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October 29, 2010 5:01 PM
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Another Round of Filings in Stem Cell Court Case
The paperwork continues to pile up in the lawsuit challenging the legality of the National Institutes of Health's (NIH's) stem cell guidelines, the latest installments being two more briefs...
October 28, 2010 5:01 PM
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NIH Scientists See Crackdown on Consulting as Too Restrictive
Five years ago after a scandal erupted over employees who were consulting for drug companies, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) banned most such relationships by in-house scientists. A...
October 25, 2010 2:49 PM
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Spurious Accusations Against Stem Cell Researchers
Stem cell researchers in Boston and in Stockholm confronted a bizarre and uncomfortable situation last week: accusations of scientific fraud from an anonymous e-mail address, sent not only to...
October 15, 2010 3:07 PM
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More Legal Jousting in Stem Cell Case
The two sides in the ongoing court battle over stem cell research filed another batch of legal documents yesterday in response to court-ordered deadlines. Neither side added much to...
October 14, 2010 5:00 PM
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Cancer Chief Varmus Draws Up a List of Unsolved Mysteries
Harold Varmus has made a start on one of his first priorities as chief of the U.S. National Cancer Institute (NCI): coming up with a set of key unanswered...
October 14, 2010 12:04 PM
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Stem Cell Paper Retracted
Three stem cell scientists have retracted a paper they published early this year in Nature. Details are sketchy, but in the retraction, released today, they say that a "re-examination"...
October 12, 2010 2:32 PM
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Closely Watched Vaccine Injury Claim Reaches Supreme Court
The U.S. Supreme Court today hears a pivotal case on how families who say their children were injured by vaccines should be compensated. The current system was established by...
October 12, 2010 11:14 AM
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U.S. Stem Cell Trial Treats First Patient
The first approved U.S. clinical trial to use human embryonic stem cells to treat a disease has enrolled its first patient. Geron Corp., which is sponsoring the trial using...
October 7, 2010 3:17 PM
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FDA's $25 Million Pitch for Improving Drug Regulation
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is pressing for a big funding boost for "regulatory science"—research that can help it evaluate new treatments better and faster. Yesterday, FDA...
October 5, 2010 4:10 PM
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Suit on Testosterone Labeling
A scientist at Health Canada has sued his boss, the Ottawa Citizen reports, claiming that his effort to modify the label of testosterone drugs led her to call him...
October 1, 2010 6:01 PM
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U.S. Officials Apologize for 'Appalling' 1940s Syphilis Study
Sixty-four years after a U.S.-funded scientist ran an experiment that infected his Guatemalan patients with syphilis, the U.S. government today issued a formal apology to the Central American nation....
September 24, 2010 3:34 PM
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Sounds Familiar—End Breast Cancer by 2020?
The National Breast Cancer Coalition (NBCC), an influential disease lobbying group, is known for its skeptical, scientific approach to battling cancer. In the early 1990s, the group lobbied to...
September 23, 2010 3:22 PM
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FDA, Europe Curb Risky Diabetes Drug
The United States and Europe are both greatly restricting use of the diabetes drug Avandia, culminating several years of concern that the drug increases the risk of heart problems....
September 23, 2010 3:05 PM
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Parties in Stem Cell Lawsuit Want to Keep University of California Out
Today, the two sides in the court battle over whether federally funded research on human embryonic stem cells (hESCs) is legal both registered their opposition to the University of...
September 20, 2010 5:29 PM
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Government Asks Appeals Court to Keep Stem Cell Research Going
Government lawyers sallied forth on another legal maneuver today in an effort to defend U.S.-funded research on stem cells: They asked an appeals court to grant a longer stay...
September 17, 2010 5:41 PM
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Mount Sinai Says Misconduct by Postdocs Led to Retraction of Gene Therapy Papers
Earlier this week, the blog Retraction Watch called attention to four recent paper retractions by noted gene therapy researcher Savio Woo of Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New...
September 15, 2010 8:04 PM
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Gene Therapy Researcher Retracts Four Papers
The relatively new blog Retraction Watch reports today that noted gene therapy researcher Savio Woo has recently retracted four papers in major journals, including two discussing possible treatments for...
September 15, 2010 2:00 PM
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Mixing Animals and Human Tissues? Go Ahead If It Cures, Public Tells Researchers
The majority of the general public is in favor of research using animals containing human material (ACHM) if doing so helps to improve human health and cure diseases, says...
September 14, 2010 3:40 PM
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Senator Specter Introduces Fix to Stem Cell Ban
As Congress returned from recess yesterday, a long-time champion of biomedical research introduced the first proposal to override the 23 August court ruling that shut down federal funding for...
September 9, 2010 12:41 PM
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Appeals Court Stays Stem Cell Injunction
A federal appeals court this morning stayed, or suspended, a preliminary injunction issued 2 weeks ago that brought federal funding for human embryonic stem cell (hESC) research to a...
