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Latest blogosphere posts tagged “life_science”

• How Cellphones Are Changing Our Brains [This Cyborg Life]

  
  Gizmodo — Authority: 894
  Weve spent a lot of time this week discussing how we can use technology to change our bodies. But according to new research, one of the gadgets we rely on daily is already having a measurable effect on our brains. Researchers at Örebro University in Sweden found that cellphone usage increases the brains production ...
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• How Cellphones Are Changing Our Brains [This Cyborg Life]

  
  RSS fabriek — Authority: 462
  We’ve spent a lot of time this week discussing how we can use technology to change our bodies. But according to new research, one of the gadgets we rely on daily is already having a measurable effect on our brains. Researchers at Örebro University in Sweden found that cellphone usage increases the brain’s ...
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• From Joe Schriner, re: the Moon thing

  
  A True Believer's Blog — Authority: 412
  I was going back and forth on whether I wanted to post anything about this, and then I saw Joe Schriner’s blog post about it. So, I’ll let him say it for me: Front page stories in newspapers across the country scream that, at last : Water Has Been Found On The Moon! I mean, there’s water in India.  And ...
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• Goodbye, tuna

  
  Later On — Authority: 500
  People in general seem to be incredibly stupid. Take a look at this: Times are tough for tuna. The guidance of scientists that advise groups that manage tuna stocks is falling on deaf ears. The International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas meets this week in Brazil to set catch limits. ICCAT’s ...
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• Gay marriages better for the family’s kids?

  
  Later On — Authority: 500
  Interesting article by Lisa Belkin in the NY Times : Just as voters in Maine were rejecting the legalization of gay marriage in the state, researchers from Massachusetts to California were releasing data showing that families led by same-sex parents are becoming mainstream. The demographer Gary Gates of the ...
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• Fish that live 5 miles underwater

  
  Later On — Authority: 500
  Via Treehugger, which has more info :  
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• Science Explained: RNA Interference

  
  Curious Cat Science and Engineering Blog — Authority: 418
  Explained: RNA interference Every high school biology student learns the basics of how genes are expressed: DNA, the cell’s master information keeper, is copied into messenger RNA, which carries protein-building instructions to the ribosome, the part of the cell where proteins are assembled. But it turns out the ...
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• BioWest 2009

  
  RockyRadar.com - On the Radar — Authority: 123
  CBSA’s BioWest 2009 brought together a variety of perspectives on bioscience in Colorado and around the world, as well as focusing on innovation and leadership in general. Ginger Graham, the former president and CEO of Amylin Pharmaceuticals, began the day by offering a high level perspective on the future of the ...
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• Why Cant Chimps Talk?

  
  Discovery News - Technology — Authority: 733
  A genetic mutation may explain why our closest relatives, chimpanzees, dont speak.
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• Vatican Astronomer Guy Consolmagno: "We are not split into a world of Spocks and Kirks."

  
  Entertainment & Weekend Blog — Authority: 145
  Guy ConsolmagnoBrother Guy Consolmagno Syracuse, NY - Brother Guy J. Consolmagno, author and editor of  “The Heavens Proclaim: Astronomy and the Vatican,” (2009, Vatican Observatory Publications) is teaching this fall at Le Moyne College. An astronomer at the Vatican Observatory, Brother...
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• Pulmatrix Pulls in $30.2M, GenArts Gobbles Up Wondertouch, BioVex Bags $30M, & More Boston-Area Deals News

  
  Xconomy — Authority: 709
  Roundup , deals , VC Rebecca Zacks wrote: Several of New England’s tech and life sciences firms got juicy deals the past week and a half. —Boston’s RunMyErrand, an online clearinghouse where busy people can find helpers for odd jobs, raised $1 million in a Series A venture financing round. The ...
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• Senior Director of Biotechnology at Catalent To Present Course on Bioassays

  
  EPR Network Blog — Authority: 147
  Released on: November 11, 2009, 12:57 amAuthor: Jennings and Co.Industry: PharmaceuticalsAna T. Menendez, Ph.D., Senior Director of Biotechnology at Catalent Pharma Solutions, will be leading a course in Bioassay Method Development and Validation. The course is being offered through IBC Life Science on November ...
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• Peak oil: already there?

  
  Later On — Authority: 500
  Kevin Drum this morning : The International Energy Administration is, supposedly, the gold standard for projections of future oil supply.  In 2004 they projected that the world would produce 121 million barrels per day of crude oil.  In 2005 they lowered that to 115 million bpd.  Last year they lowered it again ...
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• GO TELL YAR’ADUA, THINGS ARE HARD

  
  Josephekwu's Weblog — Authority: 107
  Friends with a fairly excited heart I write this letter to our dear president Alhaji  Musa Yar’ adua, it has become so pressing and embarrassing that things are not yet working in Nigeria despite all the money being spent in different sectors.How sad the way things turn out now as our dear Nigeria still sees [...]
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• BioVex Nails Down Another $30M To Finish Pivotal Study of Cancer-Killing Virus

  
  Xconomy — Authority: 709
  Biotech , cancer , VC Luke Timmerman wrote: BioVex , the Woburn, MA-based company aspiring to create the first FDA-approved cancer-killing virus, has raised an additional $30 million in private financing to finish off a pivotal clinical trial needed to prove the virus is good enough to reach the U.S. ...
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• Science can, at times, feel like religion

  
  Entertaining Research — Authority: 116
  Zuska explains how : Wilson wasn’t saying science IS a religion in the sense that there’s no real underlying objective reality, everything’s all taken on faith, and we all get together and worship the Flying Spaghetti Monster at Friday seminar. But Jesus Christ, I was a grad student once, and I’ll be damned ...
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• Is there a quick fix for the climate?

  
  Later On — Authority: 500
  In the New Yorker Elizabeth Kolbert takes Dubner and Levitt to task for their sloppy work. Her article begins: In the eighteen-sixties, the quickest, or at least the most popular, way to get around New York was in a horse-drawn streetcar. The horsecars, which operated on iron rails, offered a smoother ride than ...
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• Cambrios lands $14.5M for electronic display components

  
  VentureBeat — Authority: 787
  Cambrios , maker of conductive films used in electronic displays and monitors, has brought in $14.5 million in a fourth round of venture capital. Based in Sunnyvale, Calif., the company is backed by ARCH Venture Partners, Alexandria Real Estate Equities, Alloy Ventures, Altitude Life Science Ventures, Avalon Ventures, ...
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• New Scientist magazine

  
  Later On — Authority: 500
  I’ve just posted snippets and links to a variety of interesting reportage in New Scientist , and I barely scratched the surface of the issue. (You can see the entire table of contents here , with links to the various articles). And pretty much every (weekly) issue has this much good stuff. So I would recommend ...
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