News: [Entry posted at 31st March 2009 03:53 PM GMT] The University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston is bringing in new assistant professors at the same time as around 30 fired faculty members, many of them tenured, fight for the jobs they lost in the aftermath of Hurricane Ike.
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News: [Entry posted at 31st March 2009 03:02 PM GMT] Coral reefs form as a partnership between sea anemone-like polyps and photosynthetic algae that provides nutrients for the former and safe, well-lit shelter for the latter. But this alliance might not start off as a true joint venture. New research ... Click to continue
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News: [Entry posted at 26th March 2009 07:05 PM GMT] Researchers are one step closer to reprogramming stem cells that are safe for use in the clinic with a new virus-free method for deriving human induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells that doesn't rely on integrating foreign DNA, according to a ... Click to continue
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News: [Entry posted at 25th March 2009 04:30 PM GMT] New proposed European laws to harmonize animal research across the EU could seriously hamper biomedical research, according a report published yesterday (Mar. 24) by the European Science Foundation (ESF) and a ... Click to continue
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News: [Entry posted at 24th March 2009 03:17 PM GMT] India's premier publicly-funded research organization is pushing to make all research published at its institutions open access. But its pleas are falling on deaf ears, critics say, as individual laboratories have been slow to take up the charge. ... Click to continue
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News: [Entry posted at 19th March 2009 07:16 PM GMT] A bacterium found in sewage sludge uses its tail-like flagellum to lasso a symbiotic archaeon and keep it close at bay so that the two microbial partners can synchronize their metabolism, a Japanese research team reports in the Mar. 20 issue of ... Click to continue
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News: [Entry posted at 16th March 2009 10:00 PM GMT] The molecular orientation of compounds brought to Earth by meteorites could have determined the world's chemistry long before life began, according to a new study published online today ... Click to continue
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News: [Entry posted at 13th March 2009 10:23 PM GMT] Facing budget cuts of around $34 million, Roswell Park Cancer Institute in Buffalo, NY, laid off 24 of its staff scientists last week.
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News: [Entry posted at 11th March 2009 06:32 PM GMT] Britain's top universities have asked the government for £1 billion ($1.4 billion) to finance university spin-off companies, a measure that could help bolster the faltering UK economy and prop up the biotech industry, according to ... Click to continue
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News: [Entry posted at 10th March 2009 10:04 PM GMT] Spraying plants with nitrogen-rich fertilizers does more than just make crops grow bigger; it also molds the chemical composition of their genomes and proteomes, according to a study ... Click to continue
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News: [Entry posted at 10th March 2009 07:18 PM GMT] Cornell University's Weill Medical College has agreed to pay the federal government $2.6 million to settle civil claims that it defrauded the National Institutes of Health and the Department of Defense in ... Click to continue
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News: [Entry posted at 6th March 2009 02:30 AM GMT] A long-defunct gene that is now involved in Crohn's disease was resurrected over the course of human evolution after being "dead" for millions of years, according to a ... Click to continue
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News: [Entry posted at 5th March 2009 02:47 PM GMT] With the current system of scholarly publishing in a state of flux -- some might even say in crisis -- several institutions are experimenting with innovative ways of ensuring that their researchers can continue to effortlessly publish, read, and ... Click to continue
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News: [Entry posted at 1st March 2009 06:00 PM GMT] Researchers have for the first time reprogrammed human skin cells to a pluripotent state without using viruses, according to twin studies published online today in Nature.
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