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'Extinct' Galapagos Tortoise Turns Up on Distant Island
ABC News (blog)
The researchers have now published their findings in the journal CurrentBiology. What is it like to make such a discovery? “It's fun. It's a lot of fun,” said Caccone. “It's like being an investigative reporter, or someone from 'CSI Galapagos. ...
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TRADE NEWS: Agilent Technologies and Integrated Diagnostics Enter Strategic ...
EON: Enhanced Online News (press release)
“Agilent and Integrated Diagnostics share the vision of harnessing the power of an integrative systems biology approach to solving some of mankind's most vexing health challenges,” said Gustavo Salem, vice president and general manager of the ...
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The Pancreatic Cancer Action Network Welcomes Lynn Matrisian, Ph.D as Vice ...
Sacramento Bee
Matrisian is highly regarded for her extensive expertise in the field of cancer biology. Her scientific focus has been on a family of proteins associated with tumor formation and spread, a field to which she made significant contributions. ...
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Never-smokers have different mutations in genes than smokers
USA TODAY
But this group of lung cancer patients hasn't been studied as much as smokers who develop lung cancer, according to Timothy Whitsett, a senior postdoctoral fellow in the cancer and cell biology division at the Translational Genomics Research Institute ...
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USA TODAY
FORMA Therapeutics Announces an Exclusive Cancer Drug Discovery Alliance ...
EON: Enhanced Online News (press release)
“This collaboration will enable a broad chemical biology approach to understanding the unique biology underlying cancer metabolism.” Under the terms of the research collaboration and license option agreement, FORMA will discover and develop drugs ...
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Yes, dogs are smarter than babies, but are they smarter than presidential...
ohmidog!
In this one, the Hungarian researchers, according to findings published in the Cell Press journal Current Biology, concluded that dogs pick up on the words we say and on our intent to communicate with them — and that their receptivity to human ...
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Researchers identify molecular 'culprit' in rise of planetary oxygen
EurekAlert (press release)
These studies, led by University of Illinois crop sciences and Institute for GenomicBiology professor Gustavo Caetano-Anollés, focus on structurally and functionally distinct regions of proteins – called folds – that are part of the universal toolkit ...
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Pioneering Publication Reports First Ratiometric, Single-protein Red ...
Nanowerk LLC
(Nanowerk News) The importance that intracellular pH plays in cellbiology is highlighted in a new paper published by the American Chemical Society (see paper in JACS: "Imaging Intracellular pH in Live Cells with a Genetically Encoded Red Fluorescent ...
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Introducing #SciAmBlogs bloggers: Carin Bondar
Scientific American (blog)
I quickly realized that the world of dance wasn't where I wanted to be, so I began studies at university and gravitated towards biology. It wasn't until my third year that I actually declared a biology major, but I've never looked back! ...
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Scientific American (blog)
Good news doesn't slow cancer research
Shawnee News Star
In the Cell Cycle and Cancer Biology Research Program at OMRF, scientists are working to uncover the causes of cancer in one of the most basic biological functions—cell division. “As cells die in our bodies, new cells have to be made to take their ...
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Protein gives clue to hearing loss
Halifax Evening Courier
The study was published in the peer-reviewed scientific journal Public Library of Science (PLoS) Biology. The media generally reported the story accurately, stating clearly that the research was done in mice and that further research in humans is ...
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Scientist's Online Interviews Draw His Peers Out of Lecture Mode
New York Times
In one episode, for instance, Marc Vidal of the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard Medical School talks about systems biology. In another, Ricardo Hausmann of the Center for International Development at Harvard discusses economic development. ...
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Travel grant recipient will discuss trip later this month
Longmont Daily Times-Call
Erie High School biology teacher Scott Brungardt was selected as the 2011 Eleanor Venture travel grant recipient. He received $3200 to travel in June to Belize and Guatemala to study the ecology and culture of the region. (Cliff Grassmick/Daily Camera) ...
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Does Adiponectin Cause Or Prevent Alzheimer's Dementia?
Huffington Post (blog)
Historically, doctors have viewed fat cells as the three-toed sloths of human cellbiology. They have been characterized as dumb, inert warehouses of fat. However, over the last 15 years there has been an explosion of data showing that fat cells, ...
