NewsBlog: More food + no exercise = weight gain. Really? Posted by Ivan Oransky [Entry posted at 28th June 2006 07:36 PM GMT] From an Endocrine Society press release describing a study presented at their national conference this week: 'Our preliminary results indicate that body weight is compromised and weight goes up when people are exposed to an environment with unlimited availability of palatable food and low levels of daily activity,' said University of Chicago researcher Plamen Penev. Stop the presses! Read further, and you... Click to continue View comments (2) | Comment on this blog NewsBlog: An inspiring hypoxia experiment Posted by Brendan Maher [Entry posted at 28th June 2006 04:21 PM GMT] Jane Tomlinson, who is living with advanced breast cancer, starts her grueling 4200 mile, US-spanning bike ride to raise money for cancer research this Friday in San Francisco. According to her Website, she?s run three London marathons, the NYC marathon, and completed the Ironman triathalon among other extreme exercise fundraisers since she was told nearly six years ago that she had six months to live. She?s been quoted as saying that she expects this to be... Click to continue View comment (1) | Comment on this blog NewsBlog: Hwang heads back to the bench Posted by Stephen Pincock [Entry posted at 28th June 2006 02:32 PM GMT] The remarkable tale of disgraced South Korean researcher Hwang Woo-suk has taken another startling twist. It turns out he?s planning to open his own lab in Seoul next month, using private money to do conduct animal cloning and perhaps human embryonic stem cell research. Nobody will need reminding of Hwang?s high-profile woes. Once a national hero, he was forced to leave his post... Click to continue View comments (2) | Comment on this blog NewsBlog: Cloning ban to stay down under? Posted by Stephen Pincock [Entry posted at 19th June 2006 06:52 AM GMT] Australian stem cell researchers got some bad news today when newspapers reported that senior ministers in the national government are going to ignore the advice of an independent review that had recommended somatic cell nuclear transfer be permitted for research. That might have been the advice, but at a Cabinet meeting today ministers are expected to retain the status quo. Two of the main figures behind the decision are health minister... Click to continue View comment (1) | Comment on this blog NewsBlog: What? There?s news in peer review? Posted by Alison McCook [Entry posted at 15th June 2006 08:52 PM GMT] People love to complain about peer review. (The system is too secretive, reviewers nix their competitors? papers, etc.) Still, very little ever changes in peer review, so the same complaints circulate for years with no noticeable effect. So when something potentially system-altering happens, it?s newsworthy. Last week, Nature performed such a service by introducing a ... Click to continue View comment (1) | Comment on this blog NewsBlog: Biodiversity gets its 15 minutes Posted by Ishani Ganguli [Entry posted at 15th June 2006 06:23 PM GMT] Last evening, during Edward O. Wilson?s Baptist sermon-like address to an auditorium of 600 diverse faces at the American Museum of Natural History, the environment and its advocates got a bit of a pep talk. With the eminent naturalist?s signature articulacy, humor, and frankness (take "Soccer moms are the greatest enemy of natural history," or "It might have been a big mistake to give economics a Nobel Prize"), he took on the case for studying and preserving... Click to continue View comment (1) | Comment on this blog NewsBlog: Stumping for stem cells Posted by Catherine Magill [Entry posted at 14th June 2006 01:35 AM GMT] The California stem cell policy and advocacy juggernaut was in full steam this weekend at Stanford University. The two-day Stem Cell Policy and Advocacy Summit II: Empowering the Pro-Cures Coalition offered a banquet of the usual servings, including scientific updates, discussions of ethics and legal issues, and how-to primers on grassroots... Click to continue Comment on this blog NewsBlog: Buying your own lab Posted by Ivan Oransky [Entry posted at 9th June 2006 12:46 PM GMT] Last November, we reported that the owners of an upscale spa in New York State had 'offered $10 million to the University of Chicago for the Yerkes Observatory in Williams Bay, Wis. ? one of the nation's most historically important, if no longer scientifically advanced, observatories.' Well, they got it. According to a press release this week from the resort firm, Mirbeau will build a 100-room retreat and 73 small homes on the 30... Click to continue View comment (1) | Comment on this blog NewsBlog: Babraham appoints Wakelam Posted by Stephen Pincock [Entry posted at 5th June 2006 11:51 AM GMT] The UK?s Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) announced a couple of days ago that it had appointed Michael Wakelam, currently of the University of Birmingham, to be its director as of January 1 next year. Wakelam looks to be a good match for the institute, which conducts research and training in the mechanisms of cell communication and gene regulation. His own area of expertise is cell signaling,... Click to continue Comment on this blog

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