- FDA Rules for Cigarettes Are a Victory for Public Health, for Science (and for the Earth’s Climate?)
- Legislation Introduced to Codify Stem Cell Rules
- Commissioner Enhances FDA’s Commitment to Personalized Medicine
- Perfecting Policy on Stem Cells
- NIH and FDA Aim to Retool Regulatory Science
- DOE Leads Federal Funding for a Regional Innovation Cluster
- Certainty on the Science of Climate Change
- They’re Not Perfect Cells, But They’re Model Cells
- Genomic Medicine on the March
- President’s Budget Aims to Recharge Regional Innovation
- Event: The Science of Climate Change
- Progress in Bioethics
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Snap Observations: Dec 13, 2007
“Hybritech was ‘really the breeding ground’ for future venture capitalists and entrepreneurs of the biotech industry.” The Scientist profiles the San Diego startup that got off the ground in 1978 and spawned a thriving network of biotech firms in the city.
The California Institute for Regenerative Medicine, the state’s stem cell agency, announced $54 million in New Faculty Award grants to 22 recipients. Applicants from five institutions were rejected due to conflicts of interest.
Meraki is a Silicon Valley start-up that makes simple wireless networking equipment that deploys easily and provides inexpensive Internet access to low-income neighborhoods in 70 counties around the world (via Science in the News).
“If you’re going to go back to nuclear energy, you’re going to have to advance the .” Commerical interest is high enough that the Department of Energy is opening up the Idaho National Laboratory Advanced Test Reactor to university researchers. The reactor time won’t cost anything, but scientists will have to publish the results of their experiments (via Science in the News).
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