News: [Entry posted at 31st March 2010 06:00 PM GMT] The first genome sequence of a songbird, published in Nature this week, has provided scientists with the tools to begin studying the molecular underpinnings of vocal learning -- an ability present in just a few other animals, including whales, bats ... Click to continue
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News: [Entry posted at 30th March 2010 02:37 PM GMT] A federal judge ruled yesterday (March 29) to invalidate seven patents related to two genes associated with breast cancer, casting doubt on the thousands of other patents covering human genes.
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News: [Entry posted at 26th March 2010 07:55 PM GMT] As far as buzz words go in the life science community, "translational research" has had a pretty long lifespan. Transforming laboratory-hatched ideas into lucrative commercial products has, is, and will be a holy grail sought by scientists and ... Click to continue
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News: [Entry posted at 26th March 2010 02:40 PM GMT] Most university professors have ideas for how to get their students excited about the science they're studying -- rarely do those plans involve claymation. Unless, of course, you happen to be Brown University evolutionary biologist ... Click to continue
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News: [Entry posted at 25th March 2010 07:11 PM GMT] The National Institutes of Health is upgrading its drug development and manufacturing facility -- new location, new equipment, same mission -- to "help move ideas from the laboratory bench to the patient faster and better," said John Gallin, ... Click to continue
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News: [Entry posted at 25th March 2010 07:00 PM GMT] One protein appears to play an integral role in protecting telomeres, and possibly preventing cancerous growth, according to a study published this week in Science.
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News: [Entry posted at 24th March 2010 06:00 PM GMT] A previously unknown human ancestor may have coexisted with Neanderthals and early modern humans, German researchers report online in Nature today (March 24).
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News: [Entry posted at 24th March 2010 03:11 PM GMT] The historic healthcare reform legislation that was signed by U.S. President Barack Obama yesterday (23rd March) will be an obvious boon to big pharmaceutical companies and hospitals, which will eventually have access to more than 30 million new ... Click to continue
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News: [Entry posted at 23rd March 2010 02:32 PM GMT] Yeast may not have blood vessels, but it could be a powerful model organism for studying angiogenesis, according to a study published online in Proceedings of the ... Click to continue
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News: [Entry posted at 22nd March 2010 07:10 PM GMT] Drugs being investigated for Alzheimer's disease may be causing further neural degeneration and cell death, calling for a change in the way Alzheimer's medications are developed, according to results published in this week's Proceedings of the ... Click to continue
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News: [Entry posted at 21st March 2010 06:02 PM GMT] Nanoparticles studded with short RNA molecules can silence target genes in melanoma patients, demonstrating the clinical feasibility of these techniques for the first time, according to research published online today (March 21) in Nature. ... Click to continue
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News: [Entry posted at 19th March 2010 03:14 PM GMT] What do a yam, a wasp, and a wallaby all have in common? Well, not much, actually, but they're all being touted as the next big experimental model, according to a new laboratory manual due out in April. The second volume of Emerging Model Organisms, ... Click to continue
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News: [Entry posted at 18th March 2010 06:00 PM GMT] Scientists have developed a powerful new way to study sperm competition: Watch the action -- live.
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News: [Entry posted at 18th March 2010 06:00 PM GMT] Researchers have identified a possible mechanism by which DNA regions that don't encode proteins can still determine phenotypic traits such as a person's height or susceptibility to a particular disease, researchers report online in Science today. ... Click to continue
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News: [Entry posted at 17th March 2010 01:47 PM GMT] Finnish-born geneticist and physician Leena Peltonen-Palotie, who uncovered numerous genetic mutations behind various human diseases, passed away last week at the age of 57.
