Hwang’s back!
Korea’s disgraced cloning researcher, Woo-suk Hwang is apparently back in the lab, according to an exclusive from the Associated Press. Read more
Korea’s disgraced cloning researcher, Woo-suk Hwang is apparently back in the lab, according to an exclusive from the Associated Press. Read more
For the second time in less than a year, US President Bush has vetoed a bill that would have lifted a ban on federal funding for embryonic stem cell research. Read more
The US government is spending a lot of money training the next generation of PhDs so that the country can remain a leader in science. Yet each year, many American-born scientists are leaving the lab, perhaps because of the long hours, low salaries or low expectations of career advancement. Read more
Last week’s Nature carried a fascinating review of two new books that take an unsparingly critical look at the world’s response to the AIDS epidemic. Read more
By now, you’ve all heard about Andrew Speaker, the man who brought extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis to full-blown US attention. The case is undeniably bizarre. Man has deadly infection, health officials try in vain to get him to stop flying, he puts hundreds of passengers at risk despite being on a so-called “no-fly” list, a customs official lets him in because he doesn’t look sick… oh, and most bizarrely of all, his father-in-law is a researcher at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention specializing in, wait for it, TB. My first response was to think that the US was over-reacting. Read more
If you could take a pill that completely eliminates your periods, would you? Read more
It’s always frightening when matters of science are settled in a court of law. And a relief when reason prevails. Read more
The Israeli health ministry released a rather sobering study yesterday: apparently, women who work in a lab are at a 26% higher risk of developing certain cancers. Read more
When I went to the HIV vaccine meeting in Whistler last month, I heard some rather disturbing tales of people upset at the NIH. Some of the behind the scenes complaining I wrote about here. The rest became a news story about conflicts between HIV scientists and the NIH that runs in our May issue. Read more
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