News: On science: McCain v. the GOP Posted by Andrea Gawrylewski [Entry posted at 28th August 2008 07:21 PM GMT] When it comes to matters of science, Republican US presidential hopeful John McCain is with his party on some issues, not quite on others. This week the Republican Party released ... Click to continue View comments (8) | Comment on this news story News: Making sense of floral scents Posted by Bob Grant [Entry posted at 28th August 2008 07:08 PM GMT] The nectar of plants may be more than just nourishment for the birds and bees that feed off of them - instead, suggests a study ... Click to continue View comment (1) | Comment on this news story News: Head of Austrian med school canned Posted by Bob Grant [Entry posted at 27th August 2008 09:16 PM GMT] The rector of a prominent Austrian medical university has been fired in the midst of a scientific misconduct investigation that has plagued the institution for months. The Medical University ... Click to continue View comments (3) | Comment on this news story News: Stem cell alchemy Posted by Andrea Gawrylewski [Entry posted at 27th August 2008 06:00 PM GMT] For the first time, researchers have converted fully-differentiated cells in vivo into another type of cell without first reprogramming them to a pluripotent state. The conversion of pancreatic exocrine cells into fully functioning ... Click to continue View comments (5) | Comment on this news story News: Viruses rule the deep sea Posted by Alla Katsnelson [Entry posted at 27th August 2008 06:00 PM GMT] Viruses in the deepest ocean environments are unexpectedly strong regulators of the deep sea biosphere, according to a paper published tomorrow (August 28) in Nature. By infecting and killing ... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: Thomas Weller dies Posted by Megan Scudellari [Entry posted at 27th August 2008 03:28 PM GMT] Thomas Weller, who shared the 1954 Nobel Prize in Medicine for propagating polio virus in culture, passed away on Saturday, August 23rd. He was 93. "Thomas Weller was one of the greatest scientists of the 20th century," said Dyann Wirth in ... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: Dems promise support for science Posted by Bob Grant [Entry posted at 26th August 2008 04:56 PM GMT] Upon last night's opening of the giant pep rally known as the Democratic National Convention, Democrats formally approved their platform, pledging to ... Click to continue View comments (2) | Comment on this news story News: Biden VP pick good for research Posted by Bob Grant [Entry posted at 26th August 2008 04:52 PM GMT] Barack Obama added Senator Joe Biden (D-DE) to the Democratic electoral ticket over the weekend, and Obama's choice of vice ... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: Bill for CA animal researchers Posted by Bob Grant [Entry posted at 25th August 2008 10:02 PM GMT] Legislation seeking to criminalize some of the key methods used by animal rights protesters to target researchers was passed by the ... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: A wild cat chase Posted by Andrea Gawrylewski [Entry posted at 25th August 2008 06:26 PM GMT] Over the past several weeks editors at The Scientist have received announcements from Allerca, the controversial company selling purportedly hypoallergenic cats, stating that some of their felines will be doubling in price this fall. According to a ... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: The scent of fear Posted by Megan Scudellari [Entry posted at 21st August 2008 07:15 PM GMT] The nose may know more than we think: New research suggests a poorly-understood structure in the tip of the nose may regulate a vital mammalian alarm system. According to a paper published in ... Click to continue View comments (2) | Comment on this news story News: Breaking the mucus barrier Posted by Megan Scudellari [Entry posted at 21st August 2008 03:47 PM GMT] Step aside sound barrier: Chemical engineers at Johns Hopkins University have broken the mucus barrier, a long-standing adversary to drug delivery in diseases such as cystic fibrosis, lung cancer, and cervical cancer. "We get asked all the time, ... Click to continue View comment (1) | Comment on this news story News: London gets new neuro institute Posted by Andrea Gawrylewski [Entry posted at 21st August 2008 02:49 PM GMT] The University College of London will be the likely host to a new $261 million neuroscience institute, according to a statement sent to The Scientist from the Wellcome Trust, a co-developer of the new center. Beating out Oxford and Cambridge ... