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Is there a certain suite of legislation that needs to be passed now in order to provide a greater assurance of scientific good in the near future?
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Posted on May 14, 2008 7:20 PM • 1 Comments •
That might not be possible, but ingesting isotopically-enriched food would make your waste even more valuable.
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Posted on April 25, 2008 7:37 AM • 1 Comments •
Here's a hint: blood isn't blue. Ever.
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Posted on April 17, 2008 7:30 AM • 28 Comments •
Scientists identify the alpha-4 beta-7 integrin as a co-receptor for HIV, offering a potential new drug target.
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Posted on February 11, 2008 8:23 PM • 3 Comments •
A tiny modification can make a big difference in proteins involved in cell adhesion and migration.
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Posted on December 31, 2007 3:30 PM • 0 Comments •
Awkward? Probably. But, menstrual blood stem cells show some early promise.
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Posted on November 29, 2007 7:45 AM • 3 Comments •
The media mangles otherwise interesting and significant stem cell findings.
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Posted on November 21, 2007 7:54 PM • 22 Comments •
Awarded for the knockout mouse to Mario R. Capecchi, Martin J. Evans, and Oliver Smithies
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Posted on October 8, 2007 9:21 AM • 2 Comments •
Although extended unprotected exposure to the sun damages your skin and eyes, a small daily dose is important for maintaining general health and wellbeing
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Posted on June 19, 2007 1:41 PM • 10 Comments •
The U.S. Office of Research Integrity announced this week that it has found a former postdoc in Gerald Schatten's lab, Park Jong Hyuk, guilty of research misconduct for falsifying images in a manuscript on deriving embryonic stem cells from cloned...
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Posted on January 12, 2007 7:43 AM • 0 Comments •
The second paper from my undergraduate work at Texas A&M University was recently published in Molecular Cancer. The abstract can be found here, and the pdf of the full paper here. Molecular Cancer is an open access journal, so a...
Posted on December 19, 2006 7:39 AM • 3 Comments •
Last month, I wrote a post about a research group at Texas A&M University that reported genetically engineering "edible cotton seeds" by using RNAi technology to stably and specifically knock out production of the gossypol toxin in the seeds of...
Posted on December 18, 2006 7:39 AM • 3 Comments •
Via A Blog Around the Clock comes news that Daniel Rhoads, who writes the informative blog Migrations (and formerly A Concerned Scientist), has successfully defended his dissertation. So, after a few minor revisions, it looks like it won't be too...
Posted on December 3, 2006 2:57 PM • 2 Comments •
But, a recent report in
PNAS demonstrates that edible cotton seeds could be a real possibility, thanks to new transgenic crop biotechnology.
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Posted on November 29, 2006 7:39 AM • 1 Comments •
The "ethically sound" stem cell paper resurfaces this week, as it appears in the print version of the current issue of
Nature.
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Posted on November 22, 2006 6:37 PM • 10 Comments •
A list of blogs covering NMR (nuclear magnetic resonance)
Posted on November 17, 2006 5:27 PM • 3 Comments •
Social controls play a surprisingly large role in encouraging altruism in insect colonies, according to a paper in last week's issue of Nature.
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Posted on November 16, 2006 7:43 AM • 5 Comments •
Oxford's Iain Campbell discusses the past and future of structural biology.
Posted on October 17, 2006 10:20 AM • 4 Comments •
My first appearance in the peer-reviewed scientific literature provides an opportunity to learn a little bit about blood vessel development.
Posted on October 16, 2006 10:20 AM • 7 Comments •
The 2006 Nobel Prize in Chemistry has been awarded to Roger Kornberg for his work on elucidating the molecular basis of transcription in eukaryotes.
Posted on October 4, 2006 8:23 AM • 2 Comments •
The 2006 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was announced this morning, with one half going to Andrew Fire and the other half to Craig Mello, both for the discovery of RNA interference (RNAi). The discovery of RNAi added a...
Posted on October 2, 2006 9:38 AM • 0 Comments •
Nobel Laureate Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard's
Coming to Life: How Genes Drive Development is an understated primer that lays out the current state of the art of developmental biology, shocking the reader with just how much we know about how each one of us came to take our unique but fundamentally similar shapes.
