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No circ. clock for reindeer?

Arctic reindeer, which live most of the year in 24-hour darkness or daylight, may lack an internal clock

By Edyta Zielinska

Cancer biotech slashes R&D

Exelixis has cut 40 percent of its workforce, mostly in drug discovery, suggesting its unique approach did not pay off

By Edyta Zielinska

Cow vaccine pioneer dies

Walter Plowright helped eradicate so-called "cattle plague," rinderpest

By Lauren Urban

New model org? Cluck cluck

New research probing chicken's DNA may point to an expansion of another role for the flightless fowl: biomedical model organism

By Bob Grant

Stem cell regs to become law?

New legislation would codify last year's executive order, which overturned the limitations implemented by former President George Bush

By Jef Akst

To join or not to join

The benefits of membership to a scientific society are decreasing every year. Lately, I'm asking: Why bother?

By Steven Wiley

Porn: Good for us?

Scientific examination of the subject has found that as the use of porn increases, the rate of sex crimes goes down

By Milton Diamond

Defunct CF drug reborn

When a company we profiled last year went belly up, so did its drug - until it was revived by a new company

By Alla Katsnelson

Scientist to Watch

Stephen Smith, botanist-hacker

By Megan Scudellari

Stem cells: home of HIV?

New findings reveal one way the virus can evade treatment -- by hiding out in bone marrow cells, including possibly stem cells

By Jef Akst

Journal editor facing axe

The editor of Medical Hypotheses must leave at the end of the year -- or earlier, if he doesn’t implement major changes

By Jef Akst

News in a nutshell

A lab drowns; the NIGMS asks and answers; and PUT DOWN THE HAND SANITIZER!

By Bob Grant

Faculty Faves

Smelling the difference: Discrimination between similar but different odors depends on local inhibition of olfactory nerve cells.
Abraham et al. 2010 Neuron. Evaluated by A Sahay & R Hen
It's a small (RNA) world: The smallest ribozyme yet is just five RNA bases long, and can aminoacylate a four-nucleotide substrate.
Turk et al. 2010 Proc Natl Acad Sci USA. Evaluated by A S Burton & N Lehman

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