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[Entry posted at 30th January 2009 04:33 PM GMT]
The rumors around Washington, DC say that President Barack Obama could overturn George W. Bush's 2001 federal funding ban on embryonic stem cell research using lines that were derived after August 9 of that year as soon as next week.
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[Entry posted at 29th January 2009 10:21 PM GMT]
"Big science" genetics research in Canada may be left high and dry after the main agency that funds such work was left out of this year's federal budget.
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[Entry posted at 29th January 2009 05:06 PM GMT]
Followers bring out the best in their leaders, and leaders elicit better following skills in their minions, according to a new study of stickleback fish published online today (Jan. 29) in ... Click to continue
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[Entry posted at 28th January 2009 05:00 PM GMT]
New findings suggest a hypothesis for a much-debated question in neuroscience : what exactly is the role of new neurons born in the adult human brain? These brain cells may help link memories of events that occurred within a week or two of each ... Click to continue
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[Entry posted at 28th January 2009 04:50 PM GMT]
Evolutionary biologists are the latest victims of the global economic downturn. In a move that has generated a worldwide outcry, Leiden University in the Netherlands is firing nine evolutionary biologists, half of its total evolution-related ... Click to continue
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[Entry posted at 27th January 2009 04:38 PM GMT]
The Norwegian government hopes to stop its country's biotech from going out of business with a $418 million boost. The money is included in a new stimulus package released by the government Monday (Jan 26).
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[Entry posted at 26th January 2009 09:43 PM GMT]
A compound used to solubilize drugs surprisingly improves the symptoms of a rare genetic disorder, Niemann-Pick type C, and a new study in PNAS provides some clues as to how.
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[Entry posted at 23rd January 2009 09:43 PM GMT]
The US Food and Drug Administration's decision to green light a human embryonic stem cell-based therapy for spinal cord injury isn't just good news for the biotech in question, Geron Corp., ... Click to continue
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[Entry posted at 23rd January 2009 03:40 PM GMT]
California-based biotech company Geron Corp. announced today (Jan. 23) that it has received clearance from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to begin trials for the world's first clinical study on human embryonic stem cell-based ... Click to continue
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[Entry posted at 22nd January 2009 07:27 PM GMT]
New findings stir the coals of a hot debate in immunology regarding the origin of memory T cells.
The results, published in this week's Science, suggest that memory cells are descendant from the immune system's primary infection fighters, effector ... Click to continue
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[Entry posted at 22nd January 2009 07:00 PM GMT]
An unlikely source has provided the answer to a long-standing question over how the geographically isolated Pacific Islands became populated: bacteria.
By analyzing both genetic variations in human gut bacteria and linguistic evidence, scientists ... Click to continue
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[Entry posted at 21st January 2009 03:49 PM GMT]
A scientific organization in the world's most populous nation is trying to lure foreign researchers to work on short-term contracts within its borders with offers of robust funding.
The Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) announced last week that it ... Click to continue
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[Entry posted at 21st January 2009 02:58 PM GMT]
Seven animal rights activists who blackmailed companies that supplied Huntingdon Life Sciences, an animal testing laboratory based in the UK, were sentenced today (Jan. 21) to between four and 11 years in ... Click to continue
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[Entry posted at 21st January 2009 12:24 AM GMT]
Deep in the Amazon jungle, researchers have discovered a dung beetle that doesn't live up to its name, a sign the insect has undergone speciation.
A new study published today (Jan. 20) in Biology Letters reports a dung beetle that shuns its ... Click to continue
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[Entry posted at 20th January 2009 04:00 PM GMT]
Several top UK universities, including Oxford and Cambridge, stand to lose millions of pounds in research funding as a result of last year's Research Assessment Exercise (RAE), Britain's major review of research quality. However, other institutions ... Click to continue
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[Entry posted at 19th January 2009 10:00 PM GMT]
There's a new technique for targeting gene therapy to specific tissues: sound waves that turn on gene expression, according to an article published online in PNAS. The technique could eventually also help orchestrate stem cell differentiation, the ... Click to continue
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[Entry posted at 19th January 2009 04:00 PM GMT]
In an attempt to provide alternative metrics to the traditional journal impact factor, the open-access journal Public Library of Science ONE announced that it will release a slew of alternative impact data about individual articles in the coming ... Click to continue
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[Entry posted at 19th January 2009 03:58 PM GMT]
It's not just genes that are inherited. Chemical tags that affect gene expression levels may be inherited too, a new study published online this week in Nature Genetics reports.
