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A new journal where molecular biology meets clinical research

The European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO) announced the introduction of EMBO Molecular Medicine, a new journal dedicated to a research discipline focused on the interface between molecular biology and clinical research. The new journal, launching in 2009, will publish original research offering molecular insights into cellular and systemic processes underlying defined human diseases as well as potential clinical applications for diagnosis, prevention and therapy.

Hackers aim to make biology household practice

Mackenzie Cowell (left) and Jason Bobe are trying to create simple, at-home methods for doing sophisticated biology. Mackenzie Cowell (left) and Jason Bobe are trying to create simple, at-home methods for doing sophisticated biology. (Dina Rudick/Globe Staff)

Book Review of Modern Alkaloids: Structure, Isolation, Synthesis and Biology

This book comprises 20 individually authored chapters covering a range of topics in alkaloid chemistry and biology. Most of the chapters, the titles of which are available at http://www.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-3527315217,descCd-tableOfContents.html, have fairly up-to-date references through about 2006. The book is further organized into three main sections: (I) Bioactive Alkaloids: Structure and Biology; (II) New Trends in Alkaloid Isolation and Structure Elucidation; and (III) New Trends in Alkaloid Synthesis and Biosynthesis.

$3.2M for Rutgers to apply biology, engineering, physical sciences toward stem cells

NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J. – Rutgers University has received a $3.2 million grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to apply engineering, physical science and mathematical disciplines to stem cell research. In funding 70 doctoral fellowships, the program can equip experts in fields such as cell and molecular biology, computational modeling and biomaterials to move stem-cell breakthroughs from the biology lab into practical and commercially viable therapies.

Biology of mental retardation uncovered

U.S. researchers said they've found a clue to understanding the biology of gene-linked mental retardation.

Biology of mental retardation uncovered

SAN ANTONIO, Aug. 11 (UPI) -- U.S. researchers said they've found a clue to understanding the biology of gene-linked mental retardation.

Biology Awards Enable Detailed Study Of Microbes

The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), will award five-year contracts estimated to be up to $68.7 million to establish programs in Systems Biology for Infectious Disease Research at four research institutions. Scientists at each facility will apply novel techniques to study diseases that include severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS), tuberculosis and influenza.

Structural Biology Spin-out Tackles Major Diseases

A spin out company from basic structural biology, Asterion Ltd., has led to new technology that provides a way of creating therapeutic proteins to tackle major diseases such as cancer, diabetes and infertility.

Structural biology spin-out tackles major diseases

A spin out company from basic structural biology, Asterion Ltd., has led to new technology that provides a way of creating therapeutic proteins to tackle major diseases such as cancer, diabetes and infertility. The research was carried out at the University of Sheffield in laboratories supported by the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC). This work is reported in the current edition of BBSRC Business, the quarterly research highlights magazine of the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council.

Illuminating biology: An evolutionary perspective

Biologists, educators hold symposium and special workshop at national biology teachers meeting in Memphis, Tenn.

BioScience Reviews Biology Books for Young People

BioScience, the flagship publication of the American Institute of Biological Sciences (AIBS), announces its Fall Focus on Books, this year featuring over 40 children's biology titles. Six engaging articles, written by science educators, will be of special interest to K–12 educators, parents, and caregivers who seek an enjoyable learning experience for children interested in science and nature. Titles are grouped by topic—Botany, Oceanography, Climate Change, Evolution, Microbiology, and Entomology.

PRUDENCE AND POLICY - REDUCING THE RISKS OF SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY

In theory synthetic biology is the bioterrorists’ best friend. So, ask Damon Terrill and Andy Peek, if the technology is evolving to increase the opportunities for misuse, what can and ought we do about it?

Inventing the Future with Synthetic Biology

Forbes features Ginkgo BioWorks, a synthetic biology company started by MIT's Tom Knight and three of his PhD students, including Reshma Shetty. She's part of their Eight People Inventing the Future, on the list due to her "DIY genetic engineering" approach to using genetic parts to make new living systems. Shetty's claim to fame is making banana-scented bacteria, and Ginkgo's aim is to sell standardized genetic parts dried onto sheets of paper to big companies that want to make new drugs, plastics, and petroleum replacements, says the story.

