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May 24, 2013

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1:25 PM | Right Turn: Bench to bedside goes interactive

. This is an anniversary celebration of sorts. One year ago (almost to the day), EuroStemCell and OptiStem released the graphic story From Hope to Hype and I recall being amazed: not just at the beauty and integrity of the finished product, but at the immense creativity of the project as a whole. Explaining stem...Read more

May 23, 2013

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7:55 PM | A Tribute to Cancer Researchers

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7:27 PM | The Greatest Wealth is Health- European Scientific Summit Day 1

The title here is referencing a quote attributed to Publius Vergilius Maro, commonly known as Virgil, one of the greatest Roman poets. It is interesting to see quite how many quotes and phrases are all focused around our health, and how important good health is. I guess it is our vested interest that has sparked so much research into disease. The human condition was the topic of the first sessions at the first day of the Illumina Scientific Summit for Europe, the Middle East, and Africa (EMEA), […]

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1:22 PM | Da Lecce arriva la spugna assorbi-petrolio per contrastare disastri ambientali

Fonte: http://www.architetturaecosostenibile.it/ Nel campo dei materiali nanotech, il Centro per le Nanotecnologie Biomolecolari dell’Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia a Lecce, ha messo a punto una particolare spugna in grado di assorbire il petrolio separandolo dall’acqua mediante l’utilizzo di campi magnetici.

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1:17 PM | Angelina Jolie y los tests genéticos

Angelina Jolie buscó generar notoriedad del tema y lo logró. Realmente vale la pena leer su carta publicada en el New York Times, bellamente escrita, muy valiente y con un título sugestivo: My Medical Choice.A raíz de esto, varios medios han entrevistado a genetistas uruguayos (entre ellos, a un servidor). Dado que todos apuntaban a distintos aspectos de la cuestión y en todos los casos la velocidad propia del medio no permitía una mención (no digamos ya una revisión a fondo) de todos […]

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1:14 PM | Metodo Stamina: analogie con il metodo Di Bella?

Nelle discussioni in merito al caso Stamina, in corso negli ultimi tempi, il paragone con la terapia di Luigi Di Bella è più volte saltato fuori, trovando correlazioni tra i due casi sia per il metodo alternativo di cura proposto sia per il clamore mediatico suscitato. Ma forse il parallelismo più completo si è compiuto ieri. Il Senato ha infatti approvato [...]

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12:30 PM | What’s The Answer? (genome data viewers)

BioStar is a site for asking, answering and discussing bioinformatics questions and issues. We are members of the community and find it very useful. Often questions and answers arise at BioStar that are germane to our readers (end users of genomics resources). Every Thursday we will be highlighting one of those items or discussions here [...]

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10:59 AM | Toms River: A New Classic in Epidemiology Writing

This week Larry Lewis, PhD, contributes a book review. Dan Fagin, director of the Science, Health and Environmental Reporting Program at New York University, and his army of student assistants, do a great job in “Toms River” of describing the environmental catastrophe in Toms River, NJ.… Read the rest

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4:18 AM | Natural GMOs Part 165. Novel double-stranded RNAs get served up in many conventional crops — such as rice.

(An earlier version of this post appeared at GMO Pundit blog.) Some people have raised worries about whether novel double-stranded RNA molecules present in plant foods might be harmful to people. Naturally occurring plants often produce novel double-stranded RNA molecules, so we have long been exposed to this potential risk. One example of a novel plant double-stranded RNA (that was not introduced by lab genetic engineering) has been characterised in detail by Japanese scientists Makoto Kusaba […]

May 22, 2013

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9:47 PM | ASM 2013, Day 3: Diversity is King

Diversity was a celebrated theme, which is fitting given the wide range of phylogenetic, environmental, and morphological variation associated with microbial species. Two standout talks in the morning of the final day of ASM had me running to the convention center at 8:15 AM in the rain, iced coffee in hand. Julian Parkhill from the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute gave a fantastic presentation on studying microbial transmission on both local and global levels using genomic methods. Dr. […]

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9:14 PM | Ragazza americana realizza algoritmo per diagnosticare la leucemia con il computer

La studentessa Brittany Wenger, di soli 18 anni, dopo aver vinto un premio per aver inventato un’app per diagnosticare il cancro al seno mette a segno un’altra eccellente e importantissima intuizione: è riuscita infatti a istruire il pc su come fare per diagnosticare la leucemia, creando una rete neurale basata sul cloud di dati per [...]

