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What lies ahead for science and science writing?
TRADE NEWS: Agilent Technologies Adds New Integrated Biology Capabilities to ...
MarketWatch (press release)
“With the release of GeneSpring 12.0, Agilent is continuing to deliver on its strong commitment to help researchers realize the promise of systemsbiology by providing advanced instrumentation and powerful software tools,” said Gustavo Salem, ...
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What lies ahead for science and science writing?
MIT News
One panel explored the current state of play in the study of brains, learning and memory; a second explored the 50-year future of three of the most significant current stories in science: molecular biology, nanotechnology and quantum computing.
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Faculty Profile: Dr. Ticiano Alegre – Captain, doctor, teacher, author
North Lake News Register
News-Register | Joanna Mikolajczak - Dr. Ticiano Alegre (right), pictured with students Jose Lopez and Nathalie Alcantar, uses plastic models of human organs for one of his biology lessons. The popular biology professor is active on North Lake's campus ...
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University of Miami receives $7.5 m to create Collaborative Institute in ...
Nanowerk LLC
The institute co-director is Ram Datar, M.Phil., Ph.D., associate professor of pathology and biochemistry and molecular biology, and the associate director is Sylvia Daunert, Ph.D., Pharm.D., MS, professor and Lucille P. Markey Chair of the Department ...
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Are Canada's federal scientists being 'muzzled'?
CBC.ca
Kristi Miller would likely be able to help Canadians who don't have degrees in biology understand her groundbreaking — and complex — research into the Pacific salmon stock, which was published more than a year ago. But so far, the federal Department...
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CBC.ca
Nevada groundwater plan is foolish
Salt Lake Tribune
Rather, there would be initial withdrawals, followed by monitoring to see how the aquifers and biology were affected. If, after eight years, the effects were not seriously bad, more water could be pumped. There would be more monitoring.
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ScienceOnline2012 – interview with Chuck Bangley
Scientific American (blog)
I grew up in the great state of Rhode Island, spent some time in Vermont, and then went back to RI where I got my BS in marinebiology at URI. I worked in an environmental testing lab for a bit after graduation, then had an internship with the Rhode ...
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Scientific American (blog)
Volunteers sought to monitor osprey population
Middletown Transcript
"The last volunteer orientation in 2007 yielded great interest from Delaware's citizens, and nest monitoring coverage could be found up and down the state," said Anthony Gonzon, Division of Fish and Wildlife biologist and osprey monitoring project ...
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Mitch Pearlstein: Connecting family and achievement gap
MinnPost.com (blog)
He has clearly digested a lifetime's scholarship on the subject of families—which he cites liberally--and yet the one argument “Family Collapse” did not fully articulate is precisely what is superior about the combination of biology and a ...
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MinnPost.com (blog)
Avivagen Presents Canine Supplement at PEI Home Show
MarketWatch (press release)
Dr. Jamie Nickerson, Avivagen's Director of Biology in Charlottetown, considered the event a great success. "For me, it was a fantastic opportunity to personally meet with dog owners and highlighted the fact that there is a genuine need for our product ...
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Cannabis Science Reports Its First Documentary Release Date of April 5, 2012 ...
Business Wire (press release)
Dr. Robert Melamede is the President & CEO of Cannabis Science Inc. and Associate Professor of Biology, University of Colorado, Colorado Springs, in one of the eleven states that allow the medicinal use of marijuana. Dr. Melamede is an expert on the ...
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Inovio Appoints Retired Merck Vaccines President Dr. Adel Mahmoud to its Board ...
Sacramento Bee
Dr. Mahmoud is currently Professor, Department of Molecular Biology and the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University. He was President, Merck Vaccines, from 1999 to 2005 and also served as Merck's Chief Medical ...
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Student jailed for 56 days following Twitter Muamba slurs
Goal.com
Liam Stacey, a 21-year-old studying biology at Swansea University, admitted making the comments after the player suffered a cardiac arrest during the Trotters' FA Cup tie with Tottenham. The second-year student was arrested after his abuse was reported ...
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New field of chemistry has potential for making drugs inside patients -- and more
EurekAlert (press release)
There has been a growing realization that the molecular details of biologicalprocesses can be most accurately understood by probing biomolecules within their native habitats – in cells and live organisms. In earlier decades, biology-derived ...
