NIH Releases Final Embryonic Stem Cell Research Guidelines
Category: stem cells
Not much has changed from the draft guidelines... which is both a good and a bad thing.
Posted by Nick Anthis at 1:47 PM • 1 Comments •
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Public Comments Open on Draft NIH Guidelines for Human Stem Cell Research
Category: stem cells
About a week ago, the NIH announced its draft guidelines covering the funding of human embryonic stem cell research. You can read the draft guidelines here and my post on the topic here. As these are draft guidelines, they are...
Posted by Nick Anthis at 10:10 AM • 1 Comments •
NIH Announces New Embryonic Stem Cell Research Guidelines
Category: stem cells
The new guidelines are much more reasonable than those of the Bush Administration, but are still overly restrictive.
Posted by Nick Anthis at 2:15 PM • 2 Comments •
President Obama Begins to Reverse Bush Era Political Interference in Science
Category: stem cells
Today was a great day for science in the Executive Branch. Firstly, President Barack Obama (finally!) lifted George W. Bush's August 2001 restrictions on federal funding for human embryonic stem cell research in an executive order entitled "Removing Barriers to...
Posted by Nick Anthis at 6:06 PM • 2 Comments •
More on the Levine Stem Cell Article
Category: stem cells
The consequences of national policies not conducive to human embryonic stem cell research might be more dire than originally indicated.
Posted by Nick Anthis at 3:55 AM • 0 Comments •
Performance in Human Embryonic Stem Cell Research Correlates With National Policies
Category: stem cells
Surprise, surprise!
Posted by Nick Anthis at 8:05 PM • 18 Comments •
Stem Cells from Down Under
Category: stem cells
Awkward? Probably. But, menstrual blood stem cells show some early promise.
Posted by Nick Anthis at 7:45 AM • 3 Comments •
Embryonic Stem Cell Debate Over; Thousands of Researchers Now Jobless
Category: stem cells
The media mangles otherwise interesting and significant stem cell findings.
Posted by Nick Anthis at 7:54 PM • 22 Comments •
Take Action on CHIP!
Category: health policy
Let's get this bill rolling....
Posted by Nick Anthis at 4:16 PM • 5 Comments •
Bush Vetoes Stem Cell Bill
Category: stem cells
President Bush vetoes S. 5 and offers an awful alternative.
Posted by Nick Anthis at 6:02 PM • 4 Comments •
Loaded Language in Media Coverage of Embryonic Stem Cells
Category: stem cells
"Destroying human embryos" is not an objective description of stem cell research!
Posted by Nick Anthis at 5:04 PM • 15 Comments •
"Moderate" Republicans Pander to the Religious Right
Category: Republican Party
As 2008 approaches, many of the Republican contenders for the Presidency will try to paint themselves as moderates. An article in today's Washington Post, though, underlines why we should be weary of their empty rhetoric. Romney, who is expected to...
Posted by Nick Anthis at 4:30 PM • 0 Comments •
More Trouble for the Schatten Lab, but One Potential Success
Category: stem cells
The U.S. Office of Research Integrity announced this week that it has found a former postdoc in Gerald Schatten's lab, Park Jong Hyuk, guilty of research misconduct for falsifying images in a manuscript on deriving embryonic stem cells from cloned...
Posted by Nick Anthis at 7:43 AM • 0 Comments •
House to Vote on Embryonic Stem Cell Bill This Thursday, Amniotic Stem Cells No Substitute for the Real Thing
Category: stem cells
Yes, that's TOMORROW!!!
Posted by Nick Anthis at 1:16 PM • 0 Comments •
The Return of "Ethically Sound" Stem Cells
Category: stem cells
The "ethically sound" stem cell paper resurfaces this week, as it appears in the print version of the current issue of Nature.
Posted by Nick Anthis at 6:37 PM • 10 Comments •
John Boehner Selected as Republican House Minority Leader
Category: Republican Party
Although painted as a moderate choice, Boehner's record on key science issues borders on appalling.
Posted by Nick Anthis at 4:22 PM • 3 Comments •
Beyond Victory: What 2006 Means for the Democrats and for Science
Category: elections
As the sun sets on the conservative movement in America, 2006 marks a new beginning for the Democrats, and hopefully for American science.
Posted by Nick Anthis at 7:39 AM • 0 Comments •
My Election Day Message
Category: elections
There is so much to say about the importance of today's election, but not a great deal that hasn't already been spelled out time and time again. Most importantly, if you haven't already voted, go vote today! Hopefully you'll have...
