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Sample Preparation Kit facilitates systems biology studies. (Thomas Net)

info@productnews.com (ThomasNet Industrial Newsroom) — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 12:56:19 GMT

Based on systems biology sample preparation method, ProteoSolve-SB Pressure Cycling Technology-dependent kit provides simultaneous extraction, isolation, and fractionation of nucleic acids, proteins, and lipids from animal and plant samples routinely used in laboratory research. Kit contains proprietary reagents, consumable processing containers, and instructions for use, and is intended to...

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Social Biochemistry: A Course Curriculum (Red Orbit )

Fri, 29 Aug 2008 08:00:22 GMT

By Snell, Joel C Marsh, Mitchell The article describes an elementary course in social biochemistry for social science majors. This offering assumes that nature and nurture are intertwined and explain human behavior. It is an upper division undergraduate course or graduate course. 1.

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[NEWS] CELL BIOLOGY: Biologists Change One Cell Type Directly Into Another (Science Mag)

Thu, 28 Aug 2008 20:31:03 GMT

Researchers at Harvard University report that they have found a way to reprogram pancreatic cells in live mice, turning them into the insulin-producing cells that are damaged or destroyed in diabetes. Author: Constance Holden

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Genome Biology: "It is alive" by Gregory A Petsko (The Panda's Thumb)

Fri, 29 Aug 2008 16:16:37 GMT

In a Comment in the journal Genome Biology Gregory Petsko, Professor of Biochemistry and Chemistry Protein Crystallography at Brandeis University discusses the latest shenanigans of the Intelligent Design movement. ( Gregory A Petsko It is alive Genome Biology 2008, 99::106) They’re at it again. Armed with another new idea from the Discovery Institute, that bastion of ignorance,...

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Film4 Fright Fest Reviews: Frank Henenlotter's BAD BIOLOGY And The Extreme French Horror Flick MARTYRS! (Ain't it Cool News)

Thu, 28 Aug 2008 17:15:22 GMT

... censors.In any event, it's great to Henenlotter back, and it's a relief to hear that his BAD BIOLOGY went over at the Film4 Fright Fest in London last weekend. Our reviewer "Spence" also weighs in on the French horror flick MARTYRS, which is apparently eliciting some very strong (i.e. vomiting) reactions from audiences. Hey chaps I always send you a few fright Fest reviews and you always...

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Missing women in South Asia and China: Biology or discrimination? (Soc 202 - Current Events)

Thu, 28 Aug 2008 20:50:00 GMT

This article is about the “missing” women in South Asia, East Asia, the Middle East and North Africa. There are more than 100 million women “missing.” Apparently discrimination, and not biology remains to blame. The gender inequality in access to health care, bias in access to food, and sex-selective abortions has contributed to the phenomenon of “missing” women. In countries in South and East...

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Exercise Pill Is No Replacement For Exercise (Fitness Watch)

Sat, 30 Aug 2008 10:03:00 GMT

Say it ain't so. "Recently, researchers at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies, a research organization focused on biology and its relation to health, published a study in the journal Cell on the results of a substance that increased exercise endurance without daily exertion when tested in mice. Media reports have described this substance as an "exercise pill," potentially eliminating...

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NSA offers homeschoolers day-long Field Entomology Science Camp: Parents can choose option that turns Oct. 10 camp into unit study (Right Mind)

Fri, 29 Aug 2008 22:45:27 GMT

A press release from Bob Hieronymus, Executive Vice President of Administration and Advancement at New Saint Andrews College: Homeschoolers in the Pacific Northwest now have another option when it comes to teaching biology to their juniors and seniors. This fall New Saint Andrews College in Moscow, Idaho, is offering a day-long Field Entomology Science Camp with an optional correspondence unit...

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Gov. Sarah Palin on Scitech Issues (Reason Magazine - Hit & Run)

rbailey@reason.com (Ronald Bailey) — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 19:51:00 GMT

Just a quick round up of what I could find about Gov. Sarah Palin's take on various scitech issues. On teaching evolutionary biology in schools: "Teach both. You know, don't be afraid of information....Healthy debate is so important and it's so valuable in our schools. I am a proponent of teaching both. And you know, I say this too as the daughter of a science teacher. Growing up with being...

