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The Week - August 9 2006
The Week - senior editor Brendan Maher talks with Kenneth Chien, director of the Massachusetts General Hospital Cardiovascular Research Center and professor at Harvard Medical School and the Harvard Stem Cell Institute. As Chien writes in the August issue of The Scientist, results from the first round of controlled human stem cell trials for heart disease are in, and they provide a chance to evaluate the approach. Here the noted researcher provides his assessment.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Week - August 2 2006The Week - two stories from The Scientist Daily News - one in which Stephen Pincock reports on who's in the running to run the W-H-O, and one in which Melissa Lee Phillips describes a newly found genetic mechanism for drug resistance. Finally, Anne Harding reports on the return of marshes in Iraq.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Week - July 26 2006The Week - a story from The Scientist Daily News describes what happened to a Midwestern US university’s animal facility during last week’s heat wave, then, why a new Swedish law could hurt postdocs in that country, and finally, staff writer Ishani Ganguli reports on the narrowing gender gap in medical journals.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Week - June 29 2006The Week - news from The Scientist including a price hike in Open Access publishing and how cockroaches are nature's petri dishListen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Week - June 22 2006The Week - news from The Scientist including news about a retraction of a paper relating to environmental Chromium levels...Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Week - July 12 2006The Week - two news stories from The Scientist including one about a study showing evidence of empathy in mice and another on struggles over a proposed UK stem cell network. Then, staff writer Ishani Ganguli tells the story of a woman with a disease that is now more easily treated, thanks to a group of former Yale scientists.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Week - June 08 2006The Week - news from The Scientist including a possible increase in research whaling, a case of misconduct and the naked podcaster.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Week - December 20 2006The week - Alex Rich looks back 50 years at the discovery of the RNA double helix; researchers report a new class of small, non-coding RNAs; and MHC-matched embryonic stem cells graft in mice successfully.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Week - December 13 2006The week - Feature contributor Merrill Goozner talks about his time in Asia visiting malaria clinics to understand why less effective drugs are often used instead of artemisinin; a lead researcher at the NIH pleads guilty to consulting for Pfizer; and lifespan’s link to telomerase expression takes a blow.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Week - December 12 2007The week - Lewis Cantley talks about a kinase's role in cancer and diabetes; a scientist's strategy to defeat superbugsListen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Week - December 6 2006The week - Feature writer Alan Dove interviews Gerd Maul on the challenges to developing a vaccine for cytomegalovirus; and staff writer Kerry Grens has news of viral defenses against RNA silencing and troubles in ensuring drug safetyListen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Week - December 5 2007The week - One company's ambitions to mass produce bladders; resolving conflicts of interest at FDA; and report finds FDA's science inadequateListen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Week - November 14 2007The week - Genetic mechanism for fragile X syndrome revealed; microbiology, meet the mystery novel.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Week - November 07 2007The week - Winning iGEM innovations; how an overload of free information might lead to an open access downfallListen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Week - November 1 2006The week - staff writer Kerry Grens rounds up the news with a controversial publication about cancer among IBM employees, and Brigham Young University's fight with Pfizer over Celebrex; and senior editor Brendan Maher and feature contributors Lance Liotta and Emanuel Petricoin discuss the merits of clinical proteomics Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Week - October 31 2007The week - When patient reported outcomes work and don't work in clinical trialsListen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Week - October 24 2007The week - American Chemical Society compensation causes complaints; sex-linked genes play a role in addiction; scientist uncovers new heart anatomy in Drosophila; and Panama's ecology faces big changes aheadListen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Week - October 18 2006The week - staff writer Kerry Grens rounds up the news with testimony on a lawsuit between deCODE Genetics and former employees, a discovery into the genetics behind XX males, and plans for change by the new editor-in-chief at PNAS; and senior editor Brendan Maher and behavioral ecologist William Brown discuss what makes a dancer sexy as they reveal the results of our online dancing survey;Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Week - October 11 2006The week - senior editor Brendan Maher talks with Nobel laureate Paul Greengard and Per Svenningsson about how antidepressants, neuro-psychiatric disorders, and drugs of abuse and addiction appear to act in the brain through a single regulator, DARPP32. Also, Staff writer Kerry Grens reports on scientists in the UK that have found evidence supporting the evolutionary theory of punctuated equilibrium.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Week - October 4 2006The week - staff writer Kerry Grens talks about a survey of congressional candidates' stances on research funding, in preparation for the midterm elections; editorial intern Juhi Yajnik reports on the financial rewards of winning the Nobel prize; and news editor Alison McCook speaks with L A Times reporter Joe Mathews, author of , about the struggle over voter-approved stem cell research funding in California.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Week - August 22 2007The week - The effect of stress on adolescent brains; neuroscientist censured for misconduct denies wrongdoingListen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Week - August 08 2007The week - Can systems biology be accepted in the world of drug discovery?Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Week - July 26 2007The week - NIH considers science in space; what makes an institution one of the Best Places to Work; and why even the best institutions find room for improvementListen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Week - July 11 2007The week - Whether it makes economic sense to fund science; politicians ask for more open access in scienceListen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Week - July 04 2007The week - Hookworm vaccine clinical trials start in rural Brazil; FDA accused of violating First Amendment rights; and hunger protein links stress and obesityListen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Week - June 20 2007The week - The roots of Philadelphia's cloning contributions run deep; results from The Scientist's online experiment about stem cell nuclear transfer; Congress begins the budget process; a software bug causes retraction; deCODE settles lawsuitListen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Week - June 13 2007The week - The molecular links between addiction and other psychological disorders; and the neurobiology of an hallucinogenic drug Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Week - June 06 2007The week - Deputy editor Ivan Oransky describes his adventures in pygmy rabbit habitat; the end of Elsevier's arms shows and NIH chimp breedingListen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Week - May 30 2007The week - The Scientist's editors discuss ways science can exploit the web; DNA breakage and beta cell regeneration are in the newsListen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Week - May 23 2007The week - Careers editor Edyta Zielinska and executives from Amgen talk perks; and whether federal regulations on dietary supplements violate free speechListen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Week - May 16 2007The week - Feature writer Andrew Holtz talks about the passionate pursuit of oncolytic viruses; Chickens in the city grab attention; and debate reignites over the value of case reportsListen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Week - May 09 2007The week - Feature writer Ishani Ganguli discusses whether fMRI can become the next lie detector; Tanner Edis talks about his new book "An Illusion of Harmony: Science and Religion in Islam"Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Week - February 21 2007The week - Senior editor Brendan Maher talks with Don Brown about the early days at the Carnegie Institution; contributor Ishani Ganguli gives an update on a tenure-or-bust hunger strike; and Andrea Gawrylewski has the latest from The Scientist Daily News.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Week - January 31 2007The week - Staff writer Kerry Grens speaks with Carl Cohen about what happens when lab researchers fight, and how lab leaders can smooth over tensions; and intern Andrea Gawrylewski has the news on the recent identification of the Vitamin A receptor and evidence of the p53 gene's tumor suppressing power.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Week - January 24 2007The week - Contributor Ted Agres interviews Dave Moore of the Association of American Medical Colleges about issues facing the new democrat-led Congress; and from our culture Friday series, staff writer Kerry Grens features a book review of The Fourth Horseman.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Week - January 17 2007The week - Staff writer Kerry Grens talks with Indoor Technologies president Martin Chapman about the uncertain existence of the lauded hypoallergenic cat; and intern Andrea Gawrylewski has updates on a new gene implicated in Alzheimer's disease and the status of a vaccine against Chikungunya virus.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Week - January 03 2007The week - Feature contributor Brendan Borrell talks with former Evolution editor Richard Palmer about fraud accusations against star ornithologist Anders Pape Møller; deputy editor Ivan Oransky points out a potentially overlooked conflict of interest by NIH researcher Thomas Walsh.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Week - September 20 2006The Week - the Lasker Foundation announced the 2006 award recipients for its prizes in biomedical research.
The Scientist's Kerry Grens has a run-down of the winners; Juhi Yajnik chats with Joseph Gall, winner of the Lasker Award for Special Achievement in Medical Science. Also this week, animal rights activists are sent to prison, and two studies find RNA interference screens are less faithful than previously thought.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Week - September 13 2006The Week - a look at why what your grandmother ate when she was pregnant with your mother may affect your children's health. At its core, the field of nutrigenomics is the study of how genes and nutrients interact to promote health or disease. In the September issue of The Scientist, Kate Travis takes a look at the state of the field, the early findings that will fuel further research, and the challenges that lie ahead. She recently spoke with Patrick Stover, one of the pioneers in nutrigen ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Week - June 02 2006The Week - news from The Scientist including new findings involving RNAi toxicity, blood diseases involving SNPs and how Italy should fund its research.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Week - May 25 2006The Week - news from The Scientist including new findings involving statins and tumor cells, whether the hobbit is human after all and about the WHO after the death of its leader.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Week - May 18 2006The Week - news from The Scientist including how findings of interbreeding could help broaden conventional thinking regarding origins of species...Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Week - May 11 2006The Week - news from The Scientist including an article in Science which got a staggering 40 biologists to write letters...Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Week - May 04 2006The Week - news from The Scientist including news about problems facing the citrus fruit industry from disease...Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Week - April 13 2006The Week - news from The Scientist including news about the troubled clinical trial at Northwick Park Hospital...Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Week - April 07 2006The Week - news from The Scientist including columnist Glenn McGee talking about clinical trials in India...Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Week - March 29 2006The Week - news from The Scientist including the heavyweight publishing bout between Nature and Encyclopedia Britannica...Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Week - March 23 2006The Week - news from The Scientist including Jeff Perkel on the trouble with kits...Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Scientist Podcast - January 2008The Scientist Podcast - The biological mechanisms of climate change; and the greening of laboratoriesListen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | |