- Venter’s Ocean Expedition Reports Latest Gene Haul
- TODAY | Bio-IT World | Three years after reporting the first pilot results from his Global Ocean Sampling (GOS), J. Craig Venter and colleagues have published a major new metagenomic survey of marine life. more
- Connecting Computing to Science
- Mar 12 | HPCwire | Rick Stevens, head of Argonne National Lab’s Computing and Life Sciences directorate, on the future of computational biology. more
- Users Are Putting Band-Aids on Software, Says New Federal Research Chief
- Mar 09 | Computerworld | Jeannette Wing, who heads the computer science department at Carnegie Mellon University, sees big trouble for the U.S., private industry and users unless fundamental changes are made in the way research is done. more
- Broad Institute to Get $100M to Research Genetics of Psychiatric Diseases
- Mar 08 | The Boston Globe | The Broad Institute announced yesterday that it will receive what it believes is the biggest gift ever for psychiatric research to a single US institution: $100 million to decipher the genetics of severe mental illnesses. more
- HHMI’s Sean Eddy Wins 2007 Bioinformatics Franklin Award
- Mar 05 | Bio-IT World | Sean Eddy, one of the founding principal scientists at the new Howard Hughes Medical Institute Janelia Farm Research Campus in Northern Virginia, has won the 2007 Benjamin Franklin Award in the Life Sciences. more
- Panel Finds Flawed Data in a Major Stem Cell Report
- Mar 01 | The New York Times | An inquiry panel has found what it called “significantly flawed” data in a major stem cell paper published in Nature in 2002. more
- California Stem Cell Research Is Upheld by Appeals Court
- Feb 28 | The New York Times | — California’s stem cell research program is legal, a state appeals court ruled Monday in a decision that could hasten the day when the state’s $3 billion research effort can get fully under way. more
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