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When two plants are grafted together, they share much more than water and minerals: They also swap genetic material, according to a study published in tomorrow's (May 1) issue of ... Click to continue
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Merck paid an undisclosed sum to Elsevier to produce several volumes of a publication that had the look of a peer-reviewed medical journal, but contained only reprinted or summarized articles--most of which presented data favorable to Merck ... Click to continue
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A new study overthrows a long-held theory on how HIV finds its way into host cells. Rather than fusing directly with the host cell membrane, the virus is first engulfed by it to form a vesicle that releases its contents into the cytoplasm, a study ... Click to continue
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[Entry posted at 29th April 2009 05:40 PM GMT]
After a three-year moratorium on human stem cell research, South Korean officials gave the go-ahead to a new research project involving human eggs today (Apr. 29) provided that the research meets certain provisos.
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[Entry posted at 29th April 2009 04:51 PM GMT]
As news of the first American swine flu death--a 23-month-old baby in Texas--broke yesterday, the US Senate confirmed Kansas Governor Kathleen Sebelius's appointment to head the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), and she got right to ... Click to continue
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[Entry posted at 29th April 2009 12:01 AM GMT]
Arachnophobes beware: Researchers have discovered a male spider in the Judean foothills of Israel with a sadistic sexual perversion. Males of the aptly named Harpactea sadistica spider jab their spiked copulatory organs into the body walls of ... Click to continue
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[Entry posted at 27th April 2009 05:32 PM GMT]
As reported cases of swine flu continue to accumulate (as of today, 40 had been reported in the US) and mainstream media outlets dust off their foreboding music tracks and positively scary taglines, a ... Click to continue
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[Entry posted at 27th April 2009 05:24 AM GMT]
The giant meteor that crashed off the coast of Mexico around 65 million years ago hit the Earth too early to explain the dinosaurs' demise and was too tame to even hurt a protist, according to a new study published today (Apr. 27) in the ... Click to continue
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[Entry posted at 24th April 2009 09:26 PM GMT]
A much-contested plan to build a $450 million government biodefense research lab has hit another snag: A group of Texas research organizations that lobbied for San Antonio to house the lab says it will sue the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) ... Click to continue
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[Entry posted at 23rd April 2009 08:53 PM GMT]
After weeks of eating nothing, a patient being treated at the National Institutes of Health was recently able to suck on a lifesaver for about 20 minutes. He has a rare condition that prevents him from eating for long stretches, but when art ... Click to continue
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[Entry posted at 23rd April 2009 07:23 PM GMT]
Following a final report from a prominent South Korean university, Science formally retracted a paper today (Apr. 23) from Korean researcher Kim Tae-kook purportedly reporting a new technology to identify drug targets called magnetism-based ... Click to continue
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[Entry posted at 23rd April 2009 07:07 PM GMT]
Scientists have used traces of retrovirus DNA to map ancient sheep migration across Asia, Europe, and Africa, a paper in this week's Science reports. The results may help settle a debate about where humans first bred sheep for their white, fleecy ... Click to continue
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[Entry posted at 23rd April 2009 05:00 PM GMT]
Researchers have attained the holy grail of cellular reprogramming: inducing pluripotency without using any DNA-based materials. Using only a cocktail of purified proteins and a chemical additive, investigators have generated induced pluripotent ... Click to continue
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[Entry posted at 23rd April 2009 04:25 PM GMT]
New findings are calling into question a long-held theory for how a dividing cell decides to stop the process of mitosis and restart the cell cycle.
Chromosomes (blue) and mitoticspindle (green) during cell division Image: Oak Ridge Nat'l Lab, via ... Click to continue
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[Entry posted at 22nd April 2009 10:25 PM GMT]
A company that serves as an independent review board for clinical trials and was caught approving a fake medical device study will close, the Wall Street Journal reports.
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[Entry posted at 22nd April 2009 06:00 PM GMT]
Researchers have found a fossilized ancestor of modern seals and sea lions that they say represents an evolutionary step in the organisms' transition from land-dwelling mammals to the aquatic creatures they are today. The fossil skeleton is thought ... Click to continue
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[Entry posted at 22nd April 2009 05:04 PM GMT]
The British government is investing £750 million ($1.1 billion) to bolster the ailing biotech industry and other commercial science and technology sectors.
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[Entry posted at 21st April 2009 10:02 PM GMT]
A Los Angeles County grand jury arraigned two animal rights activists yesterday (Apr. 20) charged with ten felonies, including stalking and conspiracy to threaten a public officer or school employee, for ... Click to continue
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[Entry posted at 21st April 2009 07:20 PM GMT]
Kathleen Sebelius, President Barack Obama's pick to lead the US Department of Health and Human Services, has moved one step closer to being confirmed for the position by the US Senate.
