January 2012 Archives
January 31, 2012 4:08 PM
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To Russia, With Love
Stephen J. O'Brien, has left the National Cancer Institute's (NCI's) Laboratory of Genomic Diversity after 25 years as its head to help jump-start genome bioinformatics at St. Petersburg University...
January 30, 2012 4:45 PM
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Newt and Scientists: A Long, Complicated Love Affair
It's safe to say that only one leading presidential contender has ever boasted of debating Tyrannosaurus Rex's eating habits with a leading paleontologist, of reading Science and Nature while...
January 30, 2012 1:18 PM
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Lawsuit Alleges Misuse of Funds by Founders of Whittemore Peterson Institute
Former business partners of Harvey Whittemore filed a civil suit against him and his wife Annette in Nevada court on 27 January, alleging that the couple inappropriately used the...
January 30, 2012 12:42 PM
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New CUNY Curriculum Squeezes Science
To succeed, any effort to improve U.S. undergraduate science instruction and attract more minorities into the field must extend beyond the tiny fraction of students educated at the country's...
January 27, 2012 3:53 PM
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National Academy Picks UC Administrator for Top Staff Job
A jack-of-all-trades in the U.S. science policy arena, Bruce Darling says that becoming executive officer of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences (NAS) will put him right exactly where...
January 27, 2012 12:15 PM
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Broad Institute Gets $32.5 Million to Map Cell Circuits
The Broad Institute has been showered with $32.5 million from a philanthropist to take on one of the biggest challenges in biology: mapping the molecular circuitry inside mammalian cells....
Japanese Experts Question Safety of—and Need for—Nuclear Power
TOKYO—Japan is preparing for the possibility of a summer without nuclear power as utilities and safety experts squabble over the safety of the country's remaining reactors. And a key...
January 26, 2012 4:19 PM
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Italian Official Added to List of Defendants in Earthquake Trial
The former head of Italy's civil protection department, Guido Bertolaso, is to be investigated for manslaughter alongside seven scientists and technicians who are currently on trial for allegedly having...
January 26, 2012 12:09 PM
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Gates Foundation Boosts Coffers of Financially Strapped Global Fund
Bill Gates announced yesterday that between now and 2016, his foundation will pump $750 million into the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria. Gates, who made the...
January 25, 2012 4:42 PM
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NOAA Says It's Getting Better at Estimating Recreational Fishing Hauls
Commercial fishing operations get most of the blame for overfishing, but they're not the only player. Recreational anglers can also have a big impact on fish populations by dint...
January 25, 2012 2:30 PM
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NRC Report Calls for New Nano Safety Research Strategy
Despite billions of dollars spent on nanotechnology research and development over the past decade, the human and environmental safety of nanomaterials remains unclear. As a result, a new nanomaterials...
January 25, 2012 1:05 PM
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A Central Researcher in the H5N1 Flu Debate Breaks His Silence
In the heated debate about two labs that engineered a variant of the deadly H5N1 avian flu virus that for the first time easily transmits between mammals, one critical...
January 25, 2012 12:42 PM
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White House Gives Up on NOAA Science Chief Nomination
The Deepwater Horizon oil spill has claimed another casualty. The White House yesterday formally withdrew its nomination of geochemist Scott Doney to be chief scientist of the National Oceanic...
January 25, 2012 10:58 AM
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Whistleblower Uses YouTube to Assert Claims of Scientific Misconduct
An anonymous whistleblower has created a YouTube video that details alleged duplication of images by a prominent Japanese scientist. Alleged image fraud by Kato lab at the University of...
January 25, 2012 10:21 AM
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Leukemia Drug and Magnet Material Net Japan Prizes
TOKYO—A trio of American researchers will share one of this year's Japan Prizes for bringing their work on a leukemia drug from a basic discovery to a clinical success,...
January 24, 2012 5:15 PM
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Global Fund Leader Quits After Board Appoints New General Manager
Michel Kazatchkine announced today that he has decided to step down as the executive director of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria. Kazatchkine, a French clinical...
January 24, 2012 6:00 AM
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HHMI Funds 28 Young Scientific Stars Abroad
The Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) today announced the 28 winners of a new $20 million program to jump-start the labs of young biomedical scientists in countries outside of...
January 23, 2012 5:23 PM
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Smithsonian Director to Take Over Wildlife Conservation Society
Cristián Samper, director of the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History, is shifting gears in August to become the president and CEO of the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS). The...
January 23, 2012 12:28 PM
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Online Social Network Seeks to Overhaul Peer Review in Scientific Publishing
Three Finnish researchers have created an online service that could eventually replace or supplement the current way journals get scientists to peer review submitted manuscripts. Already partnered with the...
January 20, 2012 5:25 PM
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NIH Examines What Drove Its Grant Success Rate to a Record Low
Last week, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) announced that the success rate for research grants, a closely watched indicator of how well investigators are doing in the struggle...
