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<item><title><![CDATA[ Busted!  ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/28/AR2008082801739.html?nav=rss_technology/special/02</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/28/AR2008082801739.html?nav=rss_technology/special/02</guid>
<pubDate>Sun, 31 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ I AM LOOKING at the results of a recent highly scientific ]]></description><dc:creator>Gene Weingarten</dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Busted!]]></category><category><![CDATA[]]></category><category><![CDATA[The Washington Post Company]]></category><category><![CDATA[Gene Weingarten]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Scientists Reprogram Adult Cells' Function ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/27/AR2008082701829.html?nav=rss_technology/special/02</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/27/AR2008082701829.html?nav=rss_technology/special/02</guid>
<pubDate>Thu, 28 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Scientists have transformed one type of fully developed adult cell directly into another inside a living animal, a startling advance that could lead to cures for a variety of illnesses and sidestep the political and ethical quagmires ]]></description><dc:creator>Rob Stein</dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Scientists]]></category><category><![CDATA[Reprogram]]></category><category><![CDATA[Adult]]></category><category><![CDATA[Cells']]></category><category><![CDATA[Function]]></category><category><![CDATA[Douglas A. Melton]]></category><category><![CDATA[Richard Doerflinger]]></category><category><![CDATA[Robert Lanza]]></category><category><![CDATA[Boston]]></category><category><![CDATA[George Q. Daley]]></category><category><![CDATA[George W. Bush]]></category><category><![CDATA[Lawrence Goldstein]]></category><category><![CDATA[Paola Arlotta]]></category><category><![CDATA[Worcester]]></category><category><![CDATA[Advanced Cell Technology Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Center for Regenerative Medicine]]></category><category><![CDATA[Harvard Stem Cell Institute]]></category><category><![CDATA[Harvard University]]></category><category><![CDATA[Massachusetts General Hospital-Harvard Medical School]]></category><category><![CDATA[Nature Publishing Group]]></category><category><![CDATA[United States Conference of Catholic Bishops]]></category><category><![CDATA[University of California-San Diego]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Study outcome won't sway company on eye drug ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/27/AR2008082702205.html?nav=rss_technology/special/02</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/27/AR2008082702205.html?nav=rss_technology/special/02</guid>
<pubDate>Wed, 27 Aug 2008 16:49:27 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ WASHINGTON -- What does a company do when there's anecdotal evidence that two of its drugs are equally effective in treating a leading cause of blindness in the elderly, one costing patients $60 per treatment and the other $2,000? ]]></description><dc:creator>KEVIN FREKING</dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Study]]></category><category><![CDATA[outcome]]></category><category><![CDATA[won't]]></category><category><![CDATA[sway]]></category><category><![CDATA[company]]></category><category><![CDATA[on]]></category><category><![CDATA[eye]]></category><category><![CDATA[drug]]></category><category><![CDATA[]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Novavax Moves Closer to Licensing Bird Flu Vaccine ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/26/AR2008082602785.html?nav=rss_technology/special/02</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/26/AR2008082602785.html?nav=rss_technology/special/02</guid>
<pubDate>Wed, 27 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Novavax said yesterday that its bird flu vaccine elicited a robust immune response in humans, moving the biotech a step closer to licensing its pandemic vaccine production system.<br clear="all"><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/technology/special/02;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=352921438416" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/technology/special/02;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=352921438416" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description><dc:creator>Kendra Marr</dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Novavax]]></category><category><![CDATA[Moves]]></category><category><![CDATA[Closer]]></category><category><![CDATA[to]]></category><category><![CDATA[Licensing]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bird]]></category><category><![CDATA[Flu]]></category><category><![CDATA[Vaccine]]></category><category><![CDATA[Novavax Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[United States]]></category><category><![CDATA[Rahul Singhvi]]></category><category><![CDATA[GE Healthcare]]></category><category><![CDATA[Rockville]]></category><category><![CDATA[GlaxoSmithKline plc]]></category><category><![CDATA[Novartis AG]]></category><category><![CDATA[Royal Bank of Canada]]></category><category><![CDATA[Sanofi-Aventis SA]]></category><category><![CDATA[World Health Organization]]></category><category><![CDATA[Western Europe]]></category><category><![CDATA[Asia]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Egypt septuplets stir debate on fertility drugs ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/26/AR2008082601893.html?nav=rss_technology/special/02</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/26/AR2008082601893.html?nav=rss_technology/special/02</guid>
<pubDate>Tue, 26 Aug 2008 14:06:18 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ ALEXANDRIA, Egypt -- The 27-year-old woman and her husband already had three children _ all girls. They badly wanted a boy, and she had not conceived in five years, so doctors gave her hormones. ]]></description><dc:creator>HADEEL AL-SHALCHI</dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Egypt]]></category><category><![CDATA[septuplets]]></category><category><![CDATA[stir]]></category><category><![CDATA[debate]]></category><category><![CDATA[on]]></category><category><![CDATA[fertility]]></category><category><![CDATA[drugs]]></category><category><![CDATA[]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Former Raider great, NFLPA head Gene Upshaw dies ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/21/AR2008082101002.html?nav=rss_technology/special/02</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/21/AR2008082101002.html?nav=rss_technology/special/02</guid>
<pubDate>Fri, 22 Aug 2008 01:09:41 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ NEW YORK -- Gene Upshaw, a towering lineman on the football field who went on to win untold millions of dollars for NFL players as their union leader, has died at age 63. ]]></description><dc:creator>DAVE GOLDBERG</dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Former]]></category><category><![CDATA[Raider]]></category><category><![CDATA[great,]]></category><category><![CDATA[NFLPA]]></category><category><![CDATA[head]]></category><category><![CDATA[Gene]]></category><category><![CDATA[Upshaw]]></category><category><![CDATA[dies]]></category><category><![CDATA[]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Union Boss Led NFL's Explosive Growth ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/21/AR2008082103660.html?nav=rss_technology/special/02</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/21/AR2008082103660.html?nav=rss_technology/special/02</guid>
<pubDate>Fri, 22 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Gene Upshaw, the influential and at times controversial leader of the NFL players' union, died Wednesday night after being diagnosed with pancreatic cancer only days earlier. ]]></description><dc:creator>Mark Maske</dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Union]]></category><category><![CDATA[Boss]]></category><category><![CDATA[Led]]></category><category><![CDATA[NFL's]]></category><category><![CDATA[Explosive]]></category><category><![CDATA[Growth]]></category><category><![CDATA[Gene Upshaw]]></category><category><![CDATA[National Football League]]></category><category><![CDATA[Thom Mayer]]></category><category><![CDATA[Paul Tagliabue]]></category><category><![CDATA[National Football Conference]]></category><category><![CDATA[New York Giants]]></category><category><![CDATA[NFC East Division]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington Redskins]]></category><category><![CDATA[Brent Boyd]]></category><category><![CDATA[California]]></category><category><![CDATA[Pro Football Hall of Fame]]></category><category><![CDATA[Antonio Pierce]]></category><category><![CDATA[Daniel Snyder]]></category><category><![CDATA[East Rutherford]]></category><category><![CDATA[Eugene]]></category><category><![CDATA[Great Falls]]></category><category><![CDATA[Les Carpenter]]></category><category><![CDATA[Renaldo Wynn]]></category><category><![CDATA[Richard Berthelsen]]></category><category><![CDATA[Robert Smith (Football)]]></category><category><![CDATA[Roger Goodell]]></category><category><![CDATA[Trace Armstrong]]></category><category><![CDATA[Truckee]]></category><category><![CDATA[AFC West Division]]></category><category><![CDATA[American Football Conference]]></category><category><![CDATA[Giants Stadium]]></category><category><![CDATA[Minnesota Vikings]]></category><category><![CDATA[New Jersey]]></category><category><![CDATA[NFC North Division]]></category><category><![CDATA[NFL Players Association]]></category><category><![CDATA[Oakland Raiders]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Jump in U.S Measles Cases Linked to Vaccine Fears ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/21/AR2008082101687.html?nav=rss_technology/special/02</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/21/AR2008082101687.html?nav=rss_technology/special/02</guid>
<pubDate>Thu, 21 Aug 2008 20:52:56 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ ATLANTA -- Measles cases in the U.S. are at the highest level in more than a decade, with nearly half of those involving children whose parents rejected vaccination, health officials reported Thursday.<br clear="all"><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/technology/special/02;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=352921440536" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/technology/special/02;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=352921440536" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description><dc:creator>MIKE STOBBE</dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Jump]]></category><category><![CDATA[in]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S]]></category><category><![CDATA[Measles]]></category><category><![CDATA[Cases]]></category><category><![CDATA[Linked]]></category><category><![CDATA[to]]></category><category><![CDATA[Vaccine]]></category><category><![CDATA[Fears]]></category><category><![CDATA[]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Cervical cancer shots less cost-effective with age ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/20/AR2008082002823.html?nav=rss_technology/special/02</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/20/AR2008082002823.html?nav=rss_technology/special/02</guid>
<pubDate>Wed, 20 Aug 2008 21:03:25 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ ATLANTA -- An expensive vaccine aimed at preventing cervical cancer makes sense for young teens when it comes to cost-effectiveness, but not for women in their 20s, contends a new report. ]]></description><dc:creator>MIKE STOBBE</dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Cervical]]></category><category><![CDATA[cancer]]></category><category><![CDATA[shots]]></category><category><![CDATA[less]]></category><category><![CDATA[cost-effective]]></category><category><![CDATA[with]]></category><category><![CDATA[age]]></category><category><![CDATA[]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Emergent Shares Fall Despite Profit Report ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/07/AR2008080703042.html?nav=rss_technology/special/02</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/07/AR2008080703042.html?nav=rss_technology/special/02</guid>
<pubDate>Fri, 08 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Emergent BioSolutions, the Rockville biotech that is supplying the U.S. government with 18.75 million doses of anthrax vaccine, has had its share of successes and setbacks in the last few years. ]]></description><dc:creator>Kendra Marr</dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Emergent]]></category><category><![CDATA[Shares]]></category><category><![CDATA[Fall]]></category><category><![CDATA[Despite]]></category><category><![CDATA[Profit]]></category><category><![CDATA[Report]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bruce Ivins]]></category><category><![CDATA[BioThrax]]></category><category><![CDATA[VaxGen Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Robert G. Kramer]]></category><category><![CDATA[Stephen G. Brozak]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Department of Health and Human Services]]></category><category><![CDATA[Michigan]]></category><category><![CDATA[Rockville]]></category><category><![CDATA[Emergent BioSolutions Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[United States]]></category><category><![CDATA[Annapolis (Maryland)]]></category><category><![CDATA[Eric Schmidt]]></category><category><![CDATA[Lansing]]></category><category><![CDATA[R. Don Elsey]]></category><category><![CDATA[South San Francisco]]></category><category><![CDATA[W. James Jackson]]></category><category><![CDATA[Avecia Biologics Ltd.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Federal Bureau of Investigation]]></category><category><![CDATA[Food and Drug Administration]]></category><category><![CDATA[PharmAthene Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Department of Defense]]></category><category><![CDATA[Wall Street]]></category><category><![CDATA[WBB Securities LLC]]></category><category><![CDATA[California]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Government Asserts Ivins Acted Alone ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/06/AR2008080601400.html?nav=rss_technology/special/02</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/06/AR2008080601400.html?nav=rss_technology/special/02</guid>
