News: [Entry posted at 29th February 2008 03:44 PM GMT] Big tobacco is pulling its money out of academic research -- kind of. Tobacco company Philip Morris told researchers in September of last year that it was ending its controversial extramural research program, Science ... Click to continue
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News: [Entry posted at 28th February 2008 06:50 PM GMT] One of three stem cell patents held by the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (WARF) is valid, according to a non-final ruling issued on Monday by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
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News: [Entry posted at 28th February 2008 04:20 PM GMT] A California biotech announced at the Stem Cell Summit in New York City on Tuesday that they have successfully reprogrammed human skin, kidney, and retina cells to a stem-cell-like state without using potentially cancer-causing retroviruses. But ... Click to continue
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News: [Entry posted at 26th February 2008 03:02 PM GMT] Autoimmune diseases may not stem from defects in the immune system alone. Rather, developmental genetic abnormalities in organ tissues may make those organs more susceptible to autoimmune ... Click to continue
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News: [Entry posted at 26th February 2008 12:13 AM GMT] More questions have come up over the new National Institutes of Health public access mandate and its fairness to journal publishers. Two weeks ago Pennsylvania Senator Arlen Specter sent a letter to NIH director Elias Zerhouni questioning whether ... Click to continue
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News: [Entry posted at 22nd February 2008 09:19 PM GMT] The sanctity of peer review is under scrutiny again.
Last month Pfizer filed a motion in federal court to force the New England Journal of Medicine to turn over confidential peer review documents for two of their products, Celebrex and Bextra. The ... Click to continue
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News: [Entry posted at 18th February 2008 02:01 PM GMT] Another microbicide to prevent HIV transmission has been deemed ineffective. The Population Council, a nonprofit research organization, which has been developing the microbicide ... Click to continue
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News: [Entry posted at 13th February 2008 06:28 PM GMT] All papers by Harvard scholars accepted for publication as of today will be freely available to the public. The Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences unanimously passed a motion ... Click to continue
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News: [Entry posted at 11th February 2008 03:24 PM GMT] NIH-funded postdocs won't be getting a raise this year. The agency announced last week that it would freeze National Research Service Award (NRSA) stipends for ... Click to continue
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News: [Entry posted at 5th February 2008 07:54 PM GMT] The less-than-reputable entrepreneur at the helm of a company peddling hypo-allergenic cats is under scrutiny again -- this time for fraudulent "designer cats." But now he's taking the offensive by making allegations against journalists who have ... Click to continue
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News: [Entry posted at 4th February 2008 10:31 PM GMT] Joshua Lederberg, Nobel Prize-winning molecular biologist who shaped the field of bacterial genetics, and served as chair of The Scientist's advisory board since 1986, died on Saturday (February 2). He was 82.
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