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[Entry posted at 27th February 2009 03:55 PM GMT]
Two senior senators reintroduced a Senate bill yesterday (Feb. 26) that would lift the US ban on federal funding for stem cell research.
Senators Tom Harkin (left), ArlenSpecter and Orrin HatchImage: A.C. Glenn/UPI/Newscom/APThe bipartisan measure ... Click to continue
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[Entry posted at 26th February 2009 06:16 PM GMT]
The National Institutes of Health and the National Science Foundation make out pretty well in the FY2010 federal budget request that President Barack Obama released today (Feb. 26).
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[Entry posted at 26th February 2009 05:50 PM GMT]
The generic drug giant Ranbaxy falsified data on shelf life and efficacy on products made in their Paonta Sahib plant in India, the FDA said in a press conference today (Feb.26).
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[Entry posted at 26th February 2009 04:18 PM GMT]
Biofuels may be one of the key ways to pump immediate life into the flaccid US economy over the next few years, according to a new report from a research and advisory firm focused on the economics of biotechnology.
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[Entry posted at 26th February 2009 03:52 PM GMT]
The Biotech Industry Organization (BIO) this morning released a set of statistics that give a rather dire snapshot of the industry's health. Here are some of the highlights -- or, should I say, lowlights -- straight from their roundup: Image: ... Click to continue
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[Entry posted at 25th February 2009 06:02 PM GMT]
Developing a vaccine for HIV may be harder than researchers thought, according to a study published online in Nature. Just as the virus develops resistance to antiviral ... Click to continue
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[Entry posted at 25th February 2009 06:00 PM GMT]
Giving birth to live young is thought to mainly occur in mammals and sharks, but a new study suggests that it was once a common mechanism for reproduction. A large group of ancient fish carried its embryos internally and bore live offspring, says a ... Click to continue
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[Entry posted at 24th February 2009 04:51 PM GMT]
The National Institutes of Health -- the happy recipient of about $10 billion from the recently-passed economic stimulus bill -- is staring down the barrel of another year of flat funding, according to the draft ... Click to continue
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[Entry posted at 23rd February 2009 11:01 PM GMT]
The National Institutes of Health received a 3% increase in funds in the draft 2009 budget, released today (Feb 23) by the US House of Representatives, giving the agency a total of $30.3 billion, ... Click to continue
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[Entry posted at 23rd February 2009 06:05 PM GMT]
Thirty years after the toppling of the Shah in Iran, the nation is undergoing another revolution of sorts. Iran is investing heavily in stem cell research, and despite researchers working with limited access to laboratory equipment and resources, ... Click to continue
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[Entry posted at 23rd February 2009 05:36 PM GMT]
Love hurts -- especially for the female fruit fly. A new study published online in the Journal of Evolutionary Biology shows that after fruit flies mate, ... Click to continue
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[Entry posted at 23rd February 2009 04:17 PM GMT]
FBI agents have nabbed four people suspected of harassing University of California life science researchers over the past two years.
Federal agents arrested twenty-somethings Adriana Stumpo, Nathan Pope, Joseph Buddenberg, and Maryam Khajavi late ... Click to continue
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[Entry posted at 23rd February 2009 04:11 PM GMT]
A UK ethics organization that focuses on fairness and honesty in scientific publication has lent some support to researchers who complained that a 2008 Cell paper failed to adequately ... Click to continue
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[Entry posted at 23rd February 2009 01:50 PM GMT]
The FDA issued a warning yesterday confirming that another patient taking the psoriasis drug Raptiva developed a rare form of brain infection called progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy (PML).
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[Entry posted at 23rd February 2009 01:42 PM GMT]
A single antibody may soon provide a one-size-fits-all antiviral for multiple strains of influenza. Researchers in the online version of Nature Structural and Molecular Biology have identified a human antibody that disarms the flu virus by jamming ... Click to continue
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[Entry posted at 19th February 2009 07:01 PM GMT]
Free online availability of scientific articles increases the likelihood of papers getting cited, especially in the developing world and in the biomedical sciences, according to a new ... Click to continue
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[Entry posted at 19th February 2009 07:00 PM GMT]
The formation of fingers and toes in mice depends on multiple, interlocking signaling pathways, researchers in this week's Science report. These linked pathways protect the process of digit formation from mutations that could make it go awry.
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[Entry posted at 19th February 2009 04:39 PM GMT]
Rather than funding new grants, the NIH's Office of the Director will spend the vast majority of its $8.2 billion stimulus check to finance grants that have already been reviewed and to supplement existing grants.
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[Entry posted at 18th February 2009 09:03 PM GMT]
The Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology has moved its 2011 meeting from New Orleans to Utah in protest of Louisiana's decision to allow religious materials in science class, but it's too late for the Experimental Biology meeting to do ... Click to continue
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[Entry posted at 18th February 2009 01:24 AM GMT]
A neural stem cell transplant from fetal cells performed in Russia led to a brain tumor in a teenage boy, researchers in this week's PLoS Medicine report, raising concerns about the safety of neural stem cells treatments. MRI of brain lesion, ... Click to continue
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[Entry posted at 17th February 2009 02:35 PM GMT]
A Japanese researcher falsified figures in three published papers while working as a visiting postdoc at the NIH's National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research (NIDCR), the Office of Research Integrity (ORI) ... Click to continue
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[Entry posted at 16th February 2009 07:52 PM GMT]
Willem Kolff with artificial heart courtesy of the Willem J. Kolff Collection at the University of Utah Marriott Library Willem Kolff, a University of Utah physician who invented the precursor to kidney dialysis and the first artificial heart, died ... Click to continue
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[Entry posted at 16th February 2009 03:58 PM GMT]
Most colleges and universities across the US are facing cuts in state funding of up to 20%, and many are preparing by cutting administrative costs, hiring fewer faculty, and focusing their resources on already strong programs.