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: eBay score: a new insect species Posted by Bob Grant [Entry posted at 20th August 2008 09:33 PM GMT] Sure, you can score vintage cars, one-of-a-kind guitar straps, even the odd mass spectrometer on eBay. But now it seems that a ... Click to continue View comments (2) | Comment on this news story News: Blood line = life line? Posted by Andrea Gawrylewski [Entry posted at 20th August 2008 09:06 PM GMT] Will findings by Worcester, MA-based Advanced Cell Technologies (ACT) on large-scale blood production from stem cells help the company pull in some much-needed capital? By now you've likely seen reports on a ... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: Muscle-like fat? Posted by Edyta Zielinska [Entry posted at 20th August 2008 06:00 PM GMT] All fat is not not created equal: In the past couple years researchers have come to realize that there's good fat and bad fat, and a study in this week's Nature points to a biological reason for this difference. White fat, the main type of fat ... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: Pharma's presidential picks Posted by Megan Scudellari [Entry posted at 19th August 2008 04:12 PM GMT] In an industry known for backing Republicans, Sen. Barack Obama has emerged as a surprising pharma favorite in the US presidential election. In April, Obama won a mock election at the annual DTC national meeting, a drug advertising conference, ... Click to continue View comments (4) | Comment on this news story News: Bigfoot press conference yields little evidence, lots of scorn Posted by Alison McCook [Entry posted at 15th August 2008 11:55 PM GMT] The following is a post by Eric Vance, a freelancer for Scientific American, who sent us this story. PALO ALTO, CALIFORNIA -- It was perhaps the most highly touted ... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: Psychiatry researcher steps down Posted by Bob Grant [Entry posted at 15th August 2008 08:13 PM GMT] Embattled Stanford psychiatrist and president-elect of the American Psychiatric Association, Alan Schatzberg, has resigned leadership of an NIH-funded research project ... Click to continue View comments (4) | Comment on this news story News: Did Elsevier break its own rules? Posted by Andrea Gawrylewski [Entry posted at 15th August 2008 07:15 PM GMT] A science publisher that holds copyright supreme has a double standard, a science blogger is arguing. This week, science blogger Mike Dunford of ... Click to continue View comments (5) | Comment on this news story News: Calif. bill to protect researchers Posted by Bob Grant [Entry posted at 15th August 2008 04:21 PM GMT] A bill that would criminalize some of the key methods used by animal rights protestors to target researchers cleared a California senate committee yesterday (Aug 14). Bill ... Click to continue View comments (3) | Comment on this news story News: Stem cell study trouble Posted by Bob Grant [Entry posted at 14th August 2008 09:46 PM GMT] Ethical lapses and procedural breakdowns plagued an Austrian clinical trial of a stem cell therapy that used patients' own cells to ... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: Arsenic and old...photosynthesis? Posted by Megan Scudellari [Entry posted at 14th August 2008 07:00 PM GMT] A previously unknown form of photosynthesis discovered in purple bacteria scooped from a Californian hot spring may be an ancient process that arose before the evolution of oxygenic photosynthesis, according to a paper published on Friday (August ... Click to continue View comments (6) | Comment on this news story News: A robot with a real brain Posted by Andrea Gawrylewski [Entry posted at 14th August 2008 03:22 PM GMT] Researchers have introduced the world to Gordon, the first robot that operates on real brain tissue, according to a news release from University of Reading in the UK yesterday ... Click to continue View comments (7) | Comment on this news story News: Genentech: No thanks, Roche Posted by Andrea Gawrylewski [Entry posted at 13th August 2008 08:08 PM GMT] Roche won't be acquiring Genentech in the near future. Roche's bid to purchase the remaining public shares of the biotech company undermines the value of the company, Genentech's board of directors ... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: Latent HIV purged Posted by Edyta Zielinska [Entry posted at 13th August 2008 05:00 PM GMT] New insights into how HIV becomes latent in host cells could lead the way to improved retroviral therapy, according to a report in the August issue of ... Click to continue View comment (1) | Comment on this news story News: In UK, new partnership, not money Posted by Andrea Gawrylewski [Entry posted at 12th August 2008 05:32 PM GMT] Five British hospitals and medical research centers are joining forces to link basic research and healthcare more closely, the University College London (UCL) announced last week. The Guardian ... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: Does fraud mean career death? Posted by Alla Katsnelson [Entry posted at 7th August 2008 08:51 PM GMT] If you're found guilty of plagiarism or scientific fraud, is your academic career as a researcher over? Not according to a study published in Science tomorrow (August 8), which contradicts ... Click to continue View comments (4) | Comment on this news story News: Silencing HIV Posted by Megan Scudellari [Entry posted at 7th August 2008 05:11 PM GMT] With the help of a new mouse model for HIV infection, scientists have shown that gene silencing with RNA interference (RNAi) may be effective in preventing viral entry and replication in T-cells, according to a study published online today (August ... Click to continue View comments (4) | Comment on this news story News: A disease cell line library Posted by Andrea Gawrylewski [Entry posted at 7th August 2008 05:00 PM GMT] Researchers have created 20 disease-specific pluripotent cell lines by reprogramming skin and bone marrow cells from patients with genetic disorders, they report in a paper to be published tomorrow in Cell. "These cells will be an incredible ... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: A virus's virus Posted by Andrea Gawrylewski [Entry posted at 6th August 2008 06:00 PM GMT] Researchers have discovered the first virus to infect another virus, according to a study appearing tomorrow in Nature. The new virus was found living inside a new strain of the viral giant, mimivirus. "This is one parasite living on another ... Click to continue View comments (10) | Comment on this news story News: FDA rolls out new conflict rules Posted by Bob Grant [Entry posted at 5th August 2008 10:27 PM GMT] The Food and Drug Administration unveiled new, tougher conflict of interest rules yesterday (Aug 4). Key among the regulations was ... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: Grad student falsified data Posted by Megan Scudellari [Entry posted at 5th August 2008 04:13 PM GMT] A graduate student at Carnegie Mellon University studying the psychology of decision-making falsified data in four studies funded by National Institutes of Health and National Institute of Mental Health grants, according to a notice published by the ... Click to continue View comments (11) | Comment on this news story News: Genome patents need purpose Posted by Andrea Gawrylewski [Entry posted at 5th August 2008 02:45 PM GMT] The British High Court's rejection last week of a biotech company's patent on the genetic sequence coding for a therapeutically important protein may be a warning for other biotechs who hold ... Click to continue View comments (3) | Comment on this news story News: Calif. animal scientists attacked Posted by Bob Grant [Entry posted at 4th August 2008 03:44 PM GMT] A house and car belonging to two University of California, Santa Cruz researchers were firebombed in the wee hours of Saturday (Aug 2) morning. The attacks occurred after ... Click to continue View comment (1) | Comment on this news story News: Genome patent overturned Posted by Andrea Gawrylewski [Entry posted at 1st August 2008 08:33 PM GMT] Yesterday the British High Court overturned a UK genome patent owned by biotech Human Genome Sciences. The patent covered the inflammation-linked protein neutrokine-alpha which is part of the tumor necrosis factor family of cytokines. The court ... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: More Calif. animal research trouble Posted by Bob Grant [Entry posted at 1st August 2008 05:51 PM GMT] Biomedical researchers at the University of California, Santa Cruz have again been targeted by animal rights activists opposed to their use of experimental laboratory animals. According to the ... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: Anthrax suspect commits suicide Posted by Alla Katsnelson [Entry posted at 1st August 2008 04:54 PM GMT] A biodefense researcher committed suicide this week, just as the US government was about to indict him for the 2001 anthrax attacks that killed five people and caused a national panic. The microbiologist, Bruce E. Ivins, whose death was first ... Click to continue View comments (8) | Comment on this news story

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