News: When a supplier switches Posted by Andrea Gawrylewski [Entry posted at 31st March 2008 01:39 PM GMT] At the end of last year, The Scientist editors spotted a warning notice on the Quanta Biosciences Web site that their supply relationship with Bio-Rad had been terminated. In particular, certain PCR ... Click to continue View comments (6) | Comment on this news story News: CIRM to pay for eggs? Posted by Elie Dolgin [Entry posted at 27th March 2008 06:16 PM GMT] Recent comments by California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM) President Alan Trounson imply that the agency may be looking for ways to pay women for their eggs for stem cell research. Currently, laws in California and Massachusetts ... Click to continue View comments (3) | Comment on this news story News: Congressional pork fatter than ever Posted by Bob Grant [Entry posted at 26th March 2008 10:24 PM GMT] In FY2008, more Congressional pork-barrel project money flowed into US academic institutions that ever before, according to an analysis published in this week's issue of The Chronicle of ... Click to continue View comment (1) | Comment on this news story News: Tobacco sponsors tomato work, too Posted by Andrea Gawrylewski [Entry posted at 26th March 2008 10:05 PM GMT] The New York Times reported today (March 26) that a major tobacco company -- the Liggett Group -- sponsored a ... Click to continue View comment (1) | Comment on this news story News: Rumblings over Science retractions Posted by Andrea Gawrylewski [Entry posted at 26th March 2008 09:55 PM GMT] The conversation is not over regarding two recent retractions of papers on enzyme engineering. Two letters published this month in Science say that the explanation of retraction issued by ... Click to continue View comments (10) | Comment on this news story News: Retinal cells see up Posted by Edyta Zielinska [Entry posted at 26th March 2008 07:06 PM GMT] A new type of retinal cell with tree-like dendrites detects upward motion, researchers report in today's issue of Nature. The method used in the current study to ... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: HIV vaccines: Back to basics? Posted by Bob Grant [Entry posted at 25th March 2008 10:25 PM GMT] With the recent failure of HIV vaccine clinical trials, the HIV/AIDS research community has resolved to concentrate more on the basic science behind the disease, shifting the main focus from ... Click to continue View comments (5) | Comment on this news story News: Conscientious embryo vote ok: UK Posted by Elie Dolgin [Entry posted at 25th March 2008 07:39 PM GMT] Labour party politicians can vote with their conscience on three "ethical" parts of the proposed legislation on embryo research, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown announced today (March ... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: Fungi-farming ants: a new phylogeny Posted by Bob Grant [Entry posted at 24th March 2008 10:05 PM GMT] Species of ants that practice a complex form of fungi agriculture developed their knack for farming about 50 million years ago and have employed several different, successful strategies to culture their crops in the intervening millennia, according ... Click to continue View comments (7) | Comment on this news story News: Synaptic activity protects neurons Posted by Bob Grant [Entry posted at 23rd March 2008 11:20 PM GMT] Chatter between neurons can help protect them from the ravages of free radical damage, according to a report published today (Mar 23) in Nature. Free radical, or ... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: Fired prof's racism claim rejected Posted by Bob Grant [Entry posted at 21st March 2008 07:30 PM GMT] A federal agency has told an African-American MIT stem cell researcher, who last year went on a 12-day hunger strike in to protest his tenure denial, that his claim of racial discrimination ... Click to continue View comments (2) | Comment on this news story News: Publishers ask NIH to delay open access Posted by Andrea Gawrylewski [Entry posted at 21st March 2008 04:30 PM GMT] At the National Institutes of Health open meeting on the new public access mandate yesterday (March 20), publishers continued to criticize the plan and called for the agency to delay ... Click to continue View comment (1) | Comment on this news story News: Changes to federal biotech grants? Posted by Bob Grant [Entry posted at 20th March 2008 10:54 PM GMT] The House Committee on Small Business is calling on legislators to overhaul the federal Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program, which awarded ... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: Flies weigh egg-laying options Posted by Alla Katsnelson [Entry posted at 20th March 2008 07:15 PM GMT] Researchers have identified a small group of neurons in Drosophila that are key to determining how female flies choose where to lay their eggs, a study in Science reports. The neurons are part of a neural circuit that could serve as a model to probe ... Click to continue View comments (2) | Comment on this news story News: India to protect university patents Posted by Alla Katsnelson [Entry posted at 20th March 2008 04:53 PM GMT] The Indian government is moving towards approving a law that will create a framework for universities to patent their discoveries. Currently, ownership of innovations made through government-funded institutions belong to the Indian government, ... Click to continue View comment (1) | Comment on this news story News: NJ med. school reaccredited Posted by Bob Grant [Entry posted at 19th March 2008 09:38 PM GMT] The embattled University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey (UMDNJ) got a rare bit of good news today, when it was taken off probation and its accreditation was restored, according to ... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: Will NIH cap number of grants? Posted by Edyta Zielinska [Entry posted at 19th March 2008 07:34 PM GMT] Last December, we asked our readers to tell us what they thought of the proposed changes to the peer review system. A number of readers commented that they would like to see a limit on the ... