News: Consent issues nix blood samples Posted by Jef Akst [Entry posted at 23rd December 2009 04:05 PM GMT] More than 5 million blood samples used by researchers in Texas since 2002 must be destroyed because they were stored without parental consent, according to a lawsuit settlement signed by a federal court judge in Texas earlier this month (December ... Click to continue View comments (7) | Comment on this news story News: NIH's New Year's resolution? Posted by Bob Grant [Entry posted at 22nd December 2009 03:43 PM GMT] It looks like the National Institutes of Health might ring in 2010 by getting serious about addressing conflicts of interest among its grantees.Image: NIH NIH director Francis Collins, in an interview with C-SPAN's "Newsmakers" program, said that ... Click to continue View comments (19) | Comment on this news story News: Pluripotency process unveiled Posted by Jef Akst [Entry posted at 21st December 2009 04:21 PM GMT] Scientists have identified a key component of cellular reprogramming that may aid in more efficiently creating induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells, according to a study published online in Nature today (December 21). Mouse embryonic stem ... Click to continue View comment (1) | Comment on this news story News: The top 5 people of 2009 Posted by Katherine Bagley [Entry posted at 18th December 2009 08:36 PM GMT] From budgets padded with stimulus funding to advancements in stem cell legislation, 2009 has been an all around big year for research. But in The Scientist's mind, a few individuals have stuck out in terms of their contributions, support, and ... Click to continue View comment (1) | Comment on this news story News: Crystallographer faked data Posted by Bob Grant [Entry posted at 18th December 2009 03:46 PM GMT] A protein researcher at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) has been found guilty of falsifying data that he used to construct 12 fraudulent protein structures that made it into the scientific literature and an international archive of ... Click to continue View comments (15) | Comment on this news story News: Hopes fade for HIV microbicide Posted by Katherine Bagley [Entry posted at 17th December 2009 04:40 PM GMT] Despite promising early trial results, another microbicide for the prevention of HIV transmission was deemed ineffective, scientists at the ... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: The five hottest biology papers of 2009 Posted by Victoria Stern [Entry posted at 17th December 2009 04:04 PM GMT] Which papers made the biggest splash this year? ScienceWatch, a website that tracks and analyzes trends in basic science research, compiles bimonthly lists of the 10 most cited papers. From those lists, The ... Click to continue View comments (3) | Comment on this news story News: Cancer genomes sequenced Posted by Jef Akst [Entry posted at 16th December 2009 06:00 PM GMT] Scientists have charted the most complete cancer genomes to date, according to two studies published in Nature this week, providing a catalog of some 90% of all the somatic mutations in melanoma and a type of lung cancer, as well as a starting point ... Click to continue View comments (7) | Comment on this news story News: A windfall year at NIH Posted by Bob Grant [Entry posted at 16th December 2009 03:15 PM GMT] This has been a boom year at the National Institutes of Health. With a $10 billion infusion thanks to the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, the agency found itself in the unfamiliar position of being flush with cash. As Congress ... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: 27 more hESC lines approved Posted by Jef Akst [Entry posted at 15th December 2009 02:23 PM GMT] National Institutes of Health (NIH) director Francis Collins approved 27 more human embryonic stem cell lines as eligible for federal funding on Monday, bringing the total number of new ... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: Fake blood 2.0? Posted by Bob Grant [Entry posted at 14th December 2009 09:14 PM GMT] Newly created synthetic particles that mimic red blood cells may one day carry drug molecules and/or oxygen through bloodstreams, according to researchers writing in this week's issue of the ... Click to continue View comments (5) | Comment on this news story News: 2010 budget on Obama's desk Posted by Bob Grant [Entry posted at 14th December 2009 05:16 PM GMT] Yesterday (13th December), the US Senate OKed a proposal to up the National Institutes of Health's 2010 budget by $692 million, or 2.3 ... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: Q&A: Copenhagen's united front Posted by Katherine Bagley [Entry posted at 14th December 2009 03:58 PM GMT] In the months leading up to Copenhagen, developing world leaders met multiple times to strategize and solidify their position on climate change. Because of their poverty levels, populations in developing regions are generally seen as the most ... Click to continue View comments (8) | Comment on this news story News: 2009 in review Posted by Alla Katsnelson [Entry posted at 14th December 2009 01:55 PM GMT] Perhaps more so than most years to date, 2009 has repeatedly raised the specter of misdeeds in research -- both in academia and industry. New year's celebrations in Taipei Image: Wikimedia CommonsWith more and more academic research ... Click to continue View comments (3) | Comment on this news story News: New hope for EU patent plan Posted by Edyta Zielinska [Entry posted at 11th December 2009 10:27 PM GMT] A planned redesign of the European patent system, announced last week (December 4th), could reduce the cost and strengthen the legal weight of European patents -- a change that biotechnology companies have long awaited. Image: WikipediaCurrently, a ... Click to continue View comment (1) | Comment on this news story News: One gene keeps ovaries female Posted by Edyta Zielinska [Entry posted at 10th December 2009 05:34 PM GMT] Knocking down a single gene in an adult mouse makes ovaries develop the characteristics of a male gonad and produce testosterone, according to a study published today (December 10th) in ... Click to continue View comments (4) | Comment on this news story News: 2010 NIH budget bump Posted by Bob Grant [Entry posted at 10th December 2009 03:23 PM GMT] Congress has inched closer to finalizing the budgets for key federal science agencies in the 2010 fiscal year, with a small boost for the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and a larger increase for the National Science Foundation (NSF) in the ... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: New NIH forms raise concerns Posted by Bob Grant [Entry posted at 8th December 2009 03:49 PM GMT] The new, shortened National Institutes of Health grant applications, designed to make the process easier on applicants and reviewers, may have an unintended downside, some researchers say. Specifically, some critics say the new, shorter forms -- ... Click to continue View comments (16) | Comment on this news story News: New giant virus discovered Posted by Katherine Bagley [Entry posted at 7th December 2009 10:22 PM GMT] Scientists have discovered a new family of giant viruses -- created within amoebae, they report in this week's issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Structural ... Click to continue View comments (2) | Comment on this news story News: Remodeling replaces cut axons Posted by Alla Katsnelson [Entry posted at 7th December 2009 03:53 PM GMT] Neurons in the fly can radically remold their cytoskeleton to rebuild a severed axon -- a finding that might provide clues to how neurons recover from injury, researchers reported yesterday at the American Society for Cell Biology meeting in San ... Click to continue View comment (1) | Comment on this news story News: 27 more hESC lines head for OK Posted by Jef Akst [Entry posted at 4th December 2009 06:35 PM GMT] Twenty-seven human embryonic stem cell (hESC) lines are ethically derived and should be approved for use in research funded by the US National Institutes of Health (NIH), a committee advising the NIH director ... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: A robotic arm breakthrough? Posted by Edyta Zielinska [Entry posted at 3rd December 2009 05:03 PM GMT] We at The Scientist are always on the lookout for overhyped research, and we suspect we've run across an example in an Associated Press story about a brain-controlled ... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: NIH OKs 13 stem cell lines Posted by Jef Akst [Entry posted at 2nd December 2009 06:02 PM GMT] Thirteen human embryonic stem cell (hESC) lines have received approval for use in federally funded research, with the promise of more to come as soon as this Friday, ... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: PNAS review policy... by numbers Posted by Bob Grant [Entry posted at 2nd December 2009 04:14 PM GMT] Some in the research community grouse about how members of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) can hand pick reviewers and essentially fast track the publication of their papers or papers written by select non-academy members in the high-impact ... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: School halts baboon anthrax study Posted by Jef Akst [Entry posted at 1st December 2009 09:32 PM GMT] Oklahoma State University (OSU) administrators have aborted a federally-funded study of anthrax vaccines because the project involved sacrificing the baboons involved in the research -- even though the project had already received approval by a ... Click to continue View comments (21) | Comment on this news story News: Immunologist faked data Posted by Katherine Bagley [Entry posted at 1st December 2009 08:16 PM GMT] An immunologist duplicated images and falsified data in a study on regulating factors of autoimmune disease published in Nature Medicine in 2006, the Office of Research Integrity (ORI) reported. Image: FlickrCreativeCommons/Julo According to ORI's ... Click to continue View comments (8) | Comment on this news story News: The end of hypoallergenic cats? Posted by Bob Grant [Entry posted at 1st December 2009 03:15 PM GMT] A controversial company that claimed to develop hypoallergenic cats and dogs will bow out of the companion animal business and launch a new venture focused on veterinary diagnostic services starting next year, according to a statement sent out in ... Click to continue Comment on this news story

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