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Popular Mechanics
July 1, 2009
Lisa Merolla
Top 18 Species Named After Famous People Naming species after celebrities is one seriously effective way for scientists to draw attention to taxonomy. mark for My Articles similar articles
Chemistry World
June 28, 2009
Jon Cartwright
Antimicrobial nanoparticles may help fight brain infections Antimicrobial nanoparticles that can cross the, almost impermeable, blood-brain barrier have been created by Asian researchers. mark for My Articles similar articles
Chemistry World
June 25, 2009
Ned Stafford
Slow release pesticide hits resistant bugs Italian chemical company Endura has signed a licensing agreement with UK and Australian research institutes allowing it to commercialize a new crop protection method that involves time-delayed release of micro-encapsulated insecticides. mark for My Articles similar articles
Wired
June 22, 2009
Evan Ratliff
Origin of Species: How a T. Rex Femur Sparked a Scientific Smackdown As the modern discipline of bioinformatics comes crashing into analog fields like paleontology, researchers are just beginning to grapple with questions that the dinosaur controversy inadvertently unearthed mark for My Articles similar articles
Science News
July 4, 2009
Patrick Barry
Seeking Genetic Fate Personal genomics companies offer forecasts of disease risk, but the science behind the packaging is still evolving mark for My Articles similar articles
Science News
July 4, 2009
Laura Sanders
Microswimmers Make A Splash Tiny travelers take on a viscous world mark for My Articles similar articles
Science News
July 4, 2009
Susan Milius
Hummingbird Pulls Top Gun Stunts For its size, courting flier dives faster than a returning space shuttle mark for My Articles similar articles
Science News
July 4, 2009
Rachel Ehrenberg
Friction Gives Snakes A Smooth Slither Combination of friction and push propels snakes forward on flat surfaces mark for My Articles similar articles
Science News
July 4, 2009
Tina Hesman Saey
Huntington's Protein May Have A Crony Experiments in lab dishes could explain why only some neurons in the brain are vulnerable to the disease mark for My Articles similar articles
Science News
July 4, 2009
Laura Sanders
Protein Caught In The Act Researchers have developed a new way to see where the molecules are active mark for My Articles similar articles
Science News
July 4, 2009
Laura Sanders
Stressed-out DNA Turns Mousy Brown Hair Gray Stem cells responsible for hair color lose self-renewing abilities mark for My Articles similar articles
Science News
July 4, 2009
Nathan Seppa
Tuberculosis Bacterium Subverts Basic Cell Functions New findings reveal that the microbe achieves virulence by disrupting immune cells' internal processes mark for My Articles similar articles
Science News
July 4, 2009
Jenny Lauren Lee
Replacing MicroRNA For Cancer Treatment Inserting a missing molecule in mice may shrink liver tumors or limit their growth mark for My Articles similar articles
Science News
July 4, 2009
Nathan Seppa
Stomach Surgery Helps Obese Adolescents Patients lose weight and show improvements in health markers after undergoing banding operation mark for My Articles similar articles
Science News
July 4, 2009
Laura Sanders
Estrogen May Reprogram Prostate Cancer Gene In Black Men Lack of chemical tags may lead to higher risk mark for My Articles similar articles
Science News
July 4, 2009
Bruce Bower
Autism Care Takes Biological Toll On Mothers Women who tend to teens, young adults with autism at home display unusually low levels of critical stress hormone mark for My Articles similar articles
Science News
July 4, 2009
Bruce Bower
Children Get Social With Virtual Peers and Self-views on the reservation Life-size 3-D versions of children can draw kids with autism into social encounters and young Native Americans from poor families hold views that influence work habits and school achievement mark for My Articles similar articles
Science News
July 4, 2009
Rachel Zelkowitz
Book Review: Play: How It Shapes The Brain, Opens The Imagination, And Invigorates The Soul By Stuart Brown With Christopher Vaughan The drive to play is as natural as the drive for food and sex, the authors of this book convincingly argue. mark for My Articles similar articles
