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• Way too neat lab bench image gives a distorted impression of lab life

  
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  Seed is running a series of monthly portraits of workbenches of interesting people (like Oliver Sacks, a renowned bat expert, an industrial designer, etc.) The latest portrait , published in yesterday’s online issue, is the lab bench of Martin Chalfie , one of the three who won a medical Nobel last year for ...
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• Researcher at Army Lab Infected with Rabbit Fever

  
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  by Yudhijit Bhattacharjee A researcher at the United States Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases (USAMRIID) in Frederick, Maryland, has contracted rabbit fever—also known as tularemia, USAMRIID officials announced today. The illness is caused by the bacteria Francisella tularensis,...
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• Hepatitis C Drug Targets RNA

  
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  A new drug suppresses the virus in chimps without generating resistance.
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• Expert Agreement With New Mammography Guidelines Clouded by Politics

  
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  by Eliot Marshall A House of Representatives hearing that was supposed to look at the science behind a controversial policy on mammography yesterday erupted in a donnybrook. Conservative members of the Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Health pounced on recommendations...
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• New Endoscope Sees What Lies Beneath

  
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  An infrared-based endoscope scans tissue below the surface.
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• A Tongue-Tracking Artificial Larynx

  
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  Patients could get their voice back using a device that analyzes contact between the tongue and palate.
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• Why Did Oklahoma State Cancel Anthrax Research Project?

  
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  by Greg Miller Three years ago, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, cut the ribbon on a brand new biosafety level 3 laboratory, a move the university hoped would position it to bring in more federal money for research on biodefense and...
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• Obama Begins Embryonic Stem Cell Research Support With $21 Million

  
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  by Constance Holden National Institutes of Health Director Francis Collins announced today that the first 13 human embryonic stem (ES) cell lines have been approved for funding under the expanded policy outlined by President Barack Obama in an executive order...
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• Gene-Testing Machine for Doctors

  
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  A new device rapidly analyzes blood for medically relevant genetic variations.
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• Caterpillar Flu Vaccine Delayed

  
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  The FDA wants further evidence that the novel approach is completely safe.
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• Government Guidance for Gene Firms to Prevent Bioterrorism

  
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  by Yudhijit BhattacharjeeThe U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has proposed a set of guidelines for how providers of custom-made DNA sequences should do business. The proposal is the first comprehensive guidance issued by the government to tackle bioterrorism...
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• Identifying Anticancer Immune Cells

  
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  A new biosensor can spot potent cancer-killing immune cells.
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• Big Hope for Tiny Particles

  
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  Nanotechnology-based drug delivery offers new treatment options for deadly pancreatic cancers.
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• Why we are annoyed by the music of Engelbert Humperdinck

  
  Biomedicine on Display — Authority: 126
  Did you know that even bacteria are annoyed by the music of Engelbert Humperdinck? (Yes, you are not the only one).  E.coli bacteria can’t stand it. It’s all (sort of) true: Adam Zaretsky once spent 48 hours playing Engelbert Humperdincks’s “Greatest Hits” to a dish of E.coli bacteria to determine ...
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• Curatorial and artistic techniques in investigating and presenting (biomedical) bodies

  
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  We are of course not the only museum that struggles with how to juggle art, science, materiality and medicine in our exhibitions. Next Friday, 4 December, the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology at University of Cambridge is organising a most interesting afternoon symposium titled ‘Assembling Bodies: Art, ...
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• Co-Chairs of NFLs Head Injury Committee Resign

  
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  by Greg Miller The two men in charge of the National Football Leagues committee on mild traumatic brain injury have resigned, The New York Times reports today. The move appears to be the latest sign that the league is changing...
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• Some HIV Prevention Efforts Working, Major Challenges Remain

  
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  by Jon Cohen In one of the first signs that HIV prevention efforts have begun to make a dent on a global scale, new infections appears to have dropped by 17% over the past 8 years, according to a new...
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• Neurologists to NFL: Were Here to Help

  
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  by Greg Miller The National Football League will require teams to consult an independent neurologist or neurosurgeon to determine when its safe for a player to return to play after a concussion, FOX Sports reported yesterday. The move comes in...
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• NIH Undergoes Behavior (Research) Modification

  
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  by Constance Holden Social and behavioral research is finally getting some of the high-level attention it has sought for years at the National Institutes of Health. Yesterday NIH Director Francis Collins announced that $10 million in recovery money will go...
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• University of Nebraska May Restrict Stem Cell Use

  
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  by Constance Holden Nebraska citizens dont like the open-ended new Obama policy on research with human embryonic stem cells. So in response to public pressure, the University of Nebraska board of regents will vote tomorrow on whether to limit its...
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