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February 8, 2012 3:16 PM
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Embattled Institute Retains Major Grant to Study Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
The Whittemore Peterson Institute for Neuro-Immune Disease (WPI), well known for a retracted study published by Science in 2009 that linked a mouse retrovirus to chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS),...
February 6, 2012 4:32 PM
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Troubled Cancer Charity Embroiled in Embryonic Stem Cell Debate
If dealing with the public relations nightmare over its on-off-on funding of Planned Parenthood wasn't enough, the Susan G. Komen for the Cure cancer charity last week also got entangled, somewhat bizarrely, in the debate over human embryonic stem (ES) cell research.
February 2, 2012 2:47 PM
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Whistleblower Lawsuit Puts Spotlight On FDA Technical Reviews
The integrity of the scientific review process appears to be at the heart of recent allegations that Food and Drug Administration (FDA) officials spied electronically on whistleblowers—including scientists, an...
February 1, 2012 4:35 PM
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Theoretical Physics Center Opens in Brazil
SÃO PAULO, BRAZIL—A new center for theoretical physics opens in Brazil next week, with the goal of becoming a South American hub for the field. Named the ICTP South...
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 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 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....
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 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 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 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 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...
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 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...
January 10, 2012 10:53 AM
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Acting Director Thomas Insel Explains New NIH Translational Center's Aims and Structure
This month the National Institutes of Health (NIH) began putting into place the biggest reorganization of the sprawling $30.6 billion enterprise in a decade. It is launching a new...
January 5, 2012 4:01 PM
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Author of Discredited Vaccine-Autism Report Sues for Libel
Gastroenterologist Andrew Wakefield has been defeated at nearly every round in a legal battle over his claims about autism, but he's coming back for another. An article Wakefield published...
January 4, 2012 2:52 PM
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Researcher Retracts Cancer Biomarker Paper Cited by Lawsuit
A paper on a new cancer biomarker that led a company to sue two major universities for scientific fraud has been retracted by the authors because they could not...
December 29, 2011 1:01 PM
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Penn Institute Sues Prominent Researcher Over Discoveries, Seeking $1 Billion
The president of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York City—Craig Thompson—has received an unpleasant holiday package: A $1 billion lawsuit filed by the cancer center he used to...
December 28, 2011 2:40 PM
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Authors Pull the Plug on Second Paper Supporting Viral Link to Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
Just days after Science fully retracted the controversial 2009 paper suggesting that a virus called XMRV plays a role in chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS), the only other paper supporting...
December 27, 2011 12:57 PM
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A Present for NIH: President Signs Law Creating New Translational Center
A year after advisers made the proposal and following months of controversy, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) has secured a new translational research center. The final step came...
December 23, 2011 1:10 PM
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U.S. Biosecurity Panel May Call for Asilomar-Style Moratorium on H5N1 Papers
The U.S. National Science Advisory Board for Biosecurity (NSABB), which has asked scientists and journals to redact key details in two explosive influenza papers, is also considering a call...
December 22, 2011 11:16 AM
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UPDATED: In a Rare Move, Science Without Authors' Consent Retracts Paper That Tied Mouse Virus to Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
After enduring more than 2 years of criticism that included evidence of contamination and misrepresentation of data, a Science paper that linked a mouse retrovirus to chronic fatigue syndrome...
December 20, 2011 4:30 PM
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UPDATED: Civil Court Rules Against Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Researcher
Embattled researcher Judy Mikovits lost an important round in court yesterday in a civil suit that her former employer filed against her over alleged "misappropriation" of laboratory notebooks and...
December 20, 2011 4:22 PM
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With New Law, France Revamps Drug Approval
PARIS— Triggered by the scandal over the diabetes drug Mediator, a law to reform how drugs are approved and regulated in France was adopted by the parliament here yesterday....
December 20, 2011 2:38 PM
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Grudgingly, Virologists Agree to Redact Details in Sensitive Flu Papers
Two groups of scientists who carried out highly controversial studies with the avian influenza virus H5N1 have reluctantly agreed to strike certain details from manuscripts describing their work after...
December 19, 2011 4:15 PM
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NIH Director Jumps the Gun With Memo Announcing New Center
In an embarrassing misstep, National Institutes of Health (NIH) Director Francis Collins sent his staff a triumphant memo this weekend heralding Congress's sign-off on a controversial new center aimed...
December 16, 2011 2:36 PM
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Nobel Prize for Immunologists Provokes Yet Another Debate
Once again, the 2011 Nobel Prize for physiology or medicine is the subject of controversy. This time, the contribution of French immunologist Jules Hoffmann has been called into question...
December 15, 2011 5:52 PM
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NIH Curtails Chimpanzee Research in Wake of IOM Report
The U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) has accepted recommendations from an outside review committee to curtail the use of chimpanzees in biomedical research. "NIH will not issue any...
December 15, 2011 12:01 AM
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Panel Calls for Closer Tracking of U.S.-Funded Human Research, Proposes Compensation Fund
People who volunteer for federally funded research both in this country and abroad are well-protected by federal ethics rules, a high-level expert panel has found. But there is room...
December 14, 2011 5:08 PM
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14 Senators Protest HHS's Plan B Decision
Thirteen Democrats and one independent in the U.S. Senate are questioning last week's announcement by Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius that she would not allow over-the-counter...
December 13, 2011 4:05 PM
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Francis Collins on Partnering With India
While in India last week to sign an agreement on diabetes research, Francis Collins, director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), spoke with ScienceInsider about his visit. Collins...
December 13, 2011 12:53 PM
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Report: World Malaria Deaths and Funding Both Trending Downward
World health officials had hoped to reduce the number of deaths due to malaria by 50% between 2000 and 2010. They got halfway there, according to the latest estimates...
December 12, 2011 7:01 PM
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Courtroom Neuroscience Not Ready for Prime Time
LONDON—The tantalizing prospect of using a brain scanner to determine whether a witness is lying, or a genetic analysis to determine whether a murder suspect is predisposed to commit...
December 6, 2011 2:21 PM
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U.S. Genome Centers Expand to Rare Diseases, Clinical Genomics
The U.S. government is renewing its push to move genomics towards the clinic. Today the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) announced its latest 4-year genome sequencing program, funded...
December 5, 2011 6:09 PM
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U.K. to Open Patient Data and Boost Life Science Funding
As part of a suite of measures to support the country's life science sector, the United Kingdom plans to increase researchers' access to medical patient data and funnel £180...
December 5, 2011 4:56 PM
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Criminal Attorney Speaks for Controversial CFS Researcher
When Judy Mikovits, a researcher well-known for her controversial studies linking a mouse retrovirus to chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS), was jailed on a felony charge of being a fugitive...
November 23, 2011 4:48 PM
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Scientists Brace for Media Storm Around Controversial Flu Studies
ROTTERDAM, THE NETHERLANDS—Locked up in the bowels of the medical faculty building here and accessible to only a handful of scientists lies a man-made flu virus that could change...
November 22, 2011 4:04 PM
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Details Emerge of the Criminal Charges Against Embattled CFS Researcher
After police in Ventura County, California, arrested and jailed Judy Mikovits on 18 November, they gave few details about the felony charges levied against the well-known chronic fatigue syndrome...
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