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[Entry posted at 26th November 2008 05:00 PM GMT]
The signals that tell your skeleton to lay down new bone come from an unlikely source -- your gut, according to a study published today (Nov. 26) in Cell.
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Researchers have discovered an electrifying love story in the turbid rivers of the lower Congo rapids. Elephant-nosed electric fish find and recognize their mates through crackling communications, according a study published today (Nov. 25) in ... Click to continue
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Improper citation, disregard for antecedent research, and shoddy experimentation - those are just a few of the allegations levied against a recent research paper written by a team of Stanford University scientists.
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[Entry posted at 21st November 2008 04:16 PM GMT]
Ministers from more than 60 developing world nations called for urgent action to improve health research this week, although it's unclear what on-the-ground changes will actually be made.
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They twirled and tangoed, somersaulted and flipped. Some interpreted their science through hula-hoops set ablaze, while others used the beats of ... Click to continue
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Scientific trade groups organizations seem quite pleased with the appointment of former Senator Tom Daschle to the position of Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services. But ... Click to continue
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[Entry posted at 19th November 2008 10:26 PM GMT]
The Journal of Experimental Biology (JEB) has issued the first retraction in its 85 year history, the journal reported in an editorial and a ... Click to continue
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[Entry posted at 19th November 2008 09:19 PM GMT]
The British government and the pharmaceutical industry have struck a deal to allow flexible drug pricing arrangements, a scheme which could shave millions of pounds off the total amount that the government-funded National Health Service (NHS) pays ... Click to continue
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[Entry posted at 19th November 2008 06:10 PM GMT]
Former Senator Tom Daschle has accepted the position of Secretary of Health and Human Services, according to anonymous sources in the Democratic Party.
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[Entry posted at 19th November 2008 05:27 PM GMT]
Simple communication between a pair of neighboring cells allows tiny marine worms to move toward light using a sensory organ believed to be an ancient precursor of the eye, according to a study out this week in Nature.
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Inhibitory neurons make up about a third of the neurons in the cerebral cortex, but researchers know little about how they take their place in the developing brain. New findings suggest that their migration is controlled by a back and forth ... Click to continue
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[Entry posted at 18th November 2008 06:26 PM GMT]
The NASDAQ giveth and the NASDAQ taketh away, especially if you're a biotechnology company.
While California-based Celera Genomics made it onto the semi-annually updated NASDAQ Biotechnology ... Click to continue
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[Entry posted at 18th November 2008 04:48 PM GMT]
We're writing a feature to check in on scientists working on bridging the gap between brain and machine. We're planning on asking them, "What's taking so long?"
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[Entry posted at 18th November 2008 02:42 AM GMT]
Novel genes, rather than regulatory DNA, underlie the evolution of morphological traits, according to research published today (Nov. 17) in PLoS Biology. The new ... Click to continue
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[Entry posted at 17th November 2008 05:48 PM GMT]
Neurons involved in pain processing have been the subject of much research in the past decades, but neurons responsible for a more pesky problem -- itchy skin -- remain elusive.
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[Entry posted at 14th November 2008 10:03 PM GMT]
In the course of human history, something wonky happened to the levels of genetic diversity on the X chromosome -- scientists just can't agree on what. Two research teams reported conflicting reports about X chromosome diversity yesterday (Nov. 13) ... Click to continue
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[Entry posted at 14th November 2008 03:38 PM GMT]
Have you ever been so fed-up with colleagues at work that you considered poisoning them?
Hopefully not, but at least one lab researcher can claim to have been stressed to the point of insanity. A postdoc in the urology department at the University ... Click to continue
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[Entry posted at 14th November 2008 03:02 PM GMT]
Job seekers hoping to land a position in President-elect Barack Obama's administration would be wise to pick up a copy of the US government's Plum Book, which lists some key science positions to be filled as Obama ... Click to continue
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[Entry posted at 14th November 2008 03:23 AM GMT]
Cellular stress during replication induces many small deletions and duplications in the genome, adding fuel for human diversity and disease, researchers reported today (Nov. 13) at the American Society of Human Genetics ... Click to continue
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Beauty may be skin deep, but our body's outer coating has an ugly side, too: microbes. Researchers reported at the American Society of Human Genetics ... Click to continue
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[Entry posted at 13th November 2008 08:18 PM GMT]
The US National Institutes of Health (NIH) deputy director for extramural research stepped down last month to take on a new post.
