NYC emergency doc interviewed by WebMD says he has not seen anything like this before. It is a completely new disease.
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April 09, 2011
Eyes grown from stem cells - The Scientist - Magazine of the Life Sciences
Two ES cell-derived optic cup formed by self-organization in 3D culture. Green color is fluorescence of GFP protein that was engineered to mark retinal tissue.Image: M. Eiraku and Y.Sasai at RIKEN Center for Developmental Biology
February 28, 2011
DFA Awarded $3M for Agriculture Test Development | GenomeWeb Daily News | DxPGx | GenomeWeb
By a GenomeWeb staff reporter
Non-profit firm Diagnostics for All today said it has received a two-year, $3 million grant from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and the UK’s Department for International Development to develop inexpensive agriculture diagnostic tests for livestock health and other purposes in sub-Saharan Africa.
The several tests will be designed to identify milk spoilage, cows with infections and determine when cows are in heat or pregnant.
Another test will to identify aflatoxin, a potent hepatocarcinogen found in grain mold.
January 24, 2011
Federal Research Center Will Help Develop Medicines - NYTimes.com
The new effort comes as many large drug makers, unable to find enough new drugs, are paring back research. Promising discoveries in illnesses like depression and Parkinson’s that once would have led to clinical trials are instead going unexplored because companies have neither the will nor the resources to undertake the effort.
via www.nytimes.com
January 13, 2011
Disgraced doc tried to profit from fraudulent link between vaccines and autism
The story of the fraudulent paper showing a link between the MMR vaccine and autism continues to unfold. The British Medical Journal, which originally published the paper by disgraced researcher, Andrew Wakefield, only to later retract it, now reports that Wakefield had devised a scheme to make a substantial profit from the scare that he correctly anticipated would arise from the paper. Steven Clark University of Wisconsin
The BMJ reports that Wakefield planned, even before the study was finished, to profit from selling diagnostic tests and by making his own, "safer" vaccine. Steven Clark University of Wisconsin
Wakefield, a medical doctor, has been banned from practicing medicine in Great Britain. Steven Clark University of Wisconsin
via www.bmj.com
January 06, 2011
A different kind of CleanTech—Clean Genome E. coli (WTN News)
In order to make a better biofactory, University of Wisconsin Genetics Professor Frederick R. Blattner and his colleagues developed Clean genome® E. coli, an engineered bug from which all mobile genetic elements have been deleted. DNA segments resembling toxin genes or virulence factor genes were also removed from the Clean Genome E. coli, heading off other potential complications. Steven S. Clark
Dr Blattner founded Scarab Genomics LLC in 2002 to commercialize Clean Genome E. coli. In addition to the elimination of problems caused by mobile elements, the slimmer, trimmer Clean Genome strain is more efficient at manufacturing engineered proteins and DNA. Moreover, as a simpler organism, it is better suited to genetic engineering research. Steven S. Clark
December 24, 2010
Senate Spending Bill Would Boost NSF, NIH Budgets - ScienceInsider
In some good fiscal news yesterday for the U.S. science community, a Senate spending panel has crafted a 2011 federal budget that would give several science agencies increases that are close to their requested levels. But lobbyists say that it's too soon to celebrate. Read more at ScienceInsider.
December 21, 2010
URGENT - Please help us stop Senator Tom Coburn from blocking SBIR - again!
So, Senator Tom Coburn (R-OK) is trying to block the SBIR contintuing resolution.....again! Read more below from the SBIR Coach.
December 08, 2010
Stem cell therapy holds promise for epileptics - San Antonio Express-News
Stem cells taken from the brain of a 13-year-old girl were transplanted into newborn mice and developed into a variety of brain cells almost identical to the animals' own — a procedure that someday could be used to replace the misfiring cells in some epilepsy patients, the researchers said.
October 26, 2010
Weekly NIH Funding Opportunities and Notices
NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts
October 22, 2010
Table of Contents (TOC)
Notices
- Notice of Revised NIH Term of Award on use of DUNS Number and New Term of Award on Maintaining an Active CCR Registration
(NOT-OD-11-004)
National Institutes of Health
http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/notice-files/NOT-OD-11-004.html - Notice of New NIH Term of Award on Transparency Act Subaward and Executive Compensation Reporting Requirements
(NOT-OD-11-005)
National Institutes of Health
http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/notice-files/NOT-OD-11-005.html - Notice of Revised Eligibility Requirements and Award Administration Information in NIH Funding Opportunity Announcements
(NOT-OD-11-006)
National Institutes of Health
http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/notice-files/NOT-OD-11-006.html - Non-Competing Grant Awards under the Current Continuing Resolution
(NOT-OD-11-015)
National Institutes of Health
http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/notice-files/NOT-OD-11-015.html - NIA implementation of NIH Policy on Acceptance for Review of Applications Requesting $500,000 or More in Direct Costs in a Single Year
(NOT-AG-11-001)
National Institute on Aging
http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/notice-files/NOT-AG-11-001.html - Corrections to RFA-HL-11-032 Utilization of a Human Lung Tissue Resource for Vascular Research (R03)
(NOT-HL-11-131)
National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute
http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/notice-files/NOT-HL-11-131.html - Notice of Modification to PAR-08-238 - National Cooperative Drug Discovery and Development Groups (NCDDDG) for the Treatment of Mental Disorders, Drug or Alcohol Addiction (U01/U19)
(NOT-MH-10-033)
National Institute of Mental Health
National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism
National Institute on Drug Abuse
http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/notice-files/NOT-MH-10-033.html
Requests for Applications
- (none)
Program Announcements
- Substance Use and Abuse, Risky Decision Making and HIV/AIDS (R01)
(PA-11-006)
National Institute on Drug Abuse
National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism
Application Receipt/Submission Date(s): Multiple dates, see announcement.
http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PA-11-006.html - Substance Use and Abuse, Risky Decision Making and HIV/AIDS (R21)
(PA-11-007)
National Institute on Drug Abuse
National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism
Application Receipt/Submission Date(s): Multiple dates, see announcement.
http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PA-11-007.html - Substance Use and Abuse, Risky Decision Making and HIV/AIDS (R03)
(PA-11-008)
National Institute on Drug Abuse
National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism
Application Receipt/Submission Date(s): Multiple dates, see announcement.
http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PA-11-008.html - NINDS Diversity Research Education Grants in Neuroscience (R25)
(PAR-11-010)
National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke
Application Receipt/Submission Date(s): January 25, 2011, 2012, 2013.
http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAR-11-010.html
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Follow a scientist with a PhD in Immunology who has studied how immune cells recognize viruses, including influenza. He is a recently retired medical school professor and here, shares news and his opinions on the COVID-19 pandemic..
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