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[Entry posted at 21st April 2009 04:42 PM GMT]
The US federal agency tasked with tackling cancer has laid out a plan to double the number of cancer research projects it funds, prioritizing first-time grants to young researchers and emphasizing genomic approaches to understanding the ... Click to continue
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[Entry posted at 20th April 2009 04:11 PM GMT]
DNA sequences that don't code for proteins and are repeated thousands or millions of times in the genome are more than just genomic deadwood: These regions contain promoter sequences that can instigate not only their own transcription, but the ... Click to continue
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[Entry posted at 20th April 2009 04:06 PM GMT]
Researchers have designed a way to streamline the construction of synthetic gene networks, a paper published online this week in Nature Biotechnology reports. The technique could speed up the process of building such networks, the authors say.
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[Entry posted at 17th April 2009 10:36 PM GMT]
Stem cell lines eligible for US federal research dollars must be derived from embryos created for reproductive purposes that are no longer needed for those purposes, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) announced this afternoon (April 17).
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[Entry posted at 16th April 2009 07:00 PM GMT]
Members of a microbial community from a pool of water deep under the Arctic ice power their metabolism by "breathing" iron, a study in this week's Science reports. The previously unknown mechanism may explain how microbes survived during a period ... Click to continue
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[Entry posted at 16th April 2009 05:01 PM GMT]
Researchers have discovered a cellular mechanism that helps nocturnal mammals see in the dark. Mice, cats, deer, lemurs, and other mammals that are active at night remodel the DNA within their eyes to turn photoreceptor cells into light-collecting ... Click to continue
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[Entry posted at 15th April 2009 05:02 PM GMT]
Researchers have identified well-delineated brain networks that are linked to five distinct neurodegenerative diseases, according to a paper published in Neuron today (April 15).
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[Entry posted at 14th April 2009 11:29 PM GMT]
A company that serves as an independent review board for clinical trials and was the center of a recent Congressional "sting operation" was reprimanded today (April 14) by the US Food and ... Click to continue
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Chemical traces of medicinal herbs identified in ancient Egyptian wine jugs demonstrate that the culture employed herbal remedies 1500 years earlier than previously thought, reports ... Click to continue
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[Entry posted at 12th April 2009 05:44 PM GMT]
Are female mammals born with all the eggs they'll ever have, or can they produce new eggs into adulthood? The question has been vociferously debated, but now, a study published online in Nature Cell Biology today (April 12) reports that at least in ... Click to continue
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[Entry posted at 10th April 2009 04:17 PM GMT]
Researchers have proposed an explanation for how three species of tiny fish manage to coexist despite having seemingly incompatible modes of reproduction, according to a study published in Oikos last week.
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[Entry posted at 9th April 2009 07:31 PM GMT]
After a couple years of discussion, NIH and NASA are teaming up to send your biomedical experiments into space.
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[Entry posted at 9th April 2009 04:32 PM GMT]
Five leading British research universities were ordered yesterday (Apr. 8) by the government to reveal information about experiments involving primates after a three-year battle with an animal rights organization.
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[Entry posted at 9th April 2009 04:26 PM GMT]
A former assistant professor at the Harvard Medical School (HMS) and the Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston falsified and fabricated data in a study of sleep apnea, the Office of Research Integrity ... Click to continue
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[Entry posted at 9th April 2009 03:27 PM GMT]
Genentech withdrew its psoriasis drug Raptiva from the market yesterday, citing the risk of developing progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy (PML), a rare, often fatal brain infection. The drug will be phased out by June 8 of this year, ... Click to continue
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[Entry posted at 8th April 2009 04:10 PM GMT]
A senior-level tenured neuroscientist at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies in La Jolla, Calif., is teetering on the edge of closing his lab after Salk administrators pulled hundreds of thousands of dollars in funding that was tied to a ... Click to continue
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[Entry posted at 6th April 2009 10:32 PM GMT]
Autism and schizophrenia may be two sides of the same genomic coin. Copy number variations in the exact same genes determine whether patients suffer from one condition or the other, according to data presented on Friday (Apr. 3) at the ... Click to continue
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Researchers have for the first time identified a gene that boosts fertility in humans. A single amino acid substitution in a gene linked with cystic fibrosis may be responsible for the differential reproductive success of some men living in a ... Click to continue
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[Entry posted at 2nd April 2009 09:12 PM GMT]
In recent weeks the National Institutes of Health has been churning out new grant announcements tied to the handsome $10.4 billion sum the agency netted through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA), otherwise known as the stimulus ... Click to continue
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[Entry posted at 2nd April 2009 06:00 PM GMT]
New findings support a controversial hypothesis about the biological role of sleep: Snoozing may be a way for the brain to clear clutter accumulated after a hard day of synapse forming and strengthening. Two Science studies published today ... Click to continue
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[Entry posted at 2nd April 2009 05:00 PM GMT]
Prions may not just be culprits in disease -- they may also do some good, new research shows. Proteins prone to morph into prions are widespread in yeast, and may benefit the organism by helping it adapt to a changing environment, scientists report ... Click to continue
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