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Another fake conference?

Are phony academic conferences the new Nigerian princes of the internet? An email inviting recipients to a conference on human welfare and the global economy, said to be taking place in January and February of next year and featuring talks by some of ...

From BOB GRANT, The Scientist,  24 Nov 2009

Related Topics: AXA,  Duke University,  Edward M. Kennedy

A theory blossoms

Fluorescent FT protein in the phloem of an Arabidopsis plant. Courtesy of Laurent Corbesier and George Coupland Few acts of nature seem simpler than flowers blooming on the outstretched tips of a plant’s shoots. But the induction of that seemingly ...

From BOB GRANT, The Scientist,  23 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Cornell University,  University of Wisconsin,  University of California

"Study ethics, NIH!"

The government agency tasked with funding crucial life science research needs to focus more attention on ethical quandaries and nefarious business practices that often obscure the path from discovery to public benefit, says a strongly worded letter to ...

From BOB GRANT, The Scientist,  18 Nov 2009

Related Topics: National Institutes of Health,  Georgetown University,  Pfizer Inc.,  Johns Hopkins,  Harvard University

HIV trial vector specter

Did patients in a failed HIV vaccine trial halted in 2007 become more susceptible to the virus due to the adenoviral vector used to deliver the experimental vaccine? Researchers have speculated this may have been the case, and a new study proposes a ...

From BOB GRANT, The Scientist,  17 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Merck & Company, Inc.,  National Academy of Sciences,  Harvard University,  University of Pennsylvania,  California Institute of Technology

Hold the centrosomes

R. Basto et al., “Centrosome amplification can initiate tumorigenesis in flies,” Cell, 133:1032–42, 2008. (Cited in 32 papers) Tumor cells display both chromosomal instability and centrosome amplification, in which they have extra copies of the ...

From BOB GRANT, The Scientist,  16 Nov 2009

Related Topics: University of Pittsburgh,  University of Oxford,  Harvard University

The blogopharmasphere?

This year has been a busy one for Big Pharma: Billion dollar legal settlements, game-changing mergers, and labor cutbacks of epic proportions have kept the industry (and industry watchers) off balance for much of 2009. But all the turmoil hasn't ...

From BOB GRANT, The Scientist,  10 Nov 2009

Related Topics: AstraZeneca PLC,  Johnson & Johnson,  GlaxoSmithKline Inc,  US Food and Drug Administration,  Harry Kalas

Paul Zamecnik dies

Paul Zamecnik, a Lasker award-winning biologist who co-discovered transfer RNA, died late last month at the age of 96. Zamecnik died at his Boston home after battling cancer. In the mid-1950s, along with molecular biologists Mahlon Hoagland and ...

From BOB GRANT, The Scientist,  10 Nov 2009

Related Topics: National Academy of Sciences

One stop research shopping

Ever spent days combing the internet for that one reagent or cell line that could take your research to the next level --- to no avail? A new effort, funded by a $15 million grant from the National Institutes of Health's National Center for Research ...

From BOB GRANT, The Scientist,  3 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Harvard Medical School,  National Institutes of Health

Conflicted psychiatrist leaves Emory

The Emory University psychiatry researcher who failed to report hundreds of thousands of dollars in pharmaceutical company payouts while receiving millions of dollars in funding from the National Institutes of Health to study the company's ...

From BOB GRANT, The Scientist,  2 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Emory University,  National Institutes of Health,  GlaxoSmithKline Inc,  University of Miami

Can USDA's NIFA be ag's NIH?

Historically short-shrifted by federal funding bodies, academic agricultural research was recently promised redemption: a federal funding agency of its very own that will award competitive grants in a fashion similar to the National Institutes of ...

From BOB GRANT, The Scientist,  27 Oct 2009

Related Topics: United Stated Department of Agriculture,  National Science Foundation,  National Institutes of Health

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