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Reuters Science News Summary
Chicago Tribune
Like gigantic, long-necked, prehistoric cows, sauropod dinosaurs roamed widely around the Earth 150 million years ago, scientists reported in the journal Current Biology on Monday. Study finds psychopaths have distinct brain structure LONDON (Reuters) ...
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Reuters Odd News Summary
Chicago Tribune
Like gigantic, long-necked, prehistoric cows, sauropod dinosaurs roamed widely around the Earth 150 million years ago, scientists reported in the journal Current Biology on Monday. California seller of suicide kits sentenced for tax offense SAN DIEGO ...
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Excuse me: Gassy dinosaurs helped warm Earth
NBC2 News
The research published Monday in Current Biology suggests that large dinosaurs made a significant contribution to the greenhouse effect back then. Study author David Wilkinson of Liverpool John Moores University in England estimated that about 570 ...
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Rose-Hulman Names Biology Department Head
Inside INdiana Business (press release)
A long-time educator at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology has been chosen to lead the department of applied biology and biomedical engineering. Jameel Ahmed has served as interim department head since November and has taught at the institute since ...
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Inside INdiana Business (press release)
Fluidigm and the Broad Institute Establish Single-Cell Genomics Research Center
Nanowerk LLC
The Single-Cell Genomics Center is also expected to act as a hub for collaboration among single-cell genomics researchers in many pioneering fields, including stem cells and cancer biology. The Center will be housed at the Broad Institute in Cambridge, ...
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Nanowerk LLC
Dinosaur "gas" may have warmed prehistoric earth
CBS News
The study is detailed in today's (May 7) issue of the journal CurrentBiology. You can follow LiveScience staff writer Jennifer Welsh on Twitter, on Google+ or on Facebook. Follow LiveScience for the latest in science news and discoveries on Twitter ...
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CBS News
Fluidigm, Broad Establish Center for Research in Mammalian Single-cell Genomics
GenomeWeb
based headquarters, the Single-Cell Genomics Center is also anticipated to be a hub for collaboration among researchers doing studies in single-cell genomics in stem cells, cancer biology, and other fields. According to the partners, the center results ...
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Job News : Teaching vacancies in Lagos Schools
The Nation Newspaper
The subjects for which teachers are to be recruited are English Language, Mathematics, Biology, Physical and health Education (PHE), French, Basic Science, Home economics, Fine Art, Yoruba, IRK, CRK and Basic Technology. Others are Business Studies, ...
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Did farting kill the dinosaurs?
The Week Magazine
Here's a guide to the revolutionary — and, for some, giggle-worthy — findings: A study by a team of British scientists published in Current Biology argues that dinosaur flatulence "turned the Earth into one giant Dutch oven, contributing ...
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ASU FACULTY AWARDS: Dixon, Eisenwine, Ko earn 2012 faculty honors
San Angelo Standard Times
SAN ANGELO, Texas — Dr. Michael T. Dixon of the Biology Department, Dr. Marilyn Eisenwine of the Teacher Education Department and Dr. Mansoo Ko of the Nursing and Rehabilitation Sciences Department have been named the winners of the 2012 Angelo State ...
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HPV Survey Shows a Confused Public; CBCD Helps End Confusion on HPV Issues
PR Web (press release)
The Center for the Biology of Chronic Disease (CBCD) concluded its monthly “HPV IQ survey” which measures the public's current knowledge of HPV. The objective of the survey is to discover the most serious gaps in the public's understanding of the ...
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Machine Counterpart: Nature's New Creatures
Scientific American (blog)
Engineers have begun to look to biology—and to neurobiology in particular—for solutions. As Quinn noted, “It has now become apparent to most in the robotics community that the principles found in animal design and control can be applied to improve ...
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Scientific American (blog)
New Oncology and Pathology Resources Published at Sciences Social Network
Houston Chronicle
ScienceIndex.com was established in 1998 to index the very latest news, headlines, references and resources in all fields of biology, business, chemistry, engineering, geography, health, mathematics and society. ScienceIndex.com is a health sciences ...
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UK Presses Ahead with Open-Access Policy
GenomeWeb
RCUK, which includes the Medical Research Council and the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council, among others, plans in the coming months to issue a revamped policy for access to scholarly papers to the one it adopted in 2006.
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Knight News: Spring Time is Garden Time at Rice?
my.hsj.org
For example the building of a fence could be part of physics lessons or growing a garden could be part of a biology class. She believes that this project has big challenges like finding a protected space for a garden and summer care to take care of the ...
