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The genetic links between different diseases
Fox News
This network approach, known among scientists as systems biology, could change the way medical specialists view and treat disease, according to some researchers. Rather than only looking to repair the parts of the body that are directly affected by ...
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Harris Lewin elected to National Academy of Sciences
Phys.Org (press release)
Lewin, an emeritus faculty member in the Department of Animal Sciences and founding director of the Institute for Genomic Biology (IGB), was recognized for research he conducted during his 27 years at the University of Illinois.
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New Immunology and Medicine Resources Published at ScienceIndex.com
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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When cells hit the wall: Engineers put the squeeze on cells to diagnose disease
Nanowerk LLC
Along with UCLA stem cell biologist Amander Clark, an assistant professor of of molecular, cellular and developmental biology, Di Carlo's team confirmed that stem cells that have the capability to become any tissue type stretch much less than their ...
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YourNews: Maryville College news
Knoxville News Sentinel
Benjamin Hargett, a history for teacher licensure major from Gallatin, Tenn., and Craig Owens, a biology for teacher licensure major from Huntsville, Tenn., were named recipients of the Outstanding Student Teacher in the Secondary Grades Award.
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UW College of Arts and Sciences Names 2012 Outstanding Graduates
University of Wyoming News
His main area of research is physiological ecology and stable isotope ecology, and he is interested in the history and philosophy of science, biology, and the relationship between Christianity and traditional science. Immediately after graduation ...
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Science exams easier, says Ofqual
WalesOnline
The watchdog conducted reviews of GCSEs and A-levels in biology and chemistry between 2003 and 2008 as well as A-level geography between 2001 and 2010 and A-level critical thinking in 2010. The findings show that among the GCSEs, changes to the way the ...
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Women More Likely to Survive Melanoma Than Men: Study
Doctors Lounge
That gap, researchers say, may be rooted in basic differences in genderbiology. "The 30 percent advantage applies to survival," said study author Dr. Arjen Joosse, from the department of public health at Erasmus University Medical Center in Rotterdam, ...
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Change is good for owners of Plumb Line Physical Therapy
Boyertown Berk Montgomery Newspapers
Heidi originally started out in pre-med, earning a BA in Biology and working at a lab in Philadelphia. She became interested in physical therapy after she saw therapists working with her father who had suffered a stroke.
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Global warming creates unusual coral refuge in Pacific
Mother Nature Network
(Photo: Hughes et al/Current Biology) Global warming is expected to have devastating effects on coral reefs, but recent research points to a few exceptions. Warming in the equatorial Pacific may actually create refuges for corals around a handful of ...
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Grapes good for heart health
The Packer
The research was presented in April at the Experimental Biology conference in San Diego. Participants in the study were randomly picked to eat grapes in the form of a freeze-dried whole grape powder or placebo.
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Human Evolution Isn't Over, New Research Shows
Huffington Post
Intriguingly, "both the relatively wealthy individuals were exposed to very similar overall selection as the poor in our study," said researcher Alexandre Courtiol, an evolutionary biologist at the Institute for Advanced Study in Berlin.
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Extended-Release Niacin Blocks Postprandial HDL Reduction
Medscape
He presented the results of 2 postprandial studies here at the Arteriosclerosis, Thrombosis and Vascular Biology 2012 Scientific Sessions. Preliminary data suggest that these processes are subdued in the fasting phase. Because ER niacin is typically ...
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Tavistock Group's Shehan Dissanayake, Ph.D., Appointed to AMDeC's Board of ...
Sacramento Bee
In addition, Dr. Dissanayake is co-director of the Lake Nona Medical City in Orlando, Fla., where, for this innovative biomedical enterprise, he is instrumental in the development of a medical school, graduate school ofbiology and chemistry, ...
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So These Jobs Can Be Filled: Food Science Workshop Prepares Science Teachers
Sacramento Bee
Just informing students and teachers that there is such a thing as "food science" and that it incorporates chemistry, physics, biology, fluid dynamics and the laws of gravity are just part of the challenge. "So many times people here 'food science' and ...
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Introducing: Abby McBride
Scientific American (blog)
At Williams College I majored in biology and researched a thesis in forest ecology. Having finished six months of field work, I found that I had little to no enthusiasm for using statistical analysis programs (I compensated by crafting the world's most ...
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Scientific American (blog)
MCB grad forging new pathways in science, and academia
UC Berkeley
Yet the 30-year-old Mountain View native, whose mother and father hail from Mexico and Peru, respectively, will round out her six-year stint at Berkeley this semester with a Ph.D. in molecular and cellbiology. She's polishing her doctoral thesis, ...
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University of Houston Graduate College of Social Work announces partnership ...
EurekAlert (press release)
Jones received his doctorate in zoology with an emphasis in endocrinology and tumor biology from the University of California, Berkeley. During his training, Jones was a National Institutes of Health (NIH) pre-doctoral trainee and a Ford Foundation ...
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Geneticist Develops Tool to Identify Genes Important in Disease
Bioscience Technology
"When you know where two sequences differ, you can start to identify changes that affect biological function from those that don't," he says. But "the really interesting and exciting part of this project is what we learned about treating the disease," ...
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The science in Sean Phillips' shoe dirt
WOOD-TV
Investigators enlisted the help of Michigan State University plant biologyprofessors who provided some answers. Soil science professor James Crum told police the dirt likely came from some windswept area near the Lake Michigan shoreline.
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Horizon, H3 Biomedicine Partner on Cancer Drug Targets
GenomeWeb
H3 will carry out early target discovery through pre-clinical research, and Horizon will use its drug discovery tools "to run alongside and support [H3's] discovery biology and chemistry assets and capabilities," the partners said.