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7:21 PM | Time Is Running Out On Bio-Rad’s Spring Promotion

Bio-Rad Laboratories is offering you the opportunity to receive a further 10% off our already very attractively priced Spring Promotions this May. Simply order online using your promotional code to receive an additional 10% off the Spring Promotions price. To obtain your promotional code entitling you to an additional 10% off the Spring Promotions, click [...]

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5:03 PM | Ricerca italiana all’avanguardia: sviluppate bioretine come celle solari

Fonte: http://www.architetturaecosostenibile.it/ L’Italia sorprende anche questa volta quanto a nuove avanguardie, arrivando prima di tutte alla messa a punto delle bioretine.

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4:11 PM | Nominate your Champion of Change!

Hi everybody, Frank N. Foode™ here, with a special request. We came upon a program that you might be interested in. It’s the White House Office of Science & Technology Open Science Champions of Change – and I would like to humbly ask that you consider nominating us for it! Here is the description: On June 20, the White House will host a Champions of Change event to highlight outstanding individuals, organizations, or research projects promoting and using open scientific data […]

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3:49 PM | 3D patterning of blood vessels: Creating a fertile landscape for engineered tissues

Nepalese terraces. Photo: strudelt via Flickr . Picture traveling back in time to an era before cell phones (*shudder*). Before radios. Before germ theory. In fact, try taking yourself back to when written language was first being developed around 6000 BC. It’s hard to imagine. And yet while these societies may have lacked our freeways...Read more

Baranski J.D., Chaturvedi R.R., Stevens K.R., Eyckmans J., Carvalho B., Solorzano R.D., Yang M.T., Miller J.S., Bhatia S.N. & Chen C.S. & (2013). Geometric control of vascular networks to enhance engineered tissue integration and function., Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, PMID: 23610423

Vunjak-Novakovic G., Tandon N., Godier A., Maidhof R., Marsano A., Martens T.P. & Radisic M. Challenges in cardiac tissue engineering., Tissue engineering. Part B, Reviews, PMID: 19698068

Marolt D., Knezevic M. & Novakovic G.V. (2010). Bone tissue engineering with human stem cells., Stem cell research & therapy, PMID: 20637059

Metcalfe A.D. & Ferguson M.W.J. (2007). Tissue engineering of replacement skin: the crossroads of biomaterials, wound healing, embryonic development, stem cells and regeneration, Journal of The Royal Society Interface, 4 (14) 413-437. DOI: 10.1098/rsif.2006.0179

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2:41 PM | From Discovery to Market: How Invention Happens – a three-part seminar at OBR-Manchester

by Charlotte Rosher, OBR-Manchester Correspondent MANCHESTER, Greater Manchester – OBR is hosting a three part seminar series at the University of Manchester which will outline how academic discoveries can be transformed into successful businesses, step-by-step. The first seminar, titled ‘Getting Your Biotech Idea Funded’ will be held on the 28th May at the University of [...]The post From Discovery to Market: How Invention Happens – a three-part seminar at OBR-Manchester […]

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1:55 PM | Phylo: A Crowdsourced, Beautiful Biodiversity Game

They started with one provocative thought: “Kids know more about Pokemon than they do about the plants and animals in their backyard. We’d like to do something about that.” And then the team behind the Science Creative Quarterly released the idea to the web to see what would happen. It was 2010. Now, just a […]

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1:32 PM | Video Tip of the Week: Canary Database for sentinels of human health

Recently we attended the Medical Library Association conference (#MLAnet13). Librarians are working so hard to wrangle information into usable forms, and to generate new connections among data types to reveal new information and leads for further studies. I ♥ librarians. In one of the sessions I attended on Medical Informatics, I heard several great talks. One [...]

