NIH announces database for genetic test information
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has unveiled its Genetic Testing Registry, a database of information on genetic tests that will be voluntarily submitted by test producers. Read more
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has unveiled its Genetic Testing Registry, a database of information on genetic tests that will be voluntarily submitted by test producers. Read more
Chemical companies in Europe are not providing sufficient information on the hazards and risks of the substances they produce to ensure their safe use by citizens, says a report from the EU’s chemical regulator. Read more
Funding troubles have forced Canada’s northernmost non-military research station to cease full-time operations. Read more
The UK government’s departmental chief scientific advisers (CSAs) should be given a formal role in signing off on new policies from their departments to ensure that decisions are supported by scientific and engineering advice, according to the House of Lords Science and Technology Committee. Read more
It is the job of a federal bureaucrat to put a good face on bad budget news, and on Monday, NASA science chief John Grunsfeld, just two months into his job, did his best to buck up a reeling Mars community. He announced that the agency would re-design its Mars exploration programme, and that the new architecture would include input — and money — from the human programme as well as the space technology division. Grunsfeld tasked Orlando Figueroa, the former deputy director for space and technology at Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, with heading up a seven or eight person committee, and to start developing mission concepts in the next month. Read more
Patient advocates, researchers, medical insurers, and clinicians had no shortage of advice today for the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) – an organization created by the 2010 US health-care reform act to spur research into the effectiveness of clinical therapies and services (see Opponents battle health care research). Read more
Brazil’s scientific community is reeling from a fire that blazed through the country’s Comandante Ferraz research station in Antarctica over the weekend, killing two navy personnel and injuring another. Read more
Researchers from IBM have succeeded in ‘seeing’ the distribution of charge within a single X-shaped molecule. Read more
A US National Institutes of Health advisory panel has released a new risk assessment for a controversial high-security biocontainment lab located near Boston’s bustling downtown core. The Draft Supplementary Risk Assessment for the Boston University National Emerging Infectious Diseases Laboratories (NEIDL) was released on 24 February and is the next step in a long and process that may eventually lead to the National Biocontainment Laboratory being used for its intended purpose: researching vaccines, therapeutics and diagnostics for emerging biological agents that could pose a serious public threat. Read more
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