This week’s news includes postdoc protests, evidence that cell phones affect the brain, Japanese university unrest, thoughts on the limited half-life of scientific findings, questionable Novartis promotions, and microworms that monitor blood sugar.
This week’s news includes the suspension of a researcher working to make petri dish-grown meat a reality, an early end to Japan’s research whaling season due to anti-whaling activists, a study showing the brain’s visual reading centers lighting up when blind people read Braille, statistics suggesting the success rate for experimental drugs is plummeting, and…
This week’s news includes the surprising new role of the public sector in drug development, the conclusion of a misconduct case, more residual effects of Chernobyl, the new science gender gap, a second attempt at a non-peer-reviewed journal, and the remarkable re-evolution of frog’s teeth.
This week’s news includes an unexpected benefit of childhood vaccines, a potentially colossal number of retractions from a German anesthesiologist, the full genome of the water flea, newly announced pharmaceutical cuts, thoughts on the situation in Egypt, a debate on genetic manipulation in France, and the stem cell gun that may heal burns.
This week’s news includes further retractions from a troubled German lab, accusations of fraud at a major funder of global health initiatives, the publication of new guidelines on how to collaborate in stem cell research, a harrowing tale of bravery from a California pharmaceutical plant, the discovery of adult kidney stem cells, and a new…
This week’s news includes an ongoing debate about cholera vaccination in Haiti, two misconduct updates, the loss of a stem cell pioneer, a possible new test for Alzheimer’s disease, a new report on treating genetic disorders in utero, and a peculiar marine mammal meal.
This week’s news includes a possible motivation for the autism-vaccine link scandal, a recommendation from the US Department of Health and Human Services’ inspector general regarding institutional conflicts of interest, a tragic reminder of the risks of field research in Colombia, good news for agriculture, scientists’ thoughts on open access, an update to Europe’s Scientific…
This week’s news includes evidence that the autism-vaccine linking research was fraudulent, survey results showing that consumers will pay good money for diagnostic genetic tests, a new study in the field of synthetic biology, an analysis of the genetic abnormalities in stem cell lines, the winners of the UK’s New Years Honours, and a genetic…
Science funding boost overlooked On Tuesday, December 21st, Congress passed the America COMPETES Act, long-awaited legislation calling for $46 billion in science and technology research funding over the next three years — a $7.4 billion increase over 2010 levels. The boon for US science, however, received little attention from media outlets or even the President…
Scientists were right: Sand berms fail Sand berms have proven to be an ineffective strategy for protecting the coast from last April’s Deepwater Horizon oil spill, according to a new report from the presidential commission investigating the spill. Scientists (such as Len Bahr, who penned an article for The Scientist) had warned the berms were…
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