NewsBlog: [Entry posted at 29th August 2005 03:34 PM GMT] Many of the headlines suggested that the proposed ethics rules for NIH employees have been relaxed. But that's not quite true, as Ted Agres pointed out here. The rules on stock ownership have loosened, yes. But the most important restriction remains. That's the one forbidding those who labor at NIH to do outside consulting for businesses with a stake in NIH's labor.
These decisions are a smart move for NIH director Elias A.... Click to continue
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NewsBlog: [Entry posted at 11th August 2005 06:54 PM GMT] I see that the $1000 genome is now an official US government project. NIH's genome institute (NHGRI) just announced this genetic equivalent of going to the moon. The agency is spending $32 million to develop technology aimed explicitly at sequencing genomes of individual patients for $1000, long an informal goal among genome scientists. NHGRI's announcement comes on the heels of (and was perhaps provoked by?) papers describing Click to continue
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NewsBlog: [Entry posted at 3rd August 2005 07:51 PM GMT] So did President Bush really advocate teaching "intelligent design" in his interview with Texas reporters the other day? Or were his musings about exposing students to different ideas simply a better-than-average example of political weasel-speak?
The fact is the remarks gave comfort to his religious political base while disclosing nothing of his actual beliefs about creationism. And they... Click to continue
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