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Death of the "doughnut"

Something has been eating Charlie Kerfoot's doughnut, and all fingers point to a European mollusk about the size of a fat lima bean.No one knew about the doughnut in southern Lake Michigan, much less...

Moonstruck primates: Owl monkeys need moonlight as much as a biological clock for nocturnal activity

Science Blog | 48 minutes ago

PHILADELPHIA -- - An international collaboration led by a University of Pennsylvania anthropologist has shown that environmental factors, like temperature and light, play as much of a role in the...

Transition metal catalysts could be key to origin of life, scientists report

Science Blog | 1 hour 46 minutes ago

MBL, WOODS HOLE, MA -- One of the big, unsolved problems in explaining how life arose on Earth is a chicken-and-egg paradox: How could the basic biochemicals -- such as amino acids and nucleotides --...

Transition metal catalysts could be key to origin of life, scientists report

Science Blog | 1 hour 46 minutes ago

NASA satellite and International Space Station catch Earl weakening

Science Blog | 2 hours 45 minutes ago

NASA satellites and the International Space Station are keeping eyes on Hurricane Earl as it heads for New England. Watches and Warnings are posted in the U.S. northeast. Having felt the effects of...

NASA imagery reveals a weaker, stretched out Fiona

Science Blog | 4 hours 16 minutes ago

NASA satellite data has noticed that Tropical Storm Fiona is getting "longer." That is, the storm is elongating in almost a north-south direction, indicating that she's weakening and may not make it...

Magnetism s subatomic roots

Science Blog | 5 hours 47 minutes ago

The modern world -- with its ubiquitous electronic devices and electrical power -- can trace its lineage directly to the discovery, less than two centuries ago, of the link between electricity and...

MIT moves toward greener chemistry

Science Blog | 5 hours 47 minutes ago

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. - Phosphorus, a mineral element found in rocks and bone, is a critical ingredient in fertilizers, pesticides, detergents and other industrial and household chemicals. Once phosphorus...

Cranberry Juice May Prevent Staph Infections

BioTech Weblog, The | 6 hours 30 minutes ago

Andrew Morrell PhotographyIn a small clinical trial, a cranberry juice cocktail has been shown to help prevent Staphylococcus infections. Although cranberry juice has repeatedly been shown to help prevent E.coli infections, particularly in cases of urinary tract infections, this is one of the few studies showing its effectivity in blocking Staphylococus aureus, a strain of bacteria that causes a range of diseases, from minor skin rashes to serious bloodstream infections. One particular str...

Botox Manufacturer Allergan to Pay $600 Million in Fines

BioTech Weblog, The | 6 hours 30 minutes ago

Vancouver Laser & Skincare CentreAfter pleading guilty to illegally marketing and misbranding Botox for off-label, unapproved uses between 2000 and 2005, Allergan, the manufacturer of Botox, will pay $600 million in fines. Investigators found that the drug was marketed to doctors as a treatment for headaches, pain, muscle disorders, and cerebral palsy in children, none of which are approved by the FDA. "The FDA had approved therapeutic uses of Botox for only four rare conditions,...

AgriLife research hibiscus breeder comes up with the blue

Science Blog | 6 hours 53 minutes ago

VERNON -- Dr. Dariusz Malinowski is seeing blue, and he is very excited. For four years, Malinowski, an AgriLife Research plant physiologist and forage agronomist in Vernon, has been working with...

NASA hurricane researchers eye Earl s eye

Science Blog | 6 hours 53 minutes ago

Hurricane Earl, currently a Category Two storm on the Saffir-Simpson scale with maximum sustained winds of 100 knots (115 miles per hour), continues to push relentlessly toward the U.S. East Coast,...

GOES-13 satellite sees Hurricane Earl s clouds covering the US Northeast

Science Blog | 6 hours 53 minutes ago

Hurricane Earl lashed the North Carolina coast last night and this morning, September 3, and is now headed for Cape Cod, Massachusetts. This morning's image from the GOES-13 satellite saw Hurricane...

Publication of World Health Report 2000 an act of remarkable courage, says school expert

Science Blog | 6 hours 53 minutes ago

Ten years on, Martin McKee reflects on report placed health system performance rankings firmly on political agenda. Martin McKee, Professor of European Health at the London School of Hygiene &...

Americans struggle with long-term weight loss

Science Blog | 6 hours 53 minutes ago

Only about one in every six Americans who have ever been overweight or obese loses weight and maintains that loss, according to Penn State College of Medicine researchers. While that number is larger...

Rutgers-Camden professor engineers E. coli to produce biodiesel

Science Blog | 6 hours 53 minutes ago

CAMDEN -- One mention of E. coli conjures images of sickness and food poisoning, but the malevolent bacteria may also be the key to the future of renewable energy. Desmond Lun, an associate...

Queen s study exposes cognitive effects of Parkinson s disease

Science Blog | 6 hours 53 minutes ago

Researchers at Queen's University have found that people with Parkinson's disease can perform automated tasks better than people without the disease, but have significant difficulty switching from...

Increase in Cambodia s vultures gives hope to imperiled scavengers

Science Blog | 6 hours 53 minutes ago

While vultures across Asia teeter on the brink of extinction, the vultures of Cambodia are increasing in number, providing a beacon of hope for these threatened scavengers, according to the Wildlife...

