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Science's breakthrough of the year: Cellular reprogramming
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In its annual list of the year's top ten scientific breakthroughs, the journal Science has given top honors to research that produced "made-to-order" cell lines by reprogramming cells from ill patients.
Source: American Association for the Advancement of Science
Posted on: Thursday, Dec 18, 2008, 11:08pm
Rating: Not Rated | Views: 71 | Comments: 0
Collaboration of soloists makes the best science
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For the success of a major research university, which is better: large, well-funded laboratory empires with many investigators working toward the same end, or the individual scientist toiling alone in his own laboratory or at his own desk?
Source: Duke University
Posted on: Thursday, Dec 04, 2008, 12:10pm
Rating: Not Rated | Views: 88 | Comments: 0
Frozen assets: Who gets the embryos when a couple splits?
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Divorcing couples have always fought over property, income and custody of children. But technology has added an even more contentious item to the list: the frozen embryos the couple created during happier times.
Source: Cornell University
Posted on: Thursday, Dec 04, 2008, 10:13am
Rating: Not Rated | Views: 110 | Comments: 0
Egg whites solve the 3-D problem
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The real world is three-dimensional. That's true even in the laboratory, where scientists have to grow cells to study how they develop and what happens when their growth is abnormal.
Source: Baylor College of Medicine
Posted on: Tuesday, Oct 07, 2008, 12:48pm
Rating: Not Rated | Views: 82 | Comments: 0
Reversible 3-D cell culture gel invented
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Singapore's Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology (IBN), which celebrates its fifth anniversary this year, has invented a unique user-friendly gel that can liquefy on demand, with the potential to revolutionize three-dimensional (3D) cell culture for medical research.
Source: Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR), Singapore
Posted on: Monday, Sep 29, 2008, 9:40am
Rating: 1/5 | Views: 465 | Comments: 0
Editors' leadership role impacts on quality of biomedical research journals
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The factors allowing a journal to achieve high quality are not fully understood, but good editorial practices such as accurate and author-helpful peer review and in-house editing are thought to be important.
Source: Public Library of Science Public Library of Science
Posted on: Wednesday, Jul 02, 2008, 10:21am
Rating: 4/5 | Views: 433 | Comments: 0
'No men allowed' in women's secret world
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From the Petri dish in the controlled environment of a sterile laboratory to the faraway fields of another country, virtually anything can be the topic of scientific study. However, a University of Missouri religion professor found that if the researcher is a male fieldworker studying women, the situation can be challenging.
Source: University of Missouri-Columbia
Posted on: Thursday, Jun 26, 2008, 11:45am
Rating: Not Rated | Views: 238 | Comments: 0
Programmed death boosts business
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As credits crunch, recession bites, and business struggle to stay primed, researchers in Spain suggest that a more surgical approach to management and business practice is needed if a company is to survive. Writing in the International Journal of Management Practice from Inderscience Publishers, the team explains how businesses could take a cue from nature to restructure them.
Source: EurekAlert
Posted on: Thursday, May 08, 2008, 10:04am
Rating: Not Rated | Views: 524 | Comments: 0
Biologists are from Mars, chemists are from Venus?
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UD study explores how scientists from different fields work together
Source: EurekAlert
Posted on: Thursday, May 01, 2008, 9:59am
Rating: Not Rated | Views: 280 | Comments: 0
What Aristotle could teach your business
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Public scandals, such as the Enron affair, the sub-prime mortgage problem, and the ensuing global credit crunch have led to dwindling confidence in the business world. A transatlantic study to be published in the International Journal of Business Excellence, an Inderscience publication, suggests that relearning the ancient notion of virtue could help bring business and society closer.
Source: EurekAlert
Posted on: Tuesday, Apr 15, 2008, 1:34pm
Rating: Not Rated | Views: 309 | Comments: 0
Picture this: Explaining science through drawings
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Undergrads master scientific concepts by explaining them to high schoolers through drawings
Source: EurekAlert
Posted on: Thursday, Apr 10, 2008, 3:42pm
Rating: Not Rated | Views: 380 | Comments: 0
Using street theater to channel the lessons of molecules
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Molecules, any chemist will tell you, have lots to teach us. Giving voice to the lessons of molecules and other props of science, as the lamentable state of science literacy in the United States attests, is no easy task.
Source: EurekAlert
Posted on: Tuesday, Apr 08, 2008, 1:17pm
Rating: Not Rated | Views: 303 | Comments: 0
Exactly how much housework does a husband create?
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Having a husband creates an extra seven hours a week of housework for women, according to a University of Michigan study of a nationally representative sample of U.S. families.
Source: EurekAlert
Posted on: Friday, Apr 04, 2008, 10:45am
Rating: Not Rated | Views: 327 | Comments: 0
Get Ready for an Experience: Your Final Graduate School Year
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Many graduate students are not aware of their many responsibilities during the last year of their Ph.D. program. Mary Collins, University of Florida at Gainesville, writes from the major professor’s point-of-view in the 2008 Journal of Natural Resources and Life Sciences Education and offers her sage 25 years of advice.
Source: Newswise
Posted on: Thursday, Mar 20, 2008, 3:47pm
Rating: Not Rated | Views: 385 | Comments: 0
Researcher's discover how to ignite, retain female interest in the study of science
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It might be surprising that 40,275 grams of slime, 4,030 ink dots, 3,876 M&Ms, 977 baby diapers, 489 cups of milk and a few electrified pickles can make a difference in the academic lives of adolescent girls, but it’s true.
Source: EurekAlert
Posted on: Thursday, Mar 20, 2008, 2:55pm
Rating: Not Rated | Views: 372 | Comments: 0
Early to bed early to rise ... depends on the TV schedule in your time zone
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Research on the effects of 'spring ahead' across the country shows that television, not the sun, determines sleep schedule
Source: EurekAlert
Posted on: Friday, Mar 07, 2008, 9:12am
Rating: Not Rated | Views: 302 | Comments: 0
An-arrgh-chy!