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Theology of Salmon: Wild or Farmed?
Food Safety News
So in recent days, I've consulted with several independent experts, including Dr. Mike Rust, aquaculture researcher at the Northwest Fisheries Science Center in Seattle; Dr. John Forster, a marinebiologist and aquaculture expert based in Port Angeles, ...
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History named top teaching department at USU
Cache Valley Daily
The winning department receives both bragging rights and $20000, said DTEA Committee Chair Dave Wallace of the biology department. The history faculty will also be recognized during commencement ceremonies on Saturday. With three finalist departments ...
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Michigan State and University of Texas scientists receive 2012 Sanberg Awards ...
Phys.Org (press release)
The 2012 award was presented in recognition of Dr. Collier's long career studying the neurobiology of aging, work that has included investigation of the role of dopamine in neuron biology as applied to aging, Parkinson's disease, and experimental ...
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Live, Joy and Wait
Huffington Post (blog)
And although the pain remained and at times my biology seemed to have a mind of its own, the one thing I learned was that I could control my thoughts, my vision. Empowerment. Suffering made me a better father. Made me a better partner.
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News | Softball claims first GLVC championship
University of Indianapolis
The Greyhounds topped Illinois Springfield on Sunday in an 8-0 rout bookended by home runs from outfielder Samantha Krcelich, a freshman biology major from Granger. Pitcher Jennifer DeMotte, an entrepreneurship major from Indianapolis, allowed only one ...
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6 New Maxims For Social Marketing
Fast Company
These days, most of us are maintaining weaker ties, following the opinions of old elementary school friends, that woman we hadBiology 101 with a decade ago, a friend-of-a-friend we met at a pancake supper, or the guy who we bought some junk from at a ...
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Fast Company
Al-Qaeda names new Pak chief
Indian Express
He did his BSc in chemistry and biology from Landikotal Degree College and his Master's in International Relations from the University of Peshawar, securing a first division. He worked as a teacher in several private schools in Landikotal, ...
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Occupy MHK works to stay active
K-State Collegian
“The group held weekly protests for about two months,” said Ellen Welti, an Occupy MHK organizer and graduate student in history and biology. “The first protest had over 200 people, but as the weather got colder, the attendance dwindled.
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Arrowhead to Report Fiscal 2012 Second Quarter Financial Results
MarketWatch (press release)
Arrowhead Research Corporation is a clinical stage nanomedicine company developing innovative therapies at the interface of biology and nanoengineering. Arrowhead's world-class capabilities and intellectual property covering nucleic acid delivery, ...
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Is strange organism a new branch on the tree of life?
Mother Nature Network
In this study, published March 21 in the journal Molecular BiologyEvolution, the researchers were able to grow enough of the protozoans, called Collodictyon, in the lab to analyze its genome. They found it doesn't genetically fit into any of the ...
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Mother Nature Network
Jarid2 may break the Polycomb silence - Biology News Net
Biology News Articles & Current Events, Updated Daily.
Biology News Net
ANPC News: EVENT: Society for Conservation Biology Oceania ...
By noreply@blogger.com (ANPC News)
Society for Conservation Biology's Oceania section are holding a regional conference on Conservation Biology in Oceania 21st – 23rd September 2012 in Darwin. The theme is 'People and Conservation in Land and Sea Country'. Land and ...
ANPC News
Prions in the brain eliminated by homing ... - Biology News Net
Biology News Articles & Current Events, Updated Daily.
www.biologynews.net/.../prions_in_the_brain_eliminated_by_...
Purple sea urchin metamorphosis controlled by histamine - Biology ...
This image shows extensive histamine containing cells in metamorphic all competent sea urchin larvae (Strongylocentrotus purpuratus). Now that hay fever ...
esciencenews.com/.../purple.sea.urchin.metamorphosis.controll...
Biology Degrees and PhDs: Actors Who Are Smarter Than You Think
By Allen Tellis. Acting is about being someone you're not and being believable. Most of what we know about actors in their real lives is the scandal: who they just ...
newswatch.nationalgeographic.com/.../biology-degrees-and-p...
Balance biology News, Videos, Reviews and Gossip - io9
balance biology - The Secret of Perfect Tightrope Walking. mad science tightrope walking balance biology sensory information sci science. By Alasdair Wilkins ...
io9.com/balance-biology/
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 shrubs at the Flight 93 National ... News and Events ...
www.iup.edu/newsItem.aspx?id=127447&blogid=6121
WKU, USDA-ARS open greenhouse facility at national - Biology News
The under slat barns yield swine compost, a stabilized product which r. Categories. All News Now Viewing Category: All. Biology News. General. Ogden News ...
www.wku.edu/biology/news/index.php?view=article...
Computational Biology Turns 30 at USC Dornsife | USC News
This year marks three decades of research in computational biology at the USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences. The year 1982 also is when ...
news.usc.edu/#!/article/33533/computational-biology...at...
Mass Spectrometry-Based Proteomics and Network Biology - Topix
Local News: Mountain View, CA. |. Sign Up ... Email me Biology news. Learn more ... This will search the titles of the threads in the Biology forum. Search the ...
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NCSU CALS Biology - News Text
BIOLOGY NEWS, View News List. It is with sadness that we report that Dr. Tom Quay passed away in Raleigh on April 16, 2012 at the age of 97. Dr. Quay...
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Twitter / Biology News Net: Strange cousins: Molecular ...
Strange cousins: Molecular alternatives to DNA, RNA offer new insight into life's origins: Living systems owe th... bit.ly/IYKqhg 4:07 PM Apr 19th via twitterfeed...
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