Nanotechnology And Synthetic Biology: Americans Don't Know What's Coming

A groundbreaking poll finds that almost half of U.S. adults have heard nothing about nanotechnology, and nearly nine in 10 Americans say they have heard just a little or nothing at all about the emerging field of synthetic biology, according to a new report released by the Project on Emerging Nanotechnologies (PEN) and Peter D. Hart Research. Both technologies involve manipulating matter at an incredibly small scale to achieve something new.

Political Views Driven by Biology

Fierce individualists, Americans figure that we choose our own political beliefs, but actually it could come down to biology.

Hackers Aim to Make Biology Household Practice

CAMBRIDGE—In a third-floor loft where programmers build Internet start-ups, Mackenzie Cowell is talking about the tools he and like-minded young colleagues are using to fuel what they hope will be the next big thing in biology. The list includes a cut-up Charlie Card, ingredients bought on eBay to make a kind of scientific Jell-O, and a refrigerator, just scored on Craigslist.com, that chills to 80 degrees below zero.

Oceanography Isn't the Same As Marine Biology

When I attend a middle school or high school career day, I often have a student tell me, "I want to be an oceanographer." But as we talk more, I realize that what the student really wants to be is a marine biologist. Or sometimes it's the other way around - the student says "marine biology" when he or she is thinking of oceanography. What's the difference? Basically, it comes down to this - an oceanographer studies the oceans, a marine biologist studies marine life.

Epigenetics: Principles of Eukaryotic Genome Control is an Indispensable Guide for Any Graduate Student in Genetics, Molecular Biology, and Biochemistry

Epigenetics: Principles of Eukaryotic Genome Control is an Indispensable Guide for Any Graduate Student in Genetics, Molecular Biology, and Biochemistry

Seleninate in Place of Phosphate: Irreversible Inhibition of Protein Tyrosine Phosphatases

Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Rutgers The State University of New Jersey, Piscataway, New Jersey 08854, and Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, Indiana 46202

Chemists Make Beds With Soft Landings: Researchers Create Stable, Highly Pure Helical Peptide Arrays

Bedsprings aren't often found in biology. Now, chemists have succeeded in making a layer of tiny protein coils attached to a surface, much like miniature bedsprings in a frame. This thin film made of stable and very pure helices can help researchers develop molecular electronics or solar cells, or to divine the biology of proteins.

Chemists make beds with soft landings

RICHLAND, Wash. -- Bedsprings aren't often found in biology. Now, chemists have succeeded in making a layer of tiny protein coils attached to a surface, much like miniature bedsprings in a frame. This thin film made of stable and very pure helices can help researchers develop molecular electronics or solar cells, or to divine the biology of proteins.

Tin film of protein coils promising for nanoelectronics and solar cells

(Nanowerk News) Bedsprings aren't often found in biology. Now, chemists have succeeded in making a layer of tiny protein coils attached to a surface, much like miniature bedsprings in a frame. This thin film made of stable and very pure helices can help researchers develop molecular electronics or solar cells, or to divine the biology of proteins.

Scientists Discover Cause of Weakness in Marine Animal Hybrids

RON BURTON, CHRIS ELLISON, PNAS, PROCEEDING OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCE, COPEPOD, DNA, EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY, GENES, GENOMES, HYBRIDS, MBRD, MARINE BIOLOGY RESEARCH DIVISION, MITOCHONDRIA

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Mount Sinai researchers discover technology that silences genes

Mount Sinai researchers have developed a new gene silencing technology that could be used to target genes that can lead to the development of certain diseases. This technology could pave the way for preventing diseases where gene dysfunction plays a role. The groundbreaking research was led by Ming-Ming Zhou, Ph.D., Professor and Chairman of the Department of Structural and Chemical Biology at Mount Sinai School of Medicine. The findings, which will be published in the September issue of Nature Cell Biology, are available on the magazine's web site as of today.

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