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News: [Entry posted at 17th March 2010 12:58 PM GMT] Pregnancy boosts the regenerative capacity of the liver in mice, a finding that may shed light on a process entirely separate from pregnancy -- aging, researchers report in a study published this ... Click to continue
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News: [Entry posted at 15th March 2010 08:16 PM GMT] Whether you're starting a new job or discussing a raise, every negotiation starts with current salary rates -- in other words, what are your colleagues earning? Help us figure that out by completing our salary survey online today (it'll only take 5 ... Click to continue
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News: [Entry posted at 15th March 2010 03:56 PM GMT] MIT researcher to head NSF? Subra Suresh, dean of engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, is likely to become the next director of the National Science Foundation (NSF), replacing ... Click to continue
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News: [Entry posted at 12th March 2010 03:49 PM GMT] Science might be a high stakes game, but a project's success or failure rarely determines whether the researchers undertaking it will live or die. There are, of course, some exceptions to this; say, for example, your work is funded by Joseph Stalin, ... Click to continue
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News: [Entry posted at 11th March 2010 05:00 PM GMT] Arctic reindeer, which live most of the year in 24-hour darkness or daylight, may lack an internal clock common to most organisms, according to research published online today (March 11) in Current Biology.
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News: [Entry posted at 11th March 2010 03:22 PM GMT] Walter Plowright, a pioneer in the field of veterinary medicine who helped to eradicate so-called "cattle plague," rinderpest, died last month at the age of 86.
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News: [Entry posted at 10th March 2010 08:04 PM GMT] Cancer genomics company Exelixis announced on Monday that it would cut 270 jobs, a loss of about 40% of its workforce, with the brunt of the cuts aimed at drug discovery, according to a Securities and Exchange Commission filing.
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News: [Entry posted at 10th March 2010 06:00 PM GMT] The humble chicken has provided humanity with meat, eggs, and wake-up calls for centuries, and new research probing the bird's DNA may point to an expansion of another role for the flightless fowl: biomedical model organism.
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News: [Entry posted at 10th March 2010 02:48 PM GMT] US President Barack Obama's 2009 executive order to allow the federal funding of research using new human embryonic stem cell (hESC) lines may become law.
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News: [Entry posted at 8th March 2010 05:25 PM GMT] A cystic fibrosis drug that seemed destined for death when its company faced financial troubles (and eventually went belly up last year) is being revived by another company.
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News: [Entry posted at 8th March 2010 03:34 PM GMT] Elsevier has asked the editor-in-chief of its only non-peer-reviewed journal, Medical Hypotheses, to either resign immediately or implement a series of changes, ... Click to continue
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News: [Entry posted at 8th March 2010 03:31 PM GMT] Hand (de)sanitizer?The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) uncovered a nasty little additive in some Puerto Rican hand sanitizers: bacteria. The FDA warned consumers ... Click to continue
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News: [Entry posted at 7th March 2010 06:00 PM GMT] Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) can infect bone marrow cells -- including, possibly, hematopoietic stem cells, according to a study published online today (March 7) in Nature Medicine.
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News: [Entry posted at 5th March 2010 01:40 PM GMT] In a remarkable union of science and art, landscape painter Diane Burko shows how the planet's glaciers have changed form over the last century in her latest exhibit ... Click to continue
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News: [Entry posted at 4th March 2010 07:00 PM GMT] New findings are challenging the current understanding of how non-neural brain cells contribute to brain signaling, by showing that calcium levels in these cells do not affect synaptic activity.
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News: [Entry posted at 4th March 2010 02:47 PM GMT] Drug maker AstraZeneca is pink-slipping approximately 550 Wilmington, Delaware-based researchers and their support staff in a move to help balance the company's books and save it $1.9 billion per year by 2014.
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News: [Entry posted at 3rd March 2010 06:00 PM GMT] Mitochondrial genomes are not uniform across cells of the body as previously believed, but vary between different tissue types, according to a study published online today (March 3) in Nature.
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News: [Entry posted at 2nd March 2010 06:05 PM GMT] Administrators at Sweden's premier medical university, the Karolinska Institute, announced today (March 2nd) that they've fired the institution's dean of research for exerting "undue influence" over the allocation of funds to top Karolinska ... Click to continue
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News: [Entry posted at 1st March 2010 04:24 PM GMT] UMass leader steps downJack Wilson is expected to announce today that ... Click to continue
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