Popular Mechanics
July 2009
Erin McCarthy
Bears and Other Predators Invade U.S. Neighborhoods When Europeans settled the New World, they dealt with predators by showing them the business end of a gun. mark for My Articles similar articles
Popular Mechanics
July 2009
Erin McCarthy
Robots That Dress Like Animals for Science To better understand animal behavior, scientists are dressing up data-gathering robots in animal garb. By fitting in with their wild, unsuspecting friends, robot bees, turkeys and lizards are recording intimate details mark for My Articles similar articles
Chemistry World
June 18, 2009
Lewis Brindley
Chemical speed-dating even faster Researchers in the US have adapted a DNA amplification technique to develop a simpler way to rapidly screen chemical reactions. mark for My Articles similar articles
Scientific American
July 2009
Kate Wong
Scientific American recommends 3 books about the moon Also: Becoming Human, and Amazing Animals mark for My Articles similar articles
Scientific American
July 2009
Zeeya Merali
Did China's Nuclear Tests Kill Thousands and Doom Future Generations? Radioactive clouds hung over villagers as China detonated nuclear bombs in the air for four decades mark for My Articles similar articles
Scientific American
July 2009
Kate Wong
Crawling May Be Unnecessary for Normal Child Development In some tribes, babies skip the crawl mark for My Articles similar articles
Scientific American
July 2009
Charles Q. Choi
Being More Infantile May Have Led to Bigger Brains Genetic evidence suggests that juvenile traits helped separate chimps from us mark for My Articles similar articles
Scientific American
July 2009
Walsh & Fischbach
Squashing Superbugs -- The Race for New Antibiotics Scientists are using new tools and tactics in the race to discover novel antibiotics mark for My Articles similar articles
Scientific American
July 2009
Wasser et al.
Forensic Tools Battle Ivory Poachers The illegal slaughter of African elephants for ivory is now worse than it was at its peak in the 1980s. New forensic tools based on DNA analysis can help stop the cartels behind this bloody trade mark for My Articles similar articles
Scientific American
July 2009
MacNeilage et al.
Evolutionary Origins of Your Right and Left Brain The division of labor by the two cerebral hemispheres -- once thought to be uniquely human -- predates us by half a billion years. Speech, right-handedness, facial recognition and the processing of spatial relations can be traced to brain asymmetries in early vertebrates mark for My Articles similar articles
Scientific American
July 2009
Christine Soares
Could Animal Surveillance Have Seen Swine Flu Coming? The surveillance of animals for new flu viruses has lagged behind preparations for the human pandemics that can be caused by the bugs mark for My Articles similar articles
Scientific American
July 2009
Huber & Dale
Grassoline: Biofuels Beyond Corn Scientists are turning agricultural leftovers, wood and fast-growing grasses into a huge variety of biofuels -- even jet fuel. mark for My Articles similar articles
Scientific American
July 2009
Kate Wilcox
Yanking Pathogens Out of Blood with Magnets Germ-grabbing magnetic beads that can be pulled from the blood mark for My Articles similar articles
Chemistry World
June 14, 2009
Hayley Birch
New technique probes Alzheimer's aggregates US and UK researchers have used a new technique to identify what they think could be the primary toxic species in the development of Alzheimer's disease mark for My Articles similar articles
Chemistry World
June 10, 2009
James Urquhart
Enzyme employs unusual cleavage reaction The mechanism of an unusual carbon bond cleavage reaction in the biosynthetic pathway of phosphinothricin tripeptide (PTT) - a naturally occurring herbicide and antibiotic compound - has been elucidated by US scientists mark for My Articles similar articles
Chemistry World
June 10, 2009
Phillip Broadwith
Nanotubes boost plant pollutants UK researchers have shown that carbon nanotubes can pierce plant root cells, providing a rapid route for other pollutants to infiltrate the cellular structure of plants. mark for My Articles similar articles
Chemistry World
