Articles

articles for May 2009

AGRI-BIOTECH

» All The Carbon Counts :: By Lee Tune
» Too Much of a Good Thing: Understanding Plants' Overactive Immune System Will Help MU Researchers Build Better Crops :: By
» 10 Strange Species Discovered Last Year :: By
» The Ethanol Lobby: Profits vs. Food :: By Ed Wallace
» MSU Discoveries Upend Traditional Thinking about How Plants Make Certain Compounds :: By
» Pliable Proteins Keep Photosynthesis on the Light Path :: By
» Bioelectricity May Outperform Ethanol :: By
» Study Suggests Bioelectricity Could Be More Efficient than Ethanol to Power Vehicles :: By
» More-Precise Genetic Engineering for Plants :: By Courtney Humphries

BIOBUSINESS MANAGEMENT

» The New Computing Pioneers :: By Rick Mullin
» Special Report: Patentability of Genetic Sequences Limited :: By
» Cancer Patients Challenge the Patenting of a Gene :: By John Schwartz
» Financial Crisis To Reshape Biotech :: By

DIAGNOSTIC TOOLS

» Implantable Device Offers Continuous Cancer Monitoring :: By

INDUSTRY

» Sobering BIO :: By Lisa Jarvis
» The Dawning of the Biometric Age :: By Ellen Gibson

MEDICAL DEVICES

» New Tool for Next-Generation Cancer Treatments using Nanodiamonds :: By

NOVEL APPLICATIONS

» Coca-Cola's Biobased Bottles :: By Alex Tullo
» Ginger Tames Chemo Nausea :: By
» 2009 Finalists of the Contest :: By

organizations

» Merck Seeds An Open Database With Computers And Data :: By Rick Mullin
» Elsevier Published 6 Fake Journals :: By Bob Grant
» Perfect Ten: Bio-IT World Announces Winners of 2009 Best Practices Awards :: By
» GENEART Synthesizes Genes for Swine Flu Vaccine in Record Speed :: By

PLATFORM TECHNOLOGIES

» DNA In Another Dimension :: By Bethany Halford
» New Structure Revisits History :: By Stu