NewsBlog: [Entry posted at 14th December 2007 04:51 PM GMT] Plans for a Biosafety Level 4 containment lab at Boston University hit another bump in the road yesterday (December 13), when the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court ruled unanimously that the state's environmental approval process for the project had been deeply flawed.
The assessment echoed a recent National Research Council review, which concluded last month that the NIH had... Click to continue
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NewsBlog: [Entry posted at 12th December 2007 06:35 PM GMT] Adult stem cells taken from humans suffering from Duchenne muscular dystrophy can be genetically modified and used to treat the disease in a mouse model, researchers report today in Cell Stem Cell.
Duchenne muscular dystrophy is a progressive condition caused by a mutation on the X chromosome that leads to a lack of dystrophin protein in muscle. The mutation is usually caused by a deletion or mutation in the gene, leading to a shift in the reading... Click to continue
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NewsBlog: [Entry posted at 11th December 2007 09:59 PM GMT] The makers of the antibody-based cancer drug Erbitux have settled a patent dispute with Israeli researchers who claimed to have invented the process for making the drug.
Last year, Yeda Research and Development, the tech transfer office of the Weizmann Institute, sued ImClone and Sanofi-Aventis over the Erbitux patent. (The patent was owned by the latter and licensed by the former.) The dispute centered on a long-standing argument between Yale researcher ... Click to continue
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NewsBlog: [Entry posted at 8th December 2007 12:10 AM GMT] A former Cleveland Clinic physician is suing the hospital for firing him over conflicts of interest, the Wall Street Journal reports.
Jay Yadav, who was fired last year from his post as head of the vascular intervention unit, invented a device to prevent blockages caused by neck stents. He tested the device at the Cleveland Clinic, and received shares from the company that commercialized it. However, he insists that... Click to continue
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NewsBlog: [Entry posted at 6th December 2007 07:18 PM GMT] Skin cells reprogrammed for pluripotency can be used to treat anemia in a mouse model of the disease, reports a study published online in Science today (December 6).
The researchers, led by Rudolph Jaenisch and Jacob Hanna at MIT, say the study provides proof of principle that induced pluripotent stem cells (iPS cells) can be used to treat diseases.
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NewsBlog: [Entry posted at 5th December 2007 09:44 PM GMT] The Scientist intern Jonathan Scheff reports:
Seymour Benzer, whose research into the structure and function of genes as well as the connection between genes and behavior laid the foundation of modern genetics, died on Friday, November 30, at Huntington Hospital in Pasadena. He was 86.
David Anderson, a colleague at the California Institute of Technology, where Benzer was a professor of neuroscience, in a statement called Benzer "a giant in science...... Click to continue
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NewsBlog: [Entry posted at 5th December 2007 01:15 AM GMT] Jeff Perkel, a past editor at The Scientist, reports:
It would seem that, when it comes to the Archon X Prize for Genomics, George Church has had a change of heart.
The $10 million prize will go to the first group that can sequence 100 genomes (to at least 98 percent coverage and with less than one error per 100,000 bases) in 10 days, for under $10,000 per genome. Last year, Church, a Harvard geneticist and DNA sequencing... Click to continue
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