BIOLOGY News, Apr 17, 2012

BIOLOGY

KTVN Channel 2 - Reno Tahoe News Weather, Video - Kenya's Wesley Korir, Cherop ... KTVN I guess my biology degree kicked in a little bit." Singing religious songs as he trudged along the scorching pavement, the native Kenyan - a permanent resident of the United States - retook the lead from Levy Matebo in the final mile to cross the ... See all stories on this topic »

Eagle parents return to feed their chicks WSLS The Richmond Eagle Cam feed was restored with archived video, but the action you're seeing today is not live. Parents Virginia and James left the nest on Friday. Scientists don't know why. Virginia flew into the nest today about 7:30 am and fed the ... See all stories on this topic »

KTVN Channel 2 - Reno Tahoe News Weather, Video - Army sergeant receives 2nd ... KTVN He earned a degree in biology and was working as a martial arts instructor when he decided to join the Army. In 2010, he became a dual citizen of Brazil and the United States. He said he never expected his life to take the path it has - from an ... See all stories on this topic »

Education Portal Academy's Free Courses Lead to Low-Cost College Credit SYS-CON Media (press release) Education Portal Academy launched with 103 video lessons for Psychology 101. Recently, college-level lessons in biology, calculus, algebra, English literature and Western civilization were added to its offerings. There are now more than 200 lessons on ... See all stories on this topic »

Could Military Mind Control Get Out of Hand? [VIDEO] Mashable Jonathan Moreno, a professor of bioethics at the University of Pennsylvania and the author of Mind Wars: Brain Science and the Military in the 21st Century, wrote an essay published in PLoS Biology about ethical questions of utilizing mind-altering ... See all stories on this topic »

WSU to build $93M biotech hub Crain's Detroit Business By Tom Henderson Crain's first reported the story of Wayne State University's planned biomedical research project in its inaugural video newscast of This Week in Crain's. The newscast debuted Friday. This Week in Crain's features Southeast Michigan's ... See all stories on this topic »

Leaves guide plant's battle for sunlight IANS The findings may offer new ways of developing crops which would produce higher yields of foods and biofuels than existing strains, said Joanne Chory, professor and director at the Salk's Plant Biology Lab, who led the study. See all stories on this topic » IANS

Researchers investigate how some bats survive with white-nose syndrome Bucknell University Two Bucknell University biologists are leading an investigation into how and why some bats survive - and others die - when exposed to the tell-tale fungus that causes white-nose syndrome. Associate Professors of BiologyDeeAnn Reeder and Ken Field have ... See all stories on this topic » Bucknell University

Greenroofs.com's “This Week in Review” on GreenroofsTV: April 13, 2012 Greenroofs.com (blog) by Linda Velazquez Each week you can expect to learn What's New here onGreenroofs.com through our “This Week in Review” video. Here is the transcript from April 13, 2012 from our daughter, Anjuli – click on the photo below to see the video, or here. See all stories on this topic »

Flipping the classroom: Professors move to hands-on learning The Republic "I thought the videos outside of class would take a lot of time. I wondered if I could keep up, if I could contribute. You're really accountable." Blake Gillespie, the chemistry professor who teaches the class, has flipped two of the three courses he's ... See all stories on this topic »

Online Tool Could Diagnose Autism Quickly, Developers Say U.S. News & World Report The process relies on seven questions plus a short home video of an individual child. The research team said its method could reduce by nearly 95 percent the time it takes to diagnose autism and could be easily included in routine child screening ... See all stories on this topic »

NASA's Viking robots found life on Mars in 1976, new study says DigitalJournal.com But scientists ignored the evidence from this experiment and concluded that though there were signs of geological activity, there were no signs of biological activity on Mars. The latest analysis by Miller et al., took a different approach based on the ... See all stories on this topic » DigitalJournal.com

New hope in HIV prevention research: International Microbicide Conference ... EurekAlert (press release) Other research presented at the conference on Monday looked at the biology of mucosal transmission of HIV and rectal microbicides. In a plenary session, Betsy C. Herold of the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in the Bronx in the US noted that there... See all stories on this topic »

Student Artists Flavor Work Beyond Disciplinary Boundaries The Choate News During her junior year, Lubetkin created a music video as an assignment for biology. This fostered an interest in videography that in turn facilitated her involvement with time-lapse photography as well as stop motion videos. See all stories on this topic »

Online Tool for Faster Autism Diagnosis PsychCentral.com Harvard researchers, led by Dennis Wall, Ph.D., an associate professor of pathology and director of computational biology, believe they have discovered a highly accurate strategy that could significantly reduce the complexity and time of the diagnostic ... See all stories on this topic » PsychCentral.com

