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Missing Playstations provide a clue to murder of two French students (Times Online)

Fri, 04 Jul 2008 22:39:00 GMT

Two French biochemistry students found brutally murdered in a South London bedsit may have died for the sake of two handheld games consoles, police said last night.

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Rejuvenation Research, Volume 11, Number 3 (Fight Aging!)

Fri, 04 Jul 2008 01:27:16 GMT

The latest issue of Rejuvenation Research is online. You'll find a few more esoteric items on calorie restriction biochemistry, but one paper on methionine restriction is more accessible and interesting. By way of a reminder, recall that there's a fairly good argument for the beneficial effects of calorie restriction to largely stem from lowering the intake of methionine, one of the eight essential...

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Police baffled by horrific end of Laurent Bonomo and Gabriel Ferez (Times Online)

Thu, 03 Jul 2008 23:00:00 GMT

As two talented biochemistry students and close friends, Laurent Bonomo and Gabriel Ferez had come to London to develop their skills as specialists in infectious disease and environmental engineering.

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Environmental Lawyer Salaries (Salary Stories)

Thu, 03 Jul 2008 19:30:15 GMT

Name: Stu Flashman Job Title: Environmental Lawyer Where: Oakland, CA - USA Current Employer: Self-Employed Years of Experience: 18 Education: Brown University - B.A. and Sc.M. in Biology; Harvard University - Ph.D. in Biochemistry & Molecular Biology; New College of...

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Biochemistry: Electron Relay in Proteins (Complexity digest 2008.03)

Thu, 03 Jul 2008 16:31:18 GMT

Electron transfer in proteins can be accelerated by electron relay along a chain of residues. (...) The movement of electrons between cofactors in proteins is fundamental to photosynthesis, nitrogen fixation, aerobic respiration, and many other life processes. Researchers have long asked how the protein architecture separating two cofactors influences the rate of electron transfer between them... Science...

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French students killed in 'frenzied attack' (CNN)

Thu, 03 Jul 2008 11:34:09 GMT

Two French biochemistry students who were found stabbed to death in a burned-out London apartment were the victims of a "frenzied, brutal, horrific attack," say police who have appealed for information about the case.

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Students tortured, stabbed to death, report says (CNN)

Thu, 03 Jul 2008 11:34:09 GMT

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The Way of the Cell (The Recliner Commentaries)

noreply@blogger.com (Dennis) — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 10:53:00 GMT

I just finished reading a fascinating book called, The Way of the Cell; Molecules, Organisms and the Order of Life by Franklin M. Harold, emeritus professor of biochemistry and molecular biology at Colorado State University. The book describes in detail the unbelievable complexity of life at the cellular level. Dr. Harold pulls no punches in his rejection of Intelligent Design theory. He writes,...

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Arnold Elected to National Academy of Sciences (Red Orbit )

Fri, 27 Jun 2008 11:02:50 GMT

By Anonymous Frances H. Arnold, a professor of chemical engineering and biochemistry at the California Institute of Technology, has been elected to the National Academy of Sciences.

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The good and the bad of a potential Alzheimer's target (Eurekalert)

Fri, 27 Jun 2008 04:00:00 GMT

( American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology ) Research in fruit flies has shown that enhancing the production of a protein called neprilysin can reduce the formation of plaques and neuron death associated with Alzheimer's, at the expense of reducing the flies' lifespan.

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Stingray has a bukkit. (View From The Porch)

Sun, 22 Jun 2008 02:19:00 GMT

Those wacky kids at Atomic Nerds have embarked upon the wondrous voyage of homebrewing. The potential punch lines for home biochemistry experiments in Los Alamos beggar the imagination. Hell, I bet just typing the words " home biochemistry experiments in Los Alamos " makes red lights blink somewhere in Al's intertubes. Also, I feel very warm and fuzzy about the last picture in the post...