<pubDate>Thu, 07 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Government officials asserted yesterday that a troubled bioweapons scientist acted alone to perpetrate a terrorism scheme that killed five people, a case that centered on a near-perfect match of anthrax spores in his custody and a record of his late-night laboratory work just before the toxic let... ]]></description><dc:creator>Carrie Johnson, Del Quentin Wilber and Dan Eggen</dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Government]]></category><category><![CDATA[Asserts]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ivins]]></category><category><![CDATA[Acted]]></category><category><![CDATA[Alone]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bruce Ivins]]></category><category><![CDATA[United States]]></category><category><![CDATA[Federal Bureau of Investigation]]></category><category><![CDATA[Osama bin Laden]]></category><category><![CDATA[Thomas F. Dellafera]]></category><category><![CDATA[Steven Hatfill]]></category><category><![CDATA[Fort Detrick]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Department of Justice]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category><category><![CDATA[Chuck Grassley]]></category><category><![CDATA[Frederick (Maryland)]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jeffrey A. Taylor]]></category><category><![CDATA[Patrick Leahy]]></category><category><![CDATA[Paul F. Kemp]]></category><category><![CDATA[Princeton (New Jersey)]]></category><category><![CDATA[Rush Holt]]></category><category><![CDATA[Thomas A. Daschle]]></category><category><![CDATA[Al Qaeda]]></category><category><![CDATA[Emergent BioSolutions Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Israel]]></category><category><![CDATA[Paul Kane]]></category><category><![CDATA[The National Enquirer]]></category><category><![CDATA[Tylenol]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary]]></category><category><![CDATA[Michigan]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ FBI to Show How Genetics Led to Anthrax Researcher ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/05/AR2008080503724.html?nav=rss_technology/special/02</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/05/AR2008080503724.html?nav=rss_technology/special/02</guid>
<pubDate>Wed, 06 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ The FBI today will begin to unveil how it exploited the rapidly advancing science of genetics to link a single bioweapons researcher to samples taken from the victims of the 2001 anthrax attacks and to powder from the letters that killed them.<br clear="all"><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/technology/special/02;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=352921443503" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/technology/special/02;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=352921443503" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description><dc:creator>Marilyn W. Thompson, Carrie Johnson and Rob Stein</dc:creator><category><![CDATA[FBI]]></category><category><![CDATA[to]]></category><category><![CDATA[Show]]></category><category><![CDATA[How]]></category><category><![CDATA[Genetics]]></category><category><![CDATA[Led]]></category><category><![CDATA[to]]></category><category><![CDATA[Anthrax]]></category><category><![CDATA[Researcher]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bruce Ivins]]></category><category><![CDATA[Federal Bureau of Investigation]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases]]></category><category><![CDATA[Timothy Read]]></category><category><![CDATA[Claire M. Fraser-Liggett]]></category><category><![CDATA[Paul Keim]]></category><category><![CDATA[Robert Mueller]]></category><category><![CDATA[Rockville]]></category><category><![CDATA[Fort Detrick]]></category><category><![CDATA[The Institute for Genomic Research]]></category><category><![CDATA[Florida]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ames (Iowa)]]></category><category><![CDATA[Atlanta]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bruce Budowle]]></category><category><![CDATA[Chicago]]></category><category><![CDATA[Craig Venter]]></category><category><![CDATA[David Brown]]></category><category><![CDATA[Patrick Leahy]]></category><category><![CDATA[Robert Stevens]]></category><category><![CDATA[Thomas A. Daschle]]></category><category><![CDATA[Julie Tate]]></category><category><![CDATA[Michael Rosenwald]]></category><category><![CDATA[Paul Kane]]></category><category><![CDATA[Capitol Hill]]></category><category><![CDATA[Centers for Disease Control and Prevention]]></category><category><![CDATA[Nature Publishing Group]]></category><category><![CDATA[Northern Arizona University]]></category><category><![CDATA[Porton Down]]></category><category><![CDATA[Quantico]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Department of Justice]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Postal Service]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary]]></category><category><![CDATA[United Kingdom]]></category><category><![CDATA[Connecticut]]></category><category><![CDATA[Texas]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category><category><![CDATA[New York]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Icahn Calls Bristol-Myers's $4.3 Billion Offer Too Low ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/04/AR2008080402063.html?nav=rss_technology/special/02</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/04/AR2008080402063.html?nav=rss_technology/special/02</guid>
<pubDate>Tue, 05 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Carl C. Icahn, ImClone Systems chairman and second-biggest shareholder, said yesterday that Bristol-Myers Squibb's $4.3 billion buyout offer was too low and the company may split itself to boost its value. ]]></description><dc:creator>Tom Randall</dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Icahn]]></category><category><![CDATA[Calls]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bristol-Myers's]]></category><category><![CDATA[$4.3]]></category><category><![CDATA[Billion]]></category><category><![CDATA[Offer]]></category><category><![CDATA[Too]]></category><category><![CDATA[Low]]></category><category><![CDATA[ImClone Systems Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bristol-Myers Squibb Company]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bristol]]></category><category><![CDATA[Erbitux]]></category><category><![CDATA[Carl Icahn]]></category><category><![CDATA[John Celentano]]></category><category><![CDATA[Tracy Furey]]></category><category><![CDATA[ConvaTec Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[F. Hoffman-La Roche Ltd.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Genentech Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Taxol]]></category><category><![CDATA[NYSE Euronext]]></category><category><![CDATA[New York]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Bristol-Myers Offers $4.5 Billion For Cancer Drug Maker ImClone ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/01/AR2008080102969.html?nav=rss_technology/special/02</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/01/AR2008080102969.html?nav=rss_technology/special/02</guid>
<pubDate>Fri, 01 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Bristol-Myers Squibb offered to buy its biotech partner ImClone Systems for $4.5 billion in cash yesterday, seeking to return to its days as a top cancer drug producer and to transform itself into a next-generation biopharmaceutical company. ]]></description><dc:creator>Kendra Marr</dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Bristol-Myers]]></category><category><![CDATA[Offers]]></category><category><![CDATA[$4.5]]></category><category><![CDATA[Billion]]></category><category><![CDATA[For]]></category><category><![CDATA[Cancer]]></category><category><![CDATA[Drug]]></category><category><![CDATA[Maker]]></category><category><![CDATA[ImClone]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bristol]]></category><category><![CDATA[ImClone Systems Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Carl Icahn]]></category><category><![CDATA[Erbitux]]></category><category><![CDATA[James M. Cornelius]]></category><category><![CDATA[Tim Anderson]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ernst & Young LLP]]></category><category><![CDATA[Barbara Ryan]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bristol-Myers Squibb Company]]></category><category><![CDATA[Gaithersburg]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jean-Marc Huet]]></category><category><![CDATA[Joseph Fischer]]></category><category><![CDATA[Martha Stewart]]></category><category><![CDATA[Sam Waksal]]></category><category><![CDATA[South San Francisco]]></category><category><![CDATA[Abilify]]></category><category><![CDATA[AstraZeneca Group]]></category><category><![CDATA[Avapro]]></category><category><![CDATA[California]]></category><category><![CDATA[ConvaTec Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Deutsche Bank AG]]></category><category><![CDATA[Genentech Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[MedImmune Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Miller Tabak + Co. LLC]]></category><category><![CDATA[Plavix]]></category><category><![CDATA[Sanford C. Bernstein & Co. LLC]]></category><category><![CDATA[Taxol]]></category><category><![CDATA[United States]]></category><category><![CDATA[New York]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Victor McKusick; Genetics Pioneer ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/23/AR2008072303187.html?nav=rss_technology/special/02</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/23/AR2008072303187.html?nav=rss_technology/special/02</guid>
<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jul 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Victor A. McKusick, 86, a Johns Hopkins University physician-scientist considered the founding father of medical genetics, died July 22 of cancer at his home in Towson, Md. ]]></description><dc:creator>Patricia Sullivan</dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Victor]]></category><category><![CDATA[McKusick;]]></category><category><![CDATA[Genetics]]></category><category><![CDATA[Pioneer]]></category><category><![CDATA[]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Mental Activity May Affect Autism-Linked Genes ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/10/AR2008071002750.html?nav=rss_technology/special/02</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/10/AR2008071002750.html?nav=rss_technology/special/02</guid>
<pubDate>Fri, 11 Jul 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ New research suggests that some cases of autism arise from defects in genes that can be turned on or off by mental activity, a finding that sheds light on the devastating condition and might eventually lead to strategies to treat it.<br clear="all"><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/technology/special/02;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=352921447046" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/technology/special/02;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=352921447046" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description><dc:creator>David Brown</dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Mental]]></category><category><![CDATA[Activity]]></category><category><![CDATA[May]]></category><category><![CDATA[Affect]]></category><category><![CDATA[Autism-Linked]]></category><category><![CDATA[Genes]]></category><category><![CDATA[Christopher A. Walsh]]></category><category><![CDATA[Pakistan]]></category><category><![CDATA[Turkey]]></category><category><![CDATA[Middle East]]></category><category><![CDATA[Boston]]></category><category><![CDATA[Daniel H. Geschwind]]></category><category><![CDATA[Eric M. Morrow]]></category><category><![CDATA[Isabelle Rapin]]></category><category><![CDATA[Michael E. Greenberg]]></category><category><![CDATA[Albert Einstein College of Medicine]]></category><category><![CDATA[Center for Autism Research and Treatment]]></category><category><![CDATA[Centers for Disease Control and Prevention]]></category><category><![CDATA[Harvard Medical School]]></category><category><![CDATA[Harvard University]]></category><category><![CDATA[University of California-Los Angeles]]></category><category><![CDATA[California]]></category><category><![CDATA[Minnesota]]></category><category><![CDATA[New York]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Is He a Racist? ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/10/AR2008071002265.html?nav=rss_technology/special/02</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/10/AR2008071002265.html?nav=rss_technology/special/02</guid>