January 20, 2012 3:42 PM
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Flu Researcher Ron Fouchier: 'It's a Pity That It Has to Come to This'
In a statement posted today on the Web sites of Nature and Science, a group of 39 influenza researchers announced a 2-month moratorium on studies that make the avian...
January 20, 2012 12:42 PM
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In Dramatic Move, Flu Researchers Announce Moratorium on Some H5N1 Flu Research, Call for Global Summit
Stung by a growing global controversy over the potential dangers of experiments involving the H5N1 avian flu virus—and worried about heavy-handed government regulation—the world's leading H5N1 researchers have agreed...
January 20, 2012 11:44 AM
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Prominent Virologists Want U.S. Advisory Board to Take a Second Look at Controversial Flu Papers
A group of prominent researchers is asking a U.S. government biosecurity advisory board to reconsider its controversial recommendation that two research teams omit key details from papers in press...
University of Tokyo Considers Shifting Academic Year
Worried about being left behind in the globalization of higher education, the University of Tokyo is laying plans to shift the start of its school year from April to...
January 19, 2012 4:43 PM
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Crafoord Prizes Announced
Today the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announced the four winners of the 2012 Crafoord Prize, an annual award that rotates between the disciplines of astronomy, mathematics, geosciences, biosciences,...
January 19, 2012 3:52 PM
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For Its New Science Minister Brazil Picks ... A Scientist
SÃO PAULO, BRAZIL—Brazil has announced that Marco Antônio Raupp, currently president of the Brazilian Space Agency, will become the new minister of science, technology and innovation on 24 January....
January 19, 2012 3:42 PM
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Charity Funding Boosts Controversial Therapy for Mitochondrial Disease
LONDON—Wellcome Trust, the United Kingdom's largest biomedical research charity, today announced more than £4 million in support for a pioneering, and potentially controversial, IVF treatment that could prevent some...
January 19, 2012 12:31 PM
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Israeli Company's E.U. Funding Under Scrutiny
The Natural History Museum in London is under fire for its scientific cooperation with an Israeli cosmetics company located in the occupied West Bank. On Tuesday, The Independent newspaper...
January 19, 2012 11:28 AM
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Japan's Reconstruction Plans Hit Some Walls
How do you protect coastal areas from a once-in-a-millennium tsunami? You don't, planners in Japan have concluded. So they are rebuilding the coastal seawalls washed away by the 11...
January 18, 2012 10:58 AM
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All Eyes on Antarctic Drillers at Scott Expedition Centennial
Along with all the festivities surrounding the anniversary of explorer Robert Falcon Scott's reaching the South Pole on 17 January 1912, Antarctic researchers are at the edge of their...
January 17, 2012 4:33 PM
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U.S. Companies Doing More of Their Research Hiring Overseas
U.S. companies are adding research jobs overseas at a record pace while their domestic research workforce is growing very slowly. The new data come from the 2012 edition of...
January 17, 2012 11:42 AM
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Education Advocates Enter the Climate Tempest
Is climate change education the new evolution, threatened in U.S. school districts and state education standards by well-organized interest groups? A growing number of education advocates believe so, and...
January 13, 2012 5:42 PM
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Rough Sailing for Plan to Move NOAA?
The Obama Administration's proposal to move the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) from the Commerce Department to the Interior Department is drawing mixed reactions from former senior staff,...
U.K. Looks for Way Through Misconduct Maze
LONDON—Scientific misconduct is "alive and well" in the United Kingdom, according to around 30 ethicists, researchers, journal editors, advocates, and funders attending a meeting on that topic sponsored by...
January 13, 2012 5:06 PM
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What Would Wiping Out the Commerce Department Mean for Science?
President Barack Obama's proposal to eliminate the Commerce Department promises to reignite sharp debates about the best home for its sizable but patchwork research and technology portfolio. The Commerce...
Spanish Secretary of State for Science Promises to 'Do the Impossible'
BARCELONA, SPAIN—Spanish scientists generally think highly of the biochemist newly appointed to lead the country's science policy—but they're concerned that the government she serves in won't give science the...
January 13, 2012 2:28 PM
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Why NOAA Is in the Commerce Department
Now it's official. In announcing a reorganization of the Department of Commerce to elevate the importance of small businesses, President Barack Obama today confirmed the rumored political shenanigans surrounding...
With $116 Million Pledged, Ecuador Moves Forward With Plan to Protect Rainforest
After receiving pledges totaling more than its goal of $100 million by a year-end deadline, the Ecuadorian government last week announced that it would move forward with the so-called...
January 12, 2012 4:21 PM
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India Marks 1 Year Without Polio, But Global Eradication Remains Uncertain
Today, India celebrated a long-sought milestone in its fight against polio: By all indications, the country has gone 1 year without a single case. (Final confirmation is expected in...
Reactor-Accelerator Hybrid Achieves Successful Test Run
A European research team took an important step this week toward proving that an unusual combination of a nuclear reactor and a particle accelerator could be used to eliminate...
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