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Drosophila melanogaster superimposed on a collision-induced dissociation mass spectrum. Aebersold and colleagues use directed shotgun proteomics to detect two-thirds of the predicted fruitfly proteome (p 576). Credit: Alex Wild (http://myrmecos.net/)
The thinking behind the US Food and Drug Administration's (FDA) draft guidance on financial conflicts of interest for outside experts is deeply flawed.
Given that Californian voters authorized state coffers to sell $3 billion in bonds to fund the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM) with the expectation of health and financial benefits, what benchmarks should be used to measure the initiative's success?
In the early 1990s, functional foods promised to solve global malnutrition and put palatable options for treating ailments on grocery shelves. Since then, a meager number of products have ripened while the rest have turned sour.