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LSU Research Finds Orangutans Host Ancient Jumping Genes
RedOrbit
The study was done in collaboration with the Zoological Society of San Diego and the Institute of Systems Biology in Seattle and is featured in the new open access journal Mobile DNA. These tiny pieces of mobile DNA are able to copy themselves using a ...
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DoctorsHealthPress.com Supports Study Showing Specific Nut Can Boost the ...
Houston Chronicle
(SOURCE: Ukhanova, M., et al., "Human gut microbiota changes after consumption of almonds or pistachios," Presented at 2012 ExperimentalBiology meeting in San Diego, CA, on Apr. 23, 2012.) Doctors Health Press e-Bulletin is a daily e-letter providing ...
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Scientists Estimate Dinosaurs Passed Enough Gas To Warm Up The Planet
NPR (blog)
As it seems is always the case, though, a closer reading of the study released in the journal Current Biology reveals the reporting is just hot air. "A new study suggests that dinosaurs may have helped keep an already overheated world warmer with their ...
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Guest Column: Science is about asking questions
Rockford Register Star
The joke among scientists in those fields is “if you want to find atheists, go over to the biology department.” Consider this: Most scientists in the Dark Ages thought the world was flat. If consensus makes science, as Vee suggests, then that must be ...
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Hamilton Thorne Receives CE Mark for Its LYKOS(R) Clinical Laser System
SYS-CON Media (press release)
BEVERLY, MA and TORONTO -- (Marketwire) -- 05/08/12 -- Hamilton Thorne Ltd. (TSX VENTURE: HTL), a leading provider of precision laser devices and advanced image analysis systems for the fertility, stem cell and developmentalbiology research markets, ...
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Rush: Do dinosaur farts pass the smell test?
WND.com
According to the Associated Press, research published yesterday in Current Biology suggests large dinosaurs made a significant contribution to the greenhouse effect some 200 million years ago. Study author David Wilkinson of Liverpool John Moores ...
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WND.com
Computers help unravel cancers
ScienceAlert
Computers can be used to untangle the intricacies of cancerbiology, according to the researchers. Computers can be used to identify cancer treatment targets that wouldn't otherwise have been considered, according to research by an Australian team.
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ScienceAlert
Dinosaur Fart Global Warming Paper is a Load of Crap
Science 2.0 (blog)
Associate Professor of Cell Biology and Human Anatomy at UC Davis School of Medicine. Long-time stem cell and cancer scientist. Cancer survivor... In my other life as a stem cell scientist and blogger, I've been writing a series on the seven sins of ...
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Saunders: Sex scandals know no party boundaries
News & Observer
BY BARRY SAUNDERS - bsaunders@newsobserver.com The Triangle, we're told, has more Ph.Ds and college grads per square inch than any place on Earth, but a lot of people around here need some basic education in biology. To wit: further schooling is ...
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Campus Kitty Collects More Than $50000 for Charity
Hendrix College Events and News
"As a senior, never in my four years at Hendrix have I been more proud of our campus than when I stood on the stage at Miss Hendrix and announced the grand total raised this school year," said Malena Outhay, a senior biochemistry molecular biology ...
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Blue Hills Trailside Museum holding 'creepy, crawly' event
Boston.com
Jonathan Twining, an assistant professor of biology at Eastern Nazarene College, will also be on hand with his collection of slimy and scaly creatures. The event costs $2 for adult members, $4 for non-member adults, and $2 for all children.
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Duke-led Team Reports on Clinical Exome Sequencing Pilot Project
GenomeWeb
In addition, the researchers emphasized the potential importance of doing functional analyses, in some cases, to explore the consequences of candidate mutations — information that is also expected to clarify some of the biologicalprocesses affected ...
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Sperm Collide Along Liquid Maze on Way to Fertilize Egg
U.S. News & World Report
"In basic terms, how do we find the 'Usain Bolt' among the millions of sperm in an ejaculate," study author Dr. Jackson Kirkman-Brown, lead in reproductivebiology at the University of Birmingham and science lead at the Birmingham Women's Fertility ...
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Robots that reveal the inner workings of brain cells
domain-B
The project is a collaboration between the labs of Ed Boyden, the Benesse Career Development associate professor of biological engineering and brain and cognitive sciences at MIT, and Craig Forest, assistant professor of mechanical engineering at ...
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'How can you revise if you don't have a plan?'
