News: [Entry posted at 28th February 2010 06:00 PM GMT] Scientists have devised a new way to make sugar-linked proteins, an important step towards understanding a key type of protein modification and refining drug therapies that utilize the so-called glycoproteins -- as well as the subject of two ... Click to continue
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News: [Entry posted at 26th February 2010 06:57 PM GMT] Biomedical research needs practicing physicians -- understanding the issues that arise in the clinic is arguably one of the best ways to inform the work done in the lab. But recently, there is evidence to suggest the numbers of physician-scientists ... Click to continue
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News: [Entry posted at 26th February 2010 06:05 PM GMT] The scientific community appears to be fighting to convince Elsevier to continue to publish its only non-peer-reviewed journal, after the publisher began to ... Click to continue
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News: [Entry posted at 25th February 2010 07:00 PM GMT] Embryonic neurons transplanted into mice can induce a period of flexibility in a relatively rigid older brain, suggesting a possible mechanism to repair damaged brain circuits, according a study published this week in Science.
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News: [Entry posted at 23rd February 2010 02:27 PM GMT] While the transition to the new shortened grant applications at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the corresponding review guidelines hasn't been completely smooth, reviewers who have participated in the first ... Click to continue
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News: [Entry posted at 18th February 2010 02:38 PM GMT] Deputy Director Raynard Kington is leaving the National Institutes of Health (NIH) this summer after 10 years with the agency to take a position as president of Grinnell College in Iowa.
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News: [Entry posted at 18th February 2010 02:01 PM GMT] Ten years ago, scientists discovered stem cells in the dental pulp of human teeth. Despite the fact that there are still no FDA-approved therapies using these cells, companies are emerging that charge consumers up to $1,600 to extract and store ... Click to continue
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News: [Entry posted at 17th February 2010 06:00 PM GMT] Scientists have sequenced the genomes of five individuals from indigenous populations in southern Africa, including famed South African Bishop Desmond Tutu, revealing new genetic variation among humans that they say will advance medical genomics ... Click to continue
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News: [Entry posted at 14th February 2010 06:00 PM GMT] Scientists have developed a new genetic language using a ribosome that can read instructions that are 4 base pairs long, enabling the construction of designer proteins containing a variety of unnatural elements, according to a study published online ... Click to continue
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News: [Entry posted at 10th February 2010 12:01 AM GMT] Yeast living in the nectar of flowering plants can act as miniature space heaters for winter-blooming flowers, suggesting the microorganisms may be a third player in what scientists have traditionally viewed as a two-part plant-pollinator ... Click to continue
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News: [Entry posted at 5th February 2010 02:32 PM GMT] Arden L. Bement is stepping down as the director of the National Science Foundation (NSF) to head up Purdue University's new Global Policy Research Institute (GPRI), which will offer faculty and student fellowships, a certificate in public policy, ... Click to continue
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News: [Entry posted at 3rd February 2010 10:00 PM GMT] With the Human Genome Project largely complete, scientists are turning to variation in the epigenome and beginning to map chemical modifications of DNA that affect gene expression. Two recent studies that provide the first comprehensive maps of ... Click to continue
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News: [Entry posted at 3rd February 2010 06:00 PM GMT] Biologists have traditionally left quantum theory to physicists. But the complicated interactions between matter and energy predicted by quantum mechanics appears to play a role in photosynthesis, according to a study published this week in Nature ... Click to continue
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News: [Entry posted at 2nd February 2010 04:17 PM GMT] Leading stem cell researchers are accusing some scientists of abusing the peer-review system, writing unreasonable or obstructive reviews and delaying the publication of high quality science.
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