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Omeros Names Dr. Patrick Gray as Scientific Fellow
Sacramento Bee
Dr. Gray received his Ph.D. in chemistry from the University of Colorado and his BS in biology from the University of Oregon. Omeros is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company committed to discovering, developing and commercializing products ...
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Single antibody found to treat 7 different types of cancer
Fox News
“This shows conclusively that this protein, CD47, is a legitimate and promising target for human cancer therapy,” said Dr. Irving Weissman, the director of Stanford's Institute of Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine, in a press release.
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Bio student thrown in the clink for Muamba Twitter rant
Register
By John Leyden • Get more from this author A Welsh biology student was jailed today for tweeting racist abuse at footballer Fabrice Muamba after the Bolton midfielder collapsed during a match. Liam Stacey, 21, tweeted "LOL **** Muamba. He's dead!
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Fierce's Top 10 Biotech Techies
FiercePharma Manufacturing
There are no quick and easy solutions to the industry's problems--biology is infinitely complex, research budgets are finite and the development cycles are long. Nevertheless, FierceBiotech IT (the information technology wing of the mother ...
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CANNABIS SCIENCE, INC. : Cannabis Science Reports Its First Documentary ...
4-traders
Dr. Robert Melamede is the President & CEO of Cannabis Science Inc. and Associate Professor of Biology, University of Colorado, Colorado Springs, in one of the eleven states that allow the medicinal use of marijuana. Dr. Melamede is an expert on the ...
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New species of hammerhead shark confirmed
Palm Beach Post
But in a study published in the latest edition of the journal Marine Biology, Shivji and six colleagues from other universities and organizations, say they have found the shark off the coast of southern Brazil, site of busy commercial hammerhead ...
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James Cameron Plans Next Dive After Surfacing From Ocean Abyss
Daily Beast
Can an organism really adapt to everything, or are there limits to even what biology can do?” What little previous exploration there has been of the world's deep oceans has yielded some startling survival stories. Worms have been found living around ...
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Daily Beast
Sask. researcher looking at role of metal in MS
Canada.com
Anatomy and cell biology professor Bogdan Popescu wants to find out if levels of iron, copper and zinc in certain central nervous system cells can help define distinct forms of MS or could be a target for drugs to prevent progression of the disease.
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Scientific finding spurs worry, shows another example of our skewed risk...
Daily Illini
At that time, Flegr was reading a book by famed evolutionarybiologist Richard Dawkins. The book described how flatworms take control of an ant's nervous system, to the point where a drop in temperature, normally causing them to hide underground, ...
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Daily Illini
No Charges for FAU Student Who Threatened to Kill Teacher
Broward-Palm Beach New Times (blog)
27 2012 at 5:05 AM ​Last Tuesday, video surfaced of Florida Atlantic University student Jonatha Carr yelling things like "I will kill the fuck out of you" in a biologyclass. Police documents state that, after hitting a student in the forehead and ...
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Vaccine Innovators Convene to Discuss New Technologies
EON: Enhanced Online News (press release)
The Center houses individuals with expertise and excellence in plant virology, pathology, molecular biology, immunology, vaccinology, protein engineering, and biochemistry. Fraunhofer USA, Inc. is a subsidiary of Fraunhofer Gesellschaft, ...
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Response Genetics, Inc. Announces Appointment of Stephanie Astrow, Ph.D., as ...
EON: Enhanced Online News (press release)
Prior to her work at Quest, Dr. Astrow served as Vice President and Director of Oncology at Pathway Diagnostics, and Vice President, Scientific Director of Impath, Inc. Dr. Astrow received a Bachelor of Arts in Biology and Medicine at Brown University, ...
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UK student jailed for racist tweets
Bangkok Post
Magistrates in Swansea, south Wales, sent 21-year-old biologyundergraduate Liam Stacey to prison after he admitted the charge at a previous hearing last week. He broke down in tears as he was taken away in handcuffs. Sentencing the student, district ...
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Bangkok Post
Single antibody shrinks variety of human tumors transplanted into mice ...
