News: Calif. law protects researchers Posted by Bob Grant [Entry posted at 30th September 2008 10:42 PM GMT] California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger signed a state bill Sunday (Sept. 28) that aims to protect academic researchers - especially ... Click to continue View comment (1) | Comment on this news story News: US science funding frozen Posted by Bob Grant [Entry posted at 30th September 2008 04:29 PM GMT] The financial crisis befalling the nation has proven that its tentacles reach even into the scientific community. On Saturday (Sept. 27), the US Senate decided to freeze federal funding of any program except those relating to veterans affairs and ... Click to continue View comments (2) | Comment on this news story News: A microbe's surprising defense Posted by Jennifer Evans [Entry posted at 29th September 2008 11:49 PM GMT] A single-celled phytoplankton has a wily way of resisting viral attack, according to a study out this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science. The organism makes itself invisible to its viral predator by shifting from the diploid ... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: HHMI picks new president Posted by Bob Grant [Entry posted at 29th September 2008 10:50 PM GMT] The Howard Hughes Medical Institute has chosen a University of California, Berkeley, biochemist and stem cell researcher to serve as its next president. Robert Tjian, an HHMI investigator ... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: Should conflicts mean no NIH grant? Posted by Bob Grant [Entry posted at 29th September 2008 05:23 PM GMT] If you've been following the news of NIH-funded researchers seemingly entangled in webs of unreported, underreported, or misreported financial ties to industry over the past year or so, you know that the buck often stops at the desk of ... Click to continue View comments (3) | Comment on this news story News: A complement for cancer? Posted by Edyta Zielinska [Entry posted at 29th September 2008 04:14 PM GMT] A protein belonging to part of the immune system that researchers once hoped to harness to attack cancer cells actually spurs tumor growth, according to a study reported in ... Click to continue View comments (3) | Comment on this news story News: Forensic fishing Posted by Alla Katsnelson [Entry posted at 26th September 2008 04:15 PM GMT] How is a kidnapper's text message similar to a jellyfish? Both are tiny points in a sea of data that scientists can use to draw conclusions about a bigger picture -- be it identifying a serial rapist or measuring ... Click to continue View comments (3) | Comment on this news story News: Safer iPS cells Posted by Andrea Gawrylewski [Entry posted at 25th September 2008 07:00 PM GMT] Until now, reprogramming fully differentiated cells into a pluripotent state has had a major drawback: the use of genome-integrating retroviruses to do the job. But a new study published ... Click to continue View comment (1) | Comment on this news story News: Stem cell banks galore Posted by Andrea Gawrylewski [Entry posted at 25th September 2008 06:26 PM GMT] In the last several years, stem cell banks and registries have begun springing up across the country and internationally. But are all these facilities helping research, or just duplicating efforts? The latest addition to the list of such facilities ... Click to continue View comment (1) | Comment on this news story News: Pfizer embraces stem cells Posted by Andrea Gawrylewski [Entry posted at 24th September 2008 03:46 PM GMT] Big pharma's interest in stem cell research is picking up speed. Pharmaceutical giant Pfizer is expanding its research into the technology and plans to open a second regenerative medicine ... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: Zerhouni resigns as NIH head Posted by Bob Grant [Entry posted at 24th September 2008 03:40 PM GMT] The 15th head of the National Institutes of Health, Elias Zerhouni, will step down from his post, he announced today (Sept 24). In a conference call with reporters today, Zerhouni said that he ... Click to continue View comments (7) | Comment on this news story News: Four biologists win "genius" prize Posted by Jennifer Evans [Entry posted at 23rd September 2008 05:32 PM GMT] The MacArthur Foundation today announced the recipients of its 2008 MacArthur Fellows (a.k.a. Genius Awards): Among the 25 winners, who will receive $500,000 over the next five years, four were life scientists. Here's the line-up: ... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: A new twist on nanoparticle behavior Posted by Bob Grant [Entry posted at 23rd September 2008 04:02 PM GMT] Researchers hoping to develop nanoparticles as medicines or carriers of therapeutic molecules have much more to worry about than the type of material they plan on miniaturizing, according ... Click to continue View comments (5) | Comment on this news story News: Who's advising McCain on science? Posted by Bob Grant [Entry posted at 23rd September 2008 02:27 PM GMT] While Democratic Presidential hopeful Barack Obama unveiled an impressive stable of science policy advisers last week, his opponent ... Click to continue View comments (10) | Comment on this news story News: High risk NIH grants announced Posted by Jennifer Evans [Entry posted at 22nd September 2008 02:55 PM GMT] Forty-seven researchers -- including 31 early career investigators -- will split a pot of $138 million dollars for research recognized by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) as bold and potentially transformative. The NIH Director's Pioneer ... Click to continue View comments (4) | Comment on this news story News: Ancient fingers and toes Posted by Andrea Gawrylewski [Entry posted at 21st September 2008 06:33 PM GMT] Were animals with four limbs the first to evolve fingers and toes-- or did such digits evolve long before? A study published today (September 21) in Nature claims to ... Click to continue View comment (1) | Comment on this news story News: Politics in the body? Posted by Jennifer Evans [Entry posted at 18th September 2008 08:56 PM GMT] Do you strongly support the war in Iraq and strict immigration policies? If so, you're more likely to have strong physiological responses to threatening stimuli such as loud noises and disturbing images, according to a study published in Science ... Click to continue View comment (1) | Comment on this news story News: More fat cells, less fat? Posted by Edyta Zielinska [Entry posted at 18th September 2008 05:10 PM GMT] A fat-based hormone, the first of its kind to be identified, may regulate the body's metabolic rate, according to a report in this week's Cell. The results ... