July 2009 Archives
July 30, 2009 4:34 PM
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CDC's Besser Moves to TV News
Epidemiologist Richard Besser, who until recently helped coordinate the nation's swine flu (H1N1) response as acting director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, will soon be reporting on...
July 30, 2009 11:13 AM
Update: University Backs Author of Retracted Stem Cell Paper
Newcastle University is standing behind its professor whose stem cell group had a paper retracted after a plagiarism charge. The paper, which described how sperm-like cells could be derived from...
July 30, 2009 10:43 AM
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Fast Track for NIH Director Confirmation?
The appointment of geneticist Francis Collins to direct the National Institutes of Health could soon be a done deal. NIH-watchers in Washington, D.C., say that the Senate committee that handles...
July 29, 2009 6:14 PM
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More Canadian Pigs Catch New Flu Virus
According to the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food of Quebec (MAPAQ), the 2009 H1N1 influenza virus infected a herd of pigs in this Canadian province. This is only the...
July 29, 2009 6:05 PM
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Advisory Group Urges U.S. Swine Flu Vaccination Program
At a meeting billed as “urgent” today in Atlanta, Georgia, the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) recommended that the U.S. government launch a vaccine program against the 2009 H1N1...
July 29, 2009 5:27 PM
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SLAC Worker Accused of Melting Protein Crystals
A former employee at the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory in Palo Alto, California, was arrested Monday for allegedly destroying at least 4000 protein crystal samples by removing them from cryogenic...
July 29, 2009 5:03 PM
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Epidemiologist Michaels Named to Head OSHA
Yesterday, the White House announced that it will nominate epidemiologist David Michaels to direct the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, the Department of Labor agency that sets worker safety standards....
July 29, 2009 11:39 AM
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Only 1.4% Boost for NIH From Senate Panel
A Senate spending panel has matched President Barack Obama's request for funding for the National Institutes of Health in 2010—a $442 million boost to $31.8 billion. That slight 1.4% bump...
July 28, 2009 5:48 PM
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America Needs Large-Scale Energy Experiments, Academy Says
If the most important concerns for property are location, location, location, the top issues for energy are scale, scale, scale. The United States has a vast demand for energy—85% of...
July 28, 2009 4:47 PM
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Laurie Garrett Interview: U.S. Global Health Leader MIA on Swine Flu
Laurie Garrett, a senior fellow for global health at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) in New York City, is a media consultant’s nightmare: She cuts to the chase and...
July 28, 2009 2:44 PM
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What If Someone FOIAs Your Grant Application?
Researchers tend to think of their grant proposals as carefully guarded information that will be seen only by peer reviewers in strictest confidence. Little do they realize that anybody can...
July 28, 2009 11:21 AM
Journal Editor Retracts Paper on Sperm Made From Stem Cells
A paper that made international headlines earlier this month is causing headaches for its authors. Late last week several German media outlets reported that the paper, which claimed to demonstrate...
July 28, 2009 11:12 AM
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Yet Another New Patient Zero in Swine Flu Pandemic
A baby from San Luis Potosí in north-central Mexico was likely infected with the 2009 H1N1 influenza virus on 24 February, making this the earliest case of swine flu yet...
July 27, 2009 5:40 PM
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Third Time at Bat, But No Cheer for Mammoth-Killing Hypothesis
Proponents of the idea that an impact wiped out the mammoths and roiled early North American human culture have struck out, at least by baseball’s rules. Their third paper in...
July 27, 2009 1:50 PM
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Faulty Analysis in Ag-Bio Defense Site Selection, GAO Says
The Department of Homeland Security used a scientifically flawed study to justify its selection of Manhattan, Kansas, as the site for the proposed National Bio and Agro-Defense Facility, according to...
July 24, 2009 4:44 PM
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Congressman Attacks NIH Funding for Study on Prostitutes
Studies of sex workers and drug abusers are an easy target, and today a conservative member of Congress took pot shots at three such overseas projects—all part of the U.S.-funded...
July 24, 2009 3:33 PM
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Swine Flu Continues to Camp Out in U.S. and Vexing Vaccine Questions Remain
The 2009 H1N1 influenza virus continues to spread in the United States, hitting particularly hard at summer camps, military academies, and other places where people from different locales gather. “It’s...
July 23, 2009 4:19 PM
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ERC Review Panel Doesn't Pull Punches, Advocates Fixing "Original Sin"
"An obsolete model of management." "Completely abusive" demands on reviewers. A governance system that is "a source of great frustration and ongoing low level conflict." Who said E.U. science policy...
July 23, 2009 11:45 AM
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Rutgers University Postdocs Form a Union
Three hundred and fifty postdocs at Rutgers University in New Jersey have voted to form a union, becoming the third group of postdocs in the United States to unionize. They...
July 23, 2009 9:24 AM
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Committee Appeals for More Science in U.K. Policymaking
Science should have more of a say in the United Kingdom’s government policies, according to a report out today by the country’s Innovation, Universities, Science and Skills (IUSS) Select Committee....
