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TapImmune Appoints Dr. Robert Florkiewicz as Senior Director of Molecular ...
MarketWatch (press release)
SEATTLE, Apr 11, 2012 (GlobeNewswire via COMTEX) -- TapImmune Inc. (OBB:TPIV) has announced that Robert Florkiewicz, Ph.D., has been appointed Senior Director of Molecular Biology & Virology. "Bob has a unique combination of skills and experience in ...
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Falling for This Myth Could Give You Cancer
Food Consumer
Science has shattered the Central Dogma of molecular biology, proving that determinism—the belief that your genes control your health—is false. You actually have a tremendous amount of control over how your genetic traits are expressed, ...
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Fort Scott student earns honorable mention in prestigious scholarship contest
Fort Scott Tribune
Braun is researching cancer biology with Alexander Beeser, assistant professor of biology. Specifically, Braun is studying the DUSP12 enzyme and its role in the cellular processes and pathogenesis of liposarcoma. In summer 2011 he participated under ...
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Science denied: Tennessee will allow creationism in public schools
Examiner.com
The bill will become law despite the strident objections of the Tennessee Science Teachers Association, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Civil Liberties Union of Tennessee, the American Institute for Biological ...
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It's tick season in Lake, Mendocino counties
Lake County Record-Bee
According to Robert Lane, a University of California biology professor of Entomological Sciences and one of the country's leading experts on Lyme disease, Mendocino and Lake counties are the primary locations in the state that have Lyme ...
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Taking On Cancer: Tackling Liver Cancer in the Lab
BU Today
And now the College of Arts & Sciences biology professor has discovered that this same protein, transcription factor LSF, also referred to as late SV40 factor, appears to play a role in the growth of liver cancers. Understanding that role could be the ...
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BU Today
You can't teach funny, part one
Naples Daily News (blog)
The result equals the fate of frogs in a biology class. Wordsworth is the least funny of all great poets, but what he says is also applicable when we try to analyze what makes us laugh. We pay the best comedians off-the-graph sums for doing it, ...
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Soldier Bugs Protect Colony From Threats Large and Small
LiveScience.com
The study will be published tomorrow (April 11) in the journal Biology Letters. 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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Is a dignified death too much to ask?
Canada.com
The retired biology professor has thought hard about death and about the way he wants it to arrive. After all, he's seen men like himself hunched over in chairs in long-term-care centres, their minds absent, unaware there hasn't been a visitor for ...
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Nerves Are Rattled After Bomb Threats at Pitt
New York Times
Tyler McLaughlin, a senior studying math and molecular biology, said he had skipped classes because of the repeated bomb threats. Having to wait in a line to get into the Cathedral of Learning while the police check IDs has limited how often Mr.
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New York Times
Texas accused of ignoring FDA on stem cell rules
Houston Chronicle (blog)
Weissman, director of Stanford University's Institute for Stem CellBiology and Regenerative Medicine, said the policy violates the ISSCR's guidelines for clinical use of adult stem cells. Herman Cain speaks while Rick Perry during a presidential ...
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Houston Chronicle (blog)
Online courses may be offered at Burrell
Tarentum Valley News Dispatch
According to the listing of online courses on Clarion's website, among the dual enrollment courses to be offered next fall are biology, communication, computer science, education, English, history of jazz, math, meteorology, psychology, ...
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GEN Poll Majority Favors Moratorium on Synthetic Bio Products
Genetic Engineering News
55.2% of respondents agreed with a group of 111 watchdog organizations including ETC Group and Friends of the Earth, which last month issued a report that called synthetic biology “an extreme form of genetic engineering” and asked for a moratorium on ...
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The QueQue: Adkisson blames 'Express' for open records skirmish; Case of Bexar ...
San Antonio Current
Lee Fitzgerald, a Texas A&M University herpetologist who's studied the biology, ecology, and conservation of the lizard since the mid-'90s, gave a more measured assessment, but said it's still "untested and unproven" whether the lizard's habitat can ...