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: $500 million NIH funds boost? Posted by Andrea Gawrylewski [Entry posted at 17th September 2008 08:56 PM GMT] The National Institutes of Health may be getting a healthy funding boost by year's end. Within the next couple of weeks, the US Senate is expected to debate a supplementary funding package that includes $500 million to NIH for 2008. Senate ... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: NAS to review anthrax evidence Posted by Alla Katsnelson [Entry posted at 17th September 2008 04:09 PM GMT] The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) yesterday (September 16) announced it will turn over scientific evidence against their chief suspect in the 2001 anthrax attacks, a US army microbiologist who ... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: Haitian HIV clinic weathers storms Posted by Bob Grant [Entry posted at 17th September 2008 04:08 PM GMT] The trio of hurricanes that raked across Haiti recently left the HIV/AIDS clinic that I visited there earlier this year battered but not broken. While Gustav, Hanna, and Ike wrought ... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: McCain changes stem cell tune Posted by Bob Grant [Entry posted at 15th September 2008 04:17 PM GMT] US Republican Presidential candidate, John McCain, appears to be backing off from his strong support of federal funding for embryonic stem cell research, according to his responses to an ... Click to continue View comments (4) | Comment on this news story News: 2008 Lasker Awards announced Posted by Andrea Gawrylewski [Entry posted at 13th September 2008 10:05 PM GMT] Three researchers, Victor Ambros, at the University of Massachusetts Medical School, Gary Ruvkun, at Massachusetts General ... Click to continue View comments (2) | Comment on this news story News: Is it life now? Posted by Alison McCook [Entry posted at 12th September 2008 04:51 PM GMT] The wires - including, um, Wired - are abuzz this week with talk of research by Jack Szostak, a Harvard researcher who is trying to create synthetic life. The attention stems ... Click to continue View comment (1) | Comment on this news story News: Open access recall? Posted by Andrea Gawrylewski [Entry posted at 12th September 2008 04:26 PM GMT] A new bill seeks to undo the NIH mandate requiring federally-funded research papers to be made publicly available within 12 months of acceptance for publication. In a hearing yesterday (September 11) the US House Committee on the Judiciary ... Click to continue View comments (8) | Comment on this news story News: A flashy defense Posted by Megan Scudellari [Entry posted at 10th September 2008 01:09 PM GMT] There are many ways to ward off a predator, but perhaps none so enthusiastic as the Giant honeybee's team "wave." New research, published this week in PLoS One, demonstrates that a communal ... Click to continue View comments (10) | Comment on this news story News: Is systematic biology dead? Posted by Bob Grant [Entry posted at 8th September 2008 03:43 PM GMT] Systematics and taxonomy, sciences involved with identifying and organizing living things into distinct groups and establishing ... Click to continue View comments (2) | Comment on this news story News: Hearing on open access mandate? Posted by Andrea Gawrylewski [Entry posted at 5th September 2008 10:21 PM GMT] A government hearing set for next week will discuss a bill in the works that may address publishers' concerns with public access laws, according to the Library Journal. The ... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: Lancet retracts stem cell paper Posted by Bob Grant [Entry posted at 5th September 2008 08:48 PM GMT] UK-based medical journal The Lancet has retracted a paper reporting on a clinical trial of a stem cell ... Click to continue View comments (4) | Comment on this news story News: EUREKA grants awarded Posted by Edyta Zielinska [Entry posted at 4th September 2008 06:43 PM GMT] Thirty-eight researchers were awarded with grants totaling $42.2 million dollars this week for their "wild and crazy " ideas to change the way science is done. The EUREKA program ... Click to continue View comments (2) | Comment on this news story News: $400 million for genomics institute Posted by Alla Katsnelson [Entry posted at 4th September 2008 05:04 PM GMT] In the largest act of US philanthropy for biomedical research, Eli and Edythe Broad have donated $400 million to the Broad Institute, a joint project between Harvard and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The gift builds on the $200 million ... Click to continue View comments (2) | Comment on this news story News: NIH reins in genome access Posted by Megan Scudellari [Entry posted at 2nd September 2008 05:01 PM GMT] The NIH has turned the locks and barred the windows on several previously open access databases of genetic information in response to new research proving it's possible to identify a single individual's genetic profile out of a pool of DNA. Last ... Click to continue View comments (3) | Comment on this news story News: Obama: Yes to stem cells, funding Posted by Bob Grant [Entry posted at 2nd September 2008 04:10 PM GMT] As controversy and rumors swirl around John McCain's newly-tapped running mate like tropical depression-force winds and the Republican National Convention sputters to a start, ... Click to continue View comments (2) | Comment on this news story News: Jobs for old brain's new neurons Posted by Andrea Gawrylewski [Entry posted at 1st September 2008 10:40 PM GMT] Researchers have known for almost a decade that the adult brain produces new neurons. But a new study appearing yesterday (August 31) online in Nature Neuroscience gets a better look at what ... Click to continue Comment on this news story

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