Articles

articles for December 2008

AGRI-BIOTECH

» Waste Coffee Grounds Make Great Biofuel :: By Kit Eaton
» Toxin-eating Microbes Sweep up Dead Zones :: By Brandon Keim
» Cheaper Cellulosic Ethanol :: By Jennifer Kho
» Bacteria Make Better Alcohol Fuels :: By Prachi Patel-Predd
» Boeing, Continental To Test Flight Powered By Biofuel :: By
» Lignocellulose: A Complex Biomaterial :: By Stephen K. Ritter
» Genes To Gasoline :: By Stephen K. Ritter
» Greener Glass :: By Lauren Cahoon
» Plant Puberty :: By Sarah Everts

BIOBUSINESS MANAGEMENT

» Wind, Water and Sun Beat Other Energy Alternatives, Study Finds :: By Louis Bergeron
» Cleveland Clinic Makes Physician Disclosures Available Online :: By
» Mentoring Magic :: By Jennifer Evans
» Europe Rejects Stem Cell Patent :: By Andrea Gawrylewski
» Drastic Cuts among Some Biotech Companies :: By Bernadette Tansey
» Critics Rip Cell Paper :: By Bob Grant
» Same Troll, New Name :: By Paul Livingstone

INDUSTRY

» BioQatar: Luring Biotech Dollars to the Desert :: By Kevin Davies
» Asian Students Top Global Math, Science Study :: By
» Measured Metamorphosis :: By Susan J. Ainsworth
» Biotechs Scramble :: By Lisa Jarvis
» Providing Medicines For The Poor :: By William Schulz
» Drugmaker Delay on Generics Cost EU3 Billion, EU Says :: By Matthew Newman

INVESTMENTS/ GOV. SUPPORT

» UCL Provost's Venture Prize :: By
» Taking Pulp to the Pump :: By Peter Fairley
» Public Funds Back a Growing Number of Innovations :: By Stephanie Condon
» HHMI Collaborative Innovation Awards Help Bring Researchers Together to Tackle New Ideas :: By

organizations

» Building Integrative Biology at Boehringer Ingelheim :: By John Russell

PERSONALIZED MEDICINE

» Bringing Personalized Medicine to Cancer Patient :: By Alissa Poh
» Next Generation Sequencing Speeds Personalized Medicine :: By Douglas Brown, Ph.D

PLATFORM TECHNOLOGIES

» Just a Little Squeeze Lets Proteins Assess DNA :: By Nancy C. Horton
» New Research Shows How Gene Function Drives Natural Selection in Important Class of Genetic Elements :: By Regina Baucoma
» Cancer, Carefully Illuminated :: By Jennifer Chu
» Computation and Genomics Data Drive Bacterial Research into New Golden Age :: By Professor Mark Buttner
» Reversing the Conventional DNA Wisdom :: By Anne Trafton
» Cellular Senescence a Double-Edged Sword: New Study Holds Implications for Aging, Cancer and Evolution :: By Lynn Yarris
» Navigating the Nucleosome :: By Charles Choi
» Production Line for Artificial Skin :: By Prof. Dr. Heike Mertsching
» RNA Interference Inhibits Respiratory Syncytial Virus Replication and Disease Pathogenesis without Inhibiting Priming of the Memory Immune Response :: By Ralph A. Tripp and Wenliang Zhang
» How Cells Age :: By Jocelyn Rice

RESEARCH ADVANCEMENTS

» New Research Reveals How Giardia Parasite Changes Its Appearance :: By Hugo D. Luj
» Researchers Solve Piece of Large-scale Gene Silencing Mystery :: By Rachel Shulman
» Melanoma Spawns Tumors with Deadly Efficiency :: By Sean J. Morrison
» The Discovery of DNA, circa 1869 :: By Ralf Dahm
» Precious Metal Could Lead to next Generation of Cancer Treatments :: By
» Triggering Addiction :: By Markus Heilig
» Stem-cell Therapies for Brain More Complicated than Thought :: By Deborah Helber
» Molecule Shuts Down Food Intake and Turns on ?Siesta Mode? :: By Gerald I. Shulman
» Scripps Research Scientists Identify Blood Component that Turns Bacteria Virulent :: By
» Lactic Acid Found to Fuel Tumors :: By
» The Science of Stress :: By Karen Hopkin

RESEARCH TOOLS

» Semantic Sense for the Desktop :: By Erica Naone
» Simultaneous Tracking of Fly Movement and Gene Expression Using GFP :: By Dhruv Grover, et al.
» Supercharged File Sharing :: By Kurt Kleiner
» The Day I Had My Genes Tested :: By James Randerson
» Scientists Count Messages Made by a Single Gene :: By
» ORNL To Move "Mouse House" Research :: By Mike Bradley
» Community Proteomics Analysis :: By Ian Gorton, Christopher S. Oehmen and Jason E. McDermott
» IBM Reveals Five Innovations That Will Change Our Lives in the Next Five Years :: By Angela Sullivan
» Study of Ancient and Modern Plagues Finds Common Features :: By Anne A. Oplinger

THERAPEUTIC CATEGORY

» Scientists Build ?Roach Motel? for Nasty Bugs of the Bacterial Variety :: By Aaron Hoover