News: Toward Intelligent Design for Data Sharing Posted by Tabitha M. Powledge [Entry posted at 18th November 2005 04:00 PM GMT] The US National Academy of Sciences just issued one of its matchless Big Fat Reports, this one on intellectual property rights, patents, and patenting related to genomics and proteomics. Don't nod off; the report came to a couple of intriguing ... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: Dalai Drama Averted? Posted by Ishani Ganguli [Entry posted at 14th November 2005 03:39 PM GMT] The Saturday afternoon lecture at the Society for Neuroscience conference in Washington, DC, by the Dalai Lama had been widely anticipated, and had sparked a petition of protest organized by mainly Chinese-origin researchers. In the end, however, ... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: "Friendly" bacteria are truly friendly after all Posted by Chris Thorpe [Entry posted at 11th November 2005 01:34 PM GMT] A recent item [subscription required] in Nature made me feel happy as well as healthy... For a while I've been telling some selected people about the wonders of probiotics on my health... I've always wondered though if I'm being duped or if there ... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: Lichens... In... Space... Posted by Chris Thorpe [Entry posted at 10th November 2005 08:29 PM GMT] One more organism has taken a giant leap and gone into space, the humble lichen (really more than one species, as we all know that lichens are composites of algae and fungi). The European Space agency removed the lichens from the comfort of their ... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: In Dover: Now we play the waiting game Posted by Brendan Maher [Entry posted at 5th November 2005 11:26 PM GMT] Yesterday marked the end of testimony for Kitzmiller vs. the Dover area school board, a six week trial in which parents had sued the a school board for trying to introduce intelligent design into science class. The York Daily Record, a local paper, ... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: PubMed unchained. And, Oh, no, not another 'Ome! Posted by Jeff Perkel [Entry posted at 1st November 2005 08:38 PM GMT] I found two cool new tools today. The first, via Sourceforge, is PuMA, a standalone Java front-end to PubMed. PuMA (currently at version 1.0alpha) allows you to view bibliographic search results and abstracts in the same window, visually construct ... Click to continue View comment (1) | Comment on this news story

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