The Register’s Tony Leys on Iowa health officials’ mumps surprise: the state has 300 cases, more than the whole nation should have. Leys did some real reporting, apparently, and personalizes the lede: “Sara Breitbach’s aching jaw is at the center of a medical mystery.” One suspects this puzzler has legs and that we’ll be reading […]
NYTimes: NASA Casts a Wider Net for New Ideas
Technology reporter Noah Schachtman takes a look in a dorm room in British Columbia and finds one of the bright, obscure innovators the space agency hopes will give it a shot of fresh cleverness. He profiles a young man with a knack for space elevators and who is angling for NASA cash, and who has […]
Sacramento Bee: Foundations helping keep state stem cell program afloat
California led the state-level rebellion against federal stem-cell funding ban, but its voter-approved effort is hung up in court. Bee staff writer Jim Downing reports on the legislature’s open door to an interim bail-out from big private research foundations. Read it
Washington Post: US AIDS Plan Sows Confusion
Post Staff Writer David Brown on new Government Accountability Office report that Bush’s AIDS plan to promote abstinence and fidelity is having rough sledding among overseas governments and agencies. Read it
Wash. Post: U.S. Firm Says It Made Stem Cells From Human Testes
Washington Post’s Maggie Fox on Irvine, CA’s company’s claim to have made potent stem cells from human testis germ cells. Pretty sensational, if proven. As reporter Fox notes in her second sentence, the work comes with no evidence of peer review to accompany its presentation at a recent meeting in Spain and one last year […]
Science Writers at AP, Major Dailies Agree: All hail Frankenbladder!
News from the journal Lancet that tissue engineering doctors at Wake Forest University and Harvard Medical School are growing new bladder tissue in the lab from patients’ own defective bladders, and rebuilding the originals, unleashed a splash of stories across the world. The outpouring includes works by: Lawrence K. Altman at the NY Times Carey […]