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Merry Warriors (Free subscription) | yesterday
'I am prejudiced because what I learned over years of farming — dealing with California labor, environmental, legal, and tax regulations, pruning, tractor driving, listening to my grandfather, and handling unsavory characters, understanding plant physiology and fruit-production, etc. — I think gave me a different, but in the long run as good an education as a BA/PhD in Classical languages....
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Urban Science Adventures! (c) (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
Exactly one year ago, I laid the roots to the Diversity in Science Carnival , but I did not know it. As I was beginning to assemble this edition, I found myself typing words, phrases and sentiments that were all too familiar. Something about the state and statistics of under-represented minorities in STEM - “The very large racial Ph.D. gap in the natural sciences is striking when we examine...
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Terra Sigillata (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
Denise Gellene in the New York Times is reporting this morning that Scottish physician, Sir John Crofton, passed away on 3 November at age 97. Crofton is best known for implementing a combination drug regimen to treat tuberculosis, the insidious lung infection with Mycobacterium tuberculosis which decimated the US early last century and still kills 2 million a year worldwide. The concept of using...
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Resource Shelf (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
Nobel Prize-winning scientists urge Congress to act to ensure free online access to federally funded research results “For America to obtain an optimal return on our investment in science, publicly funded research must be shared as broadly as possible,” is the message that forty one Nobel Prize-winning scientists in medicine, physics, and chemistry gave to Congress [...]
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Pinoy Healthcare (Free subscription) | 11/13/2009
Almost anyone in the world would love to be able to find an all out cure for snoring. They would make millions of dollars and maybe even win the Nobel Prize for medicine. What a dream to stop and think about. In the real world, there is no all out cure and there probably won’t [...] Related Posts The Major Problem With Snoring Prevention Methods Prevent Snoring by Losing Weight The Remedy For...
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Business Wire (Free subscription) | 11/13/2009
DENVER--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The Genetics Policy Institute (GPI) and National Association of Biology Teachers (NABT) will launch the first Stem Cell Education Summit on Saturday, November 14, as part of the NABT's 2009 Professional Development Conference at the Sheraton Denver. The Summit will cover a wide range of topics relevant to field including science, ethics and policy. Nobel Laureate Mario R. Capecchi,...
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Seth's blog (Free subscription) | 11/13/2009
Steven Sheets writes: I can’t really think of an area in physics where a consensus has been achieved only to be shown to be completely wrong. Good point. I know little about physics but I tend to agree. Work awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics is more trustworthy than work awarded the Nobel Prize in Medicine, for [...]
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WEBLOG DO FRAGA (Free subscription) | 11/13/2009
Longevity tied to genes that preserve tips of chromosomes Findings from Einstein study of healthy centenarians 13 nov 2009 - A team led by researchers at Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University has found a clear link between living to 100 and inheriting a hyperactive version of an enzyme that rebuilds telomeres – the tip ends of chromosomes. The findings appear in the latest...
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Cool Science News (Free subscription) | 11/12/2009
From Live Science: Scientists have zeroed in on one apparent key to long life: an inherited cellular repair mechanism that thwarts aging and perhaps helps prevent disease. Researches say the finding could lead to anti-aging drugs. The study involves telomeres, the ends of chromosomes that have been likened to the plastic tips that prevent shoelaces from unraveling. Telomeres were already known to play...
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Caribbeans Science and Art. (Free subscription) | 11/12/2009
U.S. Science Group Seeks Cooperation With Cuba By Jeff FranksNovember 11, 2009 HAVANA (Reuters) - A group led by the head of the United States' biggest science organization is in Cuba this week to discuss ways to rekindle scientific cooperation as U.S.-Cuba relations slowly improve under U.S. President Barack Obama. Nobel Prize-winning scientist Peter Agre, president of the American Association for...
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Sandwalk (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1926"for his discovery of the Spiroptera carcinoma"Johannes Andreas Grib Fibiger (1867 - 1928) won the Nobel Prize for "proving" that gastric tumors could be caused by a nematode, Spiroptera carcinoma (now called Gongylonema neoplasticum). Unfortunately, later work showed that the nematode was not the cause of cancer, although it may contribute...
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Red Orbit (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
Charting femtosecond energy flow could aid redesign of molecules to improve light captureUniversity of California, Berkeley, chemists have discovered the secret to the success of a jellyfish protein whose green glow has made it the darling of biologists and the subject of the 2008 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.The researchers' study of green fluorescent protein (GFP) and the structural changes...
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Physorg (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
University of California, Berkeley, chemists have discovered the secret to the success of a jellyfish protein whose green glow has made it the darling of biologists and the subject of the 2008 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
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xymphora (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
As Canada becomes more and more fascist, Remembrance Day becomes a bigger and bigger event. I think we should bulldoze the corpses of 'the fallen' into mass graves and erect monuments to stupidity over the top. The fascination with controlled demolition reflects the American culture of the veneration of stupidity (if we built monuments to stupidity Americans would worship there). The school system...
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sonupt5@gmail.com | 10/07/2009
2009 Nobel Prize in Chemistry: Ramakrishnan, Steitz, Yonath Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences conducted the Nobel Prize ceremony every year in different fields of chemistry. Nobel Prize is normally awarded for major contributions in the fields of chemistry, physics, literature, peace, and physiology or medicine. Jacobus Henricus van’t Hoff, of the Netherlands was the first to get Noble Prize in 1901
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switbd | 10/06/2009
This year's Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine is awarded to three scientists who have solved a major problem in biology: how the chromosomes can be copied in a complete way during cell divisions and how they are protected against degradation. The Nobel Laureates have shown that the solution is to be found in the ends of the chromosomes – the telomeres – and in an enzyme that forms them – telomerase.
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