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The Santa Fe Institute (SFI), a 24-year-old collaborative research center in New Mexico, is tightening its belt in anticipation of continued market instability and a curtailment in donations to support its ... Click to continue
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With Halloween upon us, youngsters and adults alike will enjoy a night of regret-free chocolate bingeing. But how much do you really know about the sweet substance? If you're Stefan ... Click to continue
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The mysterious disease has been ravaging bat populations in the northeastern US appears to be caused by a previously undescribed species of a common fungus, according to research published ... Click to continue
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The 5,000-year-old mummy Öetzi, found in a glacier in the European alps 17 years ago and believed to be an ancestor of modern Europeans, actually belonged to a different genetic family and may have no living descendants, researchers report today ... Click to continue
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[Entry posted at 29th October 2008 08:27 PM GMT]
Pharma giant Wyeth announced plans yesterday to eliminate research in half of its disease research areas. The company has not yet said what, if any, jobs will be cut in the process.
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Venture capital investment in the biotechnology sector appears to be one bright spot in an otherwise gloomy snapshot of the financial climate, according to recent data. But a strong third ... Click to continue
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A high-security pathogen lab in Galveston, Texas, survived the hurricane that hit the region last month, but is now the focus of safety concerns plaguing biosafety research of late.
Galveston is an island often hit by hurricanes. Ike, which hit in ... Click to continue
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[Entry posted at 27th October 2008 10:54 PM GMT]
With just over a week to go until Americans choose their next President, the McCain/Palin campaign has again lashed out at what they've called wasteful "earmark" spending on "pet ... Click to continue
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[Entry posted at 27th October 2008 09:24 PM GMT]
The Web site of the student-run Harvard Health Policy Review is up and running after about a week of mysterious down time, and the journal's editor has apologized for running a controversial article without proper bias ... Click to continue
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[Entry posted at 27th October 2008 07:52 PM GMT]
Local lawmakers in Bremen, Germany, are refusing to renew a prominent neuroscientist's license to conduct research on primates, despite the fact that his research was approved by a national regulatory body.
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[Entry posted at 24th October 2008 09:34 PM GMT]
When I heard that pharmaceutical company Merck was slashing more than 7,000 jobs across the company, my thoughts immediately went to Eric Schadt and his colleagues at Rosetta Inpharmatics, a ... Click to continue
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David Vitrant, a PhD student in genetics at the University of Pittsburgh, thinks he's got a creative idea for alternative schemes to fund research: simply ask the public for money. He recently launched non-profit, called ... Click to continue
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Merck plans to eliminate 7,200 jobs by the end of 2011, according to their 2008 third quarter financial report, released today. The cuts are part of ongoing restructuring ... Click to continue
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Manipulating the brain to over-express a protein can selectively erase short- and long-term fear memories in mice without compromising other memories or harming neurons, according to a study out this week in Neuron.
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[Entry posted at 17th October 2008 05:02 PM GMT]
A fungus that has eradicated more than 100 frog species across the globe has spread to an ecosystem in Panama that researchers hoped might hold out from infection a while longer.
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The first clinical trial treatment based on embryonic stem cells may soon get the go ahead.
In May, the Food and Drug Administration placed a hold on a clinical trial application submitted by ... Click to continue
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[Entry posted at 16th October 2008 11:38 PM GMT]
In a boost to the field of synthetic biology, researchers have created an RNA-based device that can control gene expression of target genes, thus regulating molecular processes in living ... Click to continue
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Two of the five US labs that conduct research on the world's most dangerous pathogens suffer from serious security shortfalls, according to a report released by the Government Accountability Office ... Click to continue
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Adult stem cells become slower at dividing as they age because they get less efficient at sensing their microenvironment, according to a study to be published in Nature tomorrow. The findings suggest a mechanism to explain why production of adult ... Click to continue
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Training the brain to control a single neuron 's activation could restore motion in paralyzed limbs, according to a study to be published tomorrow in Nature. The study ... Click to continue
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[Entry posted at 14th October 2008 08:27 PM GMT]
Iceland biotech deCODE Genetics is taking a hit from the global financial downswing. The company's stock price has plunged 54% since September to $0.45 a share.
