May 2009 Archives
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May 7, 2009 10:16 AM
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Science Chief Named at Homeland Security
The Obama Administration has nominated a prominent biosecurity expert to be the under secretary for science and technology at the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). Tara O’Toole is a physician...
Same Hotel, Different Virus
The Metropole Hotel in Hong Kong's Kowloon district became infamous in 2003 when a doctor from mainland China, sick with SARS, infected other guests who carried the virus to Canada,...
May 6, 2009 5:21 PM
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Could the Outbreak Have Started in Canada?
In keeping with the Canadian government’s apparently mistaken hypothesis that the origin of the swine flu outbreak likely had nothing to do with Canadian pigs, what if it did? On...
May 6, 2009 5:00 PM
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Plot Thickens: Farm Worker Suspected of Infecting Canadian Pig Herd Tests Negative
The pig herd infected with swine flu in Alberta, Canada, appears not to have been infected by a worker at the farm who had recently returned from Mexico with flu-like...
May 6, 2009 4:29 PM
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In Case of Pandemic: High-Tech Flu Vaccines Coming
The threat of H1N1 swine flu appears to be abating, but the virus could come roaring back later in the year, and experts are now debating whether to produce a...
May 6, 2009 3:56 PM
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FBI Anthrax Investigation Under Scientific Review
A long-awaited review of the scientific evidence relating to the investigation of the 2001 anthrax letter attacks is finally getting off the ground. The study, to be conducted by the...
May 5, 2009 7:02 PM
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A New Patient Zero*
Mexico has confirmed that a person from Mexico City infected with the swine flu virus developed symptoms on 11 March, 6 days earlier than a case that many in the...
May 5, 2009 6:37 PM
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Swine Flu: U.S. Cases Continue Climb, But Fear Declines
Although confirmed cases of swine flu in the United States dramatically climbed to 403 today—and Texas reported the first death of a U.S. resident from swine flu this afternoon—mounting evidence...
May 5, 2009 5:37 PM
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More From Francis Collins on God and Evolution
The scientific blogosphere, as well as the Washington, D.C., rumor mill, are buzzing this week about geneticist Francis Collins's latest project: a new foundation and Web site created "to engage...
May 5, 2009 4:45 PM
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Biofuels Get Big Spending Boost
The Obama Administration opened up the throttle on biofuel research today, announcing plans to pour $786 million into new ways to convert corn, wood, grass, and municipal waste into fuel...
May 5, 2009 3:26 PM
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California Inspectors Fine UCLA Lab in Fatal Fire
The California Division of Occupational Safety and Health (Cal/OSHA) yesterday issued four citations against the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry of the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), in the...
May 5, 2009 2:22 PM
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European Parliament Takes a Stand on Animal Research
Approving recommendations made by a committee last month, the European Parliament today soundly rejected calls for legislative changes that could have more severely restricted the use of animals in research. European scientists...
May 5, 2009 2:03 PM
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Chu Pegs ILC Cost at $25 Billion
The International Linear Collider (ILC), a proposed 40-kilometer-long particle smasher, would cost a lot. But how much? U.S. Secretary of Energy Steven Chu and the leader of the project don’t...
May 5, 2009 12:01 PM
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Court Nixes Appeal on German's GM Crop Ban
A German court yesterday rejected Monsanto's initial appeal of the country's recent ban on cultivation of the company's genetically modified maize strain. Monsanto had been seeking an emergency ruling so...
May 5, 2009 8:46 AM
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Backtracking on "Blacklisting"
After howls of protests and charges of "blacklisting," a U.K. research council has partially backed away from a new policy that would have prevented repeatedly unsuccessful grant applicants from submitting...
May 4, 2009 1:37 PM
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Gates Foundation Explores On
Researchers in 17 countries have won $100,000 each from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to develop their unconventional ideas for improving health in the developing world. The 81 projects...
May 4, 2009 1:20 PM
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Korean Aims to Succeed Where Hwang Failed (and Faked)
Last week, a bioethics committee advising the South Korean government recommended conditionally approving plans for the first attempt at therapeutic cloning in the country since the work of Woo Suk...
May 4, 2009 12:21 PM
Your Neighbor May Be a ... Scientist
CNN on the burgeoning citizen-scientist movement, in which laypeople make observations from home and use the Internet to log them with expert-run databases: Project BudBurst, out of Boulder, Colorado, aims...
Exclusive: SARS Sleuth Tracks Swine Flu, Attacks WHO
HONG KONG—Yi Guan has plenty of experience at ground zero of an epidemic. In spring 2003, the virologist at Hong Kong University (HKU) isolated the SARS virus from masked palm...
First Pig Cases of H1N1--and Mixed Views on the Human Outbreak
The first pigs infected with the H1N1 influenza sweeping the globe have been found—but they're a long way from Mexico, the suspected origin of the virus. There’s also some optimism...
May 3, 2009 4:01 AM
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First Swine Flu Mug Shots
CDC has posted electron micrographs of H1N1, the virus that causes swine flu. ...
Exclusive: Interview With Head of Mexico's Top Swine Flu Lab
Microbiologist Celia Alpuche heads the laboratory in Mexico that has become ground zero for the country's outbreak of swine flu. Alpuche spoke to Science yesterday from her office at the...
May 1, 2009 4:21 PM
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Closest Look Yet at Outbreaks in Mexico and a N.Y.C. School
The Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) has posted two dispatches that offer the most detailed looks yet at two outbreaks of what's now being called swine-associated H1N1 influenza. One...
Chu Wants DOE to Pick Up the Pace
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Speaking today before a friendly audience of science policy wonks, Energy Secretary Steven Chu railed against the conservative culture of the agency he runs and described his struggles to...
May 1, 2009 3:24 PM
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Buy Stock in Soap?
A poll that gauges how much Americans know and are concerned about the swine flu outbreak conducted by the Harvard School of Public Health finds that hand washing is up...
NIH's $200 Million Challenge Grant Sweepstakes
The preliminary numbers are in: As of today, the National Institutes of Health has received more than 10,000 applications for its Challenge Grants, NIH officials say. (The deadline was 27...
May 1, 2009 7:23 AM
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South Korea May Restart Human Embryonic Stem Cell Research
South Korean media (story, story, story) are reporting that the country's bioethics committee has given the green light for a research group at Cha General Hospital in Seoul to conduct...
May 1, 2009 4:40 AM
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That Soothing Voice on Swine Flu
For the health agencies battling swine flu (recently renamed H1N1), it’s a tricky balance: Be honest and clear without setting off a panic. Officials at the World Health Organization, the...
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