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September 21, 2009 6:01 PM
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Plague Samples Suspected In Scientist Death
An autopsy last week revealed that a geneticist who died mysteriously might have succumbed to the plague. Malcolm Casadaban, 60, studied a weakened and reportedly benign form of the...
September 21, 2009 2:57 PM
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Should the U.S. Build Its Next Coal Plants Underground?
Might burning coal thousands of feet below the surface be the secret to making coal climate friendly?That's what fans of underground coal gasification will be saying this week at...
September 21, 2009 12:21 PM
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Torture Can't Provide Good Information, Argues Neuroscientist
Much ink has been spilled about the right and wrong of torturing terrorists, particularly since 16 April when the U.S. Department of Justice released memos detailing the “enhanced interrogation”...
September 17, 2009 3:00 PM
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Countries That Have Swine Flu Vaccine Will Share With Have-Nots
In the wake of evidence that a single dose of the swine flu vaccine can protect adults, U.S. President Barack Obama announced a plan today to share 10% of...
July 21, 2009 8:24 AM
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Italian Court Rejects Scientists' Plea to Fund Human Embryonic Stem Cell Research
Three Italian scientists have lost the first round of what may be a lengthy legal challenge to their government’s decision to exclude human embryonic stem cell work from a call...
July 8, 2009 4:59 PM
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White House to Nominate Collins as NIH Director
It's official: The White House intends to tap geneticist Francis Collins to lead the National Institutes of Health. President Barack Obama's announcement today ends months of speculation that Collins, leader...
Czech Science Academy Threatened by Budget Cuts
Scientists at the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic (ASCR) are fighting for their reputation and the future of their institutes. A budget proposal announced last week by the...
Hong Kong Case Suggests Resistant Swine Flu May Be Spreading
A third case of oseltamivir-resistant swine flu, announced today in Hong Kong, has flu experts worried that resistance to the drug is spreading. Unlike the previous two cases, the Hong...
June 17, 2009 5:43 PM
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Panel Recommends Climate Satellite Shakeup
WASHINGTON, D.C.--A blue-ribbon panel recommended today that the White House intervene in the management of a crucial satellite program that has been plagued by cost overruns and delays, citing...
June 17, 2009 5:29 PM
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Unlogged Pathogen Samples Found at Fort Detrick
A 4-month effort to inventory the contents of freezers and refrigerators at the United States Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases (USAMRIID) in Fort Detrick, Maryland, has turned up...
June 17, 2009 2:34 PM
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House Approves $8 Billion for Swine Flu Pandemic
The U.S. House of Representatives last night approved $7.65 billion in new money to respond to the swine flu pandemic. The money will go toward the purchase of vaccine, antiviral...
Money Woes Strip Europe's Mars Mission of Instrument
Last November was crunch time for Europe’s ExoMars mission to the red planet when member governments of the European Space Agency (ESA) pinned back the project’s budget to €850 million....
June 11, 2009 11:18 AM
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AIDS Meeting Demands Lift of U.S. Ban on HIV-Infected Visitors
This item was updated with a list of other countries with similar bans and a statement from the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). The International AIDS Society (IAS),...
North Korea's Curious Nuclear Test
VIENNA—Researchers were scratching their heads earlier today at a meeting convened by the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization (CTBTO) over puzzling results from last month's nuclear test by North Korea. While...
Merkel Shows German Scientists the Money
German scientists breathed a sigh of relief today: They will get their promised €18 billion in funding increases after all. The funding boost, spread over the next 10 years, was...
H1N1 Rocks Japan, But WHO Says It's Still No Pandemic
The number of confirmed influenza A (H1N1) cases in Japan exploded over the weekend, going from an officially reported four—all in returning vacationers—on 16 May to 129 as of 18...
May 13, 2009 12:04 PM
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Exclusive: CDC's Flu Chief, Nancy Cox, Battling Fires at Home and Abroad
In the wake of a 1976 swine flu outbreak that began and ended with soldiers at Fort Dix, New Jersey, virologist Nancy Cox was a postdoc at the U.S....
May 6, 2009 3:56 PM
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FBI Anthrax Investigation Under Scientific Review
A long-awaited review of the scientific evidence relating to the investigation of the 2001 anthrax letter attacks is finally getting off the ground. The study, to be conducted by the...
Exclusive: SARS Sleuth Tracks Swine Flu, Attacks WHO
HONG KONG—Yi Guan has plenty of experience at ground zero of an epidemic. In spring 2003, the virologist at Hong Kong University (HKU) isolated the SARS virus from masked palm...
First Pig Cases of H1N1--and Mixed Views on the Human Outbreak
The first pigs infected with the H1N1 influenza sweeping the globe have been found—but they're a long way from Mexico, the suspected origin of the virus. There’s also some optimism...
Exclusive: Interview With Head of Mexico's Top Swine Flu Lab
Microbiologist Celia Alpuche heads the laboratory in Mexico that has become ground zero for the country's outbreak of swine flu. Alpuche spoke to Science yesterday from her office at the...
Exclusive Interview: CDC Head Virus Sleuth
Virologist Ruben Donis, chief of the molecular virology and vaccines branch at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, spoke with ScienceInsider at length last night about the swine...
Worries and Questions Mount as Disease Goes Global
Racing to keep up with swine flu’s spread, health agencies warned this morning that the number infected is changing hourly, and the World Health Organization is eyeing an upgrade to...
As Swine Flu Spreads, Its Chances to Mutate Increase
TOKYO—Swine flu has reached Asia, with South Korea reporting its first suspected case yesterday. Like the vast majority of other cases outside Mexico so far, it is mild, but virologist...
Could Swine Flu Have Come From America?
HIV/AIDS could shed some light on swine flu’s origins. And what it shows upends common wisdom. A 2004 study asked where Mexicans who migrated to California for seasonal farm work...
The Skinny on the Pig Farm Connection
Several news reports about the swine flu outbreak have pointed a finger at a massive pig farm in Veracruz, Mexico, as the potential source of the first transmission to humans....
April 28, 2009 12:21 PM
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Is Current Flu Vaccine Truly Impotent Against Swine Flu?
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention strongly doubts that this year’s flu vaccine will offer people any protection from the swine flu. “We don’t think that any of...
Will Stopping Travel Stop the Flu?
As part of its effort to slow the spread of swine flu, the U.S. government plans to issue an advisory later today for its citizens to avoid all nonessential travel...
April 27, 2009 2:23 PM
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Obama at the Academy, V : Hungry Audience, Meaty Speech
The warm reception at the National Academy of Sciences was also a coming-out party for President Barack Obama, cementing his reputation as a virtual rock star among U.S. scientists. His...
New Details Emerge on Swine Flu
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has published new details about swine flu cases in the United States. The Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) dispatch supports earlier...
April 23, 2009 5:55 PM
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Swine Flu Infects Seven; Genetic Make-Up Has Scientists Stymied
A swine flu strain that has infected seven people in the United States since late March is an unusual hybrid that carries genetic material from four different sources, officials at...
April 22, 2009 9:38 PM
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Hundreds Turn Out for Pro-Animal- Research Rally at UCLA
The organizers of today's Pro-Test rally at the University of California, Los Angeles, say it succeeded beyond their hopes. Hundreds of people—many of them students and postdocs—came out to show...
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