September 9, 2010 11:31 AM
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U.S. Government Appeals Stem Cell Injunction—Again
In the latest twist in an increasingly complex legal struggle, the Department of Justice (DOJ) has appealed a judge's refusal on Tuesday to remove the ban on funding for...
September 8, 2010 5:30 PM
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Legal Analysis: Parsing the Stem Cell Case
Does human embryonic stem cell (hESC) research violate the law? And does it make sense to halt federal funding of the work while the courts weigh this question? Yesterday,...
September 7, 2010 5:29 PM
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Judge Upholds Stem Cell Funding Ban
A Washington, D.C., judge said this afternoon that his ruling 2 weeks ago, halting all federal funding for human embryonic stem cell research, will stand while the case moves...
September 3, 2010 5:13 PM
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Stem Cell Case Has 'Immediate and Devastating' Impact, Says Research Group
A broad research coalition has formally weighed in on the stem cell case, urging Chief Judge Royce Lamberth to suspend his injunction last week halting human embryonic stem cell...
August 31, 2010 5:15 PM
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NIH Asks Judge to Suspend Stem Cell Research Injunction
Warning of a "devastating impact" on ongoing research, government lawyers this afternoon asked a federal court to stay a preliminary injunction that last week forced the National Institutes of...
August 30, 2010 11:53 AM
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NIH Orders Immediate Shutdown of Intramural Human Embryonic Stem Cell Research
Responding to a court order issued a week ago, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) this morning ordered intramural researchers studying human embryonic stem cells (hESCs) to shut down...
August 27, 2010 5:41 PM
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HIV/AIDS Drug Maker's Patents Under Attack
A New York City public interest group yesterday challenged eight patents on the widely used HIV/AIDS drug ritonavir, a protease inhibitor. It wants the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office...
August 26, 2010 5:24 PM
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Several Options for Lawmakers to Reverse Cell Research Ban
Stem cell research supporters in Congress are hoping to take quick action to reverse the research ban imposed by U.S. District Court Judge Royce Lamberth on Monday. They expect...
August 26, 2010 5:04 PM
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No 'Status Quo' for Scientists as Ruling Halts Stem Cell Studies
In his order halting federal funding of research on human embryonic stem cells (hESCs), Judge Royce Lamberth wrote that his ruling “would not seriously harm ESC researchers because the...
August 26, 2010 10:19 AM
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Stem Cell Injunction Could Stop All U.S. Funding, Some Fear
On the third full day of the U.S. court ban on using federal money to study human embryonic stem cells (hESCs), the research community is worrying that the news...
August 25, 2010 5:59 PM
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What's Next With the Stem Cell Injunction
On Monday, Judge Royce Lamberth of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia issued a temporary injunction blocking the federal government from implementing the current National Institutes of...
August 25, 2010 10:39 AM
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Stem Cell Litigants No Stranger to Scientific Limelight
A day after the Justice Department said it plans to appeal the injunction that suspended federal funding for embryonic stem cell research, more details have emerged on the scientists...
August 24, 2010 5:02 PM
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NIH Director Collins Says Cell Ruling Won't Halt Most Ongoing Grants
National Institutes of Health (NIH) Director Francis Collins said in a press call this afternoon that yesterday's court injunction blocking federally funded research on human embryonic stem cells (hESCs)...
August 24, 2010 12:30 PM
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Injunction Leaves Stem Cell Researchers in Legal Limbo
Yesterday's court decision temporarily blocking federal funding for work with human embryonic stem cells (hESCs) has left researchers working with the cells in a legal limbo as government lawyers...
August 23, 2010 5:58 PM
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Federal Judge: Obama Stem Cell Policy Halted
Research on embryonic stem cells funded by the U.S. government must stop immediately for a court-ordered review, Judge Royce Lamberth of the U.S. District Court for the District of...
August 19, 2010 5:05 PM
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U.S. to Intensify Defense Against Infectious Threats
A review released today by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) could lead to major changes in the way the country prepares for public health emergencies,...
August 13, 2010 4:27 PM
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Berkeley Gene Testing Program Scaled Back
A novel experiment at the University of California (UC), Berkeley, that involved analyzing the genomes of new students has run into legal trouble. The academics who came up with...
August 10, 2010 3:07 PM
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WHO Declares Official End to H1N1 'Swine Flu' Pandemic
The H1N1 pandemic that started in the spring of 2009 is now officially over, says the World Health Organization (WHO). Speaking from Hong Kong during a teleconference this afternoon,...
August 2, 2010 4:42 PM
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Venter Unloads on NIH Director, Human Genome Project
The always quotable J. Craig Venter spoke to Der Spiegel in an even-more-provocative-than-usual interview in which he defended his work designing humanmade life forms, trashed fellow scientists and the...
July 30, 2010 4:40 PM
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FDA Lifts Hold on First-Ever Embryonic Stem Cell Trial
Regulators have given a green light to the world's first approved experiment using embryonic stem cells to treat a human disease. In the phase I clinical trial, Geron Corp....
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