June 2009 Archives
June 30, 2009 4:45 PM
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Pay Cut Proposals Rile California Researchers
Nobody likes a pay cut, but many science faculty and staff members at the University of California (UC) are particularly peeved about proposed pay cuts and/or furloughs proposed in a...
June 30, 2009 4:02 PM
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Berkeley Hyenas Saved By the Stimulus
The world's only captive research colony of spotted hyenas as gotten a much-needed boost from the U.S. economic stimulus package. Since 1985, the hyena colony at the University of...
Tamiflu Resistance in Swine Flu No Cause for Concern—Yet
A Danish swine flu patient has developed resistance against the most widely used influenza drug, oseltamivir. But public health experts say there is no reason to be alarmed, because resistance...
June 30, 2009 2:44 PM
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100 Ways to Study Which Treatments Work Best
Earlier this year, the U.S. government set aside more than $1 billion to study the pros and cons of health treatments, but it needs advice on how to begin. Today,...
Macau Prevails in One-Country, Two-System Dilemma
Macau scholars are breathing a big sigh of relief: On 27 June, China’s National People’s Congress passed a law that gives Macau jurisdiction over the University of Macau’s (UM’s) proposed...
June 30, 2009 12:17 PM
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House Denies Funds For Ag Biodefense Lab
The Department of Homeland Security's National Bio- and Agro-Defense Facility (NBAF), to be built in Manhattan, Kansas, ran into a funding roadblock last week when the U.S. House of Representatives...
June 29, 2009 5:38 PM
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Prez Nixes Power-Wasting Lights
Energy efficiency got a moment to bask in the sun of presidential attention this morning. With the Senate poised to take up climate legislation, President Barack Obama took the opportunity...
June 29, 2009 5:15 PM
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Climate Bill Would Launch Energy Research Centers
The Science Careers blog describes new research centers authorized by the Waxman-Markey climate change bill. Funding could reach $1.4 billion a year, but the Brookings Institution argues that it's far...
June 29, 2009 5:11 PM
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The New York Times Hits Nerve on Cancer Grants
Yesterday’s The New York Times featured a front-page story suggesting that the government’s approach to funding cancer research—particularly at the National Institutes of Health (NIH)—pushes scientists to “play it safe”...
June 29, 2009 5:08 PM
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A Senate Slap at NSF Management
A Senate spending panel says that the National Science Foundation's mishandling of an Internet porn scandal is part of "systemic workforce management problems" that have created "a hostile work environment"...
June 26, 2009 6:03 PM
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With More than a Million Cases, U.S. Prepares for Swine Flu Vaccination Campaign
At least one million people in the United States are infected with the novel H1N1 flu virus, far more than the official case count, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control...
June 26, 2009 10:20 AM
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Swine Flu Strikes Hog Farm in Argentina
The A(H1N1) swine flu virus has struck a pig farm in Buenos Aires province in Argentina—the second known instance of the pandemic virus infecting pigs. The outbreak was announced in...
June 25, 2009 2:06 PM
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U.K. Restores Parliamentary Science Committee
Researchers in the United Kingdom were concerned about how their voice would be heard in Parliament following a round of ministerial musical chairs earlier this month that saw the Department...
June 25, 2009 12:06 PM
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Senate Panel Gives Bigger Raises to NASA and NOAA
The United States Senate appropriations committee is set to approve a NASA budget for 2010 that mirrors President Barack Obama's $18.7 billion request for the agency, setting up a fight...
June 25, 2009 11:54 AM
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Turmoil at California Stem Cell Institute
This month has been tumultuous for the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine. Marie Csete, the $3 billion operation's chief scientific officer, has resigned after little more than a year, reports...
House Panel Cuts DOE Education Program
A House of Representatives spending panel today rejected a comprehensive, $115 million education initiative that energy secretary Steven Chu has touted as essential for training a new cadre of scientists...
June 24, 2009 4:42 PM
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FDA Mulls a New Experiment: Opening Up
More than two dozen speakers, including a dietary supplement expert and a breast cancer advocate, vented frustrations today about a longstanding lack of transparency at the U.S. Food and Drug...
June 24, 2009 2:35 PM
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Allègre? Non! No Second Act For Controversial Former French Science Minister
PARIS—Some French scientists breathed a sigh of relief yesterday evening after President Nicolas Sarkozy had announced a major reshuffle of his cabinet. Despite months of intense speculation, the controversial geochemist...
June 24, 2009 9:52 AM
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Latin American Cancer Collaboration Grows
Note: This item has been corrected and updated to include more information about the projects.The U.S. National Cancer Institute will help Chile’s Ministry of Health set up a national cancer...
June 23, 2009 6:33 PM
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Women Scientists Applauded on Title IX Anniversary
Women athletes and scientists today marked the 37th anniversary of a U.S. law prohibiting discrimination against women in education at a White House event during which young women were urged...
