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[Entry posted at 23rd December 2008 05:19 PM GMT]
Four British animal rights activists were found guilty today (Dec. 23) of blackmailing companies that supplied Huntingdon Life Sciences (HLS), a contract animal-testing company based near Cambridge, England.
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[Entry posted at 22nd December 2008 05:01 PM GMT]
How much can you see with non-functioning visual cortex? A clinically blind man, with lesions on both sides of his visual cortex, was able to flawlessly navigate an obstacle course, a paper to be published tomorrow in Current Biology reports.
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[Entry posted at 22nd December 2008 03:32 PM GMT]
U.S. President-elect Barack Obama named more scientists to top posts over the weekend: Harold Varmus and Eric Lander will serve as co-chairs of the president's Council of Advisers on Science and Technology, headed up by Harvard physicist John ... Click to continue
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[Entry posted at 18th December 2008 08:14 PM GMT]
President-elect Barack Obama plans to nominate Harvard physicist John Holdren for role of presidential science advisor, according to Science's blog ... Click to continue
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[Entry posted at 18th December 2008 02:49 PM GMT]
We at The Scientist are all a-flitter because we're now on Twitter. Starting this week, you can sign up to receive our "tweets" at twitter.com/TheScientistLLC.
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[Entry posted at 17th December 2008 09:33 PM GMT]
A team of French life sciences grad students has launched an online repository of fraudulent scientific papers, and is calling on researchers to report studies tainted by misconduct.
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[Entry posted at 16th December 2008 04:27 PM GMT]
Another case of a potentially fatal brain infection has been reported in a patient taking the multiple sclerosis drug Tysabri, the biotech who developed the drug announced yesterday.
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[Entry posted at 15th December 2008 07:18 PM GMT]
D. Carleton Gajdusek, a virologist and anthropologist who won the 1976 Nobel Prize for his work on the infectious brain agents now known as prions, died last Friday (Dec. 12) in Tromso, Norway. He was 85.
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[Entry posted at 15th December 2008 06:39 PM GMT]
Six California stem cell biotech companies received more than $5 million in funding last week from the state's stem cell funding body -- the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM), according to a ... Click to continue
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[Entry posted at 12th December 2008 05:29 PM GMT]
University College London is offering new unorthodox research grants for its staff without peer review, deadlines, directives, or milestones.
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[Entry posted at 12th December 2008 03:53 PM GMT]
Two employees in the pediatric neurological research department at Columbia University were arrested Wednesday (December 10) for scamming the institution out of more than $200,000.
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[Entry posted at 11th December 2008 10:52 PM GMT]
Officials have halted enrollment in more than 600 human research studies taking place in Seattle this week after a federal audit found shoddy paperwork in some consent forms.
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[Entry posted at 10th December 2008 06:01 PM GMT]
Parasites can confuse their hosts' immune system by switching the proteins they display on their surface. But how? The intestinal parasite Giardi lamblia harnesses RNA interference to target which surface proteins to shut down, a study published ... Click to continue
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[Entry posted at 10th December 2008 04:25 PM GMT]
Biotech industry executives are beseeching Congress today (10 Dec) for a temporary change in the tax code that would give some struggling biotech companies a cash boost.
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[Entry posted at 9th December 2008 10:33 PM GMT]
Merck is planning to sell generic copies of blockbuster biotech drugs, the drug maker announced today (Dec. 9) at the annual business briefing at its New Jersey headquarters.
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[Entry posted at 9th December 2008 09:16 PM GMT]
The dearth of new drugs coming to market is forcing some drug companies -- and their investors -- to rethink R&D.
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[Entry posted at 9th December 2008 04:43 PM GMT]
A highly cited Nature paper that identified a long-sought receptor critical for mediating plant response to stress is being retracted after researchers were unable to reproduce the results.
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[Entry posted at 9th December 2008 04:00 PM GMT]
Researchers at NIH's long-beleaguered National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) are hopeful that the institute's new head, toxicologist Linda Birnbaum will be ... Click to continue
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[Entry posted at 8th December 2008 09:53 PM GMT]
Chemists have created a device -- using little more than paper and sticky tape -- that can precisely separate liquids for further medical or environmental analysis.
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[Entry posted at 8th December 2008 05:39 PM GMT]
Henry Molaison (HM), a patient with amnesia who helped scientists to unlock the secrets to how the brain processes learning and memory, died last week at the age of 82.
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[Entry posted at 8th December 2008 05:31 PM GMT]
A malaria vaccine for infants and children -- the group most vulnerable to the disease -- may be heading to phase III trials, according to authors of two studies published online today (Dec. 8) in the New England Journal of Medicine.
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[Entry posted at 5th December 2008 06:56 PM GMT]
Big pharma is once again fighting with the US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) over controversial changes to patent regulations that the USPTO tried to institute last year.
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[Entry posted at 5th December 2008 06:37 PM GMT]
The National Institutes of Health may change its regulations for managing financial conflict of interest among extramural grantees within 12 months, the acting director of the NIH said today (Dec. 5).
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[Entry posted at 5th December 2008 05:22 PM GMT]
Twenty-two leaders from the British biotech sector pleaded for a government bailout yesterday (Dec. 4) to save the industry's "survival and future viability" in the face of the global financial crisis.
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[Entry posted at 5th December 2008 04:33 AM GMT]
Britain's largest ever single-shot investment in doctoral student training will be rolled out today (Dec. 5th) by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC), with goodies in store for prospective applied biology PhD ... Click to continue
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[Entry posted at 4th December 2008 05:01 PM GMT]
The immune tricks that keep HIV in check in long term non-progressors (LTNPs) -- people who carry the virus but don't get AIDS -- have been a mystery for decades. It turns out that T cells in LTNPs destroy the virus by punching holes in infected ... Click to continue
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[Entry posted at 4th December 2008 04:37 PM GMT]
Manhattan, Kansas has been chosen as the site for the much-contested $450 million government biolab, which will house research on some of the most highly infectious human and animal pathogens, according to a draft document from the Department of ... Click to continue
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[Entry posted at 4th December 2008 04:37 PM GMT]
Tenured professors who were given the pink slip last week by the University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB) in Galveston said they felt "shocked" and "betrayed" by the action, and have been given little rationale for why they were singled out, and ... Click to continue
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[Entry posted at 3rd December 2008 05:32 PM GMT]
Linda Birnbaum, a toxicologist and former head of EPA's Experimental Toxicology Division, will be the new head of the NIH's National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences ... Click to continue
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[Entry posted at 3rd December 2008 04:32 PM GMT]
A Texas stem cell researcher falsified data by mucking around with her results in Photoshop, according to an Office of Research Integrity (ORI) ruling.
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[Entry posted at 2nd December 2008 09:58 PM GMT]
An association representing faculty members at 85 University of Texas institutions is suing university officials on behalf of more than 3,000 University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB) employees given the pink slip last week in the aftermath of ... Click to continue
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[Entry posted at 2nd December 2008 08:07 PM GMT]
The wave of pesky cane toads that is spreading across the Australian landscape with a rapacious disregard for the continent's delicate ecological balance might be slowed by a complaint familiar to anyone who travels frequently: a sore back. And one ... Click to continue
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[Entry posted at 2nd December 2008 04:24 PM GMT]
Los Angeles-based extremists who oppose the use of animals in scientific research destroyed a car, which they thought belonged to a University of California, Los Angeles, biologist ... Click to continue
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[Entry posted at 1st December 2008 04:25 PM GMT]
The European Patent Office (EPO) issued its final ruling last week rejecting a much-contested embryonic stem cell patent -- a decision that will likely be cheered by researchers and jeered by biotechs.
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