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USDA Announces Availability Of Biotechnology Regulatory Petitions

Posted on July 16, 2012 by Matthew Tanner |

Under an improved regulatory process announced by APHIS in November 2011, the Agency is providing the opportunity for earlier input from the public on petitions for deregulation of genetically-engineered (GE) plants. The Agency is also committing to working closely with…

Webinar by OLAW: Housing Laboratory Rodents According to the 8th Edition of the Guide

Posted on July 16, 2012 by Matthew Tanner |

From OLAW: Housing Laboratory Rodents According to the 8th Edition of the Guide: OLAW Webinar, July 19 Join us for a special 2 hr webinar: “Housing Laboratory Rodents According to the 8th Edition of the Guide” on July 19, 2012…

Transcript of “Grants Policy and Congruence” Webinar now Available

Posted on July 16, 2012 by Matthew Tanner |

From OLAW: Transcript of “Grants Policy and Congruence” Webinar now Available A transcript of the OLAW Webinar, “Grants Policy and Congruence”, held June 7, 2012 has been posted on the OLAW website. The transcript includes additional submitted questions and comments…

AEs, SAEs, and UPIRTSOs…Oh My!

Posted on July 13, 2012 by Matthew Tanner |

Numerous terms, all with subtle differences in meaning, are used to refer to the undesirable occurrences commonly referred to as adverse events. An article in the July edition of the Journal of Clinical Research Best Practices provides a helpful overview of…

Research Animal Procedures Rise in the UK

Posted on July 12, 2012 by Matthew Tanner |

According to the Home Office (UK), animals’ subjected to scientific procedures rose again for the second year, up 2% in 2011 (up 3% in 2010). This amounted to 3.79 million procedures last year. The statistics for 2011 were just released…

Controversial Influenza Papers Published

Posted on July 10, 2012 by Matthew Tanner |

Last week, the second of two controversial papers were published announcing mutations that make the H5N1 Influenza A virus more highly transmissible between ferrets (Herfst et al. and Imai et al.) Both articles alter the H5N1 virus by site-directed mutagenesis,…

Using Workflow to Manage Study Startup

Posted on July 10, 2012 by admin |

InfoEd’s Clinical Trials module features highly flexible workflow administration tools that can be used to manage the various internal approvals and other steps that make up the study startup process. The starting point for these configurations is the creation of…

The US Biomedical Workforce Redux

Posted on July 9, 2012 by Roger Wood |

Charging a working group of the Advisory Committee to the NIH Director to consider the future of the US biomedical workforce was discussed in a prior InfoEdge article. That working group recently published its findings after a review that started in…

Stay connected with InfoEd and your peers!

Posted on July 9, 2012 by admin |

How do I or other appropriate members of my team get notified about things going on with InfoEd Global and receive emails that are going out to the entire InfoEd Global user community? Contact Jim Mitchell, jmitchell@infoedglobal.com , and ask him to…

InfoEd v13 Technical Changes

Posted on July 9, 2012 by InfoEd Global |

Server Requirements Microsoft Office 2010 standard Microsoft Office 2010 standard will be required with InfoEd version 13. Microsoft Office 2007 Standard is the current requirement for InfoEd version 12. Active PDF Toolkit 4 Standard Edition deprecated Active PDF Toolkit 4…