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24 Oct 2014 | 18:32 GMT

US research ethics agency upholds decision on informed consent

Posted by Erika Check Hayden | Categories: Health and medicine, Policy

United States regulators are standing by their decision that parents were not properly informed of the risks of clinical trials in which premature babies received different levels of oxygen supplementation.  Read more

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30 Sep 2014 | 23:49 GMT

First US Ebola case diagnosed

Posted by Erika Check Hayden | Categories: Health and medicine, Public health

A man has been diagnosed with Ebola virus disease in Dallas, Texas.  Read more

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  • Thomas Frieden

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23 Jul 2014 | 00:33 GMT

Scripps president resigns after faculty revolt

Posted by Erika Check Hayden | Categories: Biology & Biotechnology, Chemistry, Drug discovery, Institutions, Lab life

Scripps Research Institute president Michael Marletta resigned after clashing with faculty over a proposed merger.

The president of the Scripps Research Institute intends to leave his post, according to a statement from Richard Gephardt, the chair of the institute’s board of trustees. The announcement came in the wake of a faculty rebellion against the president, Michael Marletta, who had attempted to broker a deal in which the La Jolla, California, research lab would be acquired by the University of Southern California for $600 million.  Read more

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15 Nov 2013 | 17:00 GMT

Promising sequencing contender Oxford Nanopore and market leader Illumina sever financial ties

Posted by Erika Check Hayden | Categories: Biology & Biotechnology, Technology

Two closely watched genetic sequencing technology firms who had been unhappily affiliated have now divorced. UK-based Oxford Nanopore announced on 15 November that it has raised £56.4 million – mostly by selling the 13.5% of its shares that had been owned by San Diego-based Illumina since 2009.  Read more

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  • DNA sequencing
  • genetic sequencing
  • genomics
  • Illumina
  • Isaac Ro
  • nanopores
  • Oxford Nanopore
  • sequencing technologies
  • Yaniv Erlich

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14 Aug 2013 | 21:42 GMT

California governor vetoes egg-payment law

Posted by Erika Check Hayden | Categories: Biology & Biotechnology, Ethics, Health and medicine, Politics

California Governor Jerry Brown has vetoed a proposed law that would have allowed payments to women who give their eggs to scientific researchers.  Read more

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  • bioethics
  • CIRM
  • cloning
  • egg donors
  • Jerry Brown
  • stem cells

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