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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.
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.
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.
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
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
Science News July 4, 2009 Laura Sanders	Microswimmers Make A Splash Tiny travelers take on a viscous world
Science News July 4, 2009 Susan Milius	Hummingbird Pulls Top Gun Stunts For its size, courting flier dives faster than a returning space shuttle
Science News July 4, 2009 Rachel Ehrenberg	Friction Gives Snakes A Smooth Slither Combination of friction and push propels snakes forward on flat surfaces
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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.
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.
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
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.
Scientific American July 2009 Kate Wong	Scientific American recommends 3 books about the moon Also: Becoming Human, and Amazing Animals
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
Scientific American July 2009 Kate Wong	Crawling May Be Unnecessary for Normal Child Development In some tribes, babies skip the crawl
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
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
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
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
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
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.
Scientific American July 2009 Kate Wilcox	Yanking Pathogens Out of Blood with Magnets Germ-grabbing magnetic beads that can be pulled from the blood
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
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
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.
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.
IEEE Spectrum June 2009 Prachi Patel	Advance in Nanopore Gene Sequencing Magnets help in the quest for the $1000 genome
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
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
Chemistry World May 22, 2009 Jon Cartwright	'Fountain pen' injects nanodiamonds Nanodiamonds have several unique properties that make them attractive in biomedicine.
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
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.
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.
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.
IEEE Spectrum May 2009 Prachi Patel	Laser Probes for Brain Experiments Laser-activated probes stimulate brain cells better, say scientists
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."
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
HHMI Bulletin May 2009 Andrea Widener	SEA's Second Wave Twelve more schools join HHMI'S Science Education Alliance.
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.
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
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.
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.
HHMI Bulletin May 2009 Nancy Volkers	Tag-Team Proteins A complex of proteins protects muscles from collapsing during contraction.
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.
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