July 23, 2009 8:41 AM
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Another Green Light for NEON, and a Heftier Price Tag
The National Science Foundation this week inched closer to approving what may be the world's largest environmental monitoring facility. The National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON) also has a new, tentative...
July 23, 2009 8:25 AM
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New Lease on Life for Australian Stem Cell Centre
MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA—The Australian Stem Cell Centre (ASCC) hopes that a new business plan will help it regain momentum in the last 2 years of its term. The plan, announced today,...
July 22, 2009 5:47 PM
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Swine Flu Vaccine Tests Move Forward
Five clinical trials of different vaccines that aim to protect against the 2009 H1N1 influenza virus will soon begin in the United States, the U.S. National Institute of Allergy and...
July 22, 2009 11:23 AM
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NAS Panel's Advice on Data Integrity: It's a Good Idea
A National Academies panel that was asked to come up with data handling guidelines to deal with concerns about doctored images and demands to share data has come out with...
July 21, 2009 5:20 PM
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Hawaii Lands the Thirty Meter Telescope
The summit of Mauna Kea in Hawaii, home to many telescopes big and small, will be the site for what would be the biggest of them all: the Thirty Meter...
July 21, 2009 8:37 AM
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CERN: LHC Restart Delayed for Months
Wired.com looks to have been first among the mainstream media to report that the planned restart of the Large Hadron Collider will be pushed back from September to at least...
July 21, 2009 8:24 AM
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Italian Court Rejects Scientists' Plea to Fund Human Embryonic Stem Cell Research
Three Italian scientists have lost the first round of what may be a lengthy legal challenge to their government’s decision to exclude human embryonic stem cell work from a call...
July 20, 2009 4:30 PM
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India Plays Hardball on Cutting Carbon Emissions
India's new environment minister, Jairam Ramesh, says India cannot agree to mandatory reductions in carbon emissions. Ramesh made the remark in the presence of visiting U.S. Secretary of State Hillary...
July 17, 2009 5:24 PM
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Not to Worry About Vaccine Availability, U.S. Health Officials Say
U.S. health officials tried to play down worries today that the country might be unprepared for pandemic swine flu come this fall. Vaccine producers are having trouble producing large amounts...
July 17, 2009 2:03 PM
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Can Apollo Fervor Ever Return?
Times have changed, says Norman Augustine, the retired aerospace executive who is chairing a blue-ribbon panel examining alternative futures for the U.S. human space flight effort. At a press conference...
July 17, 2009 11:21 AM
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ERC'S New Secretary-General on Women in Science and "Fair Trade"
Spanish economist Andreu Mas-Colell, 65, took over on 1 July as secretary-general of the European Research Council (ERC), a relatively new science funding agency. In that position, he's the representative...
July 16, 2009 5:44 PM
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Nobelists Plead for More Money for Clean Energy Research
Thirty-four U.S. Nobel Laureates today called on President Barack Obama to push for a steady funding mechanism in upcoming climate legislation to support clean energy research. Many billions of dollars...
July 16, 2009 2:22 PM
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Ready for Launch: NASA Chief and Deputy Confirmed by Senate
The U.S. space agency has a leader to celebrate today’s 40th anniversary of the first human mission to the moon. The Senate yesterday confirmed Charles Bolden as NASA administrator and...
July 15, 2009 1:50 PM
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DOD Dominates Presidential Early-Career Awards
The Department of Defense has claimed the largest share of a prestigious presidential award for young scientists, a change from previous years and part of a broader effort to build...
July 15, 2009 8:09 AM
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Research Advocate Takes Helm of European Parliament
The European Parliament has elected a strong supporter of research as its new president. Jerzy Buzek, former prime minister of Poland and a chemical engineer by training, made headlines yesterday...
July 15, 2009 5:16 AM
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China Cracks Down on Dubious Internet Addiction Therapy
BEIJING—The Chinese government has banned the controversial application of electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) for so-called Internet addiction. Although there is no meeting of the minds on whether Internet addiction is a...
July 13, 2009 3:11 PM
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Pandemic Vaccine Shots Urged for Healthcare Workers
Health care workers should be first in line when vaccines against the swine flu virus are ready and approved, an expert panel at the World Health Organization concluded in a...
July 13, 2009 2:21 PM
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Obama Nominates Rural Health Specialist as Surgeon General
The White House has nominated an African American doctor from Alabama as Surgeon General of the United States. Regina Benjamin is the founder and CEO of the Bayou La Batre...
Hill Blocks DOE Plan to Create "Bell Lab-lets"
Late last week, Congress summarily slapped down the Department of Energy's biggest new research initiative: A plan for eight new research "hubs" aimed at solving the nation's energy problems. DOE...
July 10, 2009 6:23 PM
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Pandemic H1N1 Virus in Canadian Pigs Smells Odd
Ever since Canadian officials announced in May that pigs on an Alberta farm harbored the novel H1N1 virus causing the swine flu outbreak, scientists have struggled to explain its origins....
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