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Big molecules and chance (Darwiniana)

Fri, 29 Aug 2008 19:14:58 GMT

Molecules Evolution Can’t Explain! August 28, 2008 04:30 PM EST Millions of high school and college biology textbooks imply that Stanley Miller, in the 1950’s, showed that life could arise by chance. Nothing could be further from the truth. Miller, in his famous experiment in 1953, showed that individual amino acids (the building blocks of life) [...]

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Attention all Planets of the Solar Federation (The Swamp)

Fri, 29 Aug 2008 16:08:00 GMT

The guys in the biology lab across the hall are playing 2112 by Rush. And it is effin’ AWESOME!

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Teaching Macro- and Microevolution (Mike the Mad Biologist)

Fri, 29 Aug 2008 16:03:57 GMT

There have been a lot of comments on this post about using molecular evolution to teach evolutionary biology . A couple of people were worried that creationists will look at molecular data and claim that it is 'microevolution' and thus compatible with creationism (I've dealt with the creationists' macroevolution canard before). I'm not worried about this issue. Read the rest of this post...

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In Animal Study Variant Of Mad Cow Disease May Be Transmitted By Blood Transfusions (Medical News Today)

Fri, 29 Aug 2008 12:00:00 GMT

Blood transfusions are a valuable treatment mechanism in modern medicine, but can come with the risk of donor disease transmission. Researchers are continually studying the biology of blood products to understand how certain diseases are transmitted in an effort to reduce this risk during blood transfusions.

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According To Animal Study, Variant Of Mad Cow Disease May Be Transmitted By Blood Transfusions, (Medical News Today)

Fri, 29 Aug 2008 11:00:00 GMT

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Researchers discover atomic bomb effect results in adult-onset thyroid cancer (Eurekalert)

Fri, 29 Aug 2008 04:00:00 GMT

( American Association for Cancer Research ) Radiation from the atomic bomb blasts in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan, in 1945, likely rearranged chromosomes in some survivors who later developed papillary thyroid cancer as adults, according to Japanese researchers.

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Open Access Day! (A Blog Around The Clock)

Fri, 29 Aug 2008 02:46:11 GMT

SPARC , Students for FreeCulture and PLoS are organizing the first ever Open Access Day on October 14, 2008. This is also the 5th birthday of PLoS Biology, the oldest of seven PLoS journals. For this occasion, the organizers have put together a nice website/blog where you can find all the information. You can watch videos (two so far, but there will be more). You can help spread the word :...

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Variant of mad cow disease may be transmitted by blood transfusions, according to animal study (Physorg)

Thu, 28 Aug 2008 18:46:03 GMT

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New giant clam species offers window into human past (Physorg)

Thu, 28 Aug 2008 16:31:18 GMT

Researchers report the discovery of the first new living species of giant clam in two decades, according to a report to be published online on August 28th in Current Biology, a Cell Press publication. While fossil evidence reveals that the new species, called Tridacna costata, once accounted for more than 80 percent of giant clams in the Red Sea, it now represents less than one percent...

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The Christian Right's Got a New Stealth Tactic to Smuggle Creationism into Science Class (Vox Verax)

Thu, 28 Aug 2008 11:50:00 GMT

By Sandhya Bathija, Church & State Magazine Posted on August 27, 2008, Printed on August 28, 2008 http://www.alternet.org/story/96490/ In the 21 years Patsye Peebles taught biology in Louisiana public schools, she never received one complaint from parents for teaching evolution. "The bottom line is that I never questioned their faith," she said. Whenever she had a student who brought up creationism,...

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Donor Sibling Registry helps kids of LGBT parents grappling with their origins (gay youth news blog)

Thu, 28 Aug 2008 07:19:00 GMT

LGBT parents have long preached the mantra that love makes a family, but some are finding that as their children age they must also grapple with the question of biology. That point was driven home for Connie Turner and Jane McKay, a couple with two sons conceived with an anonymous sperm donor, about seven years ago when the couple's oldest son, Christopher, told Turner about a comment made by...

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