News: [Entry posted at 26th June 2009 02:18 PM GMT] Every day, in countless classrooms across the globe, chalk-dusted science professors turn to rapidly sketched stick figure drawings to communicate scientific concepts with an economy of style.
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News: [Entry posted at 25th June 2009 03:57 PM GMT] Citing past scientific work in present-day research papers can be a slippery business. Contributions from competing labs can be glossed over, pertinent studies accidentally left out, or similar research not mentioned in an attempt to give the study ... Click to continue
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News: [Entry posted at 24th June 2009 06:00 PM GMT] Scientists have elucidated a key element of how diet restriction might boost life span. A single pair of proteins, whose activity is linked to diminished food intake, is responsible for significantly increasing the lifespan of worms, a ... Click to continue
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News: [Entry posted at 17th June 2009 04:49 PM GMT] The University of Iowa has gotten the green light to build a subterranean vivarium that will house experimental animals to be used in biomedical research and offer an extra measure of protection from animal rights extremists.
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News: [Entry posted at 11th June 2009 08:36 PM GMT] The editor-in-chief of an open access journal has stepped down from his post after learning that the journal accepted a fake, computer-generated article for publication. So has an editorial advisory board member of a second journal published by the ... Click to continue
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News: [Entry posted at 10th June 2009 11:13 AM GMT] An open access journal has agreed to publish a nonsensical article written by a computer program, claiming that the manuscript was peer reviewed and requesting that the "authors" pay $800 in "open access fees."
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News: [Entry posted at 9th June 2009 09:41 PM GMT] Today on Capitol Hill, Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius caught a little guff from Senators Tom Harkin (D-IA) and Arlen Specter (D-PA) about the paltry increase -- just about $442 million -- that HHS is proposing ... Click to continue
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News: [Entry posted at 8th June 2009 09:14 PM GMT] The key to fighting the ravages of termites and other insect pests could lie in the ubiquitous glucose molecule, tweaked to weaken insect immune systems, say researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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News: [Entry posted at 4th June 2009 07:04 PM GMT] Publishing company Elsevier is revising its policies and procedures for partnering with pharmaceutical companies to create custom publications in response to recent media attention over a fake journal, called the Australasian Journal of Bone and ... Click to continue
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