EurekAlert (press release)
"Blocking this 'don't-eat-me' signal inhibits the growth in mice of nearly every human cancer we tested, with minimal toxicity," said professor of pathology Irving Weissman, MD, who also directs Stanford's Institute of Stem CellBiology and ...
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A 24-karat gold key to unlock the immune system - Biology News Net
Biology News Articles & Current Events, Updated Daily.
Biology News Net
TRADE NEWS: Agilent Technologies Adds New Integrated Biology ...
Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE: A) today released GeneSpring 12.0, a major expansion of its popular bioinformatics software designed to enable a new level of medical science breakthroughs. With the new release, GeneSpring users can ...
ITbriefing.net
Dingoes to Restore Degraded Habitats in Australia | Biology | Sci ...
By Natali Anderson
An international team of researchers has proposed to conduct a large-scale project in Australia, where populations of some native predators are allowed to re-colonize habitats where they once occurred as a way of restoring fragile ...
Sci-News.com
Physics News :: Tiny reader makes fast, cheap DNA sequencing ...
Tiny reader makes fast, cheap DNA sequencing feasible, 18 hours ago fromBiology News. Tiny reader makes fast, cheap DNA sequencing feasible, 20 hours ago from HealthCanal. Tiny reader makes fast, cheap DNA sequencing feasible, ...
Physics News
Genetic mutation found in familial chronic ... - Biology News Net
Biology News Articles & Current Events, Updated Daily.
www.biologynews.net/.../genetic_mutation_found_in_familial...
Genetic mutation found in familial chronic ... - e! Science News
Read the whole article on Biology News Net · More from Biology News Net. Related. Probiotics effective in combating antibiotic-associated diarrhea. Mon, 31 Oct ...
esciencenews.com/.../genetic.mutation.found.familial.chronic...
Keiko Torii Featured in American Society for Cell Biology News ...
Biology professor and Gordon & Betty Moore Foundation and Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator Keiko Torii was featured in the American Society for ...
www.biology.washington.edu/.../keiko-torii-featured-american...
WKU Biology Alumnus Receives Allteach Young ... - Biology News
News from Biology Department Alumni: My name is Maggie Wisniewska, and I am a 2011 WKU alumnus. I completed my Master of Science Degree (MS) in...
www.wku.edu/biology/news/index.php?view=article...
Biology News Story
Senior Brandon Newmyer was awarded a David S. Bruce Outstanding Undergraduate Abstract Award by the American Physiology Society. The award will be ...
https://php.radford.edu/~biology/newsstory.php?storyid=113
Is it time for digital biology?
Over at Edge, George Dyson, author of the excellent, recent Turing's Cathedral, thinks we would be wise to get some physicists and, especially,biologists ...
www.boston.com/bostonglobe/ideas/.../digital_biology.html
Aristotle's Formal Cause And Biological Laws Beyond Entailing Laws
by Stuart Kauffman If we are right and no laws entail the evolution of the biosphere, can we still have biological laws? I think the answer is "yes," and ...
www.npr.org/.../aristotle-s-formal-cause-and-biological-laws-b...
Population biology News, Videos, Reviews and Gossip - io9
Ancient humans beat out Neanderthals by being in the right place at the right time.
io9.com/population-biology/
'Bacterial shock' to recapture essential... ( Bacteria could be ...
Bacteria could be exploited to recapture dwindling phosphate reserves ... Phosphorus in the form of phosphate - is essential for all living thi...Researchers at ...
www.bio-medicine.org/.../Bacterial-shock-to-recapture-essenti...
Biology News Spring is Here!
Biology News www.calvin.edu/academic/biology/. March 2012. Growing a Garden & Building Community. Calling All. Alumni! We have received updates from ...
www.calvin.edu/academic/biology/news/biologynews9.pdf
Top 6 iPhone apps for biology students | Biology101.org | biology ...
Everyone and their cousin know that smartphones are genuine modern Swiss knives: one device with countless applications. What not everybody realizes is that ...
biology101.org/.../03/top-6-iphone-apps-for-biology-students/
Multi-scale continuum modeling of biological processes: from ...
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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William & Mary - Greenhouse open house for students!
Live music, door prizes, and snacks amid Millington Greenhouse's tropical plants.
www.wm.edu/as/.../greenhouse-open-house-for-students.php
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