<pubDate>Fri, 11 Jul 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ From TheRoot.com: James Watson's theories are both errant and dangerous. ]]></description><dc:creator>Henry Louis Gates Jr.</dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Is]]></category><category><![CDATA[He]]></category><category><![CDATA[a]]></category><category><![CDATA[Racist?]]></category><category><![CDATA[James Watson]]></category><category><![CDATA[David Duke]]></category><category><![CDATA[Francis Crick]]></category><category><![CDATA[TheRoot.com]]></category><category><![CDATA[Charlotte Hunt-Grubbe]]></category><category><![CDATA[W.E.B. DuBois]]></category><category><![CDATA[Clare College]]></category><category><![CDATA[Cold Spring Harbor]]></category><category><![CDATA[Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory]]></category><category><![CDATA[Harvard University]]></category><category><![CDATA[Human Genome Project]]></category><category><![CDATA[National Basketball Association]]></category><category><![CDATA[National Institutes of Health]]></category><category><![CDATA[The White House]]></category><category><![CDATA[United States]]></category><category><![CDATA[University of Cambridge]]></category><category><![CDATA[Africa]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Fathering Autism ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/27/AR2008062703023.html?nav=rss_technology/special/02</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/27/AR2008062703023.html?nav=rss_technology/special/02</guid>
<pubDate>Tue, 01 Jul 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ In Bethesda, a 15-year-old girl talks to her television set. Often, she seems more connected to the tube's ghostly embrace than to her own father, mother, brothers and sister. She flushes household items down the toilet. She has no friends outside her family. Rachel does not understand why other ... ]]></description><dc:creator>Shankar Vedantam</dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Fathering]]></category><category><![CDATA[Autism]]></category><category><![CDATA[Dealing Rachel]]></category><category><![CDATA[Peter Hotez]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ann Hotez]]></category><category><![CDATA[Hannah Poling]]></category><category><![CDATA[United States]]></category><category><![CDATA[The George Washington University]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bethesda]]></category><category><![CDATA[Andrew Gerber]]></category><category><![CDATA[Athens]]></category><category><![CDATA[Indianapolis]]></category><category><![CDATA[Julie Gerberding]]></category><category><![CDATA[Rachel Hotez]]></category><category><![CDATA[Albert B. Sabin Vaccine Institute]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation]]></category><category><![CDATA[Centers for Disease Control and Prevention]]></category><category><![CDATA[Columbia University]]></category><category><![CDATA[Japan]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ CEO Who Led Growth to Leave MedImmune ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/26/AR2008062604024.html?nav=rss_technology/special/02</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/26/AR2008062604024.html?nav=rss_technology/special/02</guid>
<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jun 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ MedImmune chief executive David M. Mott, who led the Gaithersburg biotech through years of rapid expansion and its sale to the British drug giant AstraZeneca, will leave the company at the end of July. ]]></description><dc:creator>Kendra Marr</dc:creator><category><![CDATA[CEO]]></category><category><![CDATA[Who]]></category><category><![CDATA[Led]]></category><category><![CDATA[Growth]]></category><category><![CDATA[to]]></category><category><![CDATA[Leave]]></category><category><![CDATA[MedImmune]]></category><category><![CDATA[AstraZeneca Group]]></category><category><![CDATA[MedImmune Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Synagis]]></category><category><![CDATA[John Holaday]]></category><category><![CDATA[Carl Icahn]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jamie Lacey]]></category><category><![CDATA[John T. McCamant]]></category><category><![CDATA[Tony Zook]]></category><category><![CDATA[Wayne T. Hockmeyer]]></category><category><![CDATA[Maryland]]></category><category><![CDATA[David M. Mott]]></category><category><![CDATA[Gaithersburg]]></category><category><![CDATA[Boston]]></category><category><![CDATA[David Brennan]]></category><category><![CDATA[H. Thomas Watkins]]></category><category><![CDATA[Montgomery County (Maryland)]]></category><category><![CDATA[Rockville]]></category><category><![CDATA[San Francisco]]></category><category><![CDATA[Wilmington]]></category><category><![CDATA[Australia]]></category><category><![CDATA[David Edgerly]]></category><category><![CDATA[EntreMed Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[FluMist]]></category><category><![CDATA[Human Genome Sciences Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Maryland Department of Business and Economic Development]]></category><category><![CDATA[QRxPharma Ltd.]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission]]></category><category><![CDATA[Walter Reed Health Care System]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ O'Malley Pledges More Investment To Bolster Md.'s Biotech Industry ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/16/AR2008061602286.html?nav=rss_technology/special/02</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/16/AR2008061602286.html?nav=rss_technology/special/02</guid>
<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jun 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley outlined a strategy yesterday to invest $1.1 billion in the state's bioscience industry over the next decade or so, expanding tax credits, bolstering stem cell research and providing new support for start-ups.<br clear="all"><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/technology/special/02;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=352921449551" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/technology/special/02;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=352921449551" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description><dc:creator>Kendra Marr</dc:creator><category><![CDATA[O'Malley]]></category><category><![CDATA[Pledges]]></category><category><![CDATA[More]]></category><category><![CDATA[Investment]]></category><category><![CDATA[To]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bolster]]></category><category><![CDATA[Md.'s]]></category><category><![CDATA[Biotech]]></category><category><![CDATA[Industry]]></category><category><![CDATA[Martin O'Malley]]></category><category><![CDATA[Maryland]]></category><category><![CDATA[John Holaday]]></category><category><![CDATA[Johns Hopkins Medicine]]></category><category><![CDATA[Renee Winsky]]></category><category><![CDATA[Rockville]]></category><category><![CDATA[Australia]]></category><category><![CDATA[EntreMed Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Maryland Biotechnology Center]]></category><category><![CDATA[Maryland Technology Development Corporation]]></category><category><![CDATA[MedImmune Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[National Institutes of Health]]></category><category><![CDATA[QRxPharma Ltd.]]></category><category><![CDATA[University of Maryland]]></category><category><![CDATA[University of Maryland School of Law]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Faith Lets Some Kids Skip Shots ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/06/AR2008060603770.html?nav=rss_technology/special/02</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/06/AR2008060603770.html?nav=rss_technology/special/02</guid>
<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jun 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ In public health circles they are known as "exempters" -- parents who for reasons of faith or philosophy choose not to immunize their children against diseases such as measles and whooping cough. Some exempters claim that childhood vaccines contain unnatural or harmful ingredients; others say the... ]]></description><dc:creator>Sandra G. Boodman</dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Faith]]></category><category><![CDATA[Lets]]></category><category><![CDATA[Some]]></category><category><![CDATA[Kids]]></category><category><![CDATA[Skip]]></category><category><![CDATA[Shots]]></category><category><![CDATA[Barbara Loe Fisher]]></category><category><![CDATA[Palma]]></category><category><![CDATA[Saad B. Omer]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category><category><![CDATA[Paul Offit]]></category><category><![CDATA[Maryland]]></category><category><![CDATA[Virginia]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ed Hirshhorn]]></category><category><![CDATA[San Diego]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bayport-Blue Point School District on Long Island]]></category><category><![CDATA[Johns Hopkins University]]></category><category><![CDATA[Journal of the American Medical Association]]></category><category><![CDATA[New York State Unified Court System]]></category><category><![CDATA[The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. National Vaccine Information Center]]></category><category><![CDATA[University of Pennsylvania]]></category><category><![CDATA[Mississippi]]></category><category><![CDATA[Northern Virginia]]></category><category><![CDATA[West Virginia]]></category><category><![CDATA[New York]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Emergent BioSolutions To Buy Maker Of Flu Vaccine ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/05/26/AR2008052601761.html?nav=rss_technology/special/02</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/05/26/AR2008052601761.html?nav=rss_technology/special/02</guid>
<pubDate>Tue, 27 May 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Emergent BioSolutions, in a push to diversify beyond its biodefense business, plans to announce today that it is buying Protein Sciences, a maker of a next-generation flu vaccine that federal regulators have put on a fast track to approval. ]]></description><dc:creator>Kendra Marr</dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Emergent]]></category><category><![CDATA[BioSolutions]]></category><category><![CDATA[To]]></category><category><![CDATA[Buy]]></category><category><![CDATA[Maker]]></category><category><![CDATA[Of]]></category><category><![CDATA[Flu]]></category><category><![CDATA[Vaccine]]></category><category><![CDATA[Fuad -Hibri]]></category><category><![CDATA[Meriden]]></category><category><![CDATA[Anthony Fauci]]></category><category><![CDATA[Eric Schmidt]]></category><category><![CDATA[Centers for Disease Control and Prevention]]></category><category><![CDATA[Emergent BioSolutions Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jim Jackson]]></category><category><![CDATA[Rockville]]></category><category><![CDATA[Food and Drug Administration]]></category><category><![CDATA[National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases]]></category><category><![CDATA[National Institutes of Health]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Department of Defense]]></category><category><![CDATA[United States]]></category><category><![CDATA[VaxGen Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Connecticut]]></category><category><![CDATA[New York]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ MedImmune Settles Patent Lawsuit With Genentech ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/05/22/AR2008052203804.html?nav=rss_technology/special/02</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/05/22/AR2008052203804.html?nav=rss_technology/special/02</guid>
<pubDate>Fri, 23 May 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Biotechnology firms MedImmune and Genentech settled a lawsuit over a patented component of Synagis, MedImmune's best-selling drug, which is aimed at preventing respiratory infections in infants. ]]></description><dc:creator>Kendra Marr</dc:creator><category><![CDATA[MedImmune]]></category><category><![CDATA[Settles]]></category><category><![CDATA[Patent]]></category><category><![CDATA[Lawsuit]]></category><category><![CDATA[With]]></category><category><![CDATA[Genentech]]></category><category><![CDATA[]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Firms Seek Patents on 'Climate Ready' Altered Crops ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/05/12/AR2008051202919.html?nav=rss_technology/special/02</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/05/12/AR2008051202919.html?nav=rss_technology/special/02</guid>
<pubDate>Tue, 13 May 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ A handful of the world's largest agricultural biotechnology companies are seeking hundreds of patents on gene-altered crops designed to withstand drought and other environmental stresses, part of a race for dominance in the potentially lucrative market for crops that can handle global warming,...<br clear="all"><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/technology/special/02;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=352921454120" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/technology/special/02;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=352921454120" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description><dc:creator>Rick Weiss</dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Firms]]></category><category><![CDATA[Seek]]></category><category><![CDATA[Patents]]></category><category><![CDATA[on]]></category><category><![CDATA['Climate]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ready']]></category><category><![CDATA[Altered]]></category><category><![CDATA[Crops]]></category><category><![CDATA[BASF AG]]></category><category><![CDATA[Monsanto Company]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ranjana Smetacek]]></category><category><![CDATA[Richard Jefferson]]></category><category><![CDATA[Germany]]></category><category><![CDATA[Syngenta Corporation]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jonathan Bryant]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ottawa]]></category><category><![CDATA[St. Louis]]></category><category><![CDATA[Australia]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bayer AG]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation]]></category><category><![CDATA[ETC Group]]></category><category><![CDATA[Switzerland]]></category><category><![CDATA[The World Bank Group]]></category><category><![CDATA[United Nations]]></category><category><![CDATA[United States]]></category><category><![CDATA[Africa]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Platypus Genome Found Fittingly Strange ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/05/07/AR2008050702048.html?nav=rss_technology/special/02</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/05/07/AR2008050702048.html?nav=rss_technology/special/02</guid>
