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		<title><![CDATA[Another fake conference?]]></title>
	    	<link><![CDATA[http://www.the-scientist.com/blog/display/56185/]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Are phony academic conferences the new Nigerian princes of the internet?
An email inviting recipients to a conference on human welfare and the]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 November 2009 15:49:45 GMT</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[No GM on menu at food summit]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[At the World Summit on Food Security in Rome last week, hosted by the UN's Food and Agriculture Organization, global leaders, not surprisingly,]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 November 2009 15:13:18 GMT</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Darwin's minstrel]]></title>
	    	<link><![CDATA[http://www.the-scientist.com/blog/display/56158/]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA["Survival of the fittest does not mean survival of the strongest, but survival of those that best fit their environment," croons linkurl:Brett]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 November 2009 15:08:09 GMT</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[<i>boom</i> boosts science theatre]]></title>
	    	<link><![CDATA[http://www.the-scientist.com/blog/display/56157/]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[The lifeblood of theatre pulses with love, hardship, and self-discovery. But with science... not so much. Laboratory-borne concepts, scientific]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 November 2009 20:28:45 GMT</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[HIV antibody duds explained]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Researchers may have finally answered the question of why many antibodies that target the HIV envelope are still unable to stop the virus from]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 November 2009 19:00:01 GMT</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[2nd human hESC trial?]]></title>
	    	<link><![CDATA[http://www.the-scientist.com/blog/display/56155/]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[A second company has requested permission from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to conduct a human clinical trial using embryonic stem]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 November 2009 15:00:01 GMT</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[A fix for Down syndrome brains?]]></title>
	    	<link><![CDATA[http://www.the-scientist.com/blog/display/56154/]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Boosting levels of a neurotransmitter in the brain may reverse some of the cognitive abnormalities that characterize Down syndrome, according to a]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 November 2009 20:03:30 GMT</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA["Study ethics, NIH!"]]></title>
	    	<link><![CDATA[http://www.the-scientist.com/blog/display/56151/]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[The government agency tasked with funding crucial life science research needs to focus more attention on ethical quandaries and nefarious business]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 November 2009 18:37:07 GMT</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[New head for US genome institute]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[National Institutes of Health director Francis Collins today (November 17) announced a successor to fill his vacant post as head of NIH's National]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 November 2009 18:27:07 GMT</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[HIV trial vector specter ]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Did patients in a failed HIV vaccine trial halted in 2007 become more susceptible to the virus due to the adenoviral vector used to deliver the]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 November 2009 15:58:49 GMT</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[deCODE files for bankruptcy]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Iceland-based genomics pioneer deCODE linkurl:announced this morning;http://www.decode.com/News/news.php?s=32 (November 17) that it has filed for]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 November 2009 15:40:57 GMT</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[EU trial rules stall research ]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[European clinical trial guidelines meant to make trials safer and more efficient are actually slowing down studies that could help patients, and even]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 November 2009 01:00:01 GMT</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[When does oversight overstep?]]></title>
	    	<link><![CDATA[http://www.the-scientist.com/blog/display/56148/]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[When vascular biologist linkurl:John Cooke;http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/gcrc/faculty/John_Cooke/ of Stanford University received a grant in 2007]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 November 2009 19:23:14 GMT</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[China reaches for African science]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[China took on a new role in African science last weekend (November 8), announcing plans to promote research in agriculture, medicine, and clean]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 November 2009 15:03:03 GMT</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Docs that rock]]></title>
	    	<link><![CDATA[http://www.the-scientist.com/blog/display/56146/]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[On a recent Monday night at World Cafe Live in Philadelphia, four bands took to the stage to determine who ruled rock. But manning the mics, guitars,]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 November 2009 15:31:15 GMT</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Q&A: Gene therapy turnaround]]></title>
	    	<link><![CDATA[http://www.the-scientist.com/blog/display/56145/]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Judging by the stream of studies in the last few months, it seems the field of gene therapy is beginning to replace its troubled history with the]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 November 2009 16:10:35 GMT</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[New drug target for cancer]]></title>
	    	<link><![CDATA[http://www.the-scientist.com/blog/display/56143/]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Scientists have developed a new drug that blocks a transcription factor -- previously thought to be un-blockable -- that has been causally linked to]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 November 2009 18:15:00 GMT</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Family versus science]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The pressures of family obligations and child-rearing are pushing young female researchers out of science, according to a new study released this]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 November 2009 16:35:04 GMT</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[The blogopharmasphere?]]></title>
	    	<link><![CDATA[http://www.the-scientist.com/blog/display/56142/]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[This year has been a busy one for Big Pharma: Billion dollar legal settlements, game-changing mergers, and labor cutbacks of epic proportions have]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 November 2009 16:07:57 GMT</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Paul Zamecnik dies]]></title>
	    	<link><![CDATA[http://www.the-scientist.com/blog/display/56140/]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Paul Zamecnik, a Lasker award-winning biologist who co-discovered transfer RNA, died late last month at the age of 96. Zamecnik died at his Boston]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 November 2009 16:16:15 GMT</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Early stress alters epigenome]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Scientists have figured out how stress experienced early in life can cause long-lasting changes in physiology and behavior -- via epigenetics.]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 November 2009 18:00:01 GMT</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Scientific song and dance]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[What started as a creative idea for a video contest about nanotechnology is now growing into a full-fledged science music video production team.]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 November 2009 20:31:12 GMT</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[New mechanism for nano damage?]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nanoparticles can damage DNA even in cells that are not directly exposed to them, according to an in vitro study published online today (November 5)]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 November 2009 18:00:01 GMT</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Genetic steps to adaptation]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Researchers for the first time have tracked the specific genetic mutations -- occurring  over just a few generations -- that allow bacteria to]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 November 2009 18:03:30 GMT</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[3 Calif stem cell grants revoked]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[California's stem cell funding agency giveth and it taketh away: Just last week, the agency awarded more than $250 million to stem cell researchers]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 November 2009 18:54:29 GMT</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Pioneering protein chemist dies]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mildred Cohn, a renowned chemist who battled sexual discrimination for much of her career, died last month (October 12) at age 96, succumbing to]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 November 2009 16:07:25 GMT</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Science foundation for Nigeria?]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[A four-year-old promise to create a $5 billion publically funded competitive granting agency in Nigeria -- which would be the second such agency in]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 November 2009 15:37:03 GMT</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Malaria vaccine hits Phase III]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The first-ever Phase III trial for a malaria vaccine has officially begun, with more than 5,000 African children already given the first round of]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 November 2009 05:01:06 GMT</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[One stop research shopping]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ever spent days combing the internet for that one reagent or cell line that could take your research to the next level --- to no avail? A new]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 November 2009 00:43:03 GMT</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Conflicted psychiatrist leaves Emory]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Emory University psychiatry researcher who failed to report hundreds of thousands of dollars in pharmaceutical company payouts while receiving]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 November 2009 15:31:54 GMT</pubDate>
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