Rabinowitz, P., Scotch, M. & Conti, L. (2010). Animals as Sentinels: Using Comparative Medicine To Move Beyond the Laboratory, ILAR Journal, 51 (3) 262-267. DOI: 10.1093/ilar.51.3.262

Rabinowitz, P., Gordon, Z., Holmes, R., Taylor, B., Wilcox, M., Chudnov, D., Nadkarni, P. & Dein, F. (2005). Animals as Sentinels of Human Environmental Health Hazards: An Evidence-Based Analysis, EcoHealth, 2 (1) 26-37. DOI: 10.1007/s10393-004-0151-1

Rabinowitz, P., Cullen, M. & Lake, H. (1999). Wildlife as sentinels for human health hazards: a review of study designs, Journal of Environmental Medicine, 1 (4) 217-223. DOI: 10.1002/jem.33

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9:25 AM | OBR London: Blog your way to the top

By Kiran Nandra, OBR London Correspondent LONDON, United Kingdom – The use of blogging and social media is increasingly changing the field of science communication. A new generation of scientists are embracing the online science communication movement and are actively contributing to open discussion and sharing of either their own research or scientific developments that [...]The post OBR London: Blog your way to the top appeared first on Oxbridge Biotech.

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8:00 AM | Gene Therapy Gets a Protein Piggyback Across the Blood-Brain Barrier

Growing up may be optional, but growing old is not and brings with it the increased risk of developing a neurodegenerative disease. Characterised by the progressive loss of neurons in the brain, such diseases can lead to a multitude of debilitating problems including memory loss, reduced motor control, and even death. Parkinson’s disease (PD) — one of the [...]The post Gene Therapy Gets a Protein Piggyback Across the Blood-Brain Barrier appeared first on Oxbridge Biotech.

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8:00 AM | RSC Emerging Technologies Event: For the chemistry entrepreneur in you.

OBR would like to announce one of our partners’ exciting events: the Emerging Technologies Event sponsored by the Royal Society of Chemistry. What do you get if you have a room full of scientific developers, entrepreneurs, academics, investors and industrialists? A real buzz of creativity, innovation and opportunity. RSC’s Emerging Technologies Event highlights innovation as a critical [...]The post RSC Emerging Technologies Event: For the chemistry entrepreneur in you. appeared first on […]

May 21, 2013

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7:23 PM | We Are All Individuals

How do organisms evolve into individuals that are distinguished from others by their own personal brain structure and behavior? Scientists in Dresden, Berlin, Münster, and Saarbrücken have now taken a decisive step towards clarifying this question. Using mice as an animal model, they were able to show that individual experiences influence the development of new [...]

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7:00 PM | Type 2 Diabetes Treatments and Potential Effects on Bone

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5:01 PM | Tutto pronto per la nuova Xbox

Dopo che Sony ha già da tempo svelato le carte della PlayStation 4, è giunto il turno di Microsoft, che fa debuttare oggi la nuova Xbox (finora nota anche come 720 o con il nome in codice Durango, mentre il nome Infinity, circolato nei giorni scorsi, è un fake). Dopo tre generazioni e 16 modelli diversi, la nuova console sarà presentata nel corso [...]

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4:43 PM | Who’s your daddy?

A new article in Slate describes a case of non-paternity unearthed as a result of a 23andme scan. Who’s Your Daddy? The perils of personal genomics. By Daniel Engber I expect a bit of chatter from the genoscenti. I’ll collect responses below if I see them. I agree that the actual studies of non-paternity show [...]

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3:38 PM | Curiosity raccoglie la seconda roccia marziana: ecco a voi Cumberland

Il rover della Nasa in missione su Marte continua il suo lavoro perforano la seconda roccia in terra marziana, Cumberland, per poi analizzarla nei prossimi giorni con tutta la strumentazione di cui è dotato. Il fine ultimo della missione è scoprire se su Marte ci siano state le condizioni per una vita passata. Per raccogliere [...]

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3:11 PM | ASM 2013, Day 2: Clinical Microbiology and Agricultural Metagenomics

To kick off the discussion about clinical microbiology, Victor Nizet from the University of California San Diego spoke about his work on virulence factors using Staphylococcus aureus. He and his colleagues noted that the structure of the golden pigment molecule seen in S. aureus resembles the structure of beta carotene and other antioxidants. Experimental knockout of this pigment caused S. aureus to become more susceptible to host oxidative killing mechanisms, and introduction of this pigment […]

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12:45 PM | PHG Foundation | Review of PHG Toolkit published

PHG Foundation | Review of PHG Toolkit published

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12:20 AM | ¿Casualidad?

Revisando el escritorio de mi difunto padre encontré esto.El año en que yo nací, mi padre escribía sobre Genética.

May 20, 2013

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10:14 PM | Science the Queen Mary Way