News: [Entry posted at 27th February 2008 04:13 PM GMT] Just what is it about autism that produces the three hallmark behaviors of social impairment, language difficulties, and rigidity, or an "insistence on sameness'? Scientists at this year's Keystone meeting on the pathophysiology of ... Click to continue
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News: [Entry posted at 26th February 2008 09:30 PM GMT] This morning's session at the Keystone meeting on the pathophysiology of autism in Santa Fe, New Mexico, focused on the disorder's link to Fragile X syndrome. Like autism, Fragile X is associated with behaviors such as high social anxiety, ... Click to continue
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News: [Entry posted at 25th February 2008 09:23 PM GMT] It's a small Keystone meeting on the pathophysiology of autistic syndromes here in Santa Fe, New Mexico, but you can feel the excitement among the 100 or so attendees, as they muddle their way through early data in this growing area of research. ... Click to continue
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News: [Entry posted at 21st February 2008 09:40 PM GMT] NIH needs to make life easier for everyone involved in the peer review process - a not surprising conclusion of the agency's peer review working group, which it announced today (February 21) after reviewing thousands of suggestions from ... Click to continue
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News: [Entry posted at 20th February 2008 01:37 PM GMT] Last night, I and other attendees of the Knight Science Journalism Fellowships 25th Anniversary Symposium in Boston were introduced to an interesting idea, courtesy of Clive Thompson, science writer extraordinaire for Wired and other outlets: ... Click to continue
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News: [Entry posted at 15th February 2008 03:00 PM GMT] The images you see in [Creature, a new book of photographs by Andrew Zuckerman] are the product of a journey of discovery and of learning how to connect with the soul and essence of all creatures. In animals, as in humans, the eye connects the ... Click to continue
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News: [Entry posted at 14th February 2008 04:05 PM GMT] A company that aimed to reduce global warming by creating blooms of carbon dioxide-absorbing phytoplankton in the ocean has sunk, according to the New York ... Click to continue
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News: [Entry posted at 11th February 2008 07:02 PM GMT] A geneticist was sentenced to one year of unsupervised release (no jail time) and a $500 fine for supplying bacteria to an artist, according to the Buffalo News, bringing to an end a ... Click to continue
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News: [Entry posted at 11th February 2008 03:46 PM GMT] Frank Dixon, a Lasker winner and founder of the Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla, Calif., died on Friday (February 8) of heart failure. He was 87 years old.
Dixon was best known for his work showing that immunologic responses can cause harm, ... Click to continue
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News: [Entry posted at 7th February 2008 07:17 PM GMT] It was the days before the two competing groups of researchers published the first draft of the human genome (released in February, 2001), and Don Kennedy was stressed out. As editor of Science, he was trying to get both groups to publish ... Click to continue
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News: [Entry posted at 5th February 2008 04:19 PM GMT] Still undecided about who to vote for in today's Super Tuesday election? Here's another source from Research!America and its partners called "Your Candidates-Your Health."
The ... Click to continue
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News: [Entry posted at 4th February 2008 09:28 PM GMT] Tomorrow is Super Tuesday, so who are you going to vote for?
Yesterday, Harold Varmus, president of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York, told Wired that he ... Click to continue
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