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Mosquitoes eat DDT, and here’s how (Millard Fillmore's Bathtub)

Wed, 18 Jun 2008 16:19:32 GMT

University of Illinois researchers found the protein that allows mosquitoes to metabolize DDT. Biochemistry professor Mary Schuler and postdoctoral researcher Sanjeewa Rupasinghe used molecular modeling techniques to identify a protein that can metabolize DDT. Photo by L. Brian Stauffer, University of Illinois News Bureau. It’s good news in mosquito research, and may [...]

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How long does it take to synthetize a molecule of leucine anyway? (Sandwalk)

Tue, 17 Jun 2008 19:41:00 GMT

Bora Zivkovic asked this question on A Blog Around the Clock: How long does it take to synthesize a molecule of leucine anyway'. A dozen or so years ago, I drove my Biochemistry prof to tears with questions - she had 200 people in front of her and she tried hard to make Biochem interesting enough not to get us all bored to tears, and she was pretty good at that, as much as it is possible not...

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Assembly Of Molecules Critical To Protein Function Witnessed By Researchers (Medical News Today)

Tue, 17 Jun 2008 11:00:00 GMT

A Virginia Tech research group lead by two biochemistry graduate students has isolated proteins responsible for the iron-sulfur cluster assembly process and witnessed the necessary protein interactions in vivo - within a cell. They have captured pathway intermediates and observed protein interactions between the two major players in iron-sulfur cluster assembly.Iron-sulfur clusters are critical...

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Humans Exonerated in Mammoth Extinction (Into the Breach)

Sat, 14 Jun 2008 14:20:00 GMT

Genetic studies show: "'The population was split into two groups, then one of the groups died out 45,000 years ago, long before the first humans began to appear in the region,' said Stephan C. Schuster, associate professor of biochemistry and molecular biology at Penn State University and a leader of the research team. 'This discovery is particularly interesting because it rules out human hunting...

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Back in Beantown (The Daily Transcript)

Sat, 14 Jun 2008 03:20:07 GMT

The trip to Toronto was great. I met a lot of great people there and I think that I made a good impression on the members of the Biochemistry Department at the U of T. Since this was my first real job interview, I didn't know exactly what to expect. In the end I decided to "let myself go" and enjoy talking shop with all the excellent researchers I met. Science is for the curious, and at times...

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My visit to the University of Toronto (The Daily Transcript)

Thu, 12 Jun 2008 11:24:59 GMT

Yesterday I had a great time visiting the biochemistry department at the University of Toronto. I met up with Lary Moran of Sandwalk who gave me a tour of the place. (We also got caught up in a huge discussion that culminated in a bet ... I will disclose the details at a future date.) Later that night I met up with some local bloggers, Philip of Biocurious , Eva of Easternblot and John of Confession...

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How to choose your course as MBA's change with the times (The Independent)

Wed, 11 Jun 2008 23:00:01 GMT

When Michael Osbaldeston graduated with a degree in biochemistry from Liverpool University, he thought he might enjoy working in business. Although he had no experience of the corporate world, his local authority paid for him to study for a new qualification called an MBA at Liverpool Business School. His fellow students were in their twenties, mostly from the UK and predominantly male. He...

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Biochemistry: Molecular cloaking devices (Nature)

Wed, 11 Jun 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Protease enzymes cut other proteins into pieces, but some can be blocked by inhibitors. One such inhibitor binds to the substrate rather than the enzyme, suggesting a new tactic for drug discovery.

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INBT to fund postdocs in nanotechnology for cancer medicine (Nanotechnology News from Nanowerk)

Tue, 10 Jun 2008 21:13:24 GMT

The Institute for NanoBioTechnology at Johns Hopkins University has been awarded a $1.6 million T-32 National Cancer Institute training grant to recruit two outstanding trainees every year with MD and/or PhD degrees and diverse backgrounds in either biochemistry, physics, molecular/cellular/cancer biology, or an engineering/physics discipline.

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