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[Entry posted at 31st March 2009 03:53 PM GMT]
The University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston is bringing in new assistant professors at the same time as around 30 fired faculty members, many of them tenured, fight for the jobs they lost in the aftermath of Hurricane Ike.
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[Entry posted at 31st March 2009 03:02 PM GMT]
Coral reefs form as a partnership between sea anemone-like polyps and photosynthetic algae that provides nutrients for the former and safe, well-lit shelter for the latter. But this alliance might not start off as a true joint venture. New research ... Click to continue
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[Entry posted at 30th March 2009 10:48 PM GMT]
Scientists have found an unprecedented evolutionary modification deep within the cells of the lowly human body louse ( Pediculus humanus): the tiny blood sucker contains not one but 18 separate mitochondrial chromosomes.A female human body louse ... Click to continue
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[Entry posted at 30th March 2009 06:49 PM GMT]
Standardizing the laboratory environment may be doing science more harm than good: Removing all variability from animal experiments makes them less reproducible, rather than more, according to a study published online today in Nature ... Click to continue
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[Entry posted at 27th March 2009 08:36 PM GMT]
The National Institutes of Health, awash in $10 billion dollars of stimulus cash and scrambling to get it out the door, has announced a new round of supplemental grants that ... Click to continue
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[Entry posted at 26th March 2009 07:05 PM GMT]
Researchers are one step closer to reprogramming stem cells that are safe for use in the clinic with a new virus-free method for deriving human induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells that doesn't rely on integrating foreign DNA, according to a ... Click to continue
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[Entry posted at 26th March 2009 04:45 PM GMT]
The system for protecting the safety of people who participate in clinical trials is in shambles and needs a major overhaul, according to the conclusions of a two-year undercover US government investigation.
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[Entry posted at 25th March 2009 04:30 PM GMT]
New proposed European laws to harmonize animal research across the EU could seriously hamper biomedical research, according a report published yesterday (Mar. 24) by the European Science Foundation (ESF) and a ... Click to continue
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[Entry posted at 24th March 2009 03:37 PM GMT]
Researchers have assembled the first-ever map of copy number variants (CNV)-- duplications, deletions or rearrangements in the genome that result in different gene copy numbers -- in African Americans. The study, appearing in ... Click to continue
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[Entry posted at 24th March 2009 03:17 PM GMT]
India's premier publicly-funded research organization is pushing to make all research published at its institutions open access. But its pleas are falling on deaf ears, critics say, as individual laboratories have been slow to take up the charge. ... Click to continue
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[Entry posted at 23rd March 2009 04:53 PM GMT]
The continued spread of a mysterious disease that has killed thousands of bats in the Northeast United States may have a surprising human cause.
Scientists are suggesting that cavers may be inadvertently transporting fungal spores on their clothing ... Click to continue
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[Entry posted at 23rd March 2009 04:21 PM GMT]
Researchers have identified a novel mechanism by which immune cells wiggle their way across the blood-brain barrier in diseases such as multiple sclerosis (MS). A type of T-cell involved in autoimmune disease leads the way, entering the brain and ... Click to continue
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[Entry posted at 20th March 2009 10:13 PM GMT]
As the FY2010 federal budget readies for Congressional battles and public debate, science advocacy groups are upping their recommendations for funding increases at the National Institutes of Health. But are their calls realistic?
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[Entry posted at 19th March 2009 08:21 PM GMT]
In a study challenging a long-held doctrine of antibody binding -- which states that a single antibody corresponds to just one antigen, fitting it like a lock fits a key -- researchers have created a designer version of an antibody that can bind two ... Click to continue
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[Entry posted at 19th March 2009 07:16 PM GMT]
A bacterium found in sewage sludge uses its tail-like flagellum to lasso a symbiotic archaeon and keep it close at bay so that the two microbial partners can synchronize their metabolism, a Japanese research team reports in the Mar. 20 issue of ... Click to continue
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[Entry posted at 19th March 2009 05:02 PM GMT]
A gene strongly associated with schizophrenia and other neuropsychiatric disorders regulates the birth of new neurons in the adult brain, according to new research. The study, published in ... Click to continue
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[Entry posted at 18th March 2009 04:26 PM GMT]
Science programs in many state schools are feeling the pinch of hard times, but there's an exception to the suffering: Universities in big energy-producing states are thriving, with some even gaining a competitive edge over their hurting ... Click to continue
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[Entry posted at 16th March 2009 10:00 PM GMT]
The molecular orientation of compounds brought to Earth by meteorites could have determined the world's chemistry long before life began, according to a new study published online today ... Click to continue
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[Entry posted at 13th March 2009 10:23 PM GMT]
Facing budget cuts of around $34 million, Roswell Park Cancer Institute in Buffalo, NY, laid off 24 of its staff scientists last week.