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[Entry posted at 14th October 2008 07:43 PM GMT]
An Emory University psychiatrist under investigation by a Senate committee for allegedly failing to disclose more than a million dollars in pharmaceutical company pay has stepped down as principal investigator on a $9.3 million National Institutes ... Click to continue
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[Entry posted at 14th October 2008 04:16 PM GMT]
The recent suicide of microbiologist Bruce Ivins, pegged by the US government as the culprit in a spate of deadly anthrax mailings in 2001, is already spurring a boost in ... Click to continue
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A diseased mammalian embryonic heart boosts its production of heart muscle cells to spur its own regeneration, according to a study appearing tomorrow in ... Click to continue
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[Entry posted at 10th October 2008 06:45 PM GMT]
Will BioMed Central, the publishing house that's been the flagship for open access for nearly a decade, be in good hands with Springer?
Yes, say some open access advocates, as long as the BioMed Central (BMC) publishing model is allowed to ... Click to continue
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[Entry posted at 8th October 2008 06:38 PM GMT]
More than six years after researchers sequenced the genome of the most virulent human malaria parasite, researchers now report the sequences of two more species, according to a pair of ... Click to continue
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Stem cells undergo circadian cycles in humans, emerging from the bone marrow into the bloodstream at higher concentrations at night than in the day, according to a report in Cell Stem Cell ... Click to continue
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[Entry posted at 8th October 2008 03:21 PM GMT]
Three researchers who were instrumental in discovering and developing green florescent protein (GFP), which revolutionized how biologists observe the functioning of living cells, have won the 2008 Nobel Prize for Chemistry. ... Click to continue
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[Entry posted at 8th October 2008 10:44 AM GMT]
The 2008 Nobel Prize in Chemistry will go to a trio of researchers who discovered, expressed, and developed green fluorescent protein (GFP) and revolutionized the way that biologists visualize living cells. Osamu Shimomura discovered GFP in the ... Click to continue
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[Entry posted at 7th October 2008 09:50 PM GMT]
Embryonic stem cell biotech company Advanced Cell Technology (ACT), announced today (Oct. 7) that it will be selling off $500,000 in convertible bonds in the next three months, following the company's ... Click to continue
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[Entry posted at 7th October 2008 05:17 PM GMT]
A former member of a high profile stem cell biology research team at the University of Minnesota has been found guilty of falsifying data, a university investigatory panel has ruled.
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The world's largest open access publisher, BioMed Central, has been sold to Springer.
BioMed Central (a former sister company of The Scientist) publishes 180 peer-reviewed journals under the open access publishing model, meaning that anyone can ... Click to continue
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Researchers in the UK should report more details than they currently do about how much their lab animals are suffering, according to recent recommendations by a UK working group. But one prominent pain researcher thinks such requirements are ... Click to continue
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Renowned psychiatrist Charles Nemeroff stepped down from his position as chairman of the psychiatry department at Emory University on Friday (Oct. 3) amid accusations that he's failed to disclose hundreds of thousands of dollars in pharmaceutical ... Click to continue
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Francoise Barré-Sinoussi of the Institut Pasteur in Paris and Luc Montagnier, cofounder and director of the World Foundation for AIDS Research and Prevention, have won the 2008 Nobel in Physiology or Medicine for their the discovery of HIV. ... Click to continue
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[Entry posted at 6th October 2008 10:14 AM GMT]
This year's Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine will be shared by three researchers who identified two viruses that have had crucial impacts on human health. Harald zur Hausen of the German Cancer Research Center in Heidelberg will be honored for ... Click to continue
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[Entry posted at 2nd October 2008 04:30 PM GMT]
Capturing the eye of a potential mate is the first step in propagating a species. But can the way a female sees males of a certain color lead a single species of fish to split into two?
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Analysis of a newly-identified 48-year-old tissue sample from a woman infected with HIV has confirmed that the virus emerged in the early 20th century, researchers report today in Nature. ... Click to continue
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Predicting who will win Nobel Prizes is a tricky business. The Nobel committees' nomination and selection processes are cloaked in mystery.
Each year, though, a couple brave organizations try their luck. One of these is Thomson Reuters, which has ... Click to continue
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