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NIH responds to criticism over handling of flu papers
The US National Institutes of Health (NIH) today released a response to a sharply worded internal criticism about the handling of two controversial H5N1 avian influenza papers, one of which was...
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Fishy research at the Biology of Genomes 2012
Strange things are afoot at the Biology of Genomes meeting at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory in New York this week. When Jeramiah Smith, a geneticist at the University of Kentucky in Lexington delivered...
View ArticleMissing biologist surfaces, reunites with family
Margaret “Margie” Profet has returned. In Psychology Today this month, journalist Mike Martin tells the haunting tale of a promising young evolutionary biologist who vanished without a trace. Profet...
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Congressman criticizes US handling of H5N1 papers
Congressman Jim Sensenbrenner of Wisconsinhttp://sensenbrenner.house.gov/ An influential member of the US Congress remains dissatisfied with the government’s handling of two research papers on mutant...
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Flu researchers bristle under federal policy
Adolfo Garcia-Sastre It has been four months since the US government issued a hastily released policy for monitoring what is called dual-use research of concern (DURC), research that could pose...
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NIAID director urges continuation of H5N1 research moratorium
NIAID director Anthony FauciJim Wallace, Smithsonian Institution At a meeting of influenza researchers in Times Square New York Tuesday, Anthony Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy...
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ORI: Former Harvard postdoc guilty of misconduct
Flow cytometry data plots were re-used in two different papers by Shane Mayack.Mayack, S. R., Shadrach, J. L., Kim, F. S. & Wagers, A. J. Nature 463, 495–500 (2010); Mayack, S. R. & Wagers, A....
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Fighting about ENCODE and junk
A red junk at Tsim Sha TsuiAlfonso Jimenez and Flickr On Wednesday, a handful of journals, including this one, released more than 30 papers describing results from the second phase of ENCODE: a...
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New guidelines announced for risky research
Twists and turns: researchers use ferrets to assess the transmissibility of H5N1 in mammals.Credit: Tambako the Jaguar via Flickr US government officials have passed two more checkpoints on the long,...
View ArticlePatients should learn about secondary genetic risk factors, say recommendations
Imagine getting a chest X-ray to identify the cause of a serious cough. The radiologist finds a shadow that wasn’t causing the cough but could be a tumour. In many cases, it is obvious what to do upon...
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