Nursing Times (blog)
Along with “What biology coursework is now on You Tube?” and “How can you revise when your physics book is downstairs?” Sadly my daily lecture on the benefits of a plan, to-do lists, colour pens and PostIt notes is greeted with, at best, rolling eyes ...
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Pediatric Gastroenterologist Dr. Laurie Conklin Appointed to Sheikh Zayed ...
Becker's ASC Review
She is a principal investigator for the institute's Systems Biology Initiative and is director of the Inflammatory Bowel Disease Center at Children's National Medical Center. Her clinical interests are focused on better ways to detect and manage ...
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Not all tumor cells are equal: Stanford study reveals huge genetic diversity ...
EurekAlert (press release)
To make their latest discovery, Jeffrey, along with an interdisciplinary team of engineers, quantitative biologists, genome scientists and clinicians, relied on a technology they developed in 2008. Called the MagSweeper, it's a device that lets them ...
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New liver cancer genes found
ScienceAlert
More important is that we are now aware of new genes and their effects on bile duct cancer and we now need to further examine their biological aspects to determine how they bring about the onset of Cholangiocarcinoma." Using state of the art DNA ...
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UPI NewsTrack Science and Technology News
UPI.com
Wilkinson and study co-author Graeme Ruxton from the University of St. Andrews detailed their research in the journal Current Biology. "Indeed, our calculations suggest that these dinosaurs could have produced more methane than all modern sources ...
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Newborns With Missing Spleen - Genetic Link Identified
Medical News Today
Leading researcher, Dr. Licia Selleri, an associate professor in the Department of Cell and Developmental Biology at Weill Cornell Medical College, explains: "The great news is that with the appropriate preventive antibiotic treatment these children ...
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Robot reveals the inner workings of brain cells - Biology News Net
Biology News Articles & Current Events, Updated Daily.
www.biologynews.net/.../robot_reveals_the_inner_workings_...
Mystery of the domestication of the horse solved - Biology News Net ...
New research indicates that domestic horses originated in the steppes of modern -day Ukraine, southwest Russia and west Kazakhstan, mixing with local wild ...
esciencenews.com/...net/.../mystery.domestication.horse.solved
Biology News Story - PHP @ Radford - Radford University
During the 2012 College of Science and Technology commencement ceremony biology major Kiersten Newtoff was presented the Artis Outstanding Student ...
https://php.radford.edu/~biology/newsstory.php?storyid=119
Scientists: Dinosaur flatulence may have warmed Earth (+video)
... cows, sauropod dinosaurs roamed widely around the Earth 150 million years ago, scientists reported in the journal Current Biology on Monday. ... In thenews: ...
www.csmonitor.com/.../Scientists-Dinosaur-flatulence-may-ha...
Excuse Me: Gassy Dinosaurs Helped Warm Earth
ABC News Tech This Out ... The research published Monday in CurrentBiology suggests that large dinosaurs made a significant contribution to the greenhouse ...
abcnews.go.com/.../excuse-gassy-dinosaurs-helped-warm-eart...
Geography and geology class studies diverse ... - Biology News
News & Events. Alumni · Awards · Biology News · Seminars · Student Updates · Calendar of Events · Facebook · Photo Gallery · Contact Us; Research Centers ...
www.wku.edu/biology/news/index.php?view=article...
Larkin and Biology Students Participate in Reforestation Project at ...
Biology professor Jeff Larkin took four students to participate in a volunteer project to plant 15000 trees and ... Read the full text of the original news post here.
www.iup.edu/newsItem.aspx?id=127610&blogid=5467
Biology News - Winter 2012 edition — Penn State Department of ...
Biology newsletter. ... Department of Biology. search. Search This Site, Search Penn State Web, Search Penn State ... Alumni and Giving · News and Events ...
bio.psu.edu/about-us/BiologyNews_Winter2012.pdf/view
Twitter / PhysOrg Biology News: Darwinian selection contin ...
Darwinian selection continues to influence human evolution tw.phys.org/ 255019075 12:36 PM Apr 30th via Phys.Org Status Update Retweeted by 1 person ...
twitter.com/physorg_biology/status/197046852443574272
Biology of a Sneeze: Rebooting the Airway's Defense - Penn ...
Penn Medicine researchers are the authors of a new study, out in the May issue of the Journal of the Federation of American Societies for ExperimentalBiology, ...
news.pennmedicine.org/.../biology-of-a-sneeze-rebooting-the-...
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