<pubDate>Thu, 08 May 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ When the British naturalist George Shaw received a weird specimen from Australia in 1799 -- one with a mole's fur, a duck's bill and serpentlike spurs on its rear legs -- he did what any skeptical scientist would do: He looked for the stitching and glue that would reveal it to be a hoax. ]]></description><dc:creator>Rick Weiss</dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Platypus]]></category><category><![CDATA[Genome]]></category><category><![CDATA[Found]]></category><category><![CDATA[Fittingly]]></category><category><![CDATA[Strange]]></category><category><![CDATA[Richard Wilson]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ewan Birney]]></category><category><![CDATA[Australia]]></category><category><![CDATA[Cambridge]]></category><category><![CDATA[Canberra]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ogden Nash]]></category><category><![CDATA[St. Louis]]></category><category><![CDATA[Wesley Warren]]></category><category><![CDATA[European Bioinformatics Institute]]></category><category><![CDATA[Nature Publishing Group]]></category><category><![CDATA[Papua New Guinea]]></category><category><![CDATA[The Australian National University]]></category><category><![CDATA[United Kingdom]]></category><category><![CDATA[United States]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington University in St. Louis]]></category><category><![CDATA[Tasmania]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Rockville Biotech Buys Rival's Anthrax Vaccine ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/05/04/AR2008050401771.html?nav=rss_technology/special/02</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/05/04/AR2008050401771.html?nav=rss_technology/special/02</guid>
<pubDate>Mon, 05 May 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ The effort to protect the country from another anthrax attack will take an unexpected turn today when Rockville firm Emergent BioSolutions plans to announce that it has bought for $2 million an anthrax vaccine from a California company that federal health officials dropped in 2006. ]]></description><dc:creator>Michael S. Rosenwald</dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Rockville]]></category><category><![CDATA[Biotech]]></category><category><![CDATA[Buys]]></category><category><![CDATA[Rival's]]></category><category><![CDATA[Anthrax]]></category><category><![CDATA[Vaccine]]></category><category><![CDATA[VaxGen Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[PharmAthene Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Annapolis (Maryland)]]></category><category><![CDATA[Fuad -Hibri]]></category><category><![CDATA[Rockville]]></category><category><![CDATA[South San Francisco]]></category><category><![CDATA[Emergent BioSolutions Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Avecia Biologics Ltd.]]></category><category><![CDATA[California]]></category><category><![CDATA[Daniel Abdun-Nabi]]></category><category><![CDATA[Food and Drug Administration]]></category><category><![CDATA[Germany]]></category><category><![CDATA[India]]></category><category><![CDATA[Raven Biotechnologies Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Stanford University]]></category><category><![CDATA[Steve Brozak]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Department of Defense]]></category><category><![CDATA[United Kingdom]]></category><category><![CDATA[United States]]></category><category><![CDATA[Wall Street]]></category><category><![CDATA[WBB Securities LLC]]></category><category><![CDATA[Yale University]]></category><category><![CDATA[Middle East]]></category><category><![CDATA[Europe]]></category><category><![CDATA[Michigan]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ FDA Faulted for Approving Studies of Artificial Blood ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/28/AR2008042801025.html?nav=rss_technology/special/02</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/28/AR2008042801025.html?nav=rss_technology/special/02</guid>
<pubDate>Tue, 29 Apr 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ A new analysis concludes that the Food and Drug Administration approved experiments with artificial blood substitutes even after studies showed that the controversial products posed a clear risk of causing heart attacks and death. ]]></description><dc:creator>Rob Stein</dc:creator><category><![CDATA[FDA]]></category><category><![CDATA[Faulted]]></category><category><![CDATA[for]]></category><category><![CDATA[Approving]]></category><category><![CDATA[Studies]]></category><category><![CDATA[of]]></category><category><![CDATA[Artificial]]></category><category><![CDATA[Blood]]></category><category><![CDATA[Charles Natanson]]></category><category><![CDATA[Food and Drug Administration]]></category><category><![CDATA[Biopure Corporation]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jay S. Epstein]]></category><category><![CDATA[William D. Hoffman]]></category><category><![CDATA[National Institutes of Health]]></category><category><![CDATA[Public Citizen Foundation]]></category><category><![CDATA[Boston]]></category><category><![CDATA[Cambridge (Massachusetts)]]></category><category><![CDATA[Journal of the American Medical Association]]></category><category><![CDATA[Massachusetts General Hospital]]></category><category><![CDATA[Office of Blood Research and Review]]></category><category><![CDATA[South Africa]]></category><category><![CDATA[United States]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Altered Viruses Reversed Progressive Blindness, Studies Say ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/27/AR2008042702105.html?nav=rss_technology/special/02</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/27/AR2008042702105.html?nav=rss_technology/special/02</guid>
<pubDate>Mon, 28 Apr 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Three young adults barely able to see because of a congenital and progressive form of blindness have regained modest amounts of vision after getting genetically engineered viruses injected into their eyes, the leaders of two independent studies reported yesterday.<br clear="all"><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/technology/special/02;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=352921456136" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/technology/special/02;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=352921456136" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description><dc:creator>Rick Weiss</dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Altered]]></category><category><![CDATA[Viruses]]></category><category><![CDATA[Reversed]]></category><category><![CDATA[Progressive]]></category><category><![CDATA[Blindness,]]></category><category><![CDATA[Studies]]></category><category><![CDATA[Say]]></category><category><![CDATA[Paul A. Sieving]]></category><category><![CDATA[Steven Howarth]]></category><category><![CDATA[Robin R. Ali]]></category><category><![CDATA[Arthur W. Nienhuis]]></category><category><![CDATA[Targeted Genetics Corporation]]></category><category><![CDATA[Pennsylvania]]></category><category><![CDATA[Albert M. Maguire]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jean Bennett]]></category><category><![CDATA[Joan W. Miller]]></category><category><![CDATA[Seattle]]></category><category><![CDATA[Memphis]]></category><category><![CDATA[Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary]]></category><category><![CDATA[National Eye Institute]]></category><category><![CDATA[The New England Journal of Medicine]]></category><category><![CDATA[University College London]]></category><category><![CDATA[University of Pennsylvania]]></category><category><![CDATA[American Society of Gene Therapy]]></category><category><![CDATA[St. Jude Children's Research Hospital]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Ban on Genetic-Test Bias May Pass Senate ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/23/AR2008042303221.html?nav=rss_technology/special/02</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/23/AR2008042303221.html?nav=rss_technology/special/02</guid>
<pubDate>Thu, 24 Apr 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Capping 13 years of political wrangling, the Senate today is slated to pass landmark legislation that would prevent employers and health insurance companies from discriminating against people on the basis of genetic test results. ]]></description><dc:creator>Rick Weiss</dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Ban]]></category><category><![CDATA[on]]></category><category><![CDATA[Genetic-Test]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bias]]></category><category><![CDATA[May]]></category><category><![CDATA[Pass]]></category><category><![CDATA[Senate]]></category><category><![CDATA[Kathy Hudson]]></category><category><![CDATA[Sharon F. Terry]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category><category><![CDATA[Francis Collins]]></category><category><![CDATA[Harry Reid]]></category><category><![CDATA[Tom Coburn]]></category><category><![CDATA[23andMe Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Genetics and Public Policy Center]]></category><category><![CDATA[Human Genome Project]]></category><category><![CDATA[National Human Genome Research Institute]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Chamber of Commerce]]></category><category><![CDATA[California]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ DNA Testing's Double Bind ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/23/AR2008042302914.html?nav=rss_technology/special/02</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/23/AR2008042302914.html?nav=rss_technology/special/02</guid>
<pubDate>Thu, 24 Apr 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ BLOOD MATTERS From Inherited Illness to Designer Babies, How the World and I Found Ourselves in the Future of the Gene By Masha Gessen Harcourt. 321 pp. $25 Masha Gessen faced a searing personal dilemma. At 37, this journalist and mother of two young children learned that she had inherited a gene... ]]></description><dc:creator>Susan Okie,</dc:creator><category><![CDATA[DNA]]></category><category><![CDATA[Testing's]]></category><category><![CDATA[Double]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bind]]></category><category><![CDATA[Masha Gessen]]></category><category><![CDATA[Huntington]]></category><category><![CDATA[Austria]]></category><category><![CDATA[Germany]]></category><category><![CDATA[Israel]]></category><category><![CDATA[Italy]]></category><category><![CDATA[Slate Magazine]]></category><category><![CDATA[Switzerland]]></category><category><![CDATA[United States]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Heart Pump Creates Life-Death Ethical Dilemmas ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/23/AR2008042303534.html?nav=rss_technology/special/02</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/23/AR2008042303534.html?nav=rss_technology/special/02</guid>
<pubDate>Thu, 24 Apr 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ After bypass surgery and two heart attacks, the 62-year-old's heart was failing. Desperate, he grasped at his last hope: a surgically implanted heart pump. But following infections, kidney failure and other complications, along with months in the hospital, he returned home weaker than ever. ]]></description><dc:creator>Rob Stein</dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Heart]]></category><category><![CDATA[Pump]]></category><category><![CDATA[Creates]]></category><category><![CDATA[Life-Death]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ethical]]></category><category><![CDATA[Dilemmas]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jeremy R. Simon]]></category><category><![CDATA[California Pacific Medical Center]]></category><category><![CDATA[University of Pennsylvania]]></category><category><![CDATA[Clarence Horton]]></category><category><![CDATA[Edgewater Park]]></category><category><![CDATA[James Kirkpatrick]]></category><category><![CDATA[Michael Petty]]></category><category><![CDATA[Robert L. Kormos]]></category><category><![CDATA[Robert M. Veatch]]></category><category><![CDATA[Rochester]]></category><category><![CDATA[San Francisco]]></category><category><![CDATA[Scott D. Halpern]]></category><category><![CDATA[Timothy W. Kirk]]></category><category><![CDATA[Columbia University]]></category><category><![CDATA[Fairview-University Medical Center]]></category><category><![CDATA[Georgetown University]]></category><category><![CDATA[Hastings Center]]></category><category><![CDATA[Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research]]></category><category><![CDATA[Medicare]]></category><category><![CDATA[New York Presbyterian-Weill Cornell Medical Center]]></category><category><![CDATA[United States]]></category><category><![CDATA[University of Alabama at Birmingham]]></category><category><![CDATA[University of Pennsylvania Health System]]></category><category><![CDATA[University of Pittsburgh Medical Center]]></category><category><![CDATA[Villanova University]]></category><category><![CDATA[Minnesota]]></category><category><![CDATA[New Jersey]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Science Is Leading Us to More Answers, but It's Also Misleading Us ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/18/AR2008041802868.html?nav=rss_technology/special/02</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/18/AR2008041802868.html?nav=rss_technology/special/02</guid>
