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BIOLOGY News, Jul 31, 2012

Towson grad nets scholarship
Marine biology focus helps Towson grad net fisherman scholarship
Baltimore Sun
A recent Towson High School graduate's passion for marine biology has netted him a little extra scholarship money for college from the Maryland Saltwater Sportfisherman's Association. And when he begins classes in the fall at the University of Miami, ...
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University of Utah biology professor wants people to notice the sacred role of ...
Deseret News
Our take: Nalini Nadkarni, a University of Utahbiology professor, is highlighting the role that nature and trees play in faiths of every kind. Seen by many religions as manifestations of divine knowledge, trees have played an unassuming, yet vital ...
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Deseret News
Mathematicians find solution to biological building block puzzle
Phys.Org
For a long time molecular biologists thought that the major role of RNA in living cells was to serve as a copy of a gene and a template for producing proteins, major cell building blocks. This belief had been changed at the end of 90s when it was found ...
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Researchers Find Hints of Dolphin Culture, Social Network Tendencies
The Mary Sue
Behavioral biologist Janet Mann of Georgetown University was initially surprised by these findings; spongers are for the most part solitary, and were not thought to have much interest in having a social life. But, like with any teen comedy with the ...
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Biologist to speak on community resilience
Corvallis Gazette Times
McPherson, professor emeritus in conservation biology at the University of Arizona, will discuss issues surrounding the effects of peak oil and climate change on the availability of food and water and how individuals and communities can build local ...
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Allergies? Your sneeze is a biological response to the nose's 'blue screen of ...
EurekAlert (press release)
Much like a temperamental computer, our noses require a "reboot" when overwhelmed, and this biological reboot is triggered by the pressure force of a sneeze. When a sneeze works properly, it resets the environment within nasal passages so "bad ...
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Which Side of Human Biology Favors Gun Control?
Forbes
One of the ongoing debates simmering in evolutionary biology lately is the competition versus cooperation argument. On one side, we have the more traditional Darwinian position that competition is the primary driver of adaptation, and hence survival of ...
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Forbes
Geneticists eye the potential of arXiv
Nature.com
Nature | News. Geneticists eye the potential of arXiv. Population biologists turn to pre-publication server to gain wider readership and rapid review of results. Ewen Callaway. 31 July 2012. Article tools. Print; Email · Rights & Permissions. Share ...
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Teaching Molecular Biology with Watercolors
Smithsonian (blog)
Molecular biology professor David Goodsell is just as skilled with a paintbrush as he is with a microscope. He creates festive hand-drawn watercolors to illustrate the inner workings of bacteria, viruses and human cells. On first glance, his paintings ...
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Smithsonian (blog)
Marine biologist is a real catch for Young's
This is Grimsby
With a degree in marine biology and an MSc in environmental biology, Mr Parker has also worked on board a fishing boat and carried out research for a fishery management body. His work at Young's will involve researching sustainable emerging sources of ...
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Top scientists map way forward for systems biology and bioinformatics in Qatar
AME Info
More than 100 scientists from 14 countries attended the 'Translational Systems Biologyand Bioinformatics Symposium' that was held on June 25 at the Qatar National Convention Center. Four international and seven local speakers delivered scientific ...
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It's the world's slowest shark — hang on, it'll be here in a sec...
msnbc.com
The study, which will be published in the September issue of the Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology, also finds that the sharks are the slowest known fish, when body size is factored in. Greenland sharks just reach top speeds of about 1 ...
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msnbc.com
Virtual cells: an amazing merger of the digital and biological
Telegraph.co.uk
One American scientist who is doing more than most to fuse biology with computing is Craig Venter, who is best known for being the first to sequence the entire human genetic code, or genome, and for his scientific swagger: the first entire human genome ...
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Telegraph.co.uk
TAU researcher reveals link between plant and humanbiology
News-Medical.net
Increasingly, scientists are uncovering surprising biologicalconnections between humans and other forms of life. Now a Tel Aviv University researcher has revealed that plant and human biology is much closer than has ever been understood - and the ...
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Bruker's Dimension FastScan Bio AFM Enables High-Resolution Microscopy ...
AZoNano.com
The Dimension FastScan Bio AFM now aids in conducting sophisticated analysis of the dynamics behind membrane, RNA, DNA, cell and tissue interactions for mainstreambiology research. David V. Rossi, who serves as the Executive Vice President and ...
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AZoNano.com
DNA2.0 Sponsors Singularity University Launchpad
Virtual-Strategy Magazine
“DNA2.0's innovative bioengineering tools are helping to speed the transformation of biology from a discovery science to an engineering discipline,” said Jeremy Minshull, Ph.D., cofounder and CEO of DNA2.0. “As a first-generation synthetic biology ...
