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Tomorrow’s Monster Stock?

July 31st, 2010 by admin

A list of promising companies chosen by investors who’ve already picked stocks that beat the market with huge gains.

Spinning Some Silken Science

July 31st, 2010 by admin

Spiders and silkworms make silk by the yard. Why cant we copy them? Silk is strong, light and flexible and is being examined for use in everything from medical sutures to advanced electronics. Silk researcher David Kaplan explains the challenges in bioengineering silk.

N.C. A&T State hosts bioengineering workshop for high schoolers

July 31st, 2010 by admin

Twenty high school students are attending a week-long series of workshops where they’re exploring their dreams of helping others through bioengineering.

Q&A: EBI’s Maria Victoria Schneider on Bioinformatics Training for Life Science Researchers

July 31st, 2010 by admin

Last November , a group of biologists, computational scientists, physicists, and chemists held a workshop to discuss the challenges of providing training for end-users of bioinformatics tools.

3 Top Stocks at Half-Price

July 31st, 2010 by admin

Investors still think highly of these companies, despite their fire-sale prices.

Top 7 biology papers

July 30th, 2010 by admin

Check out the hottest papers in all of biology, as ranked by F1000

Research and Markets: Systems Biology in Psychiatric Research: From High-Throughput Data to Mathematical Modeling …

July 30th, 2010 by admin

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 …

Biology, Computer Science Combine Efforts To Fight Cancer

July 30th, 2010 by admin

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 …

Biology, not race is the difference in elite athletes

July 30th, 2010 by admin

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.

ONE Bio Obtains New Extraction Technology Patent

July 30th, 2010 by admin

MIAMI, FL–(Marketwire – 07/29/10) – ONE Bio, Corp. (”ONE” or the “Company”) (OTC.BB: ONBI – News ), an innovative company utilizing green process manufacturing to produce raw chemicals and herbal extracts, natural and health supplements and organic products, announced that its subsidiary Green Planet Bioengineering, Co., Ltd. (”CHE”) filed a patent covering its newly developed extraction …

Genes to Make Hydrocarbon Fuels

July 30th, 2010 by admin

The startup LS9 reveals a discovery that could lead to biofuels that would work in conventional engines. Many species naturally make small amounts of hydrocarbons. Now researchers at the startup LS9 , based in South San Francisco, CA, have described the genes and enzymes responsible for this production of alkanes, the major components of fuels such as diesel . The findings, reported in the …

Implantable Sensor Measures Blood Sugar Levels

July 30th, 2010 by admin

Title: Implantable Sensor Measures Blood Sugar Levels Category: Health News Created: 7/28/2010 2:10:00 PM Last Editorial Review: 7/29/2010

New Tool For Accessing Bioinformatics Resources

July 30th, 2010 by admin

Developed by researchers at the UPM’s Facultad de Informática, this tool can discover and automatically classify bioinformatics resources from the scientific literature. Bioinformatics resources have proliferated in the years since the end of the Human Genome Project, obliging researchers to spend a quite a lot of time browsing the web in search of these resources…

Natural Language Processing Tool for Bioinformatics

July 30th, 2010 by admin

Researchers develop semantic tool for searching bioinformatics resources Natural language processing – Artificial intelligence – Social Sciences – Computational Linguistics – Linguistics

This Week in Genome Biology

July 29th, 2010 by admin

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 honors 11 outstanding scientists

July 29th, 2010 by admin

( 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.

Press Release

July 29th, 2010 by admin

Indore, India July 28, 2010 – Apticraft Systems, a leading bioinformatics company, today announced the successful completion of a module for Primer Premier, a project assigned by PREMIER Biosoft International, USA.

Biology, computer science combine efforts to fight cancer

July 28th, 2010 by admin

( 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 …

Research and Markets: The Chemical Biology of Nucleic Acids: Chemical Biology Techniques which have Gained Significant …

July 27th, 2010 by admin

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.

Bryant University Announces New Biology Major

July 27th, 2010 by admin

New program focuses on integrative biology and intensive laboratory research