NewsBlog: [Entry posted at 26th September 2008 04:15 PM GMT] How is a kidnapper's text message similar to a jellyfish? Both are tiny points in a sea of data that scientists can use to draw conclusions about a bigger picture -- be it identifying a serial rapist or measuring biodiversity, according to Andrew Price, a marine ecologist who is working with forensic scientists to apply taxonomic techniques to crime assessment.
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NewsBlog: [Entry posted at 17th September 2008 04:09 PM GMT] The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) yesterday (September 16) announced it will turn over scientific evidence against their chief suspect in the 2001 anthrax attacks, a US army microbiologist who committed suicide in July, to scientists at the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) for independent review.
Bruce Ivins, a researcher at the U.S. Army Medical Institute for Infectious Disease at Fort Detrick, Md, conducted studies on... Click to continue
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NewsBlog: [Entry posted at 4th September 2008 05:04 PM GMT] In the largest act of US philanthropy for biomedical research, Eli and Edythe Broad have donated $400 million to the Broad Institute, a joint project between Harvard and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The gift builds on the $200 million with which the Broads first funded the genomics institute in 2003 and 2004.
"We're now making a $600 million dollar bet in total that this will be the place where the world's greatest... Click to continue
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