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School of Information and Library Science to offer dual-degree program
The Daily Tar Heel
By Jamie Gnazzo | The Daily Tar Heel Junior biology major Dipa Desai sifts through books in the stacks in the SILS Library in Manning Hall. The School of Information and Library Science just announced that it is offering a 5-year masters program. ...
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The Daily Tar Heel
Honors and Other Things
UPENN Almanac
The United Mitochondrial Disease Foundation (UMDF) has awarded Dr. Brett A. Kaufman, assistant professor in the department of animal biology at School of Veterinary Medicine, a $120000 grant to study the role that mtDNA copy number control plays in the ...
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Eh? Thief returns camera minus key pictures
Duluth News Tribune
Rentz, a Ph.D. candidate in conservation biology at UMD, says he found a deer along Amity Creek that apparently was killed by “a canine of some sort,” so he set up a trail camera to see who visited the scene of the crime. But Thursday night when he ...
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New Business Bundle Brings New Pricing Option to Students Who Want to Study ...
PR Web (press release)
Currently, StraighterLine offers thirty one entry-level college courses online, including College Algebra, Precalculus, Calculus I, Calculus II, Business Communication, Introduction to Biology, Introduction to Biology with lab, General Chemistry I, ...
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Kentucky Derby Festival names princesses
Louisville Courier-Journal
Jhalak Dholakia, of Louisville, is a senior majoring in anthropology, biology, Spanish and humanities at the University of Louisville. She is a Big Brothers Big Sisters of Kentuckiana mentor and a Kentucky Racing Health Services Center volunteer. ...
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ADHD Program in Long Island, New York Finds Success with Executive Skills ...
Sacramento Bee
"Many people with ADHD struggle with executive skill deficits which are based in thebiology of their brain. Thus, effective ADHD intervention involves strengthening the individual's executive functions, which directly impact academic, ...
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Using Chevy Volt to Teach Environmental Science
PluginCars.com
I teach biology, anatomy and physiology, and environmental science classes at Sterling High School (SHS) in Sterling, Kansas. I'ma Chevy Volt driver. And as of this week, I'm the project director for a new adventure in learning: the SHS Chevy Volt ...
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University Of California, Sanofi Collaborate To Find New Diabetes Cures
RTT News
The $3.1 million collaboration will bring together scientists in three UCSF labs with deep understanding of the biology of beta cells - insulin-producing cells that are destroyed in type 1 diabetes and often produce too little insulin in type 2 - with ...
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The long, slow sexual revolution (part 1) with nsfw video
PLoS Blogs (blog)
As Laurette Liesen (2011:749) points out, evolutionary psychology often has been especially resistant to feminist intellectual critique and methodological corrective, whereas evolutionary biology has successfully integrated many key insights from ...
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China Stops Unapproved Stem Cell Treatments
Fox News
... lot of hospitals are affiliated with government organizations such as the army, the PLA, and the domestic police forces," said Doug Sipp, a researcher into the ethics of stem cell applications at the RIKEN Center for Developmental Biology in Japan. ...
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Life Technologies Introduces the Benchtop Ion Proton™ Sequencer; Designed to ...
NEWS.GNOM.ES
“The huge variation in human genome sequence between individuals has always been an obstacle to understanding how to use sequence information to improve human health,” said Dr. Robert F. Murphy, director of the Lane Center for ComputationalBiology in ...
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2011 National Media Reported on Polls and Surveys
Hamilton College News
The New York Times also featured Professor of Biology Ernest Williams' research on monarch butterflies as did TIME's TIME for Kids in a two-page centerfold article. Articles focusing on topics as diverse as the Civil War and mountain climbing included ...
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Hamilton College News
Ventana to Collaborate with Pfizer and CST on Companion Diagnostic to Identify ...
Sacramento Bee
Through its proprietary monoclonal antibody technology (XMT®) and PTMScan® proteomics technology, CST continues to be at the forefront of applied systemsbiology research, promoting greater understanding of biochemical aberrations that underlie ...
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Colorado State University Engineering Professor Elected as SPIE Fellow
Colorado State University News (press release)
The symposium and workshop brought together more than 400 scientists to examine the challenges for identifying, developing and deploying accelerators to meet the nation's and allies' needs in Discovery Science, Medicine and Biology, ...
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Colorado State University News (press release)
Louisville's own Oprah, Dawne Gee [Local profiles]
Louisville.com
She enrolled at the University of Louisville where she earned two degrees: one in Biology and one in Communications. At 24, Gee was hired at an R & B radio station, WJYL. As fate would have it, Gee had won an album from the station. ...