June 8, 2009
Jon Cartwright
Green method to kill termites Researchers in the US have come up with a cheap, environmentally friendly way to kill termites and other pests. mark for My Articles similar articles
IEEE Spectrum
June 2009
Prachi Patel
Advance in Nanopore Gene Sequencing Magnets help in the quest for the $1000 genome mark for My Articles similar articles
Chemistry World
June 2009
Michael Gross
Bubble-wrapped frogs Tropical frogs create remarkable protein foams to protect their spawn. Exploration of the underlying chemistry has only just begun mark for My Articles similar articles
Chemistry World
June 1, 2009
Phillip Broadwith
Wider therapeutic possibilities for botulinum toxin Change to a single amino acid in botulinum toxin A causes it to target non-neuronal signalling proteins, potentially widening the product's therapeutic applications mark for My Articles similar articles
Chemistry World
June 1, 2009
Lewis Brindley
Bile acid helps form 'twisted ribbon' nano-structures Molecules that can self-assemble into unique nano-sized structures - such as ribbons resembling microscopic twists of pasta - have been made by Chinese scientists. mark for My Articles similar articles
Popular Mechanics
June 1, 2009
Joe Pappalardo
Brain Man: Questions for Neuroergonomics Expert Raja Parasuraman It's a merger of neuroscience, the study of the brain, with ergonomics, the study of how to design systems and technologies to be more compatible with what we know about human capabilities and limitations. mark for My Articles similar articles
Chemistry World
May 31, 2009
Nina Notman
New probe promises ozone answers Chemists in the US have devised a single-molecule fluorescent probe that is selective for ozone, which they hope will help address controversy over claims that cells can produce ozone. mark for My Articles similar articles
Chemistry World
May 31, 2009
Nina Notman
The natural approach to winning at drug discovery High throughput drug screening is often described as a casino, with the odds stacked on the side of success as long as a big enough library is used. mark for My Articles similar articles
IEEE Spectrum
June 2009
Virginia Hughes
A New Approach to Predicting Epileptic Seizures Torrents of data produced by implanted microelectrodes could finally yield a prediction system mark for My Articles similar articles
Chemistry World
May 24, 2009
Nina Notman
Toxic mushroom molecule discovered A simple compound containing a highly strained three-carbon ring has been found to be the toxic culprit in a highly poisonous Asian mushroom. mark for My Articles similar articles
Chemistry World
May 22, 2009
Jon Cartwright
'Fountain pen' injects nanodiamonds Nanodiamonds have several unique properties that make them attractive in biomedicine. mark for My Articles similar articles
Chemistry World
May 22, 2009
Phillip Broadwith
'Printing' organs with hydrogels Dutch researchers have developed a way to 'print' stable cell-containing scaffolds, creating a method that could one day be used to help make tailor-made tissue grafts mark for My Articles similar articles
Wired
May 22, 2009
Erin Biba
New Germ Busters Outwit Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria Researchers are testing new bug-killers that bypass the molecular pathways used by old-school antibiotics. mark for My Articles similar articles
Chemistry World
May 21, 2009
Simon Hadlington
Long-awaited structure of famous enzyme challenges the textbooks US researchers have uncovered a biochemical irony: a famous enzyme whose study led to some of the fundamental concepts of biological catalysis does not behave in the way that was previously thought. mark for My Articles similar articles
Chemistry World
May 20, 2009
Helen Carmichael
Chemical pollution gets personal Two Canadian environmentalists have detailed the rise and fall of chemicals in their own bodily fluids after using everyday products. And they were shocked by the results. mark for My Articles similar articles
IEEE Spectrum
May 2009
Prachi Patel
Laser Probes for Brain Experiments Laser-activated probes stimulate brain cells better, say scientists mark for My Articles similar articles
HHMI Bulletin
May 2009
