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March 23, 2011 5:44 PM
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What's the Current Radiation Threat to Japan's Food and Water?
Health concerns have been rising in Japan after the government found unacceptable radiation levels in milk and vegetables from several regions and in drinking water in Tokyo. The radiation...
March 22, 2011 5:17 PM
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Quake Question #13: Are There Any Radiation Drugs Available Beyond Potassium Iodide?
Readers ask: Is the military's drug Rad-X being made available to the people of Japan? Science answers: Government health clinics in Japan are distributing potassium iodide pills which can...
March 21, 2011 11:04 AM
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Q&A With Australia-Bound Stem Cell Ace
Martin Pera of the University of Southern California (USC) announced on 7 March that he will return to Australia in June to lead Stem Cells Australia (SCA), a new...
March 17, 2011 3:46 PM
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Little Protection for Those on the Front Lines
With fears mounting about the spread of radiation from Japan's damaged nuclear plants, the people at highest risk are the ones trying hardest to contain it. The New York...
March 17, 2011 1:38 PM
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Rendezvous With an Earthquake for a Hiroshima Native
Ritsuko Komaki, 67, grew up in Hiroshima after the atomic bombing there. Her experience led her to become a radiation oncologist, and she now works at M.D. Anderson Cancer...
March 16, 2011 5:54 PM
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Chernobyl Can Teach Japan About Limiting Radiation Exposure
As workers struggle with Japan's damaged Fukushima nuclear power plant, the potential risk that more radiation will be released remains unknown. But the unfolding events since Friday's earthquake have...
March 16, 2011 11:06 AM
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Blood Sport: Anti-Doping Strategy Comes Into Its Own
Last week, the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS), considered the world authority in sporting disputes, ruled in favor of the International Cycling Union in its doping case against...
March 15, 2011 2:15 PM
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NIH Scientists Warming to New Translational Center
Despite concerns previously expressed by many extramural scientists, National Institutes of Health (NIH) campus researchers who showed up yesterday to hear Director Francis Collins unveil a proposed new center...
March 11, 2011 5:56 PM
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Committee Sharply Critiques WHO's Pandemic Response
Eight months after the World Health Organization (WHO) declared the swine flu pandemic officially over, an independent expert group has given the global health agency a decidedly mixed evaluation...
March 11, 2011 12:22 PM
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U.K. Review Launched for 'Three-Parent' IVF Technique
The United Kingdom's Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA) isn't going out quietly. Although the U.K's new coalition government plans to disband the agency later this year, HFEA today...
March 8, 2011 5:46 PM
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Seth Berkley's Move From IAVI to GAVI
Seth Berkley is trading an "I" for a "G." In August, Berkley, who founded and heads the International AIDS Vaccine Initiative (IAVI), will take over the GAVI Alliance, another...
March 4, 2011 5:03 PM
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Former MIT Researcher Convicted of Fraud
The ordeal isn't over for biologist Luk van Parijs, who was fired by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 2005 after admitting to fabricating research data. Yesterday, Van Parijs,...
March 1, 2011 5:51 PM
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U.S. Bioethics Panel to Review Clinical Trials Around the World
Prompted by concerns about an unethical U.S.-sponsored study in the 1940s, bioethics advisers to President Barack Obama formed an international panel today that will examine whether current rules adequately...
February 28, 2011 5:19 PM
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NIH Begins Study of Oil Spill's Impact on Residents
Today, the U.S. government launched what's being billed as the largest study ever conducted of how an oil spill affects human health. The Gulf Long-Term Follow-Up Study will survey...
February 23, 2011 5:39 PM
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Research Center's Death Warrant Signed by NIH Advisers
A decision by National Institutes of Health (NIH) leaders to abolish one of the agency's institutes ran into little opposition today from a key advisory board. One board member...
February 22, 2011 5:26 PM
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Dissent in NIH's Ranks
An institute director at the National Institutes of Health sounded off today about NIH's plan to abolish its infrastructure center in order to launch a new center for translational...
February 22, 2011 4:24 PM
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Vaccine Maker Wins in High Court
The U.S. Supreme Court came down firmly on the side of a vaccine manufacturer today, arguing that parents whose teenager daughter was apparently seriously injured by a vaccine she...
February 17, 2011 4:32 PM
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Fourteen More Senators Question NIH Reorganization
A group of senators has registered concerns about the National Institutes of Health's (NIH's) plan to abolish its National Center for Research Resources (NCRR) to make way for a...
February 17, 2011 12:59 PM
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First U.S. Cowpox Infection: Acquired From Lab Contamination
A student laboratory worker at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, is the first person in the United States to come down with cowpox, a less dangerous relative of smallpox,...
February 15, 2011 11:12 AM
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Study Questions Government Case on Anthrax Attacks
The science behind the U.S. government's investigation into the 2001 anthrax mailings does not rule out the possibility that the spores used in the attacks came from a source other...
