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DUBLIN–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/7d528a/systems_biology_in) has announced the addition of John Wiley and Sons Ltd’s new book “Systems Biology in Psychiatric Research: From High-Throughput Data to Mathematical Modeling” to their offering. This first book to provide a comprehensive overview of the recent progress …

The University of Houston (UH) received a $2.4 million grant to fund the most promising young cancer researchers who are working at the cutting-edge of a new multidisciplinary approach to fighting cancer. The award is part of the latest round of grant disbursements from the Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas (CPRIT), which oversees the state’s new billion-dollar war on cancer. It …

Michael Phelps’ Olympic success may come down to biology. Some academics took a look at the record books from the past 100 years and the bodies of the athletes and made this determination.

In Genome Biology , Swedish researchers aimed to identify transcribed regions of the chimpanzee transcriptome , and found a large number of novel exons and 3′ UTRs.

( American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology ) The American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology last week named 10 scientists the winners of the nonprofit’s annual awards. Another winner was announced earlier this year.

( University of Houston ) The Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas awarded $2.4 million to the University of Houston to fund promising young cancer researchers working on new multidisciplinary approaches to fighting cancer. The money will fund postdoctoral scientists at UH whose research combines cancer biology with computational disciplines like computer science, theoretical …

DUBLIN—-Research and Markets has announced the addition of John Wiley and Sons Ltd’s new book “The Chemical Biology of Nucleic Acids” to their offering.

New program focuses on integrative biology and intensive laboratory research

KINABATANGAN: The wild in Sabah played host to 21 second-year biology students who embarked on a field course at the Sabah Wildlife Departments (SWD) Lower Kinabatangan floodplain area, here, recently.

From Kenya to the Konza, K-State Biology student Mark Sowers, from Spring Hill, is studying elephants and bison.

A long-standing question in bone biology has been answered: It is the spindly extensions of bone cells that sense mechanical stimulation and signal the release of bone-growth factors, according to research from The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio. The study, reported this week in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, offers an …

( American Society for Cell Biology ) Science writers, journalists, and science bloggers are invited to register online for the American Society for Cell Biology’s 50th Annual Meeting.

Michael Phelps Olympic success may come down to biology. Some academics took a look at the record books from the past 100 years and the bodies of the athletes and made this determination.

FOSTER CITY, Calif.—-AB SCIEX, a global leader in life science analytical technologies, today announced that it is working with scientists at the ETH Zurich Institute of Molecular Systems Biology as part of the Swiss Systems Biology Program to accelerate analysis and improve results for metabolomics, which is the scientific study of chemical processes involving metabolites.

This summer, two Carol Stream students got to dive into the world of marine biology. Literally.

Snakes and snails and puppy dog tails, that’s what they say little boys are made of. But when it comes to a curiosity about Ontario’s wildlife and outdoors, little boys and girls have an equal desire to learn.[...]

A team of New Zealand secondary school science students have bagged two silver and two bronze medals at the International Biology Olympiad in Korea. Susan Sun of Christchurch and Geoffrey Hoggins, Yuanye Xu and Jack Zhou from…

Four Thai students have won four medals including three golds in the 2010 International Biology Olympiad (IBO) held in South Korea.

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