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[Entry posted at 15th January 2009 08:48 PM GMT]
Two very similar studies investigating a single gene's role in pathogen susceptibility have come to pretty much opposite conclusions. A C. elegans gene that was previously shown to affect innate immunity might simply alter the worm's behavior, ... Click to continue
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[Entry posted at 15th January 2009 06:36 PM GMT]
Endogenous retroviruses, ancient viruses embedded throughout mammalian genomes, might help RNA viruses permanently integrate into the genomes of their hosts, according to a report in ... Click to continue
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[Entry posted at 15th January 2009 04:54 PM GMT]
Life sciences will indeed receive a boost in funding in President-Elect Barack Obama's sprawling economic recovery plan, according to figures from the House Appropriations Committee released today. A statement from the committee says that the ... Click to continue
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[Entry posted at 15th January 2009 04:31 PM GMT]
British grant applicants will have to demonstrate the economic or social impact of their research, according to new funding rules rolled out by Research Councils UK (RCUK), the umbrella body for all of Britain's seven ... Click to continue
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[Entry posted at 13th January 2009 07:41 PM GMT]
Pfizer will eliminate 5 to 8 percent of its global research staff this year, totaling about 800 people, according to a spokesperson for the company.
Pfizer began one-on-one conversations today with colleagues getting the boot, with the majority of ... Click to continue
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[Entry posted at 13th January 2009 04:12 PM GMT]
Less than a year after the creation of "admixed" human-animal hybrid embryos for stem cell research was legalized in the UK, investigators with permits to conduct the research have had their grant proposals rejected by two of the country's leading ... Click to continue
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[Entry posted at 12th January 2009 10:00 PM GMT]
An improvement in magnetic resonance imaging has allowed scientists to view a virus that measures just 18 nanometers across, a study in the early version of PNAS reports.
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[Entry posted at 12th January 2009 04:01 PM GMT]
Adaptive immune cells like B and T cells aren't the only players in the immune system that can recognize antigens months after initially responding to them. A ... Click to continue
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[Entry posted at 12th January 2009 03:57 PM GMT]
Just when you thought nobody could be worse than the National Institutes of Health at managing financial conflicts of interest among trial investigators...
The Inspector General of the Department of Health and Human Services released a ... Click to continue
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[Entry posted at 12th January 2009 02:28 PM GMT]
Executives at the Department of Health and Human Services have named a few acting agency heads as the US government prepares to transition into a new administration under President-Elect Barack Obama.
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[Entry posted at 8th January 2009 07:40 PM GMT]
The genetics of a marine protozoan may overturn one of the long-held tenets of protein synthesis. According to conventional wisdom, the genetic code is unambiguous: each DNA triplet, or codon, corresponds to a single amino acid. But a ... Click to continue
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[Entry posted at 8th January 2009 05:00 PM GMT]
New observations of the early stages of tuberculosis infection may turn scientists' understanding of the bug's pathogenesis on its head: clumps of immune cells, called granulomas, long thought to protect hosts from the disease instead appear to be ... Click to continue
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[Entry posted at 8th January 2009 04:28 PM GMT]
The US Food and Drug Administration is raising hackles on Capitol Hill where lawmakers are peeved that the agency has paid a consultant more than one million dollars to raise the spirits of FDA employees.
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[Entry posted at 7th January 2009 07:55 PM GMT]
The Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI), an independent organization established by the government in 1997 to fund research infrastructure, announced a new C$45.5 million ($38.2USD million) program last month aimed at providing equipment and ... Click to continue
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[Entry posted at 7th January 2009 04:30 PM GMT]
A shortage of donated brain tissue is hampering research into diseases such as Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, and dementia, a team of British scientists warned yesterday (Jan. 6).
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[Entry posted at 5th January 2009 10:13 PM GMT]
Swiss pharmaceutical giant Novartis has teamed up with an American biotech company to develop the first commercial vaccine for cytomegalovirus (CMV), which kills or disables tens of thousands of infants every year.
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