Even as Federal prosecutors may be deciding to focus their efforts on alleged misconduct by NIH researcher Thomas Walsh , Walsh is apparently still not disclosing all of his potential conflicts of interest in his publications.

Walsh -- who engaged in ''serious misconduct'' by accepting more than $100,000 in consulting fees from drug and biotech companies without disclosing the... Click to continue

Good news for those of you who have been keeping a cloned T-bone in your freezer waiting to see if it's safe to eat: In an announcement that surprised no one, the FDA today gingerly said that it's OK to eat cloned cows and pigs. Cloned milk and meat more than likely won't even need a label.

The timing of the announcement suggests that the FDA wanted as little scrutiny of the report as possible ?- the week before Christmas and New... Click to continue

I love a good bit of unintentional levity. One of my favorite discoveries is when an interviewee -- one of our own or even in another publication -- has a name that fits their field just a little too well. Now, call me a suspicious Aloysius, but when it happens twice in a week, in the same publication, I start getting wary. Today Jane Brody for the New York Times writes on the important exercises for maintaining health in... Click to continue

Dull and non-controversial: That?s how bioethics pundit Art Caplan described the focus of a panel last night at the Philadelphia?s Franklin Institute titled ?Science, Faith and Darwin,? set to accompany their Darwin exhibit running through the end of December. Caplan meant to be wry, but with a panel (and seemingly an entire auditorium) full of folks in agreement, no sparks flew.

That?s not to say there wasn?t star power. Judge John E. Jones who presided over the Kitzmiller v. Dover case... Click to continue

You might have noticed last week, the launch of JoVE, the journal of visualized experiments which gives quick, free, video how-to?s on laboratory protocols. As someone who loves techniques but hates reading dry materials and methods sections, this is a darned neat idea. Blogger Pimm tracked its web awareness here, and apparently it spiked... Click to continue