<pubDate>Tue, 22 Apr 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Be careful what you wish for. That is the unexpected lesson of the past decade of biomedical research, which has been characterized by an overwhelming abundance of interesting things to study and powerful ways to study them.<br clear="all"><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/technology/special/02;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=352921458449" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/technology/special/02;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=352921458449" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description><dc:creator>David A. Shaywitz</dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Science]]></category><category><![CDATA[Is]]></category><category><![CDATA[Leading]]></category><category><![CDATA[Us]]></category><category><![CDATA[to]]></category><category><![CDATA[More]]></category><category><![CDATA[Answers,]]></category><category><![CDATA[but]]></category><category><![CDATA[It's]]></category><category><![CDATA[Also]]></category><category><![CDATA[Misleading]]></category><category><![CDATA[Us]]></category><category><![CDATA[Eric Lander]]></category><category><![CDATA[David A. Shaywitz]]></category><category><![CDATA[Lehman Brothers Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Massachusetts Institute of Technology]]></category><category><![CDATA[New Jersey]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ DNA Tests Offer Deeper Examination Of Accused ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/19/AR2008041902225.html?nav=rss_technology/special/02</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/19/AR2008041902225.html?nav=rss_technology/special/02</guid>
<pubDate>Sun, 20 Apr 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Twenty years after DNA fingerprints were first admitted by American courts as a way to link suspects to crime scenes, a new and very different class of genetic test is approaching the bench. ]]></description><dc:creator>Rick Weiss</dc:creator><category><![CDATA[DNA]]></category><category><![CDATA[Tests]]></category><category><![CDATA[Offer]]></category><category><![CDATA[Deeper]]></category><category><![CDATA[Examination]]></category><category><![CDATA[Of]]></category><category><![CDATA[Accused]]></category><category><![CDATA[Stephen A. Mobley]]></category><category><![CDATA[Deborah W. Denno]]></category><category><![CDATA[Karen Rothenberg]]></category><category><![CDATA[Nita Farahany]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jeffrey R. Botkin]]></category><category><![CDATA[Markus Heilig]]></category><category><![CDATA[Andre M. Davis]]></category><category><![CDATA[Baltimore]]></category><category><![CDATA[Georgia]]></category><category><![CDATA[Huntington]]></category><category><![CDATA[Domino's Pizza Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Fordham University School of Law]]></category><category><![CDATA[Israel]]></category><category><![CDATA[National Human Genome Research Institute]]></category><category><![CDATA[National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland]]></category><category><![CDATA[United States]]></category><category><![CDATA[University of Maryland]]></category><category><![CDATA[University of Maryland School of Law]]></category><category><![CDATA[University of Utah School of Medicine]]></category><category><![CDATA[Vanderbilt University]]></category><category><![CDATA[Arizona]]></category><category><![CDATA[Idaho]]></category><category><![CDATA[Maryland]]></category><category><![CDATA[South Carolina]]></category><category><![CDATA[Tennessee]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Revenge of the Nerds ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/08/AR2008040802046.html?nav=rss_technology/special/02</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/08/AR2008040802046.html?nav=rss_technology/special/02</guid>
<pubDate>Sun, 13 Apr 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ I GOT A CALL from my friend Gina Barreca, who teaches feminism and literature in college. Gina wanted my help. ]]></description><dc:creator>Gene Weingarten</dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Revenge]]></category><category><![CDATA[of]]></category><category><![CDATA[the]]></category><category><![CDATA[Nerds]]></category><category><![CDATA[Puts Gina]]></category><category><![CDATA[The Washington Post Company]]></category><category><![CDATA[Gene Weingarten]]></category><category><![CDATA[Gina Barreca]]></category><category><![CDATA[Voltaire]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Schizophrenia Linked to Rare, Often Unique Genetic Glitches ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/03/27/AR2008032703144.html?nav=rss_technology/special/02</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/03/27/AR2008032703144.html?nav=rss_technology/special/02</guid>
<pubDate>Fri, 28 Mar 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Patients with schizophrenia are three to four times as likely as healthy people to harbor large mutations in genes that control brain development, and many of those glitches are unique to each patient, researchers reported yesterday. ]]></description><dc:creator>Rick Weiss</dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Schizophrenia]]></category><category><![CDATA[Linked]]></category><category><![CDATA[to]]></category><category><![CDATA[Rare,]]></category><category><![CDATA[Often]]></category><category><![CDATA[Unique]]></category><category><![CDATA[Genetic]]></category><category><![CDATA[Glitches]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jonathan Sebat]]></category><category><![CDATA[Thomas Insel]]></category><category><![CDATA[University of Washington]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jon McClellan]]></category><category><![CDATA[Mary-Claire King]]></category><category><![CDATA[Samuel Barondes]]></category><category><![CDATA[Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory]]></category><category><![CDATA[National Institute of Mental Health]]></category><category><![CDATA[University of California-San Francisco]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ AIDS Vaccine Testing at Crossroads ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/03/25/AR2008032503153.html?nav=rss_technology/special/02</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/03/25/AR2008032503153.html?nav=rss_technology/special/02</guid>
<pubDate>Wed, 26 Mar 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ The leaders of the federal government's effort to develop an AIDS vaccine said yesterday that more of their budget needs to be spent on basic lab research and less on testing the current crop of vaccines, none of which has proved useful in human trials.<br clear="all"><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/technology/special/02;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=352921502915" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/technology/special/02;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=352921502915" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description><dc:creator>David Brown</dc:creator><category><![CDATA[AIDS]]></category><category><![CDATA[Vaccine]]></category><category><![CDATA[Testing]]></category><category><![CDATA[at]]></category><category><![CDATA[Crossroads]]></category><category><![CDATA[National Institutes of Health]]></category><category><![CDATA[Anthony S. Fauci]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bethesda]]></category><category><![CDATA[Carl W. Dieffenbach]]></category><category><![CDATA[James Hoxie]]></category><category><![CDATA[Michael Weinstein]]></category><category><![CDATA[Mitchell Warren]]></category><category><![CDATA[Rob Stein]]></category><category><![CDATA[Warner C. Greene]]></category><category><![CDATA[AIDS Healthcare Foundation]]></category><category><![CDATA[AIDS Vaccine Advocacy Coalition]]></category><category><![CDATA[Kenya]]></category><category><![CDATA[National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases]]></category><category><![CDATA[South Africa]]></category><category><![CDATA[Thailand]]></category><category><![CDATA[University of California-San Francisco]]></category><category><![CDATA[University of Pennsylvania]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Genetic Testing Gets Personal ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/03/24/AR2008032402750.html?nav=rss_technology/special/02</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/03/24/AR2008032402750.html?nav=rss_technology/special/02</guid>
<pubDate>Tue, 25 Mar 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ In January, at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, movers and shakers lined up to spit into test tubes -- the first step to having snippets of their DNA analyzed by 23andMe, a personalized gene-testing company that for $999 promises to help people "search and explore their genomes." ]]></description><dc:creator>Rick Weiss</dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Genetic]]></category><category><![CDATA[Testing]]></category><category><![CDATA[Gets]]></category><category><![CDATA[Personal]]></category><category><![CDATA[Craig Venter]]></category><category><![CDATA[Francis Collins]]></category><category><![CDATA[Anne Wojcicki]]></category><category><![CDATA[ScientificMatch.com]]></category><category><![CDATA[Linda Avey]]></category><category><![CDATA[Harvard University]]></category><category><![CDATA[Human Genome Project]]></category><category><![CDATA[California]]></category><category><![CDATA[Connecticut]]></category><category><![CDATA[454 Life Sciences Corporation]]></category><category><![CDATA[YouTube Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Cambridge (Massachusetts)]]></category><category><![CDATA[Capitol Hill]]></category><category><![CDATA[Christopher K. McLeod]]></category><category><![CDATA[Gail Geller]]></category><category><![CDATA[Mountain View (California)]]></category><category><![CDATA[R. Alta Charo]]></category><category><![CDATA[Redwood City]]></category><category><![CDATA[Rockville]]></category><category><![CDATA[Berman Institute of Bioethics]]></category><category><![CDATA[Food and Drug Administration]]></category><category><![CDATA[Johns Hopkins University]]></category><category><![CDATA[National Human Genome Research Institute]]></category><category><![CDATA[University of Wisconsin]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Vaccine Failure Is Setback in AIDS Fight ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/03/20/AR2008032003398.html?nav=rss_technology/special/02</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/03/20/AR2008032003398.html?nav=rss_technology/special/02</guid>
<pubDate>Fri, 21 Mar 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ The two-decade search for an AIDS vaccine is in crisis after two field tests of the most promising contender not only did not protect people from the virus but may actually have put them at increased risk of becoming infected. ]]></description><dc:creator>David Brown</dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Vaccine]]></category><category><![CDATA[Failure]]></category><category><![CDATA[Is]]></category><category><![CDATA[Setback]]></category><category><![CDATA[in]]></category><category><![CDATA[AIDS]]></category><category><![CDATA[Fight]]></category><category><![CDATA[National Institutes of Health]]></category><category><![CDATA[South Africa]]></category><category><![CDATA[Space Shuttle Challenger]]></category><category><![CDATA[Anthony S. Fauci]]></category><category><![CDATA[Baltimore]]></category><category><![CDATA[Boston]]></category><category><![CDATA[Caribbean]]></category><category><![CDATA[John P. Moore]]></category><category><![CDATA[Mark B. Feinberg]]></category><category><![CDATA[Mark Harrington]]></category><category><![CDATA[Robert Gallo]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ronald C. Desrosiers]]></category><category><![CDATA[South America]]></category><category><![CDATA[Australia]]></category><category><![CDATA[Harvard University]]></category><category><![CDATA[Institute for Human Virology]]></category><category><![CDATA[NASA]]></category><category><![CDATA[National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases]]></category><category><![CDATA[Treatment Action Group]]></category><category><![CDATA[United States]]></category><category><![CDATA[Weill Medical College of Cornell University]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ On the Trail of the Cat, Scientists Find Surprises ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/03/16/AR2008031601234.html?nav=rss_technology/special/02</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/03/16/AR2008031601234.html?nav=rss_technology/special/02</guid>
