The Seattle Times ran a great package of stories yesterday that resulted from an investigation into how hedge funds obtain their cutting-edge information on clinical trials. The investigation found ?at least 26 cases in which doctors have leaked confidential and critical details of their ongoing drug research to Wall Street firms.? Such information is of incredible value to hedge funds, of course; if you?re a manager who bets enough money against a biotech stock because you?re the only one who k

South Korean team overcomes challenges of canine cloning to create Snuppy

Well, it now appears that the ivory-billed woodpecker does exist. The three skeptics who had questioned the evidence presented in a Science paper that the birds were living in an Arkansas swamp now say they are ?strongly convinced that there is at least a pair of ivory bills out there,? according to the New York Times.Very good for ornithologists, the woodpecker, and for those who champion the millions being spent to maintain natural habitats. What was curious about the episode from a scie

By now, you have no doubt heard that three biologists are putting into serious question the reappearance of the ivory-billed woodpecker in the southern US. See the Girl Scientist?s blog for some interesting commentary and a lengthy interview with Tim Gallagher, one of the authors of the original Science report on the find.The New York Times covered the skeptical scientists yesterday (July 21). But one thing yesterday?s story neglected to mention was the Times? own awestruck editorial, on Apr

Agency rejects anti-vivisectionist petition to have firms' research covered by Animal Welfare Act

Thank you, members of Congress, for the opportunity to address you at this hearing today.

These are interesting times for life scientists working in the pharmaceutical industry.

It isn't often that a magazine gets to crow about the fact that something its editor suggested in its pages was put into action, especially by a large bureaucratic agency like the National Institutes of Health.

On a recent visit to the Brooklyn Botanic Garden, the witch hazel was just beginning to bloom, the magnolia trees were budding, but in the herbarium staging area, it was still spring training.

walking barefoot every day through a corridor of filthy, unwashed floors.

Genetic Savings and Clone, a leading pet-cloning company in Sausalito, Calif., announced the sale of its second cloned cat in February and dropped its price for the service from $50,000 to $32,000.

US firm and anti-vivisectionists in a PR cat fight as the price of a cloned kitty drops