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• UCLA researchers demonstrate that stem cells can be engineered to kill HIV

  
  Science Blog - Science news straight from the source — Authority: 651
  Researchers from the UCLA AIDS Institute and colleagues have for the first time demonstrated that human blood stem cells can be engineered into cells that can target and kill HIV-infected cells — a process that potentially could be used against a range of chronic viral diseases. ...
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• U-Iowa study helps advance heart-related research

  
  Science Blog - Science news straight from the source — Authority: 651
  Using a new mathematical model of heart cells, University of Iowa investigators have shown how activation of a critical enzyme, calmodulin kinase II (CaM kinase), disrupts the electrical activity of heart cells. The study, which also involved Columbia University, was published online Dec. 3 in the journal PLoS ...
  5 days ago

• Study links real-time data to flu vaccine strategies

  
  Science Blog - Science news straight from the source — Authority: 651
  Adaptive vaccination strategies, based on age patterns of hospitalizations and deaths monitored in real-time during the early stages of a pandemic, outperform seasonal influenza vaccination allocation strategies, according to findings reported Dec. 3 by researchers, including two from Arizona State University, in the ...
  6 days ago

• Open access: friend or foe?

  
  EcoTone — Authority: 415
  Open access to scientific journals is a contentious issue in the sciences. A recent article in the (open-access) journal PLoS Biology makes the case that open access is the way of the future and is good for science, scientists and universities alike.In his essay, David Shulenburger of the Association of Public and ...
  6 days ago

• Music and speech based on human biology

  
  Science Blog - Science news straight from the source — Authority: 651
  DURHAM, N.C. -- A pair of studies by Duke University neuroscientists shows powerful new evidence of a deep biological link between human music and speech.
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• Researchers demonstrate a better way for computers to see

  
  Science Blog - Science news straight from the source — Authority: 651
  Cambridge, Mass?December 1, 2009?Taking inspiration from genetic screening techniques, researchers from Harvard and MIT have demonstrated a way to build better artificial visual systems with the help of low-cost, high-performance gaming hardware.
  6 days ago

• Jefferson researchers identify new mechanism of blocking HIV-1 from entering cells

  
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  (PHILADELPHIA) Publishing in PLoS Pathogens, researchers at from the Kimmel Cancer Center at Jefferson have found a novel mechanism by which drugs block HIV-1 from entering host cells.
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• Why Do People Vote? III

  
  Blogs — Authority: 162
  Even after I left the field of rational choice theory of politics and became an evolutionary psychologist, the paradox of voter turnout (and my own theoretical resolution of the paradox) continued to haunt me.  Why do people act like their vote made a difference in the past electoral outcome? From an evolutionary ...
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• Food Waste in US and its environmental impact

  
  Pro-science — Authority: 99
  PLoS One has an interesting article The Progressive Increase of Food Waste in America and Its Environmental Impact by Kevin D. Hall et al Food waste contributes to excess consumption of freshwater and fossil fuels which, along with methane and CO2 emissions from decomposing food, impacts global climate change. ...
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• Cool Green Morning: Wednesday, November 25

  
  Cool Green Science: The Conservation Blog of The Nature Conservancy — Authority: 474
  There’s a lot to be thankful this morning, readers. The majority of Americans believe that climate change is happening , and want to do something about it.  Someday, your cell phone’s waste heat could actually make its battery last longer .  There’s hope for a rise in e-recycling . Something else we’re ...
  2 weeks ago

• Researchers identify proteins in lung cancer cells that may provide potential drug targets

  
  Science Blog - Science news straight from the source — Authority: 651
  (Boston) -- Researchers from Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) and the Boston University Biomedical Engineering Department have identified a number of proteins whose activation allows them to distinguish between cancer and normal cells with almost 97 percent accuracy.
  2 weeks ago

• Montana State University study explores violent world of raptors

  
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  BOZEMAN, Mont. -- A journey that started with a box of bird feet carried three Montana State University graduate students into the gruesome world of raptors and led to their findings being published in a prominent journal.
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• Giving Open Access a Bad Name

  
  The Scholarly Kitchen — Authority: 525
  Scientist, editor, and OA advocate Jonathan A. Eisen rages against an infamous author-pays OA publisher.
  2 weeks ago

• Article-level metrics getting attention

  
  Be openly accessible or be obscure — Authority: 109
  The very interesting publication Article-Level Metrics and the Evolution of Scientific Impact Export by Cameron Neylon and Shirley Wu ( PLoS Biol 2009(Nov); 7(11): e1000242 [Epub 2009(Nov 17)][ PubMed Citation ]) is receiving attention on FriendFeed [ here ] and Topsy [ here ] and has been bookmarked on ...
  2 weeks ago

• 100 Researchers Ask NIH To Fund Ethics Research

  
  Pharmalot — Authority: 580
  Dozens of researchers, clinicians, and ethicists sent a letter asking the NIH to fund research on medical ethics, conflicts of interest, and industry influence on prescribing behavior. Why? They note that stimulus funding has increased the NIH budget significantly, but the agency has “no mechanism for funding ...
  3 weeks ago

• Introducing the (rigorously peer-reviewed, of course) PLoS store!

  
  A Blog Around The Clock — Authority: 594
  If you ever saw me at a conference, you probably asked me for one of the famous PLoS t-shirts. Or you did not even have to ask - I just gave you one. Or perhaps you won one of our contests in the past - a synchroblogging anniversary competition, or a Blog Pick Of The Month - in which case you also got one of the ...
  3 weeks ago

• Fruit bats go down to keep it up

  
  The Wisdom of Whores — Authority: 107
  I’ve always been curious to know what a random investigator would make of my in-box. Lots of people find theirs clogged with offers of penis extensions and tireless nights of love; I have the added joy of getting soft-peddalled syphilis diagnostic kits. I also get alerted when medical journals publish papers on a ...
  3 weeks ago

• Warm-blooded dinosaurs worked up a sweat

  
  Science Blog - Science news straight from the source — Authority: 651
  Were dinosaurs "warm-blooded" like present-day mammals and birds, or "cold-blooded" like present day lizards?
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• New analyses of dinosaur growth may wipe out one-third of species

  
  Science Blog - Science news straight from the source — Authority: 651
  Paleontologists from the University of California, Berkeley, and the Museum of the Rockies have wiped out two species of dome-headed dinosaur, one of them named three years ago -- with great fanfa
  5 weeks ago

• USU scientists report major advance in human antibody therapy against deadly Nipah virus

  
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  Rockville, Md. (Oct.
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