News: [Entry posted at 25th November 2009 06:06 PM GMT] Scientists have found a new way to manipulate the direction of snail shell coiling, altering the animal's left-right asymmetry. The research, published online today (November 25) ... Click to continue
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News: [Entry posted at 24th November 2009 03:13 PM GMT] At the World Summit on Food Security in Rome last week, hosted by the UN's Food and Agriculture Organization, global leaders, not surprisingly, called for additional aid to improve farming systems and help in mitigating the effects of climate change ... Click to continue
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News: [Entry posted at 19th November 2009 08:28 PM GMT] The lifeblood of theatre pulses with love, hardship, and self-discovery. But with science... not so much. Laboratory-borne concepts, scientific jargon, and nitty-gritty details can sometimes seem impossible to translate into art, especially on the ... Click to continue
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News: [Entry posted at 17th November 2009 06:27 PM GMT] National Institutes of Health director Francis Collins today (November 17) announced a successor to fill his vacant post as head of NIH's National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI). ... Click to continue
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News: [Entry posted at 16th November 2009 03:03 PM GMT] China took on a new role in African science last weekend (November 8), announcing plans to promote research in agriculture, medicine, and clean energy as part of its $10 billion investment in the region.
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News: [Entry posted at 11th November 2009 06:15 PM GMT] Scientists have developed a new drug that blocks a transcription factor -- previously thought to be un-blockable -- that has been causally linked to leukemia and several other cancers of the lungs, ovaries, pancreas, and gastrointestinal tract, they ... Click to continue
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News: [Entry posted at 3rd November 2009 03:37 PM GMT] A four-year-old promise to create a $5 billion publically funded competitive granting agency in Nigeria -- which would be the second such agency in Africa -- was revived last month, but leading African scientists remain skeptical that the plan will ... Click to continue
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