Local Filmmaker Receives Second Emmy Nomination MarketWatch (press release) As a biologist Musburger has worked for NOAA, the US Fish and Wildlife Service, the University of Hawaii, the New England Aquarium, the Pacific Marine Resource Institute, the American Samoa Department of Marine and Wildlife Resources, NRAS, ... See all stories on this topic »

Noel Edmonds issues Facebook plea after meeting internet 'troll' The Guardian Edmonds said in a video on website iwannameet that people using social networking websites should police their own behaviour more effectively before they are censored by the "state and politicians". Edmonds said in the video that he does not use social ... See all stories on this topic »

Harvard researchers develop tool that could diagnose autism in minutes Examiner.com Dennis Wall, associate professor of pathology and director of computational biologyinitiative at the Center for Biomedical Informatics at Harvard Medical School, has been working to reduce the wait time while still providing an accurate diagnosis of ... See all stories on this topic »

Ohio Valley University to hold birding classes Parkersburg News Classes will focus on identification, birding gear, the basics of bird biology, conservation and backyard bird watching. Classes will consist of lectures, discussions, pictures, videos and guest speakers. The course encompasses five classroom sessions ... See all stories on this topic »

UBC student pleads guilty to taking part in Stanley Cup riot Vancouver Sun Four days after the June 2011 riot, a smiling Cacnio was identified in a YouTube videoleaving the smashed-up Black & Lee Formal Wear store at Richards and Granville holding an item of clothing. The next day, Cacnio issued a 3500-word public apology ... See all stories on this topic »

Has NASA already found life on Mars? Skymania News But NASA decided against a biological cause at the time. Now a team of scientists and mathematicians have carried out a detailed analysis of the data gathered by the experiment and compared it to the results that would be obtained from bug-free soil. See all stories on this topic » Skymania News

IPFW group to get up close look at pandas in China WANE Frank Paladino, IPFW's Jack Schrey Distinguished Professor of Biology,is working to remotely track giant pandas that are being introduced from captivity into semi-wild reserves in Chengdu. This past January six pandas were released. See all stories on this topic »

Meet Thanatos: Real Life Superhero The Market Oracle Thanatos may be a psychological drive that is deeply rooted in humanbiology, but it is also influenced greatly by the socioeconomic and cultural environment in which that biology exists. The good news is that this unrestricted, exploitative market ... See all stories on this topic » The Market Oracle

Longer Looks: Diagnosing Autism In Minutes; Finding New Uses For Old Drugs Kaiser Health News ... computational biology initiative at the Center for Biomedical Informatics at Harvard Medical School and associate professor of pathology at the school, combines computer algorithms along with a seven-point parent questionnaire and a home video clip ... See all stories on this topic »

A Season in Hell Boing Boing 9 Dr. Gershon, who chairs the Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology at New York–Presbyterian, is the author of The Second Brain, whose cover bears a tagline worthy of Ed Wood: “Your gut has a mind of its own.” (Might I suggest, for the revised edition ... See all stories on this topic » Boing Boing

Teacher Network newsletter: the secret of Finnish education plus teachers in tutus The Guardian (blog) We've had a selection of very useful resources for A-level biology students who are learning (or revising) about stem cells. Or for English teachers we have an alternative look at Robert Browning's My Last Duchess. Primary Medieval cures role play 80 ... See all stories on this topic » The Guardian (blog)

FOX Carolina 21How to time travel with the family in Birmingham, England WHNS Greenville Working steam engines and nimble auto-assembling robots wowed the steampunk-loving adults, but Nina was more enthusiastic about the exhibits upstairs coveringbiology, recycling, and the future of robotics. Pulling Nina away from Thinktank's life-sized ... See all stories on this topic »

Century student athletes Pryor Daily Times After graduation, she plans to attend Oklahoma State University with a major in biology, then attend the University of Oklahoma Medical School and looks forward to becoming an anesthesiologist and starting a family. The assistant editor from the ... See all stories on this topic »

Researchers find new information on causes of autism Public Radio International PRI ... Wall, director of the computational biology initiative at Harvard Medical School, may have found a method to replace the evaluations currently used. It combines computer algorithms along with a seven-point parent questionnaire and a home video clip ... See all stories on this topic »

david faure (@D_Faure) on Twitter Biology News, Videos, Reviews and Gossip - io9 awe.sm/5jXOL 10 Scientific Distinctions It's Fun to Argue About #asechat about 16 hours ago via Timely by ... twitter.com/D_Faure

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