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San Antonio Current
Kevin Dodd named Alabama's Enforcement Section chief
al.com
Dodd, who started his career as a laborer in the WFF Wildlife Section, was hired as a Conservation Enforcement Officer in Baldwin County after receiving his Bachelor of Science in WildlifeBiology from Auburn University in 1984.
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Genetically Modified Foods Explained
South Source
Although a major news topic today, the genetic engineering of foods is not a new concept, says Mahlon Burnette, who teaches the biological sciences at South University. Burnette is the former director of scientific affairs for the Grocery Manufacturers ...
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South Source
Why solving inequality is a must for the Continent's development
AllAfrica.com
The writer is a PhD candidate in political science at Stanford University, and holds a Bachelor's degree in Human Biology. She studies the historical determinants of modern day health systems and health outcomes, the politics of public service ...
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Knotts wins highest UT student honor
GoVolsXtra
The West Virginia native is finishing her degree in biochemistry, cellular and molecular biology with a 3.89 GPA. Other athletes named Torchbearers this decade are Kara Lawson of basketball in 2003 and swimmer Ashley Yeager in 2007.
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Novel Atherosclerosis-Reversing, Heart Disease Therapy Wins NIH Clinical ...
EON: Enhanced Online News (press release)
This award highlights KineMed's powerful insights into cholesterol biology and our ability to more rapidly and cost-efficiently advance therapeutics,” said David Fineman, CEO & President of KineMed. “That we are able to see the mechanism of action – in ...
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Santarus Appoints Alessandro E. Della Chà and Matthew W. Strobeck to Board of ...
EON: Enhanced Online News (press release)
Dr. Strobeck currently serves as a member of the board of directors of Metabolix, Inc. Dr. Strobeck received a BS in biology from St. Lawrence University and a Ph.D. in cellular and molecular biology from the University of Cincinnati.
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Imagining the reality you want
CNN
Not by our biology, not by our DNA, but by our history of interactions." Sensory information can mean just about anything, Lotto observes. It's what we do with that information that matters. Society gets inside of our heads and habits, ...
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More fish sperm in warm waters
ScienceAlert
... to high water temperatures produce about three times more sperm than those kept in much colder water, says a team of researchers led by Dr Bart Adriaenssens, of the UNSW Evolution and Ecology Research Centre, in the journal Global ChangeBiology.
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ScienceAlert
Tech researchers develop swimming, robotic jellyfish
Virginia Tech Collegiate Times
John “Jack” Costello, a biology professor at Providence College in Rhode Island, has been collaborating with the team at Tech. “To create vehicles that emulate (jellyfish) require not only that you work along the vehicle, but that you also learn a lot ...
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Virginia Tech Collegiate Times
OC Seaweed Shows Measurable Radiation From Japan
The Rafu Shimpo
The radioactive forms of cesium and iodine “get dispersed over a variety of organisms,” including fish, said marine biology professor Steven L. Manley. “I would assume it's there” in the biomass of plants and animals off California's coast.
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Big decisions linked to life expectancy
Ottawa Citizen
For this study published online in the Archives of Sexual Behavior, Daniel Krupp, a post-doctoral researcher at Queen's with a background in psychology and biology, analysed data from Statistics Canada and found correlations with what's known as life ...
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Online Tool Could Diagnose Autism Quickly, Developers Say
U.S. News & World Report
... early critical period when behavioral therapies are most effective," Dennis Wall, an associate professor of pathology and director of computationalbiology initiative at the Center for Biomedical Informatics, said in a medical school news release.
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Researchers Find Genes Linked to Aggressive Prostate Cancer
Everyday Health
"The study shows that copy number variations matter in cancer," added the study's co-lead investigator, Dr. Francesca Demichelis, who is now an assistant professor at the Center of Integrative Biology at the University of Trento in Italy and an adjunct ...
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Thomson Reuters Names Hottest Scientific Researchers and Papers of the Year
Reuters
This publication currently ranks among biology's most-cited papers. Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute Produces Most Hot Researchers: Among the 15 Hottest Researchers of 2011, four hail from the UK's charitably funded genomic research center, ...
