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When our news editor, Alison McCook, emailed me yesterday to tell me that the editors of the Canadian Medical Association Journal (CMAJ) had been sacked, I had a bit of d?j? vu. Just over ... Click to continue
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The Keystone Symposium I?m at this week in Santa Fe is billed as being about two related subjects: the molecular mechanisms of cardiac disease and the molecular mechanisms of regeneration. And ... Click to continue
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It?s a no-brainer that people who share last names usually share genes as well. I, for one, am often asked if I?m related to the Indian cricket player Sourav Ganguly. (Sadly, no.) But now there?s a scientific ... Click to continue
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I think anyone who received last week's Euroscience Open Forum (ESOF) newsletter would have been forgiven for wondering why the main article was entitled ?What is Islamism??
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Epigenetics and chromatin remodeling, it turns out, may play a role in heart disease. In one of two keynote addresses that opened the Keystone Symposia?s meeting on Molecular Mechanisms of Cardiac Disease and Regeneration here in Santa Fe, New ... Click to continue
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In the latest of a long line of developments, Columbia University appears to have withdrawn its name from a ... Click to continue
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So the Ohio School Board overturned a previous decision to add wording about ?critical analysis? of evolutionary theory. Though the wording sounds somewhat innocuous several evolution defenders have painted it as the next permutation of Intelligent ... Click to continue
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When I saw this month?s cover story earned a mention in Monday?s New York Times article called "Reporters find science journals harder to trust, but not easy to verify," my eyes lingered ... Click to continue
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[Entry posted at 14th February 2006 02:57 AM GMT]
An urgent plea has gone out from Britain's Royal Society, calling for a ?white knight? to buy some notes written by Robert Hooke in the late 1600s and make them available to researchers.
Hooke worked with Robert Boyle, coined the term 'cell' and ... Click to continue
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[Entry posted at 13th February 2006 11:25 PM GMT]
Little did I know what a treat I was getting at last week?s conference at the New School in New York called "Politics & Science: How their interplay results in public policy." On the second ... Click to continue
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Werner Hoeger, the kinesiologist turned luger we profiled in our February issue, came incredibly close to his goal of four clean runs in Torino this weekend.
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After 27 years, Australia's Lorne Conference on the Organization and Expression of the Genome witnessed a first on Sunday: a session dedicated to the joys of epigenetics .
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[Entry posted at 11th February 2006 06:51 PM GMT]
A week or so ago, Ann Maree Pearce, a government cytogeneticist from Australia's island state, Tasmania, and colleagues said in a Nature news report that a nasty facial cancer affecting the Tasmanian devil population, dubbed Devil Facial Tumour ... Click to continue
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[Entry posted at 11th February 2006 06:48 PM GMT]
The 18th Lorne Cancer Conference Erskine on the Beach in Lorne, Australia, closed today, but not before p53 competed with the scenery for scientists' attention. Just as the ... Click to continue
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[Entry posted at 10th February 2006 04:15 PM GMT]
While doing a little background research for a notebook item running in the March issue, I had the opportunity to type the words ?Brain Transplantation? into Google?s search window. The very first hit you get is for, aptly enough, ... Click to continue
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This one day conference focused on the interface between academic research and the commercialization of the fruits of stem cell research. The San Francisco-based ... Click to continue
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I?m an obvious beneficiary of medical technology. Without the computer surgically embedded in my skull, I?d be totally deaf. The device, called a ?cochlear implant,? routes past my damaged inner ear by triggering my auditory nerves with sixteen ... Click to continue
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Peer review is on every life scientist?s mind lately, it seems. One of the main complaints I heard while researching the February cover story is that the process is inherently difficult to ... Click to continue
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My past came back to haunt me today. I was an eager attendee of the 2006 International Symposium: Stem Cell Symposium, which was organized by the Women?s Technology Cluster, a business incubator in San Francisco. I had no idea that salamanders would ... Click to continue
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[Entry posted at 5th February 2006 09:19 PM GMT]
Despite the diversity of topics and speakers, some common threads emerged at the joint structural biology meetings in Keystone this past week. First, structural genomics clearly has hit its stride. The US Protein Structure Initiative deposited some ... Click to continue
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[Entry posted at 2nd February 2006 09:33 PM GMT]
Ari Patrinos is ending his stint as associate director of science for biological and environmental research at the Department of Energy to head up Synthetic Genomics, Inc, a ... Click to continue
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There?s a pretty slick paper in the February Nature Methods. Alexander Shekhtman, of SUNY-Albany, describes a novel technique called STINT-NMR (for structural interactions using ... Click to continue
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President Bush thinks that science is the key to keeping the US ahead. It will help the country wean itself off fossil fuels, he said in his fifth State of the Union last ... Click to continue
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If they awarded a prize for best seminar title, Zygmunt Derewenda would win it, hand?s down. According to the abstract book for the Keystone Symposium on Structural Genomics, his seminar was to be entitled "Protein Crystallization: From Art to ... Click to continue
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