<pubDate>Mon, 17 Mar 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ If cat owners know anything about their pets, it's how enigmatic the creatures can be. But scientists have begun to pull back the feline veil, using the latest molecular tools to get a peek at their origins. ]]></description><dc:creator>Rob Stein</dc:creator><category><![CDATA[On]]></category><category><![CDATA[the]]></category><category><![CDATA[Trail]]></category><category><![CDATA[of]]></category><category><![CDATA[the]]></category><category><![CDATA[Cat,]]></category><category><![CDATA[Scientists]]></category><category><![CDATA[Find]]></category><category><![CDATA[Surprises]]></category><category><![CDATA[Leslie A. Lyons]]></category><category><![CDATA[Turkey]]></category><category><![CDATA[Europe]]></category><category><![CDATA[Iran]]></category><category><![CDATA[United States]]></category><category><![CDATA[Havana]]></category><category><![CDATA[Marilyn Menotti-Raymond]]></category><category><![CDATA[Israel]]></category><category><![CDATA[Japan]]></category><category><![CDATA[Singapore]]></category><category><![CDATA[Sri Lanka]]></category><category><![CDATA[Tunisia]]></category><category><![CDATA[Maine]]></category><category><![CDATA[Africa]]></category><category><![CDATA[Asia]]></category><category><![CDATA[East Africa]]></category><category><![CDATA[Southeast Asia]]></category><category><![CDATA[Susan Little]]></category><category><![CDATA[Western Europe]]></category><category><![CDATA[Brazil]]></category><category><![CDATA[China]]></category><category><![CDATA[Egypt]]></category><category><![CDATA[Finland]]></category><category><![CDATA[Germany]]></category><category><![CDATA[Iraq]]></category><category><![CDATA[Italy]]></category><category><![CDATA[Kenya]]></category><category><![CDATA[National Cancer Institute]]></category><category><![CDATA[Persia]]></category><category><![CDATA[University of California-Davis]]></category><category><![CDATA[Vietnam]]></category><category><![CDATA[Winn Feline Foundation]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Seeing Red Over Bid to Clone a Bull ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/03/15/AR2008031502409.html?nav=rss_technology/special/02</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/03/15/AR2008031502409.html?nav=rss_technology/special/02</guid>
<pubDate>Sun, 16 Mar 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ MADRID -- Victoriano del R¿o has a favorite animal, a majestic bull named Alcalde, who is nearing the end of his days after faithfully and lucratively siring more than 400 offspring. Loath to see him go, del R¿o is paying a company in Texas about $45,000 to have the big boy cloned.<br clear="all"><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/technology/special/02;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=352921504878" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/technology/special/02;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=352921504878" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description><dc:creator>John Ward Anderson</dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Seeing]]></category><category><![CDATA[Red]]></category><category><![CDATA[Over]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bid]]></category><category><![CDATA[to]]></category><category><![CDATA[Clone]]></category><category><![CDATA[a]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bull]]></category><category><![CDATA[Madrid]]></category><category><![CDATA[Spain]]></category><category><![CDATA[World Society for the Protection of Animals]]></category><category><![CDATA[Texas]]></category><category><![CDATA[ViaGen Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Austin (Texas)]]></category><category><![CDATA[Europe]]></category><category><![CDATA[Latin America]]></category><category><![CDATA[London]]></category><category><![CDATA[Michael Appleby]]></category><category><![CDATA[Miguel Cid]]></category><category><![CDATA[Alyx Dow]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bullfighting Association]]></category><category><![CDATA[Complutensian University of Madrid]]></category><category><![CDATA[Mexico]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Celera to Move Headquarters To California, May Spin Off ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/02/29/AR2008022903641.html?nav=rss_technology/special/02</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/02/29/AR2008022903641.html?nav=rss_technology/special/02</guid>
<pubDate>Sat, 01 Mar 2008 00:00:00 EST</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Celera, the Rockville biotech company that scientist J. Craig Venter founded to map the human genome, announced yesterday that it will move its headquarters to Northern California. ]]></description><dc:creator>Thomas Heath</dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Celera]]></category><category><![CDATA[to]]></category><category><![CDATA[Move]]></category><category><![CDATA[Headquarters]]></category><category><![CDATA[To]]></category><category><![CDATA[California,]]></category><category><![CDATA[May]]></category><category><![CDATA[Spin]]></category><category><![CDATA[Off]]></category><category><![CDATA[California]]></category><category><![CDATA[Craig Venter]]></category><category><![CDATA[David Speechly]]></category><category><![CDATA[Rockville]]></category><category><![CDATA[Montgomery County (Maryland)]]></category><category><![CDATA[Alameda]]></category><category><![CDATA[Richard Zakour]]></category><category><![CDATA[Maryland]]></category><category><![CDATA[Abbott Laboratories Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Applera Corporation]]></category><category><![CDATA[AstraZeneca Group]]></category><category><![CDATA[BioVeris Corporation]]></category><category><![CDATA[Digene Corporation]]></category><category><![CDATA[MedImmune Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Qiagen NV]]></category><category><![CDATA[Berkeley]]></category><category><![CDATA[South San Francisco]]></category><category><![CDATA[Tech Council of Maryland]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Genetic Mutations Offer Insights on Human Diversity ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/02/21/AR2008022102739.html?nav=rss_technology/special/02</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/02/21/AR2008022102739.html?nav=rss_technology/special/02</guid>
<pubDate>Fri, 22 Feb 2008 00:00:00 EST</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ We're all pretty much the same except, of course, for the little things that make us different. ]]></description><dc:creator>David Brown</dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Genetic]]></category><category><![CDATA[Mutations]]></category><category><![CDATA[Offer]]></category><category><![CDATA[Insights]]></category><category><![CDATA[on]]></category><category><![CDATA[Human]]></category><category><![CDATA[Diversity]]></category><category><![CDATA[Africa]]></category><category><![CDATA[Noah A. Rosenberg]]></category><category><![CDATA[East Africa]]></category><category><![CDATA[China]]></category><category><![CDATA[Pakistan]]></category><category><![CDATA[Siberia]]></category><category><![CDATA[Nature Publishing Group]]></category><category><![CDATA[Addis Ababa]]></category><category><![CDATA[Andrew B. Singleton]]></category><category><![CDATA[Arabian Peninsula]]></category><category><![CDATA[Carlos D. Bustamante]]></category><category><![CDATA[Central Asia]]></category><category><![CDATA[Richard M. Myers]]></category><category><![CDATA[Afghanistan]]></category><category><![CDATA[Cornell University]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ethiopia]]></category><category><![CDATA[France]]></category><category><![CDATA[Human Genome Project]]></category><category><![CDATA[Stanford University School of Medicine]]></category><category><![CDATA[University of Michigan]]></category><category><![CDATA[University of Virginia]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Opportunities in China Lure Scientists Home ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/02/19/AR2008021902509.html?nav=rss_technology/special/02</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/02/19/AR2008021902509.html?nav=rss_technology/special/02</guid>
<pubDate>Wed, 20 Feb 2008 00:00:00 EST</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ SHANGHAI -- Sheng Huizhen's life story is typical of immigrants who succeeded in America. After getting her PhD in biochemistry, she landed a job as a postdoctoral researcher at the National Institutes of Health. She got a green card, bought a house in Maryland and worked her way up to visiting... ]]></description><dc:creator>Ariana Eunjung Cha</dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Opportunities]]></category><category><![CDATA[in]]></category><category><![CDATA[China]]></category><category><![CDATA[Lure]]></category><category><![CDATA[Scientists]]></category><category><![CDATA[Home]]></category><category><![CDATA[China]]></category><category><![CDATA[United States]]></category><category><![CDATA[National Institutes of Health]]></category><category><![CDATA[Beijing]]></category><category><![CDATA[Suzhou]]></category><category><![CDATA[California]]></category><category><![CDATA[Maryland]]></category><category><![CDATA[North Carolina]]></category><category><![CDATA[American Pacific Corporation]]></category><category><![CDATA[Human Genome Sciences Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[ViaCell Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bethesda]]></category><category><![CDATA[Cambridge (Massachusetts)]]></category><category><![CDATA[Chongqing]]></category><category><![CDATA[Deng Hongkui]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jin Lei]]></category><category><![CDATA[Li Lingsong]]></category><category><![CDATA[Rockville]]></category><category><![CDATA[Sherwood Yang]]></category><category><![CDATA[China's Peking University]]></category><category><![CDATA[Chinese Academy of Sciences]]></category><category><![CDATA[Chinese Ministry of Education]]></category><category><![CDATA[National Cancer Institute]]></category><category><![CDATA[National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute]]></category><category><![CDATA[National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences]]></category><category><![CDATA[New York University]]></category><category><![CDATA[New Zealand]]></category><category><![CDATA[Stanford University]]></category><category><![CDATA[Tiantan Hospital]]></category><category><![CDATA[University of California-Los Angeles]]></category><category><![CDATA[University of Virginia]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ A Test You Shouldn't Jump At ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/02/15/AR2008021502877.html?nav=rss_technology/special/02</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/02/15/AR2008021502877.html?nav=rss_technology/special/02</guid>
<pubDate>Tue, 19 Feb 2008 00:00:00 EST</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ In the effort to find a better way to identify which men will develop prostate cancer, the second most common cause of cancer death in men, the New England Journal of Medicine seems poised to announce a breakthrough. Later this month, the journal will publish a study showing how a combination of...<br clear="all"><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/technology/special/02;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=352921507743" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/technology/special/02;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=352921507743" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description><dc:creator>H. Gilbert Welch</dc:creator><category><![CDATA[A]]></category><category><![CDATA[Test]]></category><category><![CDATA[You]]></category><category><![CDATA[Shouldn't]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jump]]></category><category><![CDATA[At]]></category><category><![CDATA[]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Even Vaccinated, People Are Getting Dose of Flu ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/02/15/AR2008021503599.html?nav=rss_technology/special/02</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/02/15/AR2008021503599.html?nav=rss_technology/special/02</guid>
<pubDate>Sat, 16 Feb 2008 00:00:00 EST</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ If you got a flu shot this season but still came down with the virus, you're not alone. ]]></description><dc:creator>William Wan and David Brown</dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Even]]></category><category><![CDATA[Vaccinated,]]></category><category><![CDATA[People]]></category><category><![CDATA[Are]]></category><category><![CDATA[Getting]]></category><category><![CDATA[Dose]]></category><category><![CDATA[of]]></category><category><![CDATA[Flu]]></category><category><![CDATA[Centers for Disease Control and Prevention]]></category><category><![CDATA[United States]]></category><category><![CDATA[Michael Sauri]]></category><category><![CDATA[Rene Najera]]></category><category><![CDATA[Maryland]]></category><category><![CDATA[Virginia]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ian Shapira]]></category><category><![CDATA[Joseph S. Bresee]]></category><category><![CDATA[Judith Covich]]></category><category><![CDATA[Montgomery]]></category><category><![CDATA[Susan Levine]]></category><category><![CDATA[Theresa Vargas]]></category><category><![CDATA[Valerie Strauss]]></category><category><![CDATA[George Mason University]]></category><category><![CDATA[Maryland Department of Health & Mental Hygiene]]></category><category><![CDATA[Montgomery County (Maryland)]]></category><category><![CDATA[Shady Grove Adventist Hospital]]></category><category><![CDATA[University of Maryland]]></category><category><![CDATA[University of Virginia]]></category><category><![CDATA[World Health Organization]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ 2 Reports At Odds On Biotech Crops ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/02/13/AR2008021303639.html?nav=rss_technology/special/02</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/02/13/AR2008021303639.html?nav=rss_technology/special/02</guid>
