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Stem cell scientists targeted in Facebook fraud
Darkfrog submitted, created time 1 year 4 months (www.nature.com)
Last fall, Washington Post reporter Rick Weiss was the victim of identity theft. The culprits, still uncaught, weren't after his credit history, however. And Mr. Weiss wasn't alone.
The identities of more than one hundred journalists, scientists and politicians were appropriated for a huge Facebook scam, in which the unidentified perpetrators created fake profiles and then sent Facebook friend invitations to scientists. Most of the invitees were or are engaged in stem cell research 
Stem cell research: Obama administration changes some Bush-era restrictions, leaves others in place
Darkfrog submitted, created time 1 year 4 months (www.nature.com)
(Yes, I appreciate the irony of using a British journal as a source for U.S. news.)
The National Institutes of Health have spelled out the new state of embryonic stem cell research: Cell lines developed from leftover fertility clinic embryos will be eligible for Federal funding, but the donors (the fertility patients) must provide informed consent with no inducements.
Federal funding is not extended to embryos created specifically for research, including embryos made from donated sperm and ova
In Denmark's Electronic Health Records Program, a Lesson for the U.S.
sea-maid submitted, created time 1 year 4 months (www.time.com)
The Frederiksberg University Hospital in Copenhagen looks like any other hospital in the developed world, except for one notable absence: there are no clipboards. Instead, doctors and nurses carry wireless handheld computers to call up the medical records of each patient, including their prescription history and drug allergies. If a doctor prescribes a medication that may cause complications, the computer's alarm goes off
Daily HIV/Aids Report Reviews Washington D.C.
sea-maid submitted, created time 1 year 5 months (allafrica.com)
This article talks about how the city of Washington D.C. has managed to reduce the spread of HIV within its limits. Washington D.C. has one of the highest HIV infection rates in the U.S. The article lauds needle exchange programs and a recent end to the Congressional ban on using public money to fund them, but insists that public awareness must be improved.
Special investigation: How my genome was hacked
sea-maid submitted, created time 1 year 5 months (www.newscientist.com)
INTIMATE secrets hidden in your DNA could be stolen without you even realizing. By taking a glass from which you have drunk, a "genome hacker" could obtain a comprehensive scan of your genome, revealing DNA variants that help determine your susceptibility to a wide range of diseases, from a common form of blindness to Alzheimer's disease.
European clinical trial rules under fire
sea-maid submitted, created time 1 year 5 months (www.nature.com)
The European Clinical Trials Directive has been in place for five years. Lead scientists are claiming that the law, which was put in place to improve trials and "harmonize" (read: standardize) trial procedures, is costing lives by slowing down vital research and driving the most promising scientists out of the E.U.
The law lays down what its makers seem to have believed to be the best procedures for ethical matters, such as obtaining informed consent and dealing with dangerous drug reactions.
Obama reverses Bush's executive order on stem cell research funding
Darkfrog submitted, created time 1 year 5 months (www.nytimes.com)
President Obama has reversed President Bush's executive order on stem cell research. Projects involving the use of human embryonic stem cells are once again eligible for United States federal funding. He has also invited Congress to do more.
Key in Mr. Obama's speech was the promise to, "develop a strategy for restoring scientific integrity to government decision-making,” an unveiled rebuke of the Bush administration's frequent politicization of science on issues such as climate change, sex education, family planning and contraception, stem cells and endangered species
DNA cassettes yield safer induced pluripotent stem cells
Darkfrog submitted, created time 1 year 6 months (www.nature.com)
Induced pluripotent stem cells, which are adult cells that have been regressed backwards so that they act like embryonic stem cells, usually require the use of viruses to insert the genes required to activate embryonic-stem-cell-like activity. Although these viruses are altered so that they cannot reproduce outside of controlled conditions, they still present enough danger to render the use of iPS impractical in medicine.
However, a new study out of Mt. Sinai hospital reveals another means of regressing adult cells
Researchers Generate Functional Neurons from Somatic Cells
piggy submitted, created time 1 year 6 months (wwwjp.blackwellpublishing.com)
In a new study, researchers were able to generate functionally mature motor neurons from induced pluripotent stem cells (iPS), which are engineered from adult somatic cells and can differentiate into most other cell types. A potential new source of motor neurons that does not require human eggs or embryos could be an enormous boon to research into conditions such as amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and spinal cord injury and could open the door to eventual treatments. The study is published in Stem Cells
President Obama has yet to reverse Bush's ban on Federal funding for embryonic stem cell research
Darkfrog submitted, created time 1 year 6 months (www.nature.com)
President Barack Obama has been in office only just over one month, but already scientists are wondering why he has yet to reverse President George W. Bush's ban on the use of federal funds for embryonic stem cell research--this was one of Mr. Obama's campaign promises.
Messages from the White House are mixed. There are rumors that the president's action is being delayed to coincide with pending legislation: There is a bipartisan measure in the House that would allow Federal funding for stem cell lines created from embryos left over from fertility clinics with the patients' permission
Gates Foundation calls for push against tropical diseases
sea-maid submitted, created time 1 year 6 months (www.nature.com)
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has called for a worldwide push to slash the burden of neglected tropical diseases such as elephantiasis, trachoma and schistosomiasis by 2020.
Orphan diseases finding treatment in the E.U? Perhaps not.
Darkfrog submitted, created time 1 year 7 months (www.nature.com)
The European Union's efforts to spur the development of treatments for orphan diseases--diseases that affect fewer than six out of every ten thousand people--may not be working as well as had been hoped. Only fifty new drugs were approved over the nine years that the policies have been in place.
U.S. stem cell trials get print in Nature
Darkfrog submitted, created time 1 year 7 months (www.nature.com)
This is a Nature magazine writeup of the FDA's approval of Geron company's impending human trials of the world's first therapy derived from human stem cells. While this article touches on politics, it places much more focus on the technical problems and scientific significance of Geron's accomplishment.
Even if the trials are not successful (meaning that a workable therapy does not emerge), Geron has still made some major contributions to the field. The samples had to be prepared at previously unheard of levels of purity for the FDA to even consider approving the trial.
Stem cell trials get go-ahead from FDA!
Darkfrog submitted, created time 1 year 7 months (www.nature.com)
Four years ago, Geron, a company in California, told the FDA that it was ready to begin phase I human trails of a therapy based on human stem cells. Last week, it was given the go-ahead.
A number of spinal injury patients will be injected with stem-cell-derived oligodentrocyte precursors, which, it is hoped, will form new myelin sheaths on the injured neurons and stimulate the growth of new neurons, both of which have been observed in non-human animal studies. The study will be performed only on patients within one to two weeks of their injury
Evolution hits the debate table again for Texas educators
Darkfrog submitted, created time 1 year 7 months (www.nytimes.com)
Texas is considering making changes to the way evolution is taught in schools, adding lines in textbooks that would play up what skeptics see as weaknesses in Darwin's theories.
What I found interesting about this article is that it pointed out why Texas is so important in American education: Because it is the biggest buyer of textbooks in the country, many publishers attune themselves to Texas's needs so that they do not have to print multiple versions.
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