News: MA debates life sciences bill Posted by Edyta Zielinska [Entry posted at 28th February 2008 07:26 PM GMT] Massachusetts' $1 billion life sciences bill is inching closer to approval. A preliminary vote yesterday in the House of Representatives supported the measure, which is being debated further ... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: DNA damage resets body clock Posted by Edyta Zielinska [Entry posted at 21st February 2008 04:55 PM GMT] DNA damage resets the circadian clock in mammals, researchers report in this week's online issue of Current Biology. Previous studies have shown that DNA damage affects circadian cycles in ... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: Scientists Without Borders Posted by Edyta Zielinska [Entry posted at 21st February 2008 03:51 PM GMT] Have you ever wondered how your day-to-day work in the lab can contribute to health and science efforts in the developing world? The New York Academy of Sciences (NYAS) is inviting scientists to offer up their skills and resources toward an effort ... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: Variation at the start Posted by Edyta Zielinska [Entry posted at 14th February 2008 05:14 PM GMT] Some organisms adopt an unusual strategy to make sure the genetic code is translated accurately, according to study that will be published tomorrow in Molecular Cell. These findings suggest that ancient organisms ... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: Ocean thermostat protects corals? Posted by Edyta Zielinska [Entry posted at 7th February 2008 04:46 PM GMT] In a time when all coral news is bad news, a new study that will be published online Saturday in Geophysical Research Letters (read the press release here) suggests that areas of open ... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: How free radicals make us old Posted by Edyta Zielinska [Entry posted at 5th February 2008 05:29 PM GMT] Free radicals are often blamed for causing cellular damage that promotes aging. A new study published today in Cell Metabolism suggests that they don't wreak ... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: Is autoimmunity like cancer? Posted by Edyta Zielinska [Entry posted at 2nd February 2008 01:16 PM GMT] The first keynote presentation of this week's Keystone meeting on autoimmunity and transplantation tolerance ended in a rather surprising way -- the speaker was actually heckled during the question answer session for comparing autoimmunity to ... Click to continue View comments (4) | Comment on this news story

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