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: Publishing bias out of the bottle Posted by Elie Dolgin [Entry posted at 18th March 2008 08:06 PM GMT] Tomáš Grim, an ornithologist at Palacky University in the notoriously beer besotted Czech Republic, came down with a bad case of mononucleosis in 1999. His illness prohibited him ... Click to continue View comments (6) | Comment on this news story News: First Lady visits Haiti Posted by Bob Grant [Entry posted at 18th March 2008 07:58 PM GMT] Laura Bush was in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, last week, and she visited the GHESKIO HIV/AIDS clinic, which I visited this past January for an ... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: Egg yolk gene loss was mammals' gain Posted by Elie Dolgin [Entry posted at 18th March 2008 01:57 PM GMT] Mammals lost their egg yolk genes after acquiring genes for milk proteins, according to a study published yesterday in PLoS Biology. The results ... Click to continue View comments (3) | Comment on this news story News: Peer review dig denied by court Posted by Elie Dolgin [Entry posted at 17th March 2008 06:08 PM GMT] A federal judge in Chicago last Friday denied Pfizer's efforts to obtain confidential peer review documents related to two of its drugs from the New England Journal of Medicine, stating ... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: EPA cutbacks hurt science: Congress Posted by Bob Grant [Entry posted at 14th March 2008 08:42 PM GMT] The Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) closure of several of its research libraries is flawed, unjustified and is depriving academics, government employees, and the public of crucial ... Click to continue View comments (2) | Comment on this news story News: Senate approves NIH increases Posted by Edyta Zielinska [Entry posted at 14th March 2008 04:26 PM GMT] The US Senate voted two amendments into the current version of the 2009 budget blueprint yesterday that increase NIH funding by $2.1 billion. This increase in addition to the $950 million the House voted into the resolution last week, bringing the ... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: Sex, bugs, and videotape Posted by Elie Dolgin [Entry posted at 13th March 2008 09:12 PM GMT] Though bacteria usually reproduce asexually, they do occasionally yield to baser desires and have sex; or at least they ... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: You say tomato, I say retrotransposon Posted by Elie Dolgin [Entry posted at 13th March 2008 08:56 PM GMT] The oblong shape of some tomatoes arose from a gene duplication caused by a selfish genetic element, according to a study published today in Science. Before tomatoes were ... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: Teen's cancer study wins Intel prize Posted by Bob Grant [Entry posted at 13th March 2008 04:22 PM GMT] A 17-year-old high school student from North Carolina has won the 2008 Intel Science Talent Search for developing a genetic method that predicts the likelihood of relapse in early-stage colon ... Click to continue View comments (2) | Comment on this news story News: Biosafety lab sued by watchdog Posted by Alla Katsnelson [Entry posted at 12th March 2008 11:49 PM GMT] A nuclear watchdog group filed a federal lawsuit on Monday (March 10) to suspend work at a Biosafety Level 3 lab at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, which opened to little fanfare earlier this year and conducts research on pathogens such ... Click to continue View comments (4) | Comment on this news story News: Master protein for tumor growth Posted by Andrea Gawrylewski [Entry posted at 12th March 2008 07:02 PM GMT] Researchers have identified a master protein that regulates some 1,000 genes controlling for tumor growth and metastasis in breast cancer, according to a paper published ... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: New UK animal disease lab? Posted by Elie Dolgin [Entry posted at 12th March 2008 05:07 PM GMT] The "shabby and dilapidated" animal disease research laboratory in Pilbright, UK — the site of last summer's foot-and-mouth disease leak — must be replaced by a new, expanded ... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: We can eradicate malaria: report Posted by Bob Grant [Entry posted at 12th March 2008 02:24 PM GMT] Wiping out malaria in much of sub-Saharan Africa is an attainable goal that can be reached with targeted and consistent intervention, ... Click to continue View comments (3) | Comment on this news story News: Have your say about open access Posted by Andrea Gawrylewski [Entry posted at 11th March 2008 09:29 PM GMT] The National Institutes of Health is seeking public comment on its new public access mandate, according to an announcement the NIH posted Friday on their Web site. To submit your comment to the NIH ... Click to continue View comment (1) | Comment on this news story News: Elsevier expands biopharma base Posted by Bob Grant [Entry posted at 11th March 2008 05:41 PM GMT] Science and health publishing giant Elsevier has acquired Windhover Information Inc., a leading biotech and pharma business intelligence provider. Windhover publishes several journals, such as In ... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: Stem cell patents upheld Posted by Andrea Gawrylewski [Entry posted at 11th March 2008 05:20 PM GMT] The US Patent and Trademark Office has upheld the two remaining stem cell patents out of a contested trio held by the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (WARF), according to the final ruling posted last week by the USPTO. The third patent was ... Click to continue View comments (2) | Comment on this news story News: 'Lab-made' gamete ban to be lifted in UK? Posted by Elie Dolgin [Entry posted at 10th March 2008 07:33 PM GMT] The British government said yesterday it is considering lifting a ban that prevents babies from being conceived using sperm and eggs derived from stem cells. Currently, gametes derived from stem cells are used for medical research, but British law ... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: A dozen NIH labs to close? Posted by Andrea Gawrylewski [Entry posted at 10th March 2008 06:48 PM GMT] The National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) will likely close 12 intramural labs, Science reported last Friday. The NICHD may close the labs as part of ... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: Signaling blocker halts bone growth Posted by Edyta Zielinska [Entry posted at 10th March 2008 05:11 PM GMT] Inhibiting a key signaling pathway causes permanent damage to bones in young mice, researchers report in this week's issue of ... Click to continue View comment (1) | Comment on this news story News: HHMI unveils early career appointments Posted by Edyta Zielinska [Entry posted at 10th March 2008 01:13 PM GMT] The Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) is opening a $300 million competition today for early career scientists. As many as 70 scientists will receive six year, non-renewable appointments ... Click to continue View comments (2) | Comment on this news story News: British MPs can opt out on embryo bill Posted by Elie Dolgin [Entry posted at 7th March 2008 10:42 PM GMT] Members of the British government will be able to abstain from voting on the controversial Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill, senior Labour MP, Geoff Hoon, announced today. The bill ... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: Can publishers and NIH make OA work? Posted by Andrea Gawrylewski [Entry posted at 7th March 2008 08:19 PM GMT] The April 7 deadline is rapidly approaching for submitting all publications based on NIH-funded work to PubMed Central. But some publishers are still grumbling about how the NIH plans to implement the public access mandate, which was put in place in ... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: Doctor double dip Posted by Bob Grant [Entry posted at 7th March 2008 03:35 PM GMT] Editorial administrator Margaret Guthrie reports Who hasn't invoked the five second rule? After all, food that falls to the kitchen floor is still safe to eat, if you pick it up fast enough. Isn't it? ... Click to continue View comments (8) | Comment on this news story News: Transfer RNA transforms tree of life Posted by Elie Dolgin [Entry posted at 7th March 2008 01:05 PM GMT] A comparison of transfer RNAs has revealed the roots of the tree of life, indicating ancient origins for Archaea and viruses, according to research published yesterday in ... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: Retracted author denies wrongdoing Posted by Elie Dolgin [Entry posted at 6th March 2008 09:51 PM GMT] The co-lead author of an olfactory paper retracted yesterday from Nature by Nobel laureate Linda Buck says he stands behind the conclusions and does not admit any wrongdoing. Zhihua Zou, an ... Click to continue View comment (1) | Comment on this news story News: NIH to re-review Boston biolab Posted by Alla Katsnelson [Entry posted at 6th March 2008 06:22 PM GMT] NIH has established a new panel to review safety considerations in the biocontainment lab currently under construction in a densely populated Boston neighborhood, the agency announced today in a ... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: Nobel laureate retracts Nature paper Posted by Elie Dolgin [Entry posted at 5th March 2008 08:08 PM GMT] Nobel laureate and olfactory researcher Linda Buck has retracted a paper published in Nature in 2001, after her team failed to reproduce the results. In the ... Click to continue View comments (7) | Comment on this news story News: Brazil court to rule on stem cells Posted by Elie Dolgin [Entry posted at 5th March 2008 06:45 PM GMT] Brazil's Supreme Court will rule today (March 5) on the legal status of scientists using human embryos, following an appeal that embryonic stem cell research is "unconstitutional." In ... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: The placental origin of HSCs Posted by Edyta Zielinska [Entry posted at 5th March 2008 04:22 PM GMT] Hematopoietic stem cells (HSCs) are generated in the placenta, before the circulatory system is fully operational, researchers report is this week's issue of Cell Stem Cell. The finding offers researchers a ... Click to continue View comment (1) | Comment on this news story News: A new proposal for citation data Posted by Alla Katsnelson [Entry posted at 4th March 2008 10:50 PM GMT] Researchers have proposed a new scheme for ranking the quality or impact of scientific journals that they say is more accurate than the Impact Factor, according to a ... Click to continue View comments (3) | Comment on this news story News: Farewell to pharma freebies? Posted by Bob Grant [Entry posted at 4th March 2008 06:06 PM GMT] Massachusetts may become the first state with a complete ban on pharmaceutical company freebies to doctors. The president of the Massachusetts Senate, Therese Murray (D), yesterday (March 3) filed a ... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: Korean researcher fired for fraud Posted by Elie Dolgin [Entry posted at 3rd March 2008 09:19 PM GMT] A South Korean scientist who once said he wanted "to become another Hwang Woo-Suk for Korea" has come ironically close to his goal. Kim Tae-kook, a bioscience professor at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) in the central ... Click to continue View comments (11) | Comment on this news story News: Submit NIH peer review notes now Posted by Alison McCook [Entry posted at 3rd March 2008 02:43 PM GMT] The NIH has placed a March 17 deadline for feedback on its final suggestions on how to change peer review at the agency. You can find information about how to ... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: miRNA controls skin cell growth Posted by Andrea Gawrylewski [Entry posted at 2nd March 2008 07:40 PM GMT] A microRNA mechanism may lie at the heart of why some skin cell growth goes unchecked, according to a paper published ... Click to continue View comment (1) | Comment on this news story

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