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The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation said today (January 29) that they will donate $10 billion over the next 10 years to develop vaccines and deliver them to the world's poorest countries. The donation, announced at the World Economic Forum in ... Click to continue
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[Entry posted at 28th January 2010 02:35 PM GMT]
Mapping genetic interactions is old hat, but now scientists are mapping science itself, and looked to see how it's been changing. According to the results of a mathematical model, neuroscience, for example, has only evolved into a mature scientific ... Click to continue
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[Entry posted at 27th January 2010 06:00 PM GMT]
In a striking demonstration of cellular flexibility, scientists have created functioning neurons from fibroblasts, without going through an intermediate pluripotent stage, according to a study published online this week in Nature.
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[Entry posted at 27th January 2010 04:45 PM GMT]
A panel has recommended that life science publishing giant Elsevier tame its most radical journal by making it choose papers via peer review -- not editor's choice -- and limiting the topics it covers.
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[Entry posted at 27th January 2010 03:58 PM GMT]
When he addresses the nation tonight (27th January), US President Obama is expected to call for a three-year freeze on federal spending for any programs not dealing with the military or homeland defense. But with the budget boosts for federal ... Click to continue
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In a striking example of evolutionary convergence, bats and whales appear to have at least two things in common: their ability to use biosonar to navigate and explore their environments and the molecular sequence of a protein that helps them do so, ... Click to continue
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[Entry posted at 25th January 2010 03:52 PM GMT]
- The number of orphan drug designations granted by the US Food and Drug Administration has risen sharply over the past 10 years, according to a new study from the Tufts Center ... Click to continue
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[Entry posted at 22nd January 2010 05:04 PM GMT]
For the first time since the National Institutes of Health released its new guidelines for the derivation of human embryonic stem cell (hESC) lines last summer, a line approved under the Bush administration has been ... Click to continue
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[Entry posted at 22nd January 2010 12:05 PM GMT]
Rare diseases and drug discovery don't usually make for Hollywood blockbusters. But today (January 22) a film about a genetic affliction that strikes fewer than 10,000 people worldwide hits movie screens, and it has some serious star power behind ... Click to continue
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[Entry posted at 21st January 2010 09:40 PM GMT]
A leaner version of the failed Icelandic genomics company, deCODE genetics, has emerged from the corporation's bankruptcy late last year. Dubbed the "New deCODE" in a company statement released ... Click to continue
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[Entry posted at 21st January 2010 03:59 PM GMT]
Need a gene promoter? You may soon be able to order one from a catalog. California synthetic biologists are launching a production facility that will provide free, standardized DNA parts for scientists around the ... Click to continue
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[Entry posted at 20th January 2010 04:34 PM GMT]
Deciding when to pull a grant for any reason is one of the most difficult tasks any funding agency faces. It is not a decision that is taken lightly, and is usually a last resort. But it happens. Scientists who falsify data or misuse funds or even ... Click to continue
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[Entry posted at 20th January 2010 03:52 PM GMT]
A small university in Georgia has agreed to pay back $500,000 of a multi-million dollar grant from the National Science Foundation for failing to accurately document some expenditures associated with the grant program.