June 23, 2009 2:22 PM
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New Search Engine Lifts Veil on NIH Grants
The clunky grants database long used by the National Institutes of Health is on its way out. Last week, the agency unveiled a beta version of RePORTER, a snazzy new...
June 23, 2009 10:27 AM
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What Do U.S. Research Universities Need?
Four members of Congress have asked the U.S. National Academies to tell it what the government needs to do to keep U.S. academic research strong. A similar 2005 letter spawned...
June 22, 2009 8:01 PM
Science No Help for Fisheries Without Transparency
The first global survey of fisheries management reveals a poor state of affairs. Just 7% of coastal nations conduct rigorous scientific assessments of fish stocks, but even fewer do a...
June 22, 2009 4:36 PM
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Scientists Demand Climate Action
In a strongly worded letter to President Barack Obama and members of Congress, 20 prominent U.S. climate scientists and ecologists insist that the “Waxman-Markey bill now being considered by the...
June 22, 2009 4:32 PM
Lawsuits Dropped in Patent Dispute About HIV Drug Resistance Database
A Stanford University HIV/AIDS researcher and the university have settled defamation and breach-of-contract suits filed by a small European biotech company. The long-standing legal fracas revolves around the HIV Drug...
June 22, 2009 2:26 PM
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Revising Priorities for Ocean Research
The White House is asking for public comment as it updates a key interagency plan for ocean research priorities, which helps guide the agencies’ budget requests. Researchers welcomed the first...
June 22, 2009 2:13 PM
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Big Fight Over Small Business Research
The U.S. Congress is scrambling to reauthorize a $2 billion program that supports research by small high-tech businesses before it expires next month. And although all sides agree that start-up...
June 22, 2009 12:03 PM
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Need More U.S. Workers? Quadruple the NIH Budget
A study out this week correlates declining U.S. death rates over the past half-century with federal funding for biomedical research—and argues that more money is needed so the longer-lived...
June 20, 2009 2:22 PM
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A New, Exhaustive Accounting of Global Health Funding
A paper in the 20 June issue of The Lancet offers the most comprehensive analysis yet done of the financing of global health. Led by economist Christopher Murray, head of...
June 19, 2009 5:11 PM
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Italy Postpones G8 Science Meeting
When diplomats from major industrialized nations gather in L’Aquila, Italy, next month for the G8 summit, they'll be discussing the environment, energy, food security, and other topics. But they...
June 19, 2009 5:07 PM
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Carbon Counter Debuts in N.Y.C.
A new attraction debuted outside Madison Square Garden yesterday: a 20-meter-tall billboard that flashes the amount of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. The current number is 3.6 trillion metric...
June 18, 2009 5:46 PM
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Ain't No Cure for the Summertime Flu
The novel H1N1 swine flu virus looks like it’s going to hang out in the United States all summer, epidemiologist Dan Jernigan of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and...
June 18, 2009 5:33 PM
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Two Centers Halt Cancer Trial Enrollments
Two U.S. cancer centers are under scrutiny after routine inspections turned up potentially serious problems in record-keeping in clinical trials. Both centers—Emory Winship Cancer Institute in Atlanta and the Carle...
June 18, 2009 4:30 PM
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Second Vaccine Maker Promises Free Swine Flu Shots for Developing World
Vaccine maker sanofi-aventis plans to donate 100 million doses of its A(H1N1) pandemic vaccine, currently in development, to the World Health Organization for use in developing nations that cannot afford...
June 18, 2009 12:35 PM
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ITER Chooses a Cautious, Slower, Approach To Fusion
Governments responsible for the ITER fusion project approved a conservative approach to its construction today in which just a bare-bones reactor will first fire up in 2018. Meeting on 17–18...
June 18, 2009 12:23 PM
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U.K. Will Stick With Peer Review, Not Citation Analyses
The United Kingdom's controversial plan to substitute citation analysis and other bibliometric data for peer review in its next Research Assessment Exercise (RAE) apparently hasn't survived its own peer-review proccess. Times Higher...
June 17, 2009 5:43 PM
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Panel Recommends Climate Satellite Shakeup
WASHINGTON, D.C.--A blue-ribbon panel recommended today that the White House intervene in the management of a crucial satellite program that has been plagued by cost overruns and delays, citing...
June 17, 2009 5:29 PM
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Unlogged Pathogen Samples Found at Fort Detrick
A 4-month effort to inventory the contents of freezers and refrigerators at the United States Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases (USAMRIID) in Fort Detrick, Maryland, has turned up...
June 17, 2009 5:06 PM
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Beware of Stories About "New" Swine Flu Strain
A flurry of news reports today claim that Brazilian researchers have found a "new" strain of the novel H1N1 virus, but the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says...
June 17, 2009 2:34 PM
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House Approves $8 Billion for Swine Flu Pandemic
The U.S. House of Representatives last night approved $7.65 billion in new money to respond to the swine flu pandemic. The money will go toward the purchase of vaccine, antiviral...
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