Here is an overview of some of the stories that we followed on science from the blog policy ScienceInsider :
A third case of swine flu resistant to oseltamivir, announced last week in Hong Kong, has flu experts are concerned that drug resistance is spreading. Unlike two cases reported in Denmark and Japan, Hong Kong the patient has not taken oseltamivir itself. This suggests, she picked up a resistant strain of someone else. Meanwhile, a journalist of Science learned firsthand about China quarantine process for swine flu.
The Czech Academy of Sciences is fighting for his future after the government proposed a budget that slashes funding for the academy half by 2012 the plan divert money basic research institutes of the academy performs more applied scientific efforts.
a Senate spending panel said in a recent report that the way the National Science Foundation (NSF) has dealt with a porn scandal on the Internet underlines "systemic management problems workforce" who created a "hostile work environment" for its 1,300 employees. lawmakers said part of the problem is the use of short-term NSF "cuff" academia to serve as program managers high.
John Niederhuber , director of the National cancer Institute, fired back last week in response to a front page article in the New York Times that harshly criticizes the way cancer research is funded in a long rebuttal to the question of NCI cancer Bulletin June 30, Niederguber gave several examples of the creativity of NCI -. including his project on the genome of cancer and physical science oncology centers set
the Wellcome Trust is to pay nearly $ 50 million in building research capacity in Africa. The UK charity biomedical research announced pan-African research partnerships involving over 50 universities and research institutes as part of a 5-year initiative. Each consortium has a different purpose, including research on infectious diseases and "the ecosystem and the health of the population."
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