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[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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[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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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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[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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[Entry posted at 24th February 2010 06:01 PM GMT]
Underwater mud can conduct electricity, possibly with the help of bacteria in the sediment -- a result that helps explain the large amount of electrical activity researchers have detected in ocean sediments, a ... Click to continue
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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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[Entry posted at 22nd February 2010 04:18 PM GMT]
NIH tweaks stem cell rulesThe US National Institutes of Health on Friday (Feb 19) proposed a change to its definition of a human embryonic stem cell. Presently, stem cell lines are defined as being derived from a blastocyst-stage embryo. The ... Click to continue
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[Entry posted at 22nd February 2010 02:36 PM GMT]
Patricia Clarke, a distinguished British biochemist who deepened the field's understanding of bacterial evolution and was a role model for women in science, died last month at 90 years of age. Pseudomonas aeruginosaImage: Wikimedia Commons, ... Click to continue
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[Entry posted at 22nd February 2010 12:51 PM GMT]
Researchers have discovered one way that asexually reproducing organisms maintain variation in their DNA. Female whiptail lizards can actually double their own chromosomes during meiosis, according to a study published online today in Nature. A ... Click to continue
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[Entry posted at 19th February 2010 03:21 PM GMT]
The European Research Council (ERC), today (February 19) elected social scientist Helga Nowotny as president of the agency.
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[Entry posted at 18th February 2010 07:00 PM GMT]
Researchers have developed a novel technique for identifying patient-specific biomarkers in tumor DNA which they say can reliably monitor the progression of individual patients' cancers. Their findings are presented this week at the American ... Click to continue
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[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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[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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[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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Biology department casualtiesThe Chronicle of Higher Education has posted remembrances of the three researchers killed on Friday when Amy Bishop, an assistant professor of biology ... Click to continue
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[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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[Entry posted at 11th February 2010 04:03 PM GMT]
Congressional earmarks are typically associated with bridges, parks, or other public works -- but science?
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[Entry posted at 10th February 2010 06:00 PM GMT]
For the first time researchers have sequenced an ancient human genome, revealing characteristics of Greenland's first inhabitants and providing evidence of a previously unknown human migration, according to a study published in this week's Nature. ... Click to continue
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[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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[Entry posted at 8th February 2010 03:28 PM GMT]
No conflict, but FDA's head drug official steps aside from an approval process Janet Woodcock, director of the Center for Drug Evaluation and Research (CDER) at the US Food and Drug ... Click to continue
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[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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[Entry posted at 5th February 2010 01:41 PM GMT]
It's Carl Sagan like you've never heard him: his digitized, remixed voice sounds more like something emanating from a radio tuned to a pop music station than from a TV playing a public television documentary. Footage of the scientist in his ... Click to continue
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[Entry posted at 4th February 2010 07:13 PM GMT]
Repeat untranscribed DNA sequences are generally thought to be genetic junk at best, harmful at worst, but in ribosomes they are essential to repairing DNA damage, according to a study published this week in Science. Ribosomal protein complex ... Click to continue
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[Entry posted at 4th February 2010 05:00 PM GMT]
Reproductive biologists have identified the mechanism that triggers sperm's race to the egg, reports a study in Cell today.
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[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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[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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[Entry posted at 2nd February 2010 04:35 PM GMT]
When the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) doled out $10 billion to the National Institutes of Health and $3 billion to the National Science Foundation last year, many hailed it as a triumph for the US research enterprise. But the money, ... Click to continue
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[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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[Entry posted at 1st February 2010 04:17 PM GMT]
Pharma research jobs on the chopping blockAnnouncements of job loss in big pharma continue, with the UK press saying that GlaxoSmithKline will soon announce 4,000 layoffs, nearly half in R&D. ... Click to continue
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[Entry posted at 1st February 2010 03:35 PM GMT]
A $1 billion boost for NIH announced in the 2011 budget this morning (Feb 1) has quelled fears that US President Barack Obama's proposed non-security discretionary spending freeze would decrease budgets at federal science agencies.
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