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Louisville.com
Biology at Williams | Dr. Richard Besser '81, ABC News Senior ...
By Dawn Jamros
FAQs · Hear from a Bio Student · Our Alumni Now · Faculty & Staff; News & Events. Colloquium Schedule · All Announcements · Opportunities for You · Biology » News & Events » All Announcements » Dr. Richard Besser '81, ABC News Senior ...
Biology at Williams
Assessing FDA Regulation of New Drugs ... - JHPPL News and Notes
By Chris Conover
Synthetic biology is one such emerging technology that allows genetic engineering on a level not previously possible and has the potential to significantly impact the field of medicine. Although synthetic biology is in its infancy, attempts are ...
JHPPL News and Notes
New GLIER director has lots of fish stories | Great Lakes Boating
By glbm
Great Lakes Boating is the magazine that avid recreational boaters on the Great Lakes and all freshwater seas east and west of the Mississippi River count on for news that is relevant and important to their boating experience. ... He put his physics degree and job in the Alberta oilfields behind him, found a McGill University biology professor who would take him on as a masters student and then faced another career-changing decision. "He asked me what I wanted to work on and I said ...
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How work tells muscles to grow - Biology News Net
Biology News Articles & Current Events, Updated Daily.
www.biologynews.net/.../how_work_tells_muscles_to_grow.ht...
Marine biologist indicted for allegedly feeding killer whales
A California marine biologist and whale-watching tour operator has been ... in local media and appeared on the "Today" show and the "CBS Evening News. ...
latimesblogs.latimes.com/.../marine-biologist-indicted-for-alleg...
Science Writers Needed for Molecular Biology News Site
We're scouting out freelancers for the online news section for a molecular biologynews site. Our online news section attracts over 1 million pageviews each year ...
newyork.craigslist.org/mnh/wrg/2774015067.html
'Extinct' Galapagos Tortoise Turns Up on Distant Island
This news, from a team of biologists at Yale University, would be welcomed by conservationists, and it adds an ironic twist to Darwin's theory of evolution ...
abcnews.go.com/.../extinct-galapagos-tortoise-turns-up-on-dist...
Identifying sloth species at a genetic level - Biology News Net | e ...
Identifying species, separating out closely related species and managing each type on its own, is an important part of any animal management system.
esciencenews.com/.../identifying.sloth.species.a.genetic.level
Biology News
Biology News. Home; Degrees & Programs ... Featured Articles. Biology professor, Michael Smith, and colleagues have paper published in BMC Neuroscience ...
www.wku.edu/biology/news/index.php?view=article...
Dogs Read Human Expressions As Well As Human Infants, Study Shows
The study, published in the journal Current Biology, suggests that dogs are able to read our "communicative intent" -- that is, our intention to interact ...
www.huffingtonpost.com/.../dogs-human-expressions_n_1186...
Science Writers Needed for Molecular Biology News Site (New York ...
We're scouting out freelancers for the online news section for a molecular biologynews site. Our online news... - Online Writing Jobs / Freelance Writing Jobs.
www.online-writing-jobs.com/jobbank/detail/link-214029.html
<i>Investigating Biology through Inquiry</i> Lab Book > News ...
Investigating Biology through Inquiry will help you integrate inquiry into your existingbiology curriculum, whether you teach high school, AP Biology, IB Biology, ...
www.vernier.com/.../investigating-biology-through-inquiry-la...
Identifying sloth species at a genetic level | Biology News by ...
The study, published in the December 2011 issue of Zoo Biology, describes a PCR-based technique that allows species identification of two-toed sloths without ...
www.biologged.com/.../identifying-sloth-species-at-a-genetic-l...
Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology to ... - Yahoo! News
From Yahoo! News: Scientists will present research on marine biodiversity, climate change, animal behavior, and rapid evolutionary changes.
news.yahoo.com/society-integrative-comparative-biology-con...
Broader Vaccines - Targeting Cell Membrane Proteins - Topix
Local News: Mountain View, CA. |. Sign Up ... Email me Biology news. Learn more ...This will search the titles of the threads in the Biology forum. Search the ...
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Biology Library News: Paper books added in December, 2011
Click on the title for more info or to request Note: "In Process" titles may still be REQUESTED so the book will be held for you when it is available. Capitalizing on ...
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