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[Entry posted at 16th February 2009 03:55 PM GMT]
A University of California, San Francisco, postdoc ripped off images from a colleague and jiggered data files, the NIH's Office of Research Integrity (ORI) recently reported.
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[Entry posted at 13th February 2009 06:08 PM GMT]
The popular press was a-buzz this week with reports of a technique that could allow an amputee to move her prosthetic arm with her mind.
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[Entry posted at 12th February 2009 04:18 PM GMT]
The US Senate and House of Representatives have hammered out the differences between their versions of the economic recovery bill, to the tune of $10 billion for the National Institute of Health, according to early reports.
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[Entry posted at 12th February 2009 04:07 PM GMT]
Due to the tough times, the EU's largest biomedical research charity, the Wellcome Trust, has lost £2 billion in assets, and is therefore cutting its funding for grants by £30 million.
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[Entry posted at 12th February 2009 02:05 PM GMT]
Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) has chosen nine students from disadvantaged backgrounds to receive a fellowship covering $44,000 per year to cover the cost of graduate school.
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[Entry posted at 11th February 2009 06:02 PM GMT]
Researchers have helped resolve a long-standing debate about which precursors in the developing mammalian embryo give rise to blood cells, after tracking the birth of these cells using in-vivo imaging that lasts for days, according to ... Click to continue
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[Entry posted at 11th February 2009 04:31 PM GMT]
Of all the federal government's science agencies, the National Institutes of Health looks to benefit most from the economic stimulus bill currently making its way through Congress. But how should the NIH spend the influx of cash that might be coming ... Click to continue
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[Entry posted at 10th February 2009 09:48 PM GMT]
A New Jersey infectious disease lab seems to be plagued with an inability to keep track of research mice infected with dangerous pathogens.
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[Entry posted at 10th February 2009 06:20 PM GMT]
The US Senate passed its version of the economic stimulus legislation today (Feb. 10), and life science has faired well, according to the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).
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[Entry posted at 9th February 2009 10:01 PM GMT]
Epigenetic changes in certain viruses can make the difference between a simple infection and cancer, according to a new study published early online tomorrow (Feb 10th) in Genome Research.
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[Entry posted at 9th February 2009 08:10 PM GMT]
A former UCLA biologist falsified data on biomarkers and treatments for cancer in two journal articles and multiple grant applications, the Office of Research Integrity (ORI) reported last week.
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[Entry posted at 9th February 2009 04:41 PM GMT]
The army's top infectious disease institute suspended its biodefense research on Friday (February 6) after finding problems with its system for keeping track of the dangerous pathogen stocks found in its labs.
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[Entry posted at 6th February 2009 09:29 PM GMT]
The US Food and Drug Administration today approved the first-ever drug manufactured via a genetically engineered animal, opening the door for the wider use of such methods for producing drugs in the future.
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[Entry posted at 5th February 2009 10:43 PM GMT]
A bill aimed at undoing the NIH's mandate to make federally-funded research manuscripts freely available on PubMed Central within a year of publication was re-introduced in the US House of Representatives on Tuesday night (Feb. 3).
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[Entry posted at 5th February 2009 05:15 PM GMT]
In the latest milestone on the road toward reprogramming cells to pluripotency without permanent genetic modification, researchers have successfully turned the clock back on adult stem cells using only a single transcription factor, according to a ... Click to continue
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[Entry posted at 5th February 2009 03:49 PM GMT]
Two US Senators have introduced an amendment to the economic stimulus bill currently being debated in Congress that they say would better protect federally-funded biomedical research from potential bias.
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[Entry posted at 4th February 2009 04:12 PM GMT]
The US Senate, which is furiously debating the details of the economic stimulus package making its way through Congress, passed an amendment yesterday (Feb. 3) to add $6.5 billion in National Institutes of Health funding on top of the $3.5 billion ... Click to continue
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[Entry posted at 4th February 2009 03:36 PM GMT]
A bevy of diseases common in the third world aren't receiving adequate attention from funders, despite $2.5 billion spent by philanthropic organizations, governments, and pharmaceutical companies in 2007, according to the most comprehensive survey ... Click to continue
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[Entry posted at 3rd February 2009 10:13 PM GMT]
The Broad Institute of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard laid off 24 of its MIT employees last week, citing an upgrade to next-generation, high-throughput, genome sequencing technologies that made those jobs obsolete.
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[Entry posted at 3rd February 2009 06:40 PM GMT]
Tom Daschle, the much lauded pick for secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, announced this afternoon that he'll be withdrawing his nomination in light of tax irregularities that have cropped up during the review.
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[Entry posted at 3rd February 2009 04:07 PM GMT]
Ever wondered it would be like to tell a journal "nah, I don't think I want reviewers to re-review my manuscript"?
Well, now you can -- in a new experimental policy, the Journal of Biology is giving authors the option of ... Click to continue
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[Entry posted at 2nd February 2009 06:04 PM GMT]
The governing board of the California stem cell agency is delaying $58 million in new grants until March to wait out the poor economy and credit market.
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