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Brazil's Supreme Court upheld legislation yesterday (May 28) that allows research on embryonic stem cells, according to the Associated Press.
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The National Institutes of Health announced plans today (May 29) to inject $533 million over the next five years into speeding up the ... Click to continue
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Zookeepers in England are using blood-sucking insects to collect blood samples from zoo animals, according to the BBC. The bugs may allow routine health checks without the use of ... Click to continue
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Francis Collins told reporters at a conference call today that he'd be considering "a number of opportunities, some in the private, some in the public sector," and said he'd even consider heading up the NIH, after ... Click to continue
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The director of the NIH's National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI), Francis Collins, announced today (May 28) that he will step down from his position on August 1.
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Greater coordination between Europe's biobanks is "urgently needed," says a group of leading European scientists in a policy briefing ... Click to continue
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Having a social life may just be the key to longevity, and the effect of interacting with peers shows up even in basic molecular pathways, according to a new study from University of Iowa ... Click to continue
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Scientists have long known of the tumor suppressors and oncogenes that kick-start cancer. Now researchers report that downstream genes affected by such mutations act synergistically to further promote cancer progression, according to a study ... Click to continue
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Yesterday the US Senate approved a bill that includes $400 million for NIH funding. The provision is part of the Senate's Supplemental Appropriations bill for 2008, primarily intended to ... Click to continue
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When I first heard about a computer game based on folding proteins, I must admit, I was skeptical. How fun could it possibly be to manipulate a virtual protein for points? Well, after countless hours of first hand experimentation I've arrived at an ... Click to continue
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The US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has not demonstrated that moving foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) research from an island lab in New York to a ... Click to continue
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President Bush signed into law the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act (GINA) yesterday (May 21). GINA, which passed the House and Senate last month, prevents insurers and employers ... Click to continue
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Anthony Fauci, director of NIH's National Institute of Allergies and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), is apparently making good on the promise to "turn the knob towards discovery" in HIV ... Click to continue
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A team of researchers has discovered millions of slender, sea star-like creatures - called brittlestars - thriving on a submerged oceanic ridge in the icy waters between New Zealand and ... Click to continue
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Mitotic cell divisions, long thought to produce two identical daughter cells, are not entirely equal, according to a new study published this week in Proceedings of the National Academy ... Click to continue
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Scientists have created the first transgenic monkey model of Huntington disease (HD), according to a report that appeared yesterday in Nature. But it's unclear how ... Click to continue
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There still may be hope for a boost to National Institutes of Health funding in 2008. Yesterday the US Senate snuck some $400 million into a bill approved by the House earlier this week for funding the Iraq war.
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Disgraced South Korean stem cell researcher Hwang Woo-suk has set up a biotechnology firm in Seoul for cloning animal pets and producing organs for transplant, according to Agence France Presse.
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The FDA has delayed approval of an application for the first human embryonic stem cell clinical trial by Geron Corporation, the company announced yesterday.
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Some potential cancer therapies may do more harm than good: A class of compounds intended to boost tumor suppressor p53 activity may actually promote mutant versions of the gene, a ... Click to continue
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A researcher in Canada has been living high on the government hog, spending thousands on toys and personal effects with federal money meant to fund his research.
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British parliamentarians voted to allow the controversial human embryo bill to continue to the next stage of debate yesterday (May 12), according to Agence France Presse. Just nine members of the governing Labour party voted against the bill, which ... Click to continue
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Publishers are getting a new tool in the fight against plagiarism in scientific manuscripts.
The Scientific business of Thomson Reuters announced on May 1 that they would be offering ... Click to continue
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A former Congressman, speaking at a meeting of researchers, policy makers, and advocates last Friday (May 9), urged scientists to become intimately involved in the political process. And he encouraged the nation's scientists to do much more than ... Click to continue
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BrainCells, a company that stakes its existence on the once-heretical notion of adult neurogenesis, is finally taking its novel treatment for depression into a phase II trial, CEO Jim ... Click to continue
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The third annual Neurotech Industry meeting in Boston kicked off yesterday morning (May 8) with some big numbers:
- Two billion people each year are affected by brain-related illnesses, from stroke to depression to chronic pain, with an economic ... Click to continue
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A former postdoc at the University of Nebraska Medical Center (UNMC) falsified and fabricated DNA sequences and methylation status in unpublished data about a tumor suppressor gene, a UNMC investigation, in conjunction with the Office of Research ... Click to continue
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Victimless Leather, one of the works on show at the Museum of Modern Art's Design and the Elastic Mind exhibition, has claimed a victim: itself. Exhibition curator, Paola Antonelli, pulled the plug on the piece's life-support system last week, ... Click to continue
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Microbes may have the capacity for a type of learning generally attributed to higher organisms, suggests a paper published online in Science today (May 8).
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If you're thinking of buying flowers for mom this Sunday, beware of nature's seductive marketing. A new study published on-line this week in the Journal of ... Click to continue
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New findings help resolve a long-standing debate in immunology over what type of cells are behind the progression of type-1 diabetes: attacker or protector cells.
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An Australian research group is proposing a surprising technique to alleviate the ecological damage that the invasive cane toad has caused to many regions of Australia.
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The number of fat cells in a person's body is determined during childhood and stays constant throughout life, with about 10 percent of fat cells dying and being replaced annually, according ... Click to continue
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The discoverer of telomerase, Elizabeth Blackburn, and Joan Steitz, known for identifying small ribonucleoproteins (snRNPs) and elucidating their role in DNA transcription, were awarded the $500,000 Albany Medical Center Prize today (May 2). They ... Click to continue
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The Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA) has agreed to reassess controversial treatment guidelines for Lyme disease after an unprecedented antitrust investigation was launched against the group last year, according to the ... Click to continue
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Botanists from all over the world have convened in New York City and are hammering out plans to assemble a DNA-based catalog of the Earth's tree species.
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A medical publisher has changed its copyright policy to ease the process for authors to comply with the federal public access mandate. Starting today (May 1), authors will automatically retain copyright of manuscripts submitted to Rockefeller ... Click to continue
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Before therapies using human embryonic stem cells can be approved by the Food and Drug Administration, researchers will have to answer one key question: where do the cells go when they are injected into the patient?
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