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What Blackbeard can teach us about politics
Source: EurekAlert
Posted on: Friday, Feb 22, 2008, 9:13am
Rating: Not Rated | Views: 326 | Comments: 0
In the race to the top, zigzagging is more efficient than a straight line
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A straight line may be the shortest distance between two points, but it isn’t necessarily the fastest or easiest path to follow.
Source: EurekAlert
Posted on: Thursday, Feb 21, 2008, 9:01am
Rating: Not Rated | Views: 331 | Comments: 0
Dung happens and helps scientists
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When scientists around the world think of dung, they think of Jim Mead. Mead, a researcher at Northern Arizona University, is one of the world's foremost authorities on animal dung, and he's got the poop to prove it.
Source: EurekAlert
Posted on: Saturday, Feb 16, 2008, 12:57pm
Rating: Not Rated | Views: 300 | Comments: 0
Cleopatra's cosmetics and Hammurabi's Heineken
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New study finds that branding is older than previously thought
Source: EurekAlert
Posted on: Friday, Feb 15, 2008, 10:30am
Rating: Not Rated | Views: 345 | Comments: 0
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Articles From the Web
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English to Hit 1 Million Words in '09
Language, derived from many others, is expected to reach milestone in April.
Source: ABC News
Posted on: Monday, Jan 05, 2009, 2:16pm
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Listen: A Bumpy Anniversary For Braille
Happy birthday to Louis Braille, the founder of the tactile communication system for the blind, born 200 years ago Sunday.
Source: NPR
Posted on: Monday, Jan 05, 2009, 9:27am
Rating: Not Rated | Views: 10 | Comments: 0
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Most Extreme News Stories of 2008
From the hottest planet to the oldest organism, here are the year's extremes.
Source: ABC News
Posted on: Tuesday, Dec 30, 2008, 2:07pm
Rating: 2/5 | Views: 44 | Comments: 0
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Bye-bye boojums: Scientific names lose their sparkle
Will we ever see the like of MACHOs and WIMPs, cheap date and Sonic hedgehog again?
Source: New Scientist
Posted on: Tuesday, Dec 30, 2008, 9:20am
Rating: Not Rated | Views: 39 | Comments: 0
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10 gifts of science for Christmas
Frankincense, mistletoe and why a shot of brandy is good for you (really!)
Source: MSNBC
Posted on: Tuesday, Dec 23, 2008, 7:48pm
Rating: Not Rated | Views: 69 | Comments: 0
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The year in weird science and myth-busting
Researchers debunk conventional wisdom about poinsettias, sugar and holiday suicides -- and note that Coca-Cola can only do so much.
Source: LA Times
Posted on: Tuesday, Dec 23, 2008, 12:25pm
Rating: Not Rated | Views: 39 | Comments: 0
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'Falling For Science': Swinging Eggs In A Basket
MIT professor Sherry Turkle has spent 25 years collecting essays from her students based on the following prompt: "Was there an object you met during childhood or adolescence that had an influence on your path into science?" One student remembered her Easter basket.
Source: NPR
Posted on: Wednesday, Dec 17, 2008, 9:20am
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Bad Year Just Got A Little Longer
With a brutal economic slowdown, 2008 may feel as if it will never end. Now the world's timekeepers are making it even longer by adding a leap second to the last day of the year.
Source: CBSnews
Posted on: Wednesday, Dec 10, 2008, 10:01am
Rating: Not Rated | Views: 50 | Comments: 0
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Biotech firms face cash shortages
Almost 40% of small and midsize public biotechnology companies in the U.S. are in danger of running out of cash within a year and government help is needed to encourage investment, industry leaders say.
Source: USA Today
Posted on: Monday, Nov 24, 2008, 9:56am
Rating: Not Rated | Views: 48 | Comments: 0
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Dancing Scientists Invade YouTube
Science announces the winners of its 2009 Dance Your Ph.D. contest
Source: Science
Posted on: Friday, Nov 21, 2008, 11:25am
Rating: Not Rated | Views: 83 | Comments: 0
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Slideshow: Slide show: Small world of microscopic wonders
Winning images from the Nikon International Small World Competition reveal microscopic wonders.
Source: MSNBC
Posted on: Friday, Nov 14, 2008, 10:20am
Rating: Not Rated | Views: 103 | Comments: 0
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Why plastic isn't always fantastic
Thousands of scientists could be unwittingly ruining their own experiments merely by using standard plastic lab equipment, according to a new study.
Source: Nature
Posted on: Monday, Nov 10, 2008, 12:45pm
Rating: Not Rated | Views: 63 | Comments: 0
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Picture: What Is This? A Papier-Maché Piñata?
There's no candy hidden in these, but they do hold other secrets.
Source: Discover Magazine
Posted on: Wednesday, Nov 05, 2008, 12:00pm
Rating: Not Rated | Views: 99 | Comments: 0
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20 Things You Didn't Know About... Elections
Humans have a record of screwing up democracy, but we aren't the only species getting in on the act.
Source: Discover Magazine
Posted on: Tuesday, Nov 04, 2008, 9:40am
Rating: Not Rated | Views: 79 | Comments: 0
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Who would you vote for — Mario or Luigi?
From political rallies organized in “Second Life” to candidate caricatures made using the Wii’s Mii avatar tool, video game fans are leveraging that thing they love the most as a way to let the world know what they think about perhaps the most important presidential election in their lifetimes.
Source: MSNBC
Posted on: Thursday, Oct 30, 2008, 12:12pm
Rating: Not Rated | Views: 115 | Comments: 0
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