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November 18, 2011 12:48 PM
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FDA Pulls Avastin for Breast Cancer
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced today that it was stripping the drug Avastin of its approval for use to treat breast cancer. The move comes 4...
November 15, 2011 1:09 PM
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Geron Bails Out of Stem Cells
Geron, the company that helped pioneer human embryonic stem (hES) cell research, said yesterday that it is stopping its first-in-the-world clinical trial and pulling out of further stem cell...
November 15, 2011 11:38 AM
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National University of Singapore Clears Ito of Misconduct Charge
The National University of Singapore (NUS) announced today that it has found no evidence of research misconduct by Yoshiaki Ito, a high-profile cancer researcher accused of data fabrication. However,...
November 14, 2011 5:46 PM
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Lawsuit Filed Against Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Researcher by Former Employer
The protracted saga of Judy Mikovits, the lead researcher who tied a mouse retrovirus to chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS), has taken yet another dizzying turn. A little more than...
November 9, 2011 4:49 PM
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HIV Vaginal Gel Nets Inaugural African Science Prize
The development of a vaginal gel that can cut a woman's risk of HIV infection by over 50% has been one of the few unqualified victories amid a decade...
November 8, 2011 5:02 PM
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United States Calls for Ambitious New Push to Curb HIV/AIDS Epidemic
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton today declared that recent scientific advances in HIV/AIDS have created a "historic opportunity" to change the course of the pandemic and usher in...
November 7, 2011 1:41 PM
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'Elixir of Youth' Sparks Clash of Croatian Scientists
A Slovenian company that makes an antioxidant pill some media have dubbed an "elixir of youth" is threatening to file lawsuits against scientists who have publicly spoken out against...
November 4, 2011 3:31 PM
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With Only Trace Evidence to Go On, Experts Discuss Drugs in the Water
LONDON—Pharmaceuticals in drinking water: it's a made-for-TV topic that can stir up public outcry faster than you can say "barely detectable residues." With little data on how much excreted...
November 2, 2011 5:19 PM
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Panel Calls for Google Maps of Human Disease
An expert panel today called for creating a massive data network that would combine cutting-edge genomic and molecular data on patients' diseases with their routine medical records. Such a...
October 31, 2011 2:40 PM
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Court Endorses Vatican Bank's Rescue of Italian Research Center
One of Italy's most prestigious private biomedical research centers may have gained a new lease on life. On Friday, 28 October, an Italian bankruptcy court gave the green light...
October 28, 2011 4:42 PM
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Advisory Panel Urges U.S. to Conduct Controversial Anthrax Vaccine Trial in Children
An advisory board to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services this afternoon urged the U.S. government to launch a controversial trial of the anthrax vaccine in children....
October 26, 2011 10:00 AM
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Ladies and Gentlemen, Start Your Sequencers: Genomics X PRIZE Takes On a New Look
The rules for a $10 million prize for leaps in genome sequencing just got a little easier—and a little harder. The Archon Genomics X PRIZE presented by MEDCO was established...
October 20, 2011 11:13 AM
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Three Glasses of Milk a Day? Maybe Not
Does drinking lots of milk keep you healthy? Yes, according to a 2010 press release by Wageningen University and Research Centre (WUR) in the Netherlands about a study of...
October 18, 2011 5:16 PM
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NIH Seeks Advice on Budget Crunch
The grim outlook for biomedical research funding is causing much angst at the $30.7 billion National Institutes of Health (NIH). In an unusually candid move this week, NIH described...
October 18, 2011 4:44 PM
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New Chief for NIH's Basic Research Institute
The National Institutes of Health's (NIH's) basic research institute has a new director. Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) cell biologist Chris Kaiser will take the helm of the $2...
October 18, 2011 1:44 PM
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European Court Disallows Patents Involving Human Embryonic Stem Cells
The environmental group Greenpeace has won its battle in Europe to prevent the patenting of human embryonic stem (hES) cells. Processes and products that involve such cells are not...
October 11, 2011 11:37 AM
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U.K. Panel Says Women Egg Donors Should Be Paid
Women who donate their eggs to research in the United Kingdom should be compensated for the discomfort, risk, and inconvenience they undergo according to a report published yesterday by...
October 4, 2011 6:19 PM
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Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Researcher Fired Amidst New Controversy
Judy Mikovits has had a rough few weeks. On 22 September, Science published online a nine-lab study widely seen as the final blow to the theory, championed by Mikovits...
October 3, 2011 4:49 PM
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New Nobelist Used His Discovery to Battle His Cancer
Immunologist Ralph Steinman was honored today by the Nobel Committee for his discovery of dendritic cells, a class of immune cells that help rally the body's natural defenses to...
September 30, 2011 5:59 PM
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Connecticut Offers $291 Million to Land Jackson Lab Branch
Connecticut is proposing to pony up $291 million to help open a new offshoot of The Jackson Laboratory (JAX), a genetics research institute best known as a leading breeder of...
September 28, 2011 11:10 PM
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A Dizzying Second Twist in Trial of Anti-HIV Drugs as Preventives
Yet another large study that aims to prevent the spread of HIV by giving uninfected women antiretroviral (ARV) pills has had to redesign the trial because of startling—and negative—interim results....
September 27, 2011 11:46 AM
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Insider Looking Out: How People With Chronic Fatigue Syndrome View the Death of XMRV
The findings reported last week in Science that a mouse retrovirus dubbed XMRV poses no threat to the blood supply provided great relief to public health officials. New evidence...
September 27, 2011 11:26 AM
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German Ethics Council Weighs In On Human-Animal Chimeras
BERLIN—Mice carrying human genes are ethically acceptable, but German scientists who want to make transgenic monkeys with human genes should get permission from a national ethics panel, according to...
September 23, 2011 2:57 PM
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NIH Chided on Translational Center, Warned of More Budget Cuts
A Senate spending panel has praised a new translational center at the National Institutes of Health but scolded NIH officials for how it was created. The language accompanies the...
September 22, 2011 4:45 PM
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South Carolina Virologist Charged With Illegal Campaign Contributions, Grant Fraud
A virologist who worked on biodefense vaccines and was active in South Carolina politics has been charged with making illegal campaign contributions and using research grants to defraud the...
September 22, 2011 11:25 AM
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U.K. Approves Europe's First Embryonic Stem Cell Clinical Trial
A U.S.-based company has received permission to start Europe's first clinical trial involving human embryonic stem (hES) cells. Advanced Cell Technology (ACT), based in Marlborough, Massachusetts, received approval today...
September 20, 2011 5:11 PM
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Senate Panel Trims NIH Budget By $190 Million
A Senate panel today approved a 2012 spending bill that would slightly trim the budget of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), cutting it by $190 million to $30.5...
September 19, 2011 5:14 PM
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Family Puts $10 Million Into Chronic Fatigue Research
A family charity is hoping to jump-start the search for a cause for the mysterious disease known as chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) by funding around $10 million in studies...
September 19, 2011 4:35 PM
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Stem Cell Lawsuit Back Again
As expected, the plaintiffs in a law suit claiming that federally funded research on human embryonic stem cells (hESC) is illegal have appealed a ruling that dealt them a...
September 16, 2011 5:29 PM
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White House Boosts Translational Medicine, Drug Chip Project
National Institutes of Health (NIH) Director Francis Collins's controversial plan to launch a new center for translational biomedical research got a boost today in a White House announcement on...
September 14, 2011 1:52 PM
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Cheaters Beware: New Doping Tests Ready for London's 2012 Olympics
BRADFORD, UNITED KINGDOM—Athletes planning to dope for the 2012 Olympics in London would be better off staying home, because scientists are lying in wait with a new battery of...
September 14, 2011 9:30 AM
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Don't Call It Viral Marketing: The Story Behind Contagion's Microbial Billboard
The jury is still out on whether the star-studded viral outbreak movie Contagion will be a Hollywood blockbuster, but don't blame Patrick Hickey if it isn't. The Scottish mycologist...
September 13, 2011 2:13 PM
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Pharma Exec Trevor Mundel Named President of Gates Foundation Global Health Initiative
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation announced today that Trevor Mundel, who currently heads the development team of pharmaceutical giant Novartis International AG, will take over as president of...
September 12, 2011 5:17 PM
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UPDATED: University of Chicago Microbiologist Infected From Possible Lab Accident
Another laboratory-acquired infection may have occurred in a University of Chicago building where 2 years ago a researcher contracted plague and later died. Late last month, a researcher who...
September 9, 2011 3:38 PM
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Flawed Cancer Trial at Duke Sparks Lawsuit
A dozen plaintiffs have filed a lawsuit against Duke University and administrators, researchers, and physicians there, alleging that they engaged in fraudulent and negligent behavior when they enrolled cancer...
September 9, 2011 11:34 AM
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Making the Case for Health Impact Assessments
In 2007, developers of a planned senior-housing project in Oakland, California, decided to move the entrance from adjacent to a busy highway to a quiet courtyard. The change would...
September 9, 2011 11:10 AM
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More Allegations Against Company Embroiled in French Drug Scandal
PARIS—Servier, the pharmaceutical company at the heart of a massive medical scandal in France, suffered several fresh blows to its credibility this week. Yesterday, a newspaper revealed that the...
August 30, 2011 3:21 PM
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Panel Blasts Ethics, Science of 1940s Guatemala Studies
An exhaustive high-level review of unethical syphilis experiments conducted in Guatemala by U.S. researchers in the 1940s has found little to redeem the work or its lead researcher. The...
August 26, 2011 5:29 PM
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Edison Liu Leaves Singapore to Head Jackson Lab
Cancer researcher Edison Liu, 59, will be the new president of the Jackson Laboratory in Bar Harbor, Maine, the lab announced today. Liu will take charge in January 2012,...
August 25, 2011 2:51 PM
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Cancer Institute Invites Studies of Provocative Questions
The National Cancer Institute (NCI) has unveiled a pot of up to $17.5 million to study so-called "provocative questions"—unsolved, paradoxical, or neglected research questions that deserve a closer look....
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