<pubDate>Thu, 14 Feb 2008 00:00:00 EST</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Take your pick: The widening adoption of genetically engineered crops by farmers around the world is reducing global pesticide use, increasing agricultural yields and bringing unprecedented prosperity and food security to millions of the world's poorest citizens. Or, it is fueling greater use of ... ]]></description><dc:creator>Rick Weiss</dc:creator><category><![CDATA[2]]></category><category><![CDATA[Reports]]></category><category><![CDATA[At]]></category><category><![CDATA[Odds]]></category><category><![CDATA[On]]></category><category><![CDATA[Biotech]]></category><category><![CDATA[Crops]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bill Freese]]></category><category><![CDATA[Clive James]]></category><category><![CDATA[Monsanto Company]]></category><category><![CDATA[Friends of the Earth]]></category><category><![CDATA[International Service for the Acquisition of Agri-Biotech Applications]]></category><category><![CDATA[Nature Publishing Group]]></category><category><![CDATA[Montreal]]></category><category><![CDATA[Argentina]]></category><category><![CDATA[Brazil]]></category><category><![CDATA[Center for Food Safety]]></category><category><![CDATA[China]]></category><category><![CDATA[ETC Group]]></category><category><![CDATA[India]]></category><category><![CDATA[United Nations]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Lawmakers Challenge O'Malley, Gansler Over Proposed Expansion ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/02/13/AR2008021303155.html?nav=rss_technology/special/02</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/02/13/AR2008021303155.html?nav=rss_technology/special/02</guid>
<pubDate>Thu, 14 Feb 2008 00:00:00 EST</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley and Attorney General Douglas F. Gansler faced aggressive questions yesterday from a pair of legislative committees as they pitched a plan to expand the state's DNA database, one of the governor's top priorities for the General Assembly's 90-day session. ]]></description><dc:creator>John Wagner</dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Lawmakers]]></category><category><![CDATA[Challenge]]></category><category><![CDATA[O'Malley,]]></category><category><![CDATA[Gansler]]></category><category><![CDATA[Over]]></category><category><![CDATA[Proposed]]></category><category><![CDATA[Expansion]]></category><category><![CDATA[Martin O'Malley]]></category><category><![CDATA[Douglas Gansler]]></category><category><![CDATA[Virginia]]></category><category><![CDATA[Lisa A. Gladden]]></category><category><![CDATA[Judicial Proceedings Committee]]></category><category><![CDATA[California]]></category><category><![CDATA[Maryland]]></category><category><![CDATA[Brian Frosh]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ This Season's Flu Strains Are Not a Good Match for Vaccine ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/02/09/AR2008020902324.html?nav=rss_technology/special/02</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/02/09/AR2008020902324.html?nav=rss_technology/special/02</guid>
<pubDate>Sun, 10 Feb 2008 00:00:00 EST</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Seasonal influenza is spreading widely throughout the United States, with nearly half the cases caused by strains of the virus that are not directly covered by this year's flu vaccine.<br clear="all"><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/technology/special/02;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=352921509778" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/technology/special/02;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=352921509778" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description><dc:creator>David Brown</dc:creator><category><![CDATA[This]]></category><category><![CDATA[Season's]]></category><category><![CDATA[Flu]]></category><category><![CDATA[Strains]]></category><category><![CDATA[Are]]></category><category><![CDATA[Not]]></category><category><![CDATA[a]]></category><category><![CDATA[Good]]></category><category><![CDATA[Match]]></category><category><![CDATA[for]]></category><category><![CDATA[Vaccine]]></category><category><![CDATA[Brisbane]]></category><category><![CDATA[Yamagata]]></category><category><![CDATA[Centers for Disease Control and Prevention]]></category><category><![CDATA[Joseph S. Bresee]]></category><category><![CDATA[United States]]></category><category><![CDATA[Wisconsin]]></category><category><![CDATA[Geneva]]></category><category><![CDATA[Nancy Cox]]></category><category><![CDATA[Australia]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Department of Defense]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Joshua Lederberg; Pioneer of Molecular Biology ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/02/04/AR2008020403226.html?nav=rss_technology/special/02</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/02/04/AR2008020403226.html?nav=rss_technology/special/02</guid>
<pubDate>Tue, 05 Feb 2008 00:00:00 EST</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Joshua Lederberg, 82, a Nobel Prize winner for his work in bacterial genetics who is known as one of the founders of molecular biology, a discipline that in the past half-century has begun unlocking the secrets of how organisms live and reproduce, died Feb. 2 of pneumonia at New York-Presbyterian... ]]></description><dc:creator>Patricia Sullivan</dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Joshua]]></category><category><![CDATA[Lederberg;]]></category><category><![CDATA[Pioneer]]></category><category><![CDATA[of]]></category><category><![CDATA[Molecular]]></category><category><![CDATA[Biology]]></category><category><![CDATA[]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Labels Weighed for Food From Clones ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/01/19/AR2008011902233.html?nav=rss_technology/special/02</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/01/19/AR2008011902233.html?nav=rss_technology/special/02</guid>
<pubDate>Sun, 20 Jan 2008 00:00:00 EST</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ With the Food and Drug Administration having declared that meat and milk from cloned animals are safe, opponents of food from clones are shifting their fight to how such fare is labeled. ]]></description><dc:creator>Rick Weiss</dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Labels]]></category><category><![CDATA[Weighed]]></category><category><![CDATA[for]]></category><category><![CDATA[Food]]></category><category><![CDATA[From]]></category><category><![CDATA[Clones]]></category><category><![CDATA[Food and Drug Administration]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bernadette Dunham]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bruce I. Knight]]></category><category><![CDATA[Europe]]></category><category><![CDATA[Margaret Mellon]]></category><category><![CDATA[Iowa]]></category><category><![CDATA[ViaGen Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Austin (Texas)]]></category><category><![CDATA[Barbara Mikulski]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jim Greenwood]]></category><category><![CDATA[Biotechnology Industry Organization]]></category><category><![CDATA[European Commission]]></category><category><![CDATA[Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture]]></category><category><![CDATA[Sioux Center]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Department of Agriculture]]></category><category><![CDATA[Union of Concerned Scientists]]></category><category><![CDATA[United States]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Mature Human Embryos Created From Adult Skin Cells ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/01/17/AR2008011700324.html?nav=rss_technology/special/02</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/01/17/AR2008011700324.html?nav=rss_technology/special/02</guid>
<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jan 2008 00:00:00 EST</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Scientists at a California company reported yesterday that they had created the first mature cloned human embryos from single skin cells taken from adults, a significant advance toward the goal of growing personalized stem cells for patients suffering from various diseases. ]]></description><dc:creator>Rick Weiss</dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Mature]]></category><category><![CDATA[Human]]></category><category><![CDATA[Embryos]]></category><category><![CDATA[Created]]></category><category><![CDATA[From]]></category><category><![CDATA[Adult]]></category><category><![CDATA[Skin]]></category><category><![CDATA[Cells]]></category><category><![CDATA[Samuel H. Wood]]></category><category><![CDATA[California]]></category><category><![CDATA[Advanced Cell Technology Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Capitol Hill]]></category><category><![CDATA[Food and Drug Administration]]></category><category><![CDATA[Wisconsin]]></category><category><![CDATA[Dave Weldon]]></category><category><![CDATA[George Daley]]></category><category><![CDATA[La Jolla]]></category><category><![CDATA[Marcy Darnovsky]]></category><category><![CDATA[Oakland]]></category><category><![CDATA[R. Alta Charo]]></category><category><![CDATA[Richard Doerflinger]]></category><category><![CDATA[Robert Lanza]]></category><category><![CDATA[Worcester]]></category><category><![CDATA[Center for Genetics and Society]]></category><category><![CDATA[Children's Hospital Boston]]></category><category><![CDATA[Japan]]></category><category><![CDATA[United Kingdom]]></category><category><![CDATA[United States Conference of Catholic Bishops]]></category><category><![CDATA[University of Wisconsin]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ European Ethics Group Opposes Food From Cloned Animals ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/01/17/AR2008011702905.html?nav=rss_technology/special/02</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/01/17/AR2008011702905.html?nav=rss_technology/special/02</guid>
<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jan 2008 00:00:00 EST</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Opponents of cloning animals for food got a boost yesterday as a European ethics body came out against the practice, expressing concerns about the clones' welfare.<br clear="all"><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/technology/special/02;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=352921512770" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/technology/special/02;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=352921512770" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description><dc:creator>Rick Weiss</dc:creator><category><![CDATA[European]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ethics]]></category><category><![CDATA[Group]]></category><category><![CDATA[Opposes]]></category><category><![CDATA[Food]]></category><category><![CDATA[From]]></category><category><![CDATA[Cloned]]></category><category><![CDATA[Animals]]></category><category><![CDATA[Barbara Glenn]]></category><category><![CDATA[United States]]></category><category><![CDATA[European Commission]]></category><category><![CDATA[Joyce D'Silva]]></category><category><![CDATA[Biotechnology Industry Organization]]></category><category><![CDATA[Compassion in World Farming]]></category><category><![CDATA[Food and Drug Administration]]></category><category><![CDATA[United Kingdom]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ USDA Recommends That Food From Clones Stay Off the Market ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/01/15/AR2008011501555.html?nav=rss_technology/special/02</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/01/15/AR2008011501555.html?nav=rss_technology/special/02</guid>
<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jan 2008 00:00:00 EST</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ The U.S. Department of Agriculture yesterday asked U.S. farmers to keep their cloned animals off the market indefinitely even as Food and Drug Administration officials announced that food from cloned livestock is safe to eat. ]]></description><dc:creator>Rick Weiss</dc:creator><category><![CDATA[USDA]]></category><category><![CDATA[Recommends]]></category><category><![CDATA[That]]></category><category><![CDATA[Food]]></category><category><![CDATA[From]]></category><category><![CDATA[Clones]]></category><category><![CDATA[Stay]]></category><category><![CDATA[Off]]></category><category><![CDATA[the]]></category><category><![CDATA[Market]]></category><category><![CDATA[Food and Drug Administration]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Department of Agriculture]]></category><category><![CDATA[United States]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bruce I. Knight]]></category><category><![CDATA[James Greenwood]]></category><category><![CDATA[Kansas]]></category><category><![CDATA[Donald Coover]]></category><category><![CDATA[Europe]]></category><category><![CDATA[Galesburg]]></category><category><![CDATA[Madonna Lebling]]></category><category><![CDATA[Stephen Sundlof]]></category><category><![CDATA[Wayne Pacelle]]></category><category><![CDATA[Biotechnology Industry Organization]]></category><category><![CDATA[Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition]]></category><category><![CDATA[European Union]]></category><category><![CDATA[Foreign Agricultural Service]]></category><category><![CDATA[Humane Society of the United States]]></category><category><![CDATA[International Food Information Council Foundation]]></category><category><![CDATA[Japan]]></category><category><![CDATA[Office of the United States Trade Representative]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ FDA Says Clones Are Safe For Food ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/01/14/AR2008011402941.html?nav=rss_technology/special/02</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/01/14/AR2008011402941.html?nav=rss_technology/special/02</guid>