Roswell Park Cancer CenterImage: flickr/Roswell ParkThe fired researchers -- ... Click to continue
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[Entry posted at 12th March 2009 04:40 PM GMT]
Former New York City health commissioner Margaret Hamburg seems to be the Obama administration's pick to head the embattled Food and Drug Administration, with Baltimore health commissioner Joshua Sharfstein slated to serve as FDA's deputy ... Click to continue
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[Entry posted at 12th March 2009 04:32 PM GMT]
As accusations of undisclosed financial conflicts among university researchers swirl, drug makers and academics are entering a new stage of closer collaboration. Instead of striking traditional licensing deals with academic labs that produce ... Click to continue
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[Entry posted at 11th March 2009 07:00 PM GMT]
Calorie-restricted diets are thought to protect against cancer and slow tumor growth, and a new study published in this week's Nature begins to tease out why the measure works for some tumors, and not for others.
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[Entry posted at 11th March 2009 06:32 PM GMT]
Britain's top universities have asked the government for £1 billion ($1.4 billion) to finance university spin-off companies, a measure that could help bolster the faltering UK economy and prop up the biotech industry, according to ... Click to continue
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[Entry posted at 11th March 2009 05:36 PM GMT]
A world-renowned Massachusetts anesthesiologist appears to have perpetrated what may be one of the most extensive cases of medical fraud, faking data and even making up entire studies in at least 21 cases.
Scott Reuben, the former chief of acute ... Click to continue
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[Entry posted at 11th March 2009 05:29 PM GMT]
A car belonging to a University of California, Los Angeles, researcher who uses primates to study drug addiction, schizophrenia and other disorders was targeted by animal rights activists early Saturday morning (March 7).
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[Entry posted at 11th March 2009 04:09 PM GMT]
US Senators last night (March 10) passed the long-delayed $410 billion omnibus spending bill that includes $30.3 billion for the National Institutes of Health in FY09. President Barack Obama is expected to sign the legislation today.
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[Entry posted at 10th March 2009 10:04 PM GMT]
Spraying plants with nitrogen-rich fertilizers does more than just make crops grow bigger; it also molds the chemical composition of their genomes and proteomes, according to a study ... Click to continue
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[Entry posted at 10th March 2009 07:18 PM GMT]
Cornell University's Weill Medical College has agreed to pay the federal government $2.6 million to settle civil claims that it defrauded the National Institutes of Health and the Department of Defense in ... Click to continue
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[Entry posted at 9th March 2009 05:02 PM GMT]
In yet another merger between two major pharmaceutical companies, Merck will acquire Schering-Plough for $41.1 billion, the two companies announced this morning (March 9). ... Click to continue
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[Entry posted at 9th March 2009 05:00 PM GMT]
As President Barack Obama lifts eight-year-old restrictions that have kept scores of researchers from receiving federal dollars for embryonic stem cell research, some life science entrepreneurs are readying for an uptick in business.
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[Entry posted at 9th March 2009 05:00 PM GMT]
Chimpanzees may have the ability to plan further into the future than previously thought, according to an article in the online version of Current Biology.Chimpanzee Image: barnoid/flickr
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[Entry posted at 6th March 2009 02:30 AM GMT]
A long-defunct gene that is now involved in Crohn's disease was resurrected over the course of human evolution after being "dead" for millions of years, according to a ... Click to continue
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[Entry posted at 5th March 2009 07:02 PM GMT]
Some experts claim that plagiarism is rampant in the scientific literature. Others say that it's a serious but relatively rare occurrence. The trouble is it's hard to put one's finger on exactly how prevalent plagiarism, duplication, improper ... Click to continue
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[Entry posted at 5th March 2009 04:23 PM GMT]
The largest primate facility in the US is drawing fire after an investigation by the Humane Society of the United States produced video footage of alleged animal welfare violations at the center.
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[Entry posted at 5th March 2009 02:47 PM GMT]
With the current system of scholarly publishing in a state of flux -- some might even say in crisis -- several institutions are experimenting with innovative ways of ensuring that their researchers can continue to effortlessly publish, read, and ... Click to continue
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[Entry posted at 4th March 2009 09:50 PM GMT]
The National Institutes of Health is inviting researchers to apply for newly created grants, funded by the $10 billion that the agency netted in the recently-signed economic stimulus legislation.
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[Entry posted at 4th March 2009 06:02 PM GMT]
A new study has revived hopes for an effective vaginal microbicide in preventing the transmission of HIV. A compound widely used in cosmetics and foods can block transmission of the virus by interfering with the immunological steps to infection, ... Click to continue
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[Entry posted at 1st March 2009 06:00 PM GMT]
Researchers have for the first time reprogrammed human skin cells to a pluripotent state without using viruses, according to twin studies published online today in Nature.
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