Norka Ruiz Bravo, who had been in her position at the NIH for five years, vacated the role at the end of October and ... Click to continue
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[Entry posted at 13th November 2008 04:45 PM GMT]
A day after dedicating a new facility for pathogen research, the University of Texas-Galveston Medical Branch in Galveston announced yesterday (November 13) it will lay off roughly one-third ... Click to continue
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[Entry posted at 12th November 2008 07:56 PM GMT]
Two large-scale genetic analyses have turned up a trio of new sites associated with autism, including a large-effect allele that seems to reduce the risk of developing the debilitating brain disorder, researchers reported today (Nov. 12) at the ... Click to continue
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The world's first independent laboratory devoted solely to the development of an AIDS vaccine opens today (Nov. 12) in Brooklyn, New York.
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Five years after construction first started, then stopped, then started again, Oxford University's controversial animal research lab officially opened its doors today (Nov. 11).
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Former University of Iowa molecular biologist, Jusan Yang, falsified several figures in an unpublished manuscript and at two scientific meetings, the US Public Health Service's Office of Research Integrity (ORI) ... Click to continue
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[Entry posted at 10th November 2008 10:53 PM GMT]
Mammalian hair has a surprising evolutionary origin, according to a study published in PNAS this week: the reptilian claw.
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In the same way it's hard to see the Milky Way in a major city, researchers sometimes struggle to see tagged structures because of natural background light emitted by cells. In this week's Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, ... Click to continue
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Starting this month, a former physician took on the unenviable task of serving as the interim-director of the National Institutes of Health, assuming the reins from Elias Zerhouni. ... Click to continue
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A synthetic vaccine for Helicobacter pylori designed by a team of undergraduate students from Slovenia took the grand prize this weekend at iGEM, the student synthetic biology competition organized by ... Click to continue
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[Entry posted at 10th November 2008 03:23 PM GMT]
US President-elect Barack Obama is already considering a lift on the current restrictions on embryonic stem cell research, according to a member of Obama's transition team.
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[Entry posted at 10th November 2008 02:00 PM GMT]
Putting the brakes on blood vessel growth, or angiogenesis, surrounding a tumor can boost rather than stymie tumor growth, according to two papers out this week in Nature -- complicating a ... Click to continue
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[Entry posted at 7th November 2008 05:07 PM GMT]
Sanofi-Aventis announced this week that it would discontinue clinical trials of its anti-obesity drug, Acomplia. The decision followed similar moves by Pfizer and Merck, who also recently abandoned development of similar weight loss drugs.
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[Entry posted at 6th November 2008 10:49 PM GMT]
Now that election day is over and we can stop feverishly predicting who will move into the White House, it's time to start feverishly predicting who President-elect Barack Obama will appoint to ... Click to continue
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Two compounds ubiquitously present in disposable lab plastics -- from test tubes and pipette tips to 96-well plates-- may be wreaking havoc on biomedical experiments, a study in Science reports ... Click to continue
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Scientists have discovered a surprising link in the trade-off between reproducing and aging -- fat metabolism. A fat-burning enzyme in Caenorhabditis elegans is activated after germline stem cells stop proliferating, leading to leaner and ... Click to continue
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[Entry posted at 5th November 2008 10:30 PM GMT]
The European Commission unveiled a draft protocol on animal welfare today (Nov. 5) that proposes to ban testing on great apes including gorillas, chimpanzees, ... Click to continue
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[Entry posted at 5th November 2008 05:13 PM GMT]
Forensic experts have obtained a DNA profile of the unknown killer of a schoolgirl raped and shot dead 62 years ago near Swansea, Wales.
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[Entry posted at 5th November 2008 05:06 PM GMT]
Science groups are welcoming Senator Barack Obama's landslide victory as the 44th President of the United States.
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[Entry posted at 4th November 2008 11:40 PM GMT]
High-security labs that deal with the deadliest pathogens - biosafety level (BSL) 4 facilities - are boosting their security in light of recent mishaps, but experts say those changes, while welcome, aren't nearly enough. What's more, safety experts ... Click to continue
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While restoring dinosaurs from preserved mosquitoes remains as scientifically implausible as it was when the hit science fiction film Jurassic Park was made in 1993, the possibility of cloning the ... Click to continue
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[Entry posted at 3rd November 2008 04:11 PM GMT]
A pathogen lab at the University of Georgia which aims to work with viruses such as SARS and avian influenza has been temporarily closed after two flooding incidents this fall.
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