News: [Entry posted at 22nd December 2009 03:43 PM GMT] It looks like the National Institutes of Health might ring in 2010 by getting serious about addressing conflicts of interest among its grantees.Image: NIH
NIH director Francis Collins, in an interview with C-SPAN's "Newsmakers" program, said that ... Click to continue
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News: [Entry posted at 18th December 2009 03:46 PM GMT] A protein researcher at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) has been found guilty of falsifying data that he used to construct 12 fraudulent protein structures that made it into the scientific literature and an international archive of ... Click to continue
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News: [Entry posted at 16th December 2009 03:15 PM GMT] This has been a boom year at the National Institutes of Health. With a $10 billion infusion thanks to the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, the agency found itself in the unfamiliar position of being flush with cash. As Congress ... Click to continue
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News: [Entry posted at 14th December 2009 09:14 PM GMT] Newly created synthetic particles that mimic red blood cells may one day carry drug molecules and/or oxygen through bloodstreams, according to researchers writing in this week's issue of the ... Click to continue
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News: [Entry posted at 14th December 2009 05:16 PM GMT] Yesterday (13th December), the US Senate OKed a proposal to up the National Institutes of Health's 2010 budget by $692 million, or 2.3 ... Click to continue
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News: [Entry posted at 10th December 2009 03:23 PM GMT] Congress has inched closer to finalizing the budgets for key federal science agencies in the 2010 fiscal year, with a small boost for the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and a larger increase for the National Science Foundation (NSF) in the ... Click to continue
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News: [Entry posted at 8th December 2009 03:49 PM GMT] The new, shortened National Institutes of Health grant applications, designed to make the process easier on applicants and reviewers, may have an unintended downside, some researchers say.
Specifically, some critics say the new, shorter forms -- ... Click to continue
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News: [Entry posted at 2nd December 2009 04:14 PM GMT] Some in the research community grouse about how members of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) can hand pick reviewers and essentially fast track the publication of their papers or papers written by select non-academy members in the high-impact ... Click to continue
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News: [Entry posted at 1st December 2009 03:15 PM GMT] A controversial company that claimed to develop hypoallergenic cats and dogs will bow out of the companion animal business and launch a new venture focused on veterinary diagnostic services starting next year, according to a statement sent out in ... Click to continue
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