UCLA chemists, engineers achieve world record with high-speed graphene transistors

Science Blog | 8 hours 28 minutes ago

Graphene, a one-atom-thick layer of graphitic carbon, has great potential to make electronic devices such as radios, computers and phones faster and smaller. But its unique properties have also led...

UCLA chemists, engineers achieve world record with high-speed graphene transistors

Science Blog | 8 hours 28 minutes ago

Non-invasive therapy significantly improves depression, UCLA researchers say

Science Blog | 8 hours 28 minutes ago

Major depression is a common and disabling brain condition marked not only by the presence of depressed mood but also by its effects on sleep, energy, decision-making, memory and thoughts of death or...

Non-invasive therapy significantly improves depression, UCLA researchers say

Science Blog | 8 hours 28 minutes ago

Yale develops new animal model for hemophilia A

Science Blog | 8 hours 28 minutes ago

Researchers at Yale School of Medicine have developed a new animal model for studying hemophilia A, with the goal of eventually treating people with the disorder. Hemophilia A, a hereditary defect...

Yale develops new animal model for hemophilia A

Science Blog | 8 hours 28 minutes ago

Researchers at Yale School of Medicine have developed a new animal model for studying hemophilia A, with the goal of eventually treating people with the disorder. Hemophilia A, a hereditary defect...

Race, insurance status cited in uneven death rates among pedestrians hit by cars

Science Blog | 8 hours 28 minutes ago

Uninsured minority pedestrians hit by cars are at a significantly higher risk of death than their insured white counterparts, even if the injuries sustained are similar, new research from Johns...

Race, insurance status cited in uneven death rates among pedestrians hit by cars

Science Blog | 8 hours 28 minutes ago

Uninsured minority pedestrians hit by cars are at a significantly higher risk of death than their insured white counterparts, even if the injuries sustained are similar, new research from Johns...

Induced pluripotent stem cell retain an inactivated X chromosome

Science Blog | 8 hours 28 minutes ago

Female induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells, reprogrammed from human skin cells into cells that have the embryonic-like potential to become any cell in the body, retain an inactive X chromosome, stem...

Earth from space: Giant iceberg enters Nares Strait

Science Blog | 8 hours 40 minutes ago

ESA's Envisat satellite has been tracking the progression of the giant iceberg that calved from Greenland's Petermann glacier on 4 August 2010. This animation shows that the iceberg, the largest in...

First clinical trials successfully completed on potent new hepatitis C drug

Science Blog | 8 hours 40 minutes ago

The first clinical trials on a new investigational drug being developed to treat infections caused by Hepatitis C virus have been successfully completed. Completion of the initial phase (phase 1a) of...

Satellite data reveal why migrating birds have a small window to spread bird flu

Science Blog | 8 hours 40 minutes ago

In 2005 an outbreak of the H5N1 'bird flu' virus in South East Asia led to widespread fear with predictions that the intercontinental migration of wild birds could lead to global pandemic. Such fears...

Tropical forests slashed for farmland

Science Blog | 8 hours 40 minutes ago

Global agricultural expansion cut a wide swath through tropical forests during the 1980s and 1990s. Over half a million square miles of new farmland -- an area roughly the size of Alaska -- was...

Imaging reveals key metabolic factors of cannibalistic bacteria

Science Blog | 8 hours 40 minutes ago

Researchers at the University of California, San Diego have revealed new details about how cannibalistic bacteria identify peers suitable for consumption. The work, which employed imaging mass...

Verbal snippets offer insights on well-being amid separation, divorce

Science Blog | 8 hours 40 minutes ago

A new study from the University of Arizona shows that people in the midst of a divorce typically reveal how they are handling things -- not so much by what they say but how they say it. In fact,...

Rochester leads international effort to improve muscular dystrophy treatment

Science Blog | 10 hours 35 minutes ago

A large international study aimed at improving the care of muscular dystrophy patients worldwide is being launched by physicians, physical therapists, and researchers at the University of Rochester...

Weekly Roundup - 09/03/10

Eye on FDA | 11 hours 34 minutes ago

The sun sets on a summer. Oil spills, floods, unemployment, record heat, election year politics bearing little, if any, substance - I say good riddance. Move on Summer of '10. Move on. Meanwhile, there are some more interesting things in...

US neurologists agree on protocols for treatment of infantile spasms

Science Blog | 18 hours ago

Researchers from across the U.S., as part of the Infantile Spasms Working Group (ISWG), established guidelines for the diagnosis and treatment of infantile spasms (IS). The goal of the ISWG is to...

Researchers identify how bone-marrow stem cells hold their breath in low-oxygen environments

Science Blog | 18 hours ago

DALLAS -- Sept. 3, 2010 -- UT Southwestern Medical Center researchers have identified unique metabolic properties that allow a specific type of stem cell in the body to survive and replicate in...

Hair provides proof of the link between chronic stress and heart attack

Science Blog | 18 hours ago

Researchers at The University of Western Ontario have provided the first direct evidence using a biological marker, to show chronic stress plays an important role in heart attacks. Stressors such as...

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BioTech Weblog, The
Biotech News made simple.

Corante/Brain Waves
The field of neurotechnology, the focus of this blog, encompasses advances in brain science (neurons), information technology (bits) and bioengineering (genes). Up for discussion and analysis: the political, economic, ethical, and social forces that will shape the future of what will be one of the most important and fascinating stories of the coming decades.

Eye on FDA
RX for Pharma Industry Communications and Planning

Science Blog
In case Mr. Wizard and Mythbusters don't give you enough science