed against a board member at the state's stem cell agency. California's Fair Political Practices Commission said yesterday (Dec 10) that ... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: Lasker names new president Posted by Edyta Zielinska [Entry posted at 10th December 2007 04:43 PM GMT] The Lasker Foundation announced today that Maria Freire will replace president Neen Hunt on March 1 of next year. Freire was most recently CEO of the non-profit Global Alliance for TB Drug ... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: Doc fired for industry ties sues hospital Posted by Alla Katsnelson [Entry posted at 8th December 2007 12:10 AM GMT] A former Cleveland Clinic physician is suing the hospital for firing him over conflicts of interest, the Wall Street Journal reports. Jay Yadav, who was fired last year from his ... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: CIRM cuts ten grants Posted by Bob Grant [Entry posted at 7th December 2007 09:27 PM GMT] The California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM) announced today that it is eliminating ten grant applications from consideration to avoid breaking its conflict of interest rules ... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: Open access for Nature genome papers Posted by Andrea Gawrylewski [Entry posted at 7th December 2007 05:14 PM GMT] Nature Publishing Group has adopted a new formal policy that will allow researchers to freely access, distribute, and reuse all papers which provide organisms' genomic sequences, according to a Nature ... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: Canned creationist sues Woods Hole Posted by Kerry Grens [Entry posted at 7th December 2007 04:29 PM GMT] Doing research in an evolutionary biology lab and not believing in evolution might spell trouble for your career - at least it did for Nathaniel Abraham. The former postdoc at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution is suing the institution because ... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: New push for more NIH funds Posted by Kerry Grens [Entry posted at 6th December 2007 10:08 PM GMT] Following President Bush's veto of a spending bill that included $30 billion for the National Institutes of Health, Congress continues ... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: And what about wet underwear? Posted by Alison McCook [Entry posted at 6th December 2007 09:50 PM GMT] I absolutely cannot resist blogging about this - the web site "Oddee," which describes itself as a "blog on the oddities of our world," has listed the 10 most bizarre scientific ... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: Conflicts at Calif. stem cell agency Posted by Bob Grant [Entry posted at 6th December 2007 09:20 PM GMT] Advocacy groups are calling for resignations from the board chairman of the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM) and another CIRM board member in the wake of a violation of the institute's own conflict of interest rules. Meanwhile, ... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: NSF looks at university cost-sharing Posted by Kerry Grens [Entry posted at 6th December 2007 08:32 PM GMT] When it comes to the quality of research, does it matter who foots the research bill? A government task force will gather on Friday (December 7) to study whether a ... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: Pluripotent cells treat anemia? Posted by Alla Katsnelson [Entry posted at 6th December 2007 07:18 PM GMT] Skin cells reprogrammed for pluripotency can be used to treat anemia in a mouse model of the disease, reports a study published online in Science today (December 6). The researchers, led by ... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: MIT tenures one woman this year Posted by Edyta Zielinska [Entry posted at 6th December 2007 06:21 PM GMT] MIT will grant tenure to just one woman this year, a professor in economics, compared to 24 men, reports the Boston Globe today (Dec 6). Last year, five women were granted tenure compared with 19 men. The school's president, Susan Hockfield, ... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: WHO media sanctions have little effect Posted by Ivan Oransky [Entry posted at 6th December 2007 02:00 PM GMT] Apparently, the punishment the World Health Organization (WHO) meted out to the New York Times for breaking an embargo last week didn't deter other media outlets from doing the same yesterday ... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: Seymour Benzer dies Posted by Alla Katsnelson [Entry posted at 5th December 2007 09:44 PM GMT] The Scientist intern Jonathan Scheff reports: Seymour Benzer, whose research into the structure and function of genes as well as the connection between genes and behavior laid the foundation of modern genetics, died on Friday, November 30, at ... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: New home for UK medical research Posted by Andrea Gawrylewski [Entry posted at 5th December 2007 05:42 PM GMT] The British government has finalized a contentious plan to build a new medical research center in the heart of London, according to a statement posted by the Medical Research Council ... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: George Church Enters X-Prize Fray Posted by Alla Katsnelson [Entry posted at 5th December 2007 01:15 AM GMT] Jeff Perkel, a past editor at The Scientist, reports: It would seem that, when it comes to the Archon X Prize for Genomics, George Church has had a change of heart. The $10 million prize will go to the first group that can sequence 100 genomes (to ... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: NIH head fields grant questions Posted by Bob Grant [Entry posted at 5th December 2007 12:45 AM GMT] NIH is nearing the end of a review of the peer review facet of their granting process, and this Friday (Dec. 7) NIH director Elias Zerhouni will ... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: NSF: No cures, please Posted by Alison McCook [Entry posted at 4th December 2007 10:54 PM GMT] "I guess it must be two o'clock." NSF's Eve Barak was standing at a podium looking out at a large room that was only about one-fifth full. It was day 3 (December 3) of the American Society for Cell Biology's annual meeting, and ... Click to continue View comments (2) | Comment on this news story News: CSPI: FDA can manage conflicts better Posted by Bob Grant [Entry posted at 3rd December 2007 09:00 PM GMT] Conflicts of interest among US Food and Drug Administration advisory committees are more easily solved than the agency is letting on, suggests a Washington-based think tank. A ... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: How to be an advocate Posted by Alison McCook [Entry posted at 3rd December 2007 08:53 PM GMT] This morning, a group of panelists issued a call to action to a standing-room-only crowd at the American Society for Cell Biology's 47th Annual Meeting: Scientists must get involved in policy issues, and they have to start now. The session - ... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: FDA's scientific base eroded, report says Posted by Kerry Grens [Entry posted at 3rd December 2007 06:52 PM GMT] The US Food and Drug Administration suffers from "serious scientific deficiencies," potentially compromising the agency's ability to protect the health and safety of consumers, a ... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: ID a factor in tenure denial? Posted by Edyta Zielinska [Entry posted at 3rd December 2007 05:56 PM GMT] Iowa State University has denied tenure to Guillermo Gonzalez, an astronomer who has publicly supported intelligent design. One of his colleagues told the Des Moines Register that he thought the decision was based partly on Gonzalez's statements ... Click to continue View comments (2) | Comment on this news story News: NIH: Gene therapy didn't cause death Posted by Bob Grant [Entry posted at 3rd December 2007 04:58 PM GMT] An experimental gene therapy treatment did not cause a patient's death earlier this year, according to a federal advisory committee. The National Institutes of Health's Recombinant DNA ... Click to continue View comments (2) | Comment on this news story News: Woes for Mass. biotech council Posted by Alison McCook [Entry posted at 3rd December 2007 04:20 PM GMT] The $1 billion life sciences initiative posed by Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick is dealing with some scrutiny lately. The new president of the Massachusetts Biotechnology Council faces a ... Click to continue Comment on this news story

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