Posted by Nick Anthis at 6:39 AM • 2 Comments •
Texas Congressional District 17: Chet Edwards
Category: Congress
There's a hot congressional race going on right now deep in the heart of Texas in District 17, which stretches from just north of Houston to just south of Fort Worth and includes my alma mater, Texas A&M University. The...
Posted by Nick Anthis at 7:39 AM • 1 Comments •
This Is Exactly What I'm Talking About
Category: stem cells
Wherein the Southern Baptists and I agree... sort of....
Posted by Nick Anthis at 7:37 AM • 3 Comments •
Five Years, Nineteen Days, One Hour, Forty-Five Minutes, and Fifty-Five Seconds
Category: stem cells
...since Bush announced his restrictions on embryonic stem cell research.
Posted by Nick Anthis at 8:45 PM • 2 Comments •
Healthy Skepticism Toward "Ethically Sound" Stem Cells
Category: stem cells
A new finding has been heralded as a way to generate an embryonic stem cell line without ending the embryo's potential to become a human, potentially appeasing those opposed to current methods of generating stem cell lines. As should be expected, though, some healthy skepticism is needed here.
Posted by Nick Anthis at 8:45 AM • 1 Comments •
Private Stem Cell Funding Good for Now, Not Forever
Category: stem cells
Wealthy billionaires, including many Republicans, are picking up the tab for US embryonic stem cell research in the face of restrictive Bush Administration policies. Is this a permanent solution, and does this mean that the Republican Party is now an ally of science? Not likely.
Posted by Nick Anthis at 4:07 PM • 1 Comments •
Where Do Babies Come From? Find the Answer and More in Coming to Life
Category: book reviews
Nobel Laureate Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard's Coming to Life: How Genes Drive Development is an understated primer that lays out the current state of the art of developmental biology, shocking the reader with just how much we know about how each one of us came to take our unique but fundamentally similar shapes.
Posted by Nick Anthis at 7:45 AM • 7 Comments •
Bush Vetoes Stem Cell Act
Category: stem cells
After it passed in the Senate on Tuesday, Bush proved he was as stubborn as promised and vetoed HR 810, the Stem Cell Research Enhancement Act, on Wednesday. This was another step backwards for science in the US and a...
Posted by Nick Anthis at 3:33 AM • 1 Comments •
HR 810 Passes in Senate
Category: stem cells
I'm on vacation right now, but I had to come out of hiding for this one. HR 810 passed in the senate today, 63-37. That was enough to meet the 60 vote mark for passage, but it won't be enough...
Posted by Nick Anthis at 8:12 PM • 2 Comments •
Stem Cell Drama
Category: stem cells
As the Senate votes today on HR 810, the Stem Cell Research Enhancement Act, this post from the archives describes how the ban on federal funding for embryonic stem cell research has negatively impacted some researchers. In light of these...
Posted by Nick Anthis at 7:45 AM • 4 Comments •
States Continue to Take Stem Cell Research into Their Own Hands
Category: stem cells
As debate begins today on HR 810, the Stem Cell Research Enhancement Act, this post from the archives describes how some states have had to find their own solutions for supporting embryonic stem cell research in the face of a...
Posted by Nick Anthis at 7:45 AM • 4 Comments •
HR 810 Senate Debate and Vote on July 17th and 18th - Your Action Needed
Category: stem cells
It has been announced that the highly anticipated debate and vote in the Senate on HR 810, the Stem Cell Research Enhancement Act, will take place on July 17th and 18th (next Monday and Tuesday). This is great news, but...
Posted by Nick Anthis at 7:10 PM • 0 Comments •
Bush to Scientists, Public: Go Fuck Yourselves
Category: stem cells
Bush hasn't used his veto yet, but he's promised to employ it on, of all issues, stem cell funding. Not surprisingly, this is indicative of the general Republican Party attitude toward the field.
Posted by Nick Anthis at 8:51 AM • 12 Comments •
Ask a ScienceBlogger: Cloning - Who Cares?
Category: Ask a ScienceBlogger
In 2006, cloning for cloning's sake isn't where it's at. Instead, the future of cloning lies in its applications to biomedical research. Today, that means, among other things, the prospect of using cloning to generate unique lines of embryonic stem cells.
Posted by Nick Anthis at 7:45 AM • 8 Comments •
Progress of Stem Cell Bill, and Its Media Coverage, Still Plagued by Problems
Category: stem cells
On the 29th of June, the Senate finally announced an upcoming vote on HR 810, a bill which would overturn President Bush's current prohibitions on federal funding of embryonic stem cell research. The progress of the bill still faces many hurdles, and a recent article in the journal Science did little to publicize them and in fact contained several problematic and even inaccurate statements.
Posted by Nick Anthis at 8:00 PM • 1 Comments •
