NewsBlog: A second code? Posted by Brendan Maher [Entry posted at 25th July 2006 05:37 PM GMT] Nicholas Wade extols the virtues of chromatin organization and regulation in today?s Science Times hitting on a topic that I always love reading and writing about. Here he talks about DNA directed nucleosome positioning. Certain DNA sequences, perhaps because of their relative bendability, might be more or less amenable to histone wrapping making some regulatory sequences more or less accessible. A ... Click to continue View comments (3) | Comment on this blog NewsBlog: Join the discussion(s) on science in TV Posted by Ivan Oransky [Entry posted at 19th July 2006 01:06 PM GMT] A piece we ran on July 7 has given birth to a great forum thread on LabLit -- created by Jennifer Rohn, one of our contributing editors -- on Stephen Gallagher's work and science on television. Gallagher himself has even taken part. Join it, and add your comments to our story (see comment link at the end of the story, where... Click to continue Comment on this blog NewsBlog: Senate okays expanded stem cell funding Posted by Alison McCook [Entry posted at 18th July 2006 08:59 PM GMT] In a largely symbolic victory for biomedical research, the Senate today (July 18) approved a controversial bill (HR 810) to extend Federal research funding to newly derived human embryonic stem cells (hESC). The legislation faces a veto from President Bush, who opposes the expansion of funding on ethical grounds. Indeed, on Monday (July 17) the White House reaffirmed the president?s intention to veto the bill. After 12 hours of... Click to continue Comment on this blog NewsBlog: What do you mean by ?embryo?? Posted by Alison McCook [Entry posted at 16th July 2006 09:53 PM GMT] ?It?s how we describe the thing that almost makes more of a difference than what it is.? These words, from Patricia Alt of Towson University in Maryland, are particularly applicable to hot button issues in bioethics, particularly the ever-raging debate over using embryos for stem cell research. At this week?s conference on ... Click to continue View comments (3) | Comment on this blog NewsBlog: Civility and civil disobedience Posted by Alison McCook [Entry posted at 14th July 2006 12:48 AM GMT] The Bioethics & Politics conference hosted by the Albany Medical College got off to a bang today, not a whimper. As participants trickled in, networking and finding old friends, another, uninvited group calmly filed in, parked in front of the room, and started shouting at the tops of their lungs. The protesters, around 30 or so, were from Not Dead Yet, a disability rights group that is against legalized euthanasia and... Click to continue View comment (1) | Comment on this blog NewsBlog: Venter Institute tests 454?s mettle Posted by Jeff Perkel [Entry posted at 11th July 2006 02:37 PM GMT] A paper published this week in PNAS provides a possible glimpse at the near-term future of next-gen sequencing technologies. Susanne Goldberg, Justin Johnson, and colleagues at the J. Craig Venter Institute compared the cost of sequencing six marine microbial genomes using traditional Sanger sequencing chemistry (using an Applied Biosystems 3730xl), 454 Life Sciences?... Click to continue View comments (3) | Comment on this blog NewsBlog: Sudbo: repeat offender Posted by Stephen Pincock [Entry posted at 3rd July 2006 11:48 AM GMT] It looks like Norwegian researcher Jon Sudbo, who hit the headlines earlier this year for fabricating data for a Lancet paper has been at the data fraud game for quite some time. That?s the conclusion of a report made public on Friday by a commission set up to probe his research career. The commission members found that most of his 38 scientific publications were riddled with manipulation and fabrication of raw data. Even his doctoral... Click to continue Comment on this blog

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