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Here we present recent news items specially selected from Nature, Nature Medicine and Nature Biotechnology.
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Stem-cell researcher's move attracts funding
Stem-cell researcher James Thomson has added a part-time position at the University of California, Santa Barbara, to his current position at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, which may help the California university secure a multi-million dollar grant from the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine.
Nature (26 July 2007)
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Libyan ordeal ends: medics freed
Six medical workers convicted of deliberately infecting children with HIV were pardoned by Bulgarian President Georgi Parvanov, ending their 8-year ordeal in a Libyan prison.
Nature (26 July 2007)
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Memory seen in the making
A new technique allows researchers to examine changes that occur in neuronal synapses of the hippocampus as a result of memory formation.
Nature (26 July 2007)
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California campuses resist industry restrictions
University of California campuses are fighting proposed guidelines that would ban gifts and so-called unrestricted research grants from industry, going against a recent trend of medical schools clamping down on the close relationships that industry cultivates with faculty and students.
Nature (26 July 2007)
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Science watchdog baulks at merger
Members of the influential British parliament Select Committee on Science and Technology are protesting over a planned government reorganization that they fear would subsume it into a larger committee.
Nature (19 July 2007)
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High noon in Libya
Intense negotiations between scientists, diplomats and government officials led to the commutation of death sentences of six medical workers charged with deliberately infecting children with HIV in Libya.
Nature (19 July 2007)
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Industry waits for fallout from Cabilly
Genentech's Cabilly II patent, which covers the development of most therapeutic monoclonal antibodies, is poised to be rejected by the US Patent and Trademark Office, potentially ending the royalty fees that biotechnology companies must pay when they develop antibody-based treatments.
Nature Biotechnology 25, 699-700 (2007)
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Production technologies change flu vaccine landscape
The first flu vaccine made in cell culture meets with the approval of the European Medicines Agency, as other cell culture-based vaccines move through company pipelines.
Nature Biotechnology 25, 701 (2007)
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Technology commercialization firms float in UK — but not elsewhere
British universities routinely sign long-term deals with companies that focus on commercializing university intellectual property; the friendliness of AIM, a special branch of the London stock exchange, towards these companies is fueling the deals.
Nature Biotechnology 25, 697-698 (2007)
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Austria's science institute gathers steam
Austria will, after all, get the élite graduate-level institute it wants — even though plans seemed on the verge of collapse last year.
Nature (12 July 2007)
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French universities to gain control
The new French president Sarkozy has personally weighed in on a bill to reform the country's archaic university system that will be fast-tracked through parliament this summer.
Nature (12 July 2007)
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Fly library boosts gene tool supply
Researchers have developed a library of transgenic fruitflies that will allow them to investigate genes in specific tissues or developmental stages across the whole of the insect's genome.
Nature (12 July 2007)
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Activated eggs offer route to stem cells
A technique to derive embryonic stem cells from an unfertilized egg may sidestep many of the limitations and ethical concerns that plague the production of human embryonic stem cells.
Nature (12 July 2007)
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Oz stem cell clinic turns to diseased embryos
Sydney IVF, an Australian in vitro fertilization clinic and cell line provider, are turning to discarded embryos carrying genes for certain diseases to help model single-gene diseases and screen potential therapies.
Nature Medicine 13, 766 (2007)
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Teams trail genes for human 'stemness'
Scientists are trying to repeat the recent mouse stem cell breakthrough — where mature mouse cells can be reprogrammed to behave like embryonic stem cells — in humans.
Nature Medicine 13, 766 (2007)
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Second chance
A California company is reviving a once abandoned treatment using glial cell line-derived neurotrophic factor (GDNF) for Parkinson's disease.
Nature Medicine 13, 766 (2007)
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Faster still and faster
A new generation of gene sequencing technologies is revolutionizing the speed at which DNA is analyzed.
Nature (5 July 2007)
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UK science reshuffled
Ian Pearson is Britain's new Minister for Science and will take office in the newly formed Department for Innovation, Universities and Skills (DIUS).
Nature (5 July 2007)
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News in brief
| German stem-cell law should change, says ethics council
| US publishing rate slows as Asia's rate grows
| Abbott drops suit against AIDS activist group
| Italy's research council boss departs at last
| Threatening letters rattle evolutionary biologists
| Budget promises boost for German science
| US draws up short list of sites for bioweapons lab
| Australia joins Europe's biology laboratory
| US House backs more stringent drug regulation
| Amgen goes shopping
| Provenge delayed
| Money-back guarantees?
| Obviousness patent ruling
| BIO global conference
| Ethical ruling and matured eggs offer hope for fertility
| Health scare halts work on biodefence in Texas
| US institute insists on open access to research
News Features
Science in comedy: Mmm... pi
Al Jean, a Harvard mathematics graduate who is also the executive producer and head writer of the television program The Simpsons, talks to Nature about how to get a laugh out of science.
Nature (26 July 2007)
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Research policy: The map man
Alan Krensky has been put in charge of a new office responsible for charting the progress of the US National Institute of Health's Roadmap for Medical Research, a controversial program intended to foster trans-NIH, large-scale and high-risk research.
Nature (26 July 2007)
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Traditional medicine: A culture in the balance
Traditional Chinese medicine and Western science face almost irreconcilable differences. Can systems biology bring them together?
Nature (5 July 2007)
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The biologists strike back
Four science-fiction writers with a background in the biological sciences talk about life-science fiction.
Nature (5 July 2007)
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