<pubDate>Tue, 15 Jan 2008 00:00:00 EST</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ A long-awaited final report from the Food and Drug Administration concludes that foods from healthy cloned animals and their offspring are as safe as those from ordinary animals, effectively removing the last U.S. regulatory barrier to the marketing of meat and milk from cloned cattle, pigs and g... ]]></description><dc:creator>Rick Weiss</dc:creator><category><![CDATA[FDA]]></category><category><![CDATA[Says]]></category><category><![CDATA[Clones]]></category><category><![CDATA[Are]]></category><category><![CDATA[Safe]]></category><category><![CDATA[For]]></category><category><![CDATA[Food]]></category><category><![CDATA[Food and Drug Administration]]></category><category><![CDATA[United States]]></category><category><![CDATA[Joseph Mendelson]]></category><category><![CDATA[International Embryo Transfer Society]]></category><category><![CDATA[The Washington Post Company]]></category><category><![CDATA[Barbara Mikulski]]></category><category><![CDATA[Cindy Tian]]></category><category><![CDATA[Center for Food Safety]]></category><category><![CDATA[Foreign Agricultural Service]]></category><category><![CDATA[Office of the United States Trade Representative]]></category><category><![CDATA[University of Connecticut]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Food From Clones Safe, E.U. Draft Says ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/01/11/AR2008011100849.html?nav=rss_technology/special/02</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/01/11/AR2008011100849.html?nav=rss_technology/special/02</guid>
<pubDate>Sat, 12 Jan 2008 00:00:00 EST</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ The European Food Safety Authority yesterday declared that meat and milk from healthy cloned cattle and pigs is "very unlikely" to pose risks to consumers, opening the door to possible European sales of those controversial foods in the future. ]]></description><dc:creator>Rick Weiss</dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Food]]></category><category><![CDATA[From]]></category><category><![CDATA[Clones]]></category><category><![CDATA[Safe,]]></category><category><![CDATA[E.U.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Draft]]></category><category><![CDATA[Says]]></category><category><![CDATA[Europe]]></category><category><![CDATA[Food and Drug Administration]]></category><category><![CDATA[United States]]></category><category><![CDATA[Joseph Mendelson]]></category><category><![CDATA[European Commission]]></category><category><![CDATA[European Food Safety Authority]]></category><category><![CDATA[European Union]]></category><category><![CDATA[Molly Moore]]></category><category><![CDATA[Paris]]></category><category><![CDATA[Argentina]]></category><category><![CDATA[Biotechnology Industry Organization]]></category><category><![CDATA[Canada]]></category><category><![CDATA[Center for Food Safety]]></category><category><![CDATA[New Zealand]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Proteins That Could Be Used to Halt HIV Are Identified ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/01/10/AR2008011003548.html?nav=rss_technology/special/02</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/01/10/AR2008011003548.html?nav=rss_technology/special/02</guid>
<pubDate>Fri, 11 Jan 2008 00:00:00 EST</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ A research team announced yesterday that it has identified about 270 human proteins that the AIDS virus apparently needs to infect a person, instantly providing researchers with dozens of new strategies for blocking or aborting HIV infection.<br clear="all"><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/technology/special/02;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=352921518418" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/technology/special/02;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=352921518418" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description><dc:creator>David Brown</dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Proteins]]></category><category><![CDATA[That]]></category><category><![CDATA[Could]]></category><category><![CDATA[Be]]></category><category><![CDATA[Used]]></category><category><![CDATA[to]]></category><category><![CDATA[Halt]]></category><category><![CDATA[HIV]]></category><category><![CDATA[Are]]></category><category><![CDATA[Identified]]></category><category><![CDATA[Stephen J. Elledge]]></category><category><![CDATA[Anthony S. Fauci]]></category><category><![CDATA[Robert C. Gallo]]></category><category><![CDATA[Harvard University]]></category><category><![CDATA[Baltimore]]></category><category><![CDATA[Harvard Medical School]]></category><category><![CDATA[Howard Hughes Medical Institute]]></category><category><![CDATA[Human Genome Project]]></category><category><![CDATA[Institute of Human Virology]]></category><category><![CDATA[National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases]]></category><category><![CDATA[National Institutes of Health-affiliated]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Lab Cites Stem Cell Advance ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/01/10/AR2008011001971.html?nav=rss_technology/special/02</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/01/10/AR2008011001971.html?nav=rss_technology/special/02</guid>
<pubDate>Fri, 11 Jan 2008 00:00:00 EST</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Scientists in Massachusetts said yesterday that they had created several colonies of human embryonic stem cells without harming the embryos from which they were derived, the latest in a series of advances that could speed development of stem-cell-based treatments for a variety of diseases. ]]></description><dc:creator>Rick Weiss</dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Lab]]></category><category><![CDATA[Cites]]></category><category><![CDATA[Stem]]></category><category><![CDATA[Cell]]></category><category><![CDATA[Advance]]></category><category><![CDATA[George W. Bush]]></category><category><![CDATA[Robert Lanza]]></category><category><![CDATA[Story Landis]]></category><category><![CDATA[National Institutes of Health]]></category><category><![CDATA[Kathy Hudson]]></category><category><![CDATA[Massachusetts]]></category><category><![CDATA[Wisconsin]]></category><category><![CDATA[Advanced Cell Technology Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Douglas A. Melton]]></category><category><![CDATA[The White House]]></category><category><![CDATA[Worcester]]></category><category><![CDATA[Genetics and Public Policy Center]]></category><category><![CDATA[Harvard Stem Cell Institute]]></category><category><![CDATA[Japan]]></category><category><![CDATA[Johns Hopkins University]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ FDA to Back Food From Cloned Animals ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/01/04/AR2008010403685.html?nav=rss_technology/special/02</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/01/04/AR2008010403685.html?nav=rss_technology/special/02</guid>
<pubDate>Sat, 05 Jan 2008 00:00:00 EST</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Having completed a years-long scientific review, the Food and Drug Administration is set to announce as early as next week that meat and milk from cloned farm animals and their offspring can start making their way toward supermarket shelves, sources in contact with the agency said yesterday. ]]></description><dc:creator>Rick Weiss</dc:creator><category><![CDATA[FDA]]></category><category><![CDATA[to]]></category><category><![CDATA[Back]]></category><category><![CDATA[Food]]></category><category><![CDATA[From]]></category><category><![CDATA[Cloned]]></category><category><![CDATA[Animals]]></category><category><![CDATA[Food and Drug Administration]]></category><category><![CDATA[United States]]></category><category><![CDATA[Mark Walton]]></category><category><![CDATA[ViaGen Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Iowa]]></category><category><![CDATA[Austin (Texas)]]></category><category><![CDATA[Carol Tucker Foreman]]></category><category><![CDATA[Julie Zawisza]]></category><category><![CDATA[Margaret Mellon]]></category><category><![CDATA[Argentina]]></category><category><![CDATA[Australia]]></category><category><![CDATA[Canada]]></category><category><![CDATA[Consumer Federation of America]]></category><category><![CDATA[European Union]]></category><category><![CDATA[New Zealand]]></category><category><![CDATA[Sioux Center]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Department of Agriculture]]></category><category><![CDATA[Union of Concerned Scientists]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Biotech | Test Results, FDA Decisions on the Horizon ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/12/30/AR2007123001768.html?nav=rss_technology/special/02</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/12/30/AR2007123001768.html?nav=rss_technology/special/02</guid>
<pubDate>Mon, 31 Dec 2007 00:00:00 EST</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Edward M. Rudnic, chairman of the Tech Council of Maryland, has been at the center of the region's biotech business for more than a decade. He sketched out the idea behind MiddleBrook Pharmaceuticals at a friend's dining-room table. If there is a biotech event around town, he's probably speaking ... ]]></description><dc:creator>Michael S. Rosenwald</dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Biotech]]></category><category><![CDATA[|]]></category><category><![CDATA[Test]]></category><category><![CDATA[Results,]]></category><category><![CDATA[FDA]]></category><category><![CDATA[Decisions]]></category><category><![CDATA[on]]></category><category><![CDATA[the]]></category><category><![CDATA[Horizon]]></category><category><![CDATA[]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Effort to Defeat Polio Faces Unique Challenges ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/12/24/AR2007122401821.html?nav=rss_technology/special/02</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/12/24/AR2007122401821.html?nav=rss_technology/special/02</guid>
<pubDate>Tue, 25 Dec 2007 00:00:00 EST</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ The troubled 19-year-old campaign to eradicate polio is celebrating recent progress and an unexpected infusion of cash, but experts are coming to realize that they will not be able to end the expensive and laborious efforts to control the virus anytime soon.<br clear="all"><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/technology/special/02;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=352921523575" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/technology/special/02;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=352921523575" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description><dc:creator>David Brown</dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Effort]]></category><category><![CDATA[to]]></category><category><![CDATA[Defeat]]></category><category><![CDATA[Polio]]></category><category><![CDATA[Faces]]></category><category><![CDATA[Unique]]></category><category><![CDATA[Challenges]]></category><category><![CDATA[]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ U.S. Fertility Rate Hits 35-Year High, Stabilizing Population ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/12/20/AR2007122002725.html?nav=rss_technology/special/02</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/12/20/AR2007122002725.html?nav=rss_technology/special/02</guid>
<pubDate>Fri, 21 Dec 2007 00:00:00 EST</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ For the first time in 35 years, the U.S. fertility rate has climbed high enough to sustain a stable population, solidifying the nation's unique status among industrialized countries. ]]></description><dc:creator>Rob Stein</dc:creator><category><![CDATA[U.S.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Fertility]]></category><category><![CDATA[Rate]]></category><category><![CDATA[Hits]]></category><category><![CDATA[35-Year]]></category><category><![CDATA[High,]]></category><category><![CDATA[Stabilizing]]></category><category><![CDATA[Population]]></category><category><![CDATA[]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ 'Clone-Free' Milk Could Get Label ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/12/18/AR2007121802235.html?nav=rss_technology/special/02</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/12/18/AR2007121802235.html?nav=rss_technology/special/02</guid>
<pubDate>Wed, 19 Dec 2007 00:00:00 EST</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Responding to consumer queasiness about eating meat and drinking milk from cloned animals, and frustrated by continued delays in the government approval process, the nation's two largest cloning companies will today roll out a voluntary program aimed at helping shoppers avoid food from clones. ]]></description><dc:creator>Rick Weiss</dc:creator><category><![CDATA['Clone-Free']]></category><category><![CDATA[Milk]]></category><category><![CDATA[Could]]></category><category><![CDATA[Get]]></category><category><![CDATA[Label]]></category><category><![CDATA[]]></category></item>
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