The research institution decides not to renew membership to the open access publishing company

Department chair at the University of New Hampshire on administrative leave for disorderly conduct

Biologist Don King has spent years watching precious things disappear. As an educational tour guide in New Mexico in 1981, King led a group through a Navajo village on the way to ruins in Chaco Canyon. They came upon a funeral in the hybrid Catholic-Navajo church for the village medicine man. With his death, hundreds of years of history and culture disappeared, since the local children weren't interested in learning traditional ways, preferring to adopt mainstream American culture.

In 1995, European Union officials made the mistake of deeming the new European ICT Prize the "Nobel Prize" for innovation in information and communication technologies. Soon after, they received a friendly note from the Nobel Foundation saying they had infringed upon a trademark license, and could face legal action. EU officials promised to cease and desist from such comparisons, and everything resolved amicably. As harmless as it may seem to invoke the name of Nobel to

The Trouble With Animal Models Why did human trials fail By Andrea Gawrylewski Related Articles Why sex matters in mouse models Trials and error On October 26, 2006, at the opening day of the Joint World Congress for Stroke in Cape Town, South Africa, disappointing news spread quickly among the attendees: The second Phase III clinical trial for NXY-059 had failed. The drug, a free-radical spin trap agent for ischemic stroke, had been eagerly anticipat

Trials and Error Some of the common problems in trials based on animal models Related Articles 1 But choices for the right model are limited, and certain choices (e.g., primates) tend to limit the number of animals that can be used. The study has to be big enough to detect a clinically important effect, but not so big it wastes resources. Physiological Differences Without perfect matching of cellular processes and mechanisms of action, there is always the chance t

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Nature Precedings raises questions over the value of sharing findings before submitting to peer review

The editor of Fertility and Sterility apologizes for damaging remarks to The Scientist about a controversial paper

Credit: Courtesy of Janeet Stocks" /> Credit: Courtesy of Janeet Stocks On the first day of school after spring break, nine British children had an unusual tale to tell regarding "what I did on my vacation": They climbed Mount Everest. At least part of it, that is. Ranging in age from 6 to 13 years, the kids were part of an expedition that Janet Stocks led. As a professor of respiratory physiology at University College London, Stocks designed a study to investigate how

Credit: © Nissim Benvenisty" /> Credit: © Nissim Benvenisty The paper: M.J. Martin et al., "Human embryonic stem cells express an immunogenic nonhuman sialic acid," Nat Med, 11:228-32, 2005. (Cited in 111 papers) The finding: Ajit Varki and colleagues at the University of California, San Diego, showed that human embryonic stem cells incorporate a nonhuman immunogenic sialic acid from nonhuman growth serum in typical cell culture.

Double-strand breaks during replication occur much less frequently than previously thought