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Computational Analysis Identifies Drugs to Treat Drug-Resistant Breast Cancer
Science Daily (press release)
The results, which are published in Molecular SystemsBiology, reveal that the disruption of glucose metabolism is an effective therapeutic strategy for the treatment of tumours that have acquired resistance to front-line cancer drugs such as Lapatinib.
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Is It a Rock, or Is It Jello? Defining the Architecture of Rhomboid Enzymes
Science Daily (press release)
"[It's] the first time we really understand the architectural logic behind the structure of the enzyme," says Sinisa Urban, Ph.D., an associate professor of molecular biology and genetics at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and an ...
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Despite global amphibian decline, number of known species soars
Phys.Org
“In the middle of all the doom and gloom we hear about amphibians, we're finding them at a faster rate,” said David Wake, professor emeritus of integrative biology at the University of California, Berkeley, and one of the first to raise the alarm about ...
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New Agriculture and Anatomy Sections Published at ScienceIndex.com
Virtual-Strategy Magazine
The Agriculture and Anatomy Sciences are two new keybiology branches covered by the Sciences Social Network ScienceIndex.com. The users of the website monitor 352 scientific journals publishing in these two branches and submit the most recent and ...
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IL-10 from donor skin cells helps the body incorporate skin grafts
EurekAlert (press release)
This finding appears in the August 2012 issue of the Journal of Leukocyte Biology (http://www.jleukbio.org). "Much work is needed to advance from mouse experiments to finding in humans," said Luciana Vieira de Moraes, Ph.D., a researcher involved in ...
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Cancer Research May Benefit From Recent Protein Discovery
Medical News Today
A paper published in the online edition of Current Biologyreports that a graduate student from Simon Fraser University and her thesis supervisor discovered how a certain protein type controls the growth of another protein. The discovery could ...
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Agilent Technologies Launches New X-ray Diffractometer for Structural Biology ...
spectroscopyNOW.com
This revolutionary new instrument will be used for collection of high-quality diffraction data from crystalline samples ofbiological macromolecules. Incorporating innovative gradient vacuum technology, the GV1000 features an extremely compact and high ...
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The virtual cell that simulates life
BBC News
Computer viruses are old news, but virtual bacteria might just be the future of biology. Because on processors at Stanford University a simulation of the entire bacterium Mycoplasma genitalium, its DNA, and the constituents of its single cell is ...
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BBC News
Today's mystery bird for you to identify
The Guardian
Mystery Bird photographed in La Selva Biological Station, Organisation for Tropical Biology, Heredia province, Costa Rica (Central America). [I will identify this bird in 49 or so hours]. Image: Nick Athanas/Tropical Birding, 25 January 2011 (with ...
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Stress during pregnancy leads to abdominal obesity in mice offspring
EurekAlert (press release)
The FASEB Journal (http://www.fasebj.org) is published by the Federation of the American Societies for ExperimentalBiology (FASEB) and is among the most cited biologyjournals worldwide according to the Institute for Scientific Information. In 2010 ...
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Teaching Molecular Biology with Watercolors | Smart News
By Rachel Nuwer
Molecular biology professor David Goodsell is just as skilled with a microscope as with a paint brush and creates festive hand-drawn watercolors to illustrate the inner workings of bacteria, viruses and human cells.
Smart News
Nasal hallucinations can make your life Hell
By Esther Inglis-Arkell
Newer Stories… biology 3:06 PM 0 Nasal hallucinations can make your life Hell · poll 2:51 PM 0 Just how badly will the Total Recall remake flop? dark knight rises 2:20 PM 0 Before and after Bane audio shows how The Dark Knight Rises ...
io9
Marine Biology Reading and Botany Field Course Updates « SERC ...
By serchomeschool
The summer is passing quickly so I wanted to provide parents and kids an opportunity to do some fun summer reading before the Marine Biology Classes Begin. These are not required but would be good supplements just to get kids interested ...
SERC Home School
Post-doctoral scientists – stem cell niche biology (skin), RIKEN CDB ...
By Hironobu Fujiwara
We are seeking to appoint post-doctoral researchers to study microenvironmental regulation of stem cells in mammalian skin. The aim of our group is to gain a better understanding of the mechanisms underlying the ways in which tissue ...
the Node
Bucket Biology: Stop Moving Species From One Body of Water to ...
By Sarah Smith
by Kirk Deeter. Catching a "native species" trout is a big deal these days because, frankly, it's easier to find non-natives in most waters. Of course, most of that is our own, intentional, doing. Brown trout were planted in Michigan in the 1870s, ...
Field & Stream -
Faculty members honored for teaching, research achievements
About 100 faculty members have been recognized by UCF for their outstanding accomplishments in research and teaching. Professors were selected for Trustee Chair Professorships based on their extraordinary record of accomplishment in ...
Biology
Dolphin Spongers Culture Behavioral Biology | The Mary Sue
By Alanna Bennett
Does anyone else ever get the feeling that dolphins just have the best of it? Aside from us destroying their environment (which is kind of a bummer), dolphins just seem kind of like what humans might be like if we just let everything go and ...
The Mary Sue
The evolution of music « Nothing in biology makes sense!
By Hird
This post is a guest contribution from James Gaines, who lives in Seattle, Washington and holds a Bachelors in Biologyfrom the University of Puget Sound. James writes about natural history at The Glyptodon and is part of a fiction group at ...
Nothing in biology makes sense!
Denim and Tweed: Nothing in Biology Makes Sense: Music, evolved?
By Jeremy Yoder
I write about evolution and ecology and whatever else crosses my mind at Denim and Tweed and I'm a contributor at Nothing in Biology Makes Sense! See my professional site for a list of publications and CV. My employers, collaborators, and ...
Denim and Tweed
Publications from WUSTL biology department, July 2012 - Typepad
By wubiolibrarian
Berla BM, Pakrasi HB. 2012. Up-regulation of plasmid-encoded genes during stationary phase in Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803, a cyanobacterium. Appl Environ Microbiol 78(15):5448-51. PubMed abstract & fulltext for subscribers, freely ...
Biology Library News
Nuclear Medicine and Biology - Elsevier
Nuclear Medicine and Biology publishes original research addressing all aspects ofradiopharmaceutical science: synthesis, in vitro and ex vivo...
www.journals.elsevier.com/nuclear-medicine-and-biology/
Current Biology - Selfish-herd behaviour of sheep under threat
Current Biology, Volume 22, Issue 14, R561-R562, 24 July 2012. doi:10.1016/j. cub.2012.05.008. Previous ArticleTable of ContentsNext Article. Correspondence ...
www.cell.com/current-biology/retrieve/.../S096098221200529...
Cancer biology: p53 can be cancer's friend, not foe : Nature : Nature ...
Cancer biology. p53 can be cancer's friend, not foe. Journal name: Nature; Volume: 487,; Page: 275; Date published: (19 July 2012); DOI: doi:10.1038/ 487275e ...
www.nature.com/nature/journal/v487/n7407/.../487275e.html
The energetic cost of mating in a promiscuous ... -Biology Letters
Abstract. Costs that individuals incur through mating can play an important role in understanding the evolution of life histories and senescence, particularly in ...
rsbl.royalsocietypublishing.org/lookup/doi/10.../rsbl.2012.055...
Biology miscellany « Why Evolution Is True
Biology miscellany. I have one item to recommend and two pictures to show. The first is Olivia Judson's article on bacteria in an Antarctic volcano, “Life in an icy ...
https://whyevolutionistrue.wordpress.com/.../biology-miscellan...
Stunning molecular biology illustrations look like floral abstract art
Molecular biology professor and artist David Goodsell has no trouble finding art in the human body. His hand-drawn watercolor illustrations explode with color ...
io9.com/.../stunning-molecular-biology-illustrations-look-like-...
Biology Leaves Gay Men Highly Vulnerable to HIV: Study - Yahoo ...
From Yahoo! News: FRIDAY, July 20 (HealthDay News) -- New research pinpoints a major reason why gay and bisexual men remain so vulnerable to the AIDS ...
news.yahoo.com/biology-leaves-gay-men-highly-vulnerable-h...
Does Human Biology Favor Gun Control or Gun Ownership? - Forbes
Image credit: Wikipedia One of the ongoing debates simmering in evolutionary biology lately is the competition versus cooperation argument. On one side, we ...
www.forbes.com/.../which-side-of-human-biology-favors-gun...
Artistic Astrobiology: Bridging Biology and Space
By weaving together biology and technology, Angelo Vermeulen's artistic and scientific explorations could help rethink how people interact with the systems that ...
www.astrobio.net/index.php?option=com_retrospection...
PLOS Biology roundup | PLOS Biologue
This week's PLOS Biology roundup features three articles, two of which are published with an accompanying synopsis. Synopses are designed to summarise ...
blogs.plos.org/biologue/2012/07/25/plos-biology-roundup/


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