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Scientists develop tools to make more complex biological machines from yeast
Nanowerk LLC
(Nanowerk News) Scientists are one step closer to making more complex microscopic biological machines, following improvements in the way that they can "re-wire" DNA in yeast, according to research recently published in the journal PLoS ONE ("Rational ...
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Computer viruses could cross frontier into biological realm, researchers say
Network World
Computer hackers could create malicious software that crosses the line from technology to biology, crafting viruses that could spread dangerous epidemics, researchers said at Black Hat Europe. "We are really on the border between the living and the not ...
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Computer viruses 'could cross frontier into biological realm'
ComputerworldUK
By Loek Essers | IDG News Service | Published 03:01, 20 March 12 Computer hackers could create malicious software that crosses the line from technology to biology, crafting viruses that spread dangerous epidemics, researchers said at Black Hat Europe.
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Viking explorers' cargo included stowaway mice
msnbc.com
But for reasons unknown, Mus musculus domesticus would later die out in Greenland, the researchers reported Monday in the journal BMC EvolutionaryBiology. Today, the mice in Greenland are Mus musculus muscularis, a subspecies that likely came from ...
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Of miscanthus, Kardashians, wolves and fishmatoes: taming, mapping, enhancing ...
Biofuels Digest
Apparently, it can drive the attention of NASDAQ investors away from the dramatics of The Kardashians or NCAA basketball and towards the frontiers of science, in ways that ruler-slapping, ninth-grade biology teachers can only dream of.
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UPI NewsTrack Science and Technology News
UPI.com
... sheep, goats and chickens they took to colonies in Scotland, Ireland, Iceland, Greenland and possibly Newfoundland, they inadvertently took pest species such as mice with them, a study in the journal BMC Evolutionary Biologyreported.
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Viking invasions brought mice everywhere, except for Canada
Victoria Times Colonist
In findings published in the latest issue of the scholarly journal BMC Evolutionary Biology, the researchers explain how they discovered proof that bloodlines from the mouse species Mus musculus domesticus - already known to have been carried by Viking ...
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White House Biotechnology Director to Keynote 2012 MichBio Annual Business Meeting
MarketWatch (press release)
In his White House role, Stebbins serves as a lead policy expert on policies related to biological research and biotechnology. Before joining the White House OSTP, he served as a science advisor to the Obama Campaign and was a member of the Obama ...
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Fusion: The new approach to science
Daily News - Galveston County
Convergence is the coming together of diverse disciplines — from basic biochemistry and cell biology to computer science and engineering. The result is a completely new way of thinking by taking strengths from each specialty and creating innovative ...
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February classroom awards
Lewiston Sun Journal
From left are Ellen Wainwright, photography; Chantel Whitman, band; Donald Hutchins, US history; Jason Baldinelli, history of rock and roll; Samantha Morse,biology; Michelle Morrison, advance chemistry; Isiah Brown, advancedbiology; Byrce Parent, ...
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Warm Weather Puts Trees on Fast Forward
SUNY-ESF Headlines
"This warm weather might be really pleasant and some people might find it comforting," said Dr. Donald J. Leopold, chair of the Department of Environmental and Forest Biology at the SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry (ESF) in Syracuse,...
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SUNY-ESF Headlines
New anti-aging skin care line launched in Manila
GMA News
The Kinerase skin care system, said Professor Suresh Rattan of the Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics of Aarhus University, “is the only product in the world with kinetin.” During the media launch of the product last March 8, he explained ...
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Momenta Pharmaceuticals' Management Presents at Barclays Capital 2012 Global ...
Seeking Alpha
And I will add that as we've moved from Lovenox to Copaxone and from Copaxone to biologics we are beginning to work as much on the biology side of the equation as we had been working on the structural chemistry side of the equation.
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ScienceOnline NOW!
Scientific American (blog)
About the Author: Bora Zivkovic is the Blog Editor at Scientific American, chronobiologist, biology teacher, organizer of ScienceOnline conferences and editor of Open Laboratory anthologies of best science writing on the Web. Follow on Twitter @boraz.
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SDSC's 'big data' expertise aiding genomics research
PhysOrg.com (press release)
"Next-generation sequencing of DNA and RNA are profoundly transformingbiology and medicine, providing insight into our origins and diseases," according to Wayne Pfeiffer, a distinguished scientist at SDSC. "However, obtaining that insight from the ...
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Raising The Mammoth – Russian And Korean Scientists Set Out To Bring Back The ...
Singularity Hub
According to the agreement, the Russian team will collectbiological samples and send them to the Korean team for processing. The Koreans hope to create healthy cell cultures from the tissue as a source for high-quality DNA.
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Singularity Hub
Nektar Consolidates Research at Its State-of-the-Art R&D Center Located in San ...
Sacramento Bee
Nektar's San Francisco R&D Center at Mission Bay opened in November 2010 and includes 102000 square feet of biology and chemistry lab space, as well as Nektar's corporate headquarters. Under a ten-year sub-lease with Pfizer which was signed in March ...
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UAB Faculty Will Give 20 Presentations at Acc Scientific Sessions
Newswise (press release)
Suzanne Oparil, MD – Oparil is a former president of the American Heart Association and currently is director of the UAB Vascular Biology and Hypertension Program. • Vera Bittner, MD – Bittner serves on the board of the National Lipid Association and ...
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Higher education funding plan seeks balance
Montgomery Advertiser
Other university programs that were ranked included art, biology, chemistry, English, history, mechanical engineering, nursing, the part-time MBA, physics, political science, psychology and social work. A Nevada legislative interim committee on funding ...
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Denmark Heads $21.5M Psychiatric Consortium that Includes BGI and Decode
GenomeWeb Daily News
"We will identify biological disease mechanisms, and we also intend to provide the basis for better treatment and prevention." He added that the primary goal is to identify causes of the disorders by studying the interplay between genetic and ...
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Stevia First Corp. Appoints Biotech Veteran to Board of Directors
Energy Digital (press release)
He sits on the board of directors of Spectrum Pharmaceuticals, Inc. and is a former board member of Sirion Therapeutics, Inc. and GlycoMetrix, Inc. Dr. Maida holds a BA degree in Biology, a BA Degree in History, an MBA, an MA in toxicology and a Ph.D.
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Stevia First Corp. Appoints Biotech Veteran to Board of Directors
Exec Digital (press release)
He sits on the board of directors of Spectrum Pharmaceuticals, Inc. and is a former board member of Sirion Therapeutics, Inc. and GlycoMetrix, Inc. Dr. Maida holds a BA degree in Biology, a BA Degree in History, an MBA, an MA in toxicology and a Ph.D.
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Cornell's corpse plant is blooming and reeking death
New York Daily News
The Ivy League's Department of Plant Biology has a live video stream open for all to watch the progress of the rain forest plant. The corpse plant has grown almost 30 inches in height in just two weeks and is currently over 66 inches tall, according to ...
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New York Daily News
Cornell's corpse plant is blooming and reeking death
New York Daily News
The Ivy League's Department of Plant Biology has a live video stream open for all to watch the progress of the rain forest plant. The corpse plant has grown almost 30 inches in height in just two weeks and is currently over 66 inches tall, according to ...
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New York Daily News
Officers re-elected at WSU Tri-Cities
Bellingham Herald
Eubanks, a Kennewick senior majoring in biology, ran as an incumbent. McCann, a junior from Yakima, is serving as Senate speaker pro-tempore. Eight other students were elected as senators-at-large: Calvin Anderson, Thomas Batey, Isaac Carroll, ...
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Top Ranked Equity Analyst Joins Vital Therapies, Inc.
Sacramento Bee
Dr. Nash received a BA in Biology from Williams College, an MD from Dartmouth Medical School, a JD from the University of California at Berkeley, and an MBA from the University of Oxford. He completed his internship in General Surgery at the University ...
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New Van Cortlandt Park summer program will pay teens to work
New York Daily News
The teenagers will be paid to work alongside horticulture and forestry experts and will complete a entry-level biology course at nearby Lehman College. "I love my job," said Mohamed, who boasts a college degree in forestry from SUNY-ESF in Syracuse.
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New York Daily News
Scientists link 2 cancer-promoting pathways in esophageal cancer
EurekAlert (press release)
... Chien-Chen Lai, Ph.D., of the Graduate Institute of Chinese Medical Science and the Institute of Molecular Biology, National Chung Hsing University, Taiwan; Fuu-Jen Tsai, MD, Ph.D., Department of Medical Research, China Medical University, Taiwan; ...
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news In detail
Knowledgespeak
The focus is on the relationships between the environment and biologicalsystems, encompassing microbial genomics, physiology, and ecology, biogeochemical cycling, food webs, paleolimnology, biodiversity, conservation, resource management, ...
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Solved: The mystery of the blood orange - Biology News Net
These are blood and blonde varieties of sweet orange (Citrus sinensis). The anthocyanin pigments that provide the "blood" color of blood oranges are not produced in significant amounts unless the fruit is exposed to cold conditions during its ...
Biology News Net
Scientists develop tools to make more complex biological machines ...
Posted: Mar 20th, 2012. Scientists develop tools to make more complexbiological machines from yeast. (Nanowerk News) Scientists are one step closer to making more complex microscopic biological machines, following improvements in the ...
Nanowerk Nanotechnology News
Potato Bug Packs a Punch; Math Student Fights Back with Numbers ...
By kcampbell
The Press Room: Ursinus College News and Events. ... Smith used data from the Ursinus Biology Department and Cory Straub, assistant professor ofbiology, who has been researching ways to reduce the damage done to the plant, alfalfa, by the pest, Potato Leaf Hoppers (PLH). “This damage costs farmers millions of dollars each year,” says Smith. “The research tests the enemies' hypothesis. A predator insect, Nabis, is introduced to the system to control the Potato Leaf Hopper ...
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Orientation of desert ants: Every cue counts - Biology News Net
Biology News Articles & Current Events, Updated Daily.
www.biologynews.net/.../orientation_of_desert_ants_every_cu...
An insight into human evolution from the gorilla ... - e! Science News
Get science news via. Astronomy ... Friday, March 9, 2012 - 19:30 in Biology & Nature. Researchers ... Read the whole article on Biology News Net · More from ...
esciencenews.com/.../an.insight.human.evolution.gorilla.geno...
Basketball-sized eyes help squids pl... ( DURHAM N.C. -- Giant and ...
DURHAM N.C. -- Giant and colossal squids have eyes as big as basketba... They' re most likely using their huge eyes to spot and escape their pr...Johnsen...
www.bio-medicine.org/.../Basketball-sized-eyes-help-squids-pl...
Computer Viruses Could Cross Frontier Into Biological Realm ...
By Loek Essers, IDG-News-Service:Amsterdam-Bureau Computer hackers could create malicious software that crosses the line from technology tobiology, ...
www.pcworld.com/.../computer_viruses_could_cross_frontier...
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...
'Crazy, Wacko' Rabbi Responds to Biology Professor
In response to my recent blog, "Why the Universe Obviously Has a Creator (and Why Some Atheists Refuse to Even Consider It)," a biology professor from The ...
www.huffingtonpost.com/.../crazy-wacko-rabbi-responds-biol...
NCSU CALS Biology - News Text
BIOLOGY NEWS, View News List. The Department of Biology congratulates our two Kenneth R. Keller Award Recipients for 2011. Congratulations to Dr. Julie ...
harvest.cals.ncsu.edu/biology/index.cfm?pageID=5447...
Electrical engineering students to participate in ... - Biology News
Ten WKU electrical engineering students will participate in a robotics competition this weekend at the 2012 IEEE Southeast Conference in Orlando, Fla.
www.wku.edu/biology/news/index.php?view=article...
Twitter / PhysOrg Biology News: Parenting comes at a price ...
Parenting comes at a price for male fish http://t.co/KGrhpgAc.
twitter.com/physorg_biology/status/178102275619827712
Drunk On Biology For St. Patrick's Day
by Adam Cole Have you ever wondered what would happen if Louis Pasteur joined The Clancy Brothers? Or if The Chieftains were more nerdy and less talented?
www.npr.org/blogs/.../drunk-on-biology-for-st-patricks-day
Department of Biology News and Events — Penn State Department ...
Penn State Department of Biology · Seminars · 2012 News · 2011 News ...Department of Biology News and Events ... Contact the Biology Webmaster ...
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Find 15 news and stories about Marine biology on mail.com.
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