It's been exactly one year since President Obama overturned the federal funding restrictions imposed in 2001 by President George W. Bush on human embryonic stem …
Author: Krista Conger
$12 BILLION? Seeing red while health insurance companies are in the black
I've not jumped in to the health care reform fray here at Scope before. I think it's because it means so much to me. My …
Blocking glioblastoma's back-up pathway
A former elementary school classmate of mine died of glioblastoma just this month. I hadn't seen him in decades, but I followed his cancer battle …
Tiny DNA circles advance stem cell therapy prospects
The promise of stem cells sometimes seems no more than a distant glow on the horizon, particularly for patients afflicted with devastating conditions that could …
Ad it up: Super Bowl commercials vs. health research
Regardless of whether or not you watched the Super Bowl yesterday, you've probably at least heard of some of the ads. Some were panned, some …
Nomadic cells may hold clues to cancer's spread
Stanford developmental biologist Joanna Wysocka, PhD, has found an intriguing link between a human birth defect syndrome and the ability of cancer cells to spread …
Count down to stem cell news in 3, 2, 1
Have you ever wondered why big science news (like today's announcement by Stanford stem cell researchers) tends to be published simultaneously by many major media …
Don't miss Science Friday this week!
Stanford stem cell researcher James Weimann, PhD, is slated to be interviewed tomorrow on the highly regarded (and very fun) Science Friday program on National …
Keeping stem cells in check
Raise your hand if you've ever rolled your eyes at well-meaning advice from a parent or grandparent--and then went on to do what they'd suggested. …
Science Online 2010
I'm dorkily excited about the Science Online 2010 conference starting tomorrow in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina. No, not because I'm going (sigh), but because …
Lighten up with the depression news
The news (published in the Journal of the American Medical Association and widely covered by many major media outlets) last week that antidepressant medications may …
Why study evolution?
I worried after my post yesterday that I didn't do enough to explain why we should care about the evolution of the threespine stickleback. As …
Tickled by stickle(backs)
One downside of our office's mandatory winter break is the fact that it's just not possible to give all the cool research coming out around …
Cheap shots by top lawmakers show ignorance of research progress
I was fairly disgusted today to read Chris Mooney's report in the blog Science Progress (a project of the think tank the Center for American …
First human embryonic stem cell lines approved for funding under new guidelines
President Obama galvanized the research community on March 9 of this year, when he called for a new, much-less restrictive set of guidelines for federal …
The University of Nebraska may restrict human embryonic stem cell research
Come Friday, some researchers might take issue with Nebraska's cheerful welcome sign. The New York Times reported today that the University of Nebraska is considering …