February 14, 2011 5:45 PM
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FDA's Expanded Mandate in Limbo
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) could get a big budget boost this year, with the president requesting $4.3 billion, more than a third of it from regulatory...
February 14, 2011 5:11 PM
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President Would Give NIH Slight 2.4% Boost in 2012
The president's budget would give the National Institutes of Health (NIH) a modest 2.4% raise in 2012 of $745 million over the 2010 level, bringing the total to $31.8...
February 14, 2011 5:11 PM
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CDC's Pinched Budget Focuses on Chronic Disease Prevention
The purse strings are getting tighter at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), which has already seen budget drops in recent years. The agency's discretionary budget...
February 10, 2011 5:10 PM
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Second Chance for NIH Grant Applicants
Did you miss the funding cutoff despite a stellar score on your U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) grant? Don't give up hope. The National Health Council (NHC), a...
February 10, 2011 1:39 PM
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U.K. Neuroscientists Complain Funding Cut Penalizes Them for Success
LONDON—At a briefing here today, the British Neuroscience Association (BNA) warned that a planned 20% cut in funding for neuroscience by the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC)...
February 9, 2011 5:21 PM
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NIH Budget: Post-Stimulus Cliff Still Looming, But Not Until Next Year
A U.S. biomedical research lobbying group today offered a sliver of solace to fears that Congress will slash science budgets this year. A budget analysis from the Federation of...
February 9, 2011 10:32 AM
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New Stem Cell Lab Designed to Inspire
SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA—A stem cell research building opened today at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), is generating oohs and ahhs from scientists and architecture buffs alike. The...
February 8, 2011 5:22 PM
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No Review Needed of 2004 Suicide, University of Minnesota Says
Despite calls from a group of faculty members for a full investigation, the University of Minnesota has declined to reexamine the death of a young man who committed suicide...
February 7, 2011 2:54 PM
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Entering a Wild Frontier: Testing Vaccines in Apes for Apes
Tomorrow, chimpanzees will take part in a vaccine experiment that, for the first time, aims to help chimpanzees. Researchers at the New Iberia Research Center, a branch of the...
February 3, 2011 2:11 PM
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Progress on Stem Cells: A Meandering March
On the occasion of a recent finding about abnormal gene expression in reprogrammed stem cell lines , Ed Yong built a handy timeline on the science of cell reprogramming....
February 2, 2011 5:28 PM
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Pfizer's Plan to Cut R&D Spending Rattles Some Cages
Pfizer, the world's largest drug company, and one that's proud of its scientific acumen, announced yesterday that it will cut R&D spending in 2012 by about 20%, from $8.5...
February 2, 2011 5:00 PM
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NIH Undiagnosed Diseases Program Uncovers Its First New Genetic Disorder
A National Institutes of Health (NIH) program aimed at tracking down the causes of mysterious diseases is bearing fruit. A multidisciplinary team of physicians and genetic researchers have discovered...
January 31, 2011 11:22 AM
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Why the 'Prius Driving, Composting' Set Fears Vaccines
Journalist Seth Mnookin's new book, The Panic Virus: A True Story of Medicine, Science, and Fear, explores the public health scare over vaccines and autism. The 1998 paper in...
January 28, 2011 5:00 PM
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Collins's Plan to Reshuffle NIH Draws More Flak
The revolt is spreading against a plan by U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) Director Francis Collins to create a new center on translational medicine by reassigning existing pieces...
January 28, 2011 1:27 PM
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More Trouble for Duke as FDA Audits Center, The Cancer Letter Reports
The fallout continues from a decision to halt controversial cancer trials at Duke University last year: In an article today, The Cancer Letter is reporting that the U.S. Food...
January 27, 2011 5:13 PM
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CDC Issues Preparatory PrEP Guidance
In November when researchers revealed positive results from the first large-scale trial of anti-HIV drugs to prevent sexual transmission of the virus, a barrage of questions immediately surfaced about...
January 27, 2011 4:41 PM
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GM Mosquito Release in Malaysia Surprises Opponents and Scientists—Again
Some 6000 transgenic mosquitoes developed to help fight dengue were released in Malaysia on 21 December, according to a statement issued by the country's Institute for Medical Research (IMR)...
January 27, 2011 2:24 PM
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Media Rehash of Corruption Plagues Global Fund
A widely picked up Associated Press story about fraud committed by several countries that received grants from the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria has triggered a...
January 27, 2011 1:59 PM
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NIH Reorganization Draws Scrutiny From Congress
Biomedical scientists aren't alone in questioning a plan by National Institutes of Health (NIH) Director Francis Collins to create a new center to spur drug development. Last week, a...
January 25, 2011 4:21 PM
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No, Not That NIH Stem Cell Lawsuit
An online headline, " Appeals court dismisses stem cell research suit," certainly grabbed the attention of this reporter, who wondered if she had somehow missed news about a case...
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