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Posted on August 21, 2006 7:45 AM • 7 Comments •
An April 2006 paper in
Nature narrowed down the range of possible scenarios for how global warming may play out as carbon dioxide levels continue to rise. Although much of the press coverage treated it as a blow to global warming science, it was in reality quite the opposite.
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Posted on August 10, 2006 7:55 AM • 0 Comments •
Global warming is certainly a "hot topic", and this post decribes some global warming research findings from January 2006: one that revises estimates of the expected increase in sea level due to global warming and another that demonstrates how certain important marine ecosystems could be vulnerable to changes in ocean currents due to global warming.
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Posted on August 9, 2006 7:55 AM • 0 Comments •
What do global warming and epidemic diseases have in common? Apparently they have a lot, at least when it comes to amphibians.
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Posted on August 8, 2006 7:55 AM • 0 Comments •
On the weekend of July 28th-30th, about 150 NMR (nuclear magnetic resonance) scientists from the UK and Europe (and a few from the US) gathered in Ambleside for the Sixth Annual Collaborative Computing Project for NMR (CCPN) Meeting. The topic...
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Posted on August 7, 2006 7:55 AM • 1 Comments •
Genetic engineering holds a great deal of promise, but it can only be used on things that are "alive". Still, scientists have found other ways to make the stuff of genes, DNA, come alive in more artistic ways.
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Posted on July 28, 2006 7:45 AM • 0 Comments •
Now here's an experiment I would have liked to take part in. Researchers from Johns Hopkins systematically test the psychological effects of the hallucinogenic drug psilocybin, and the results are pretty positive. Not only that, but a significant number of participants rate the experience as the single most meaningful one of their lives!
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Posted on July 14, 2006 7:45 AM • 8 Comments •
Since my Ph.D. research is on protein NMR, I would be remiss if, as we celebrate his 150th birthday, I didn't mention Tesla's connection to my field--particularly since the unit for the strength of a magnetic field bears his name!
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Posted on July 10, 2006 7:56 PM • 2 Comments •
In 2006, cloning for cloning's sake isn't where it's at. Instead, the future of cloning lies in its applications to biomedical research. Today, that means, among other things, the prospect of using cloning to generate unique lines of embryonic stem cells.
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Posted on July 10, 2006 7:45 AM • 6 Comments •
Now I have an excuse for my behavior the next time I get into a bitter political debate: I can't help being defensive--it's hardwired into me! Those are the findings, at least, of a study led by psychologist Drew Westen.
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Posted on July 7, 2006 7:55 AM • 2 Comments •
In NMR, bigger really is better, at least when it comes to magnetic field strength, and the entire field has in some ways become one big manhood size-measuring contest. One group, though, reported earlier this year in
Nature Physics that sometimes it may be better to just go natural. Forget about all of the high-tech magnets--just use the big one right under your feet!
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Posted on June 30, 2006 7:59 AM • 11 Comments •
Last week's Fantastical Fridays was a big hit, so we'll keep the momentum going with more chemistry this week. Instead of anthropomorphic molecules, though, this one is all about chemicals with downright ridiculous names. If you still have any doubts...
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Posted on June 23, 2006 7:59 AM • 5 Comments •
Lurking beneath the surface here at ScienceBlogs is a force that compels people to do extremely gimmicky things on Fridays. Since I know that I'm no better than anyone else, I've decided to join in on the fun. Therefore, I...
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Posted on June 16, 2006 8:55 AM • 9 Comments •
Each week, Seed magazine poses a question to all of its ScienceBloggers. This week's question, from reader Jake Bryan, is: Assuming that time and money were not obstacles, what area of scientific research, outside of your own discipline, would you...
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Posted on June 11, 2006 8:39 PM • 0 Comments •
This is a plug for an event that the Oxford University Biochemical Society is putting together. This Monday, June 12th, at 4:00 pm the Oxford University Biochemical Society will be hosting a talk by Nobel Laureate Robert Huber in the...
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Posted on June 10, 2006 10:04 PM • 2 Comments •