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[Entry posted at 19th January 2010 03:37 PM GMT]
Marshall W. Nirenberg, who received the 1968 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his work on the language of codons and how DNA is translated into proteins, succumbed to cancer at age 82 in his New York home last week (January 15), after ... Click to continue
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[Entry posted at 18th January 2010 08:00 PM GMT]
Researchers have delved back further than ever into the genetic history of humans, and found that the ancient population that gave rise to modern humans may have been nearly twice as genetically diverse than humans today, according a study published ... Click to continue
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[Entry posted at 18th January 2010 04:14 PM GMT]
- Is the US Food and Drug Administration's 2006 initiative to gain approval for old drugs that predate the current approval process boosting safety or just inflating the cost of such medicines, asks ... Click to continue
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[Entry posted at 15th January 2010 08:15 PM GMT]
With attacks against animal researchers on the rise, three biomedical research groups compiled a guide to scientists for properly responding to requests for data and records while protecting themselves from animal rights activists who may take the ... Click to continue
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Scientists have engineered bacteria that can communicate with each other in a synchronized manner, lighting up in waves of fluorescent green, according to report in this week's Nature. The advance paves the way for developing environmental sensors ... Click to continue
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[Entry posted at 15th January 2010 03:00 PM GMT]
America still produces some of the most well respected science, but with the growth seen in Asia, that may not be the case for much longer, according to new data released from the National Science ... Click to continue
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[Entry posted at 14th January 2010 09:26 PM GMT]
Early last year, Anna Hepler, a Portland, Maine installation artist, filled a gallery with undulating layers of woven plastic. The rich, latticed structure hung from the walls in the shape of a ship's hull, the ... Click to continue
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[Entry posted at 14th January 2010 09:00 PM GMT]
Three of 13 established esophageal adenocarcinoma (EAC) cell lines are not EAC after all. Instead, the lines -- which have led to two clinical trials, more than 100 publications and 11 US patents -- represent three different cancer types altogether, ... Click to continue
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[Entry posted at 13th January 2010 09:42 PM GMT]
The HIV/AIDS clinic in the center of the area of Port-au-Prince hardest hit by yesterday's 7.0 magnitude earthquake is badly damaged but still standing, and most of the center's staff is apparently alive, according to the clinic's director Jean ... Click to continue
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[Entry posted at 13th January 2010 06:00 PM GMT]
Neurons need non-electrical brain cells known as astrocytes to establish synaptic memory, according to study published this week in Nature. The findings challenge the long-standing belief that this process involves only the activity of the neurons ... Click to continue
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[Entry posted at 13th January 2010 06:00 PM GMT]
New findings challenge researchers' understanding of how the Y chromosome evolved -- rather than being the slowest component of the genome to change, as generally believed, it might just be the fastest.
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[Entry posted at 13th January 2010 12:01 AM GMT]
Do genetic mutations really occur at random spots along the genome, as researchers have long supposed? Maybe not, according to a study published online today (January 13) in Proceedings of the Royal Society B, which proposes a mechanism for how new ... Click to continue
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[Entry posted at 12th January 2010 09:21 PM GMT]
It's not just the growth rate of biomedical funding that's slowing; the total number of dollars seems to be decreasing as well, says a study in this week's Journal of the American ... Click to continue
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[Entry posted at 12th January 2010 09:07 PM GMT]
Former National Institutes of Health director and Nobel Laureate Harold Varmus will leave his post as president of New York City's Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center as soon as his successor is chosen.Image: Public Library of Science
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[Entry posted at 12th January 2010 03:32 PM GMT]
A powerful new tool to assess the functionality of the active proteins in any given cell -- the so-called reactome -- has been called into question. How would this recently developed "reactome array," described in a study published last October in ... Click to continue
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[Entry posted at 11th January 2010 04:01 PM GMT]
-A newly released government report calls for changing the rules for conducting research on certain biological materials that could potentially be used as bioterror agents. ... Click to continue
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[Entry posted at 7th January 2010 02:02 PM GMT]
A new and unexpected obstacle is thwarting efforts to control the invasive cane toad populations in Australia: a potential ban on the most commonly used method for killing the animals -- carbon dioxide.
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[Entry posted at 6th January 2010 06:00 PM GMT]
Newly discovered tetrapod footprints suggest that the evolution of limbed vertebrates may have occurred nearly 20 million years earlier than scientists previously believed, according to a study published this week in Nature.
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[Entry posted at 6th January 2010 06:00 PM GMT]
Traces of genetic material from non-retroviruses have unexpectedly turned up in the genomes of several mammal species, including humans.
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Cambridge-based biotech Biogen Idec, the maker of the multiple sclerosis drug Tysabri, announced yesterday that its president and CEO, James ... Click to continue
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[Entry posted at 4th January 2010 08:33 PM GMT]
As a new year stretches before us and the holidays are nothing but a nog-scented memory, here are a few of the life science stories you may have missed while you were enjoying your winter vacation.
1) James Goddard died
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[Entry posted at 4th January 2010 05:04 PM GMT]
The New Year is already looking pretty rosy over at the National Institutes of Health. On December 28th the agency announced a new round of grants made possible through last year's NIH stimulus boost.
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