Cellular Neatniks "People did not think histones were an interesting aspect of a cell's life," says Karolin Luger, an HHMI investigator. "They were regarded as very static entities that sat in the way of interesting activities." mark for My Articles similar articles
HHMI Bulletin
May 2009
Robert Tjian
Fully Engaged As I complete my first month as president of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, action potential provides a metaphor for what may be my most important leadership responsibility. mark for My Articles similar articles
HHMI Bulletin
May 2009
Fifty Stories The aim of HHMI's ECS program is to advance the career trajectory of 50 talented researchers, and with them the prospects for research bioscience, far into the 21st century. mark for My Articles similar articles
HHMI Bulletin
May 2009
Better Than Tea Leaves While the climate-disease link has been long appreciated, the nature of that link has been shrouded in mystery. mark for My Articles similar articles
HHMI Bulletin
May 2009
Cori Vanchieri
Stand Up and Lead HHMI investigator Sean J. Morrison was a leader in the charge to loosen restrictions on stem cell research in Michigan -- going up against a well-funded opposition in the November 2008 election -- and won. It was an eye-opening experience. mark for My Articles similar articles
HHMI Bulletin
May 2009
Richard Saltus
In the Groove Recent discoveries led by HHMI investigators Michael Ehlers at Duke University Medical Center and Pietro De Camilli at Yale School of Medicine have clarified some of the mechanisms that dial neural signal strength up and down. Their findings may also expand understanding of Alzheimer's disease. mark for My Articles similar articles
HHMI Bulletin
May 2009
Jennifer Michalowski
A Better Bug Spray Most of what interests a mosquito about you is how you smell. If we can understand that and find a way to interrupt it, then we should be able to solve some problems in infectious disease transmission. mark for My Articles similar articles
HHMI Bulletin
May 2009
Olga Kuchment
A Solution in Sight Constance Cepko remembers the day she read that a briard sheep dog had been cured of blindness by gene therapy mark for My Articles similar articles
HHMI Bulletin
May 2009
Olga Kuchment
Tapping into Cool Science Cool Science, which went live in the fall of 2008, pulls together many of HHMI's existing online resources, including the virtual labs and other materials created for the popular Holiday Lectures series. mark for My Articles similar articles
HHMI Bulletin
May 2009
Andrea Widener
SEA's Second Wave Twelve more schools join HHMI'S Science Education Alliance. mark for My Articles similar articles
HHMI Bulletin
May 2009
Sarah C.P. Williams
Gilliam Fellows Program Expands Now in its fifth year, the Gilliam fellows program aims to diversify science research and academia. Each fellow receives $44,000 in support annually for up to five years. mark for My Articles similar articles
HHMI Bulletin
May 2009
Sarah C.P. Williams
Research Institute Launched in South Africa With simultaneous events in the United States and South Africa, HHMI and the University of KwaZulu-Natal announced the creation of an international research center focused on the worldwide effort to control the devastating co-epidemic of tuberculosis (TB) and HIV mark for My Articles similar articles
HHMI Bulletin
May 2009
Benjamin Lester
Platelets as Defenders In the developing world, treating malaria usually involves anti-malarials to kill the parasite and aspirin to control the fever. But according to new research, aspirin may hamper the body's ability to fight malaria. mark for My Articles similar articles
HHMI Bulletin
May 2009
Benjamin Lester
Spiraling Back in Time The same gene that places a human's heart on the correct side of the body also controls whether a snail's shell twists left or right, scientists have found. mark for My Articles similar articles
HHMI Bulletin
May 2009
Nancy Volkers
Tag-Team Proteins A complex of proteins protects muscles from collapsing during contraction. mark for My Articles similar articles
HHMI Bulletin
May 2009
Christine Suh
Flight of the Dragonfly Fabricating a playground for this precision hunter may provide the access scientists need to understand its neural circuitry. mark for My Articles
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