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Student scientific program gets boost from two national foundations
CisionWire (press release)
Students conduct a research project under the guidance of senior scientists at the Center in the areas of cell biology, molecular biology, structural biology, biochemistry, microbiology, chemistry, computational biology, bioinformatics,...
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Agriculture and Life Sciences News » Recent Articles from Biology ...
By Laura Jackson
Recent Articles from Biology Department Researchers at NCSU · New Articles from Biology Department Researchers March 25, 2012 – April 7, 2012. For more publications by NC State authors, visit the NCSU Libraries Digital Repository.
Agriculture and Life Sciences News
Energy | CALS News Center Energy | News from the College of ...
By Dee Shore
Develops technologies for biological conversion of organic wastes to bioenergy, for nutrient recovery from wastewaters and for transformation of agricultural residues into biofuels. Mari Chinn Associate Professor Biological and Agricultural ...
CALS News Center
Biology News - Evolution, Cell theory, Gene theory, Microbiology ...
Phys.Org provides the latest news on biology, evolution, microbiology, biotechnology.
phys.org/biology-news/
Study finds protective gene in fat cells - Biology News Net
Biology News Articles & Current Events, Updated Daily.
www.biologynews.net/.../study_finds_protective_gene_in_fat_...
To prevent leukemia's dreaded return, go for the stem cells - Biology ...
Researchers reporting in the April Cell Stem Cell, a Cell Press publication, have found a way to stop leukemia stem cells in their tracks. The advance in mice ...
esciencenews.com/.../to.prevent.leukemias.dreaded.return.go.st...
Brain Scientists Tackle Possible Biological Basis for Gender Leadership Gap
The project is proceeding despite the fact that, according to the Vancouver Sun, a biological basis for the gap is “not supported by research data.
www.forbes.com/.../brain-scientists-tackle-possible-biological-...
Sea Life KC's marine biologist is hooked on fish
If you want a marine biology job in the Kansas City area, you're going to have to fight Aaron Sprowl for it. There's more than one? OK, but surely Sprowl, ...
www.kansascity.com/.../kck-native-in-charge-of-aquarium.ht...
Synthetic Biology News
An inventory of all the news in the synthetic biology world.
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Lessons From Ants to Grasp Humanity
To the biologist Edward O. Wilson, the Metropolitan Museum of Art encapsulates some of the conflicting impulses natural selection has instilled in humans: ...
www.nytimes.com/.../edward-o-wilsons-new-book-social-conq...
WKU civil engineering students finish first overall at - Biology News
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BIOLOGY NEWS, View News List. Don't miss it -- The 15th Annual Zoology Graduate Student Research Symposium, Friday, April 13 from 9:30 to 3:30, with a ...
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Biology News | Department of Biology
Biology alumnus awarded 2012 Sloan Research Fellowship ... New research from Biology alumnus on leatherback turtles · more · Home » Biology News ...
biology.stanford.edu/biology_news?page=7
Twitter / PhysOrg Biology News: Plants mimic scent of poll ...
Plants mimic scent of pollinating beetles http://t.co/9VZ6edXm.
twitter.com/physorg_biology/status/187182657510178816
Bowman provides strategies to engage public with climate change ...
April 9 2012 Signal Hill CA Tom Bowman president of Bowman Global...Bowman who has designed award-winning climate change exhibits for the... David ...
www.bio-medicine.org/.../Bowman-provides-strategies-to-eng...
Chair of molecular biology wins 2012 Beering Award - Topix
Local News: Mountain View, CA ... DALLAS April 2, 2012 Dr. Eric N. Olson , chairman of molecular biology at UT Southwestern ... Email me Biology news.
www.topix.com/forum/science/.../T9VNTLSLHM74Q1KG1
RPI: News & Events - From Beaker to Bits: Unique Collaboration ...
Computer scientists and biologists in the Data Science Research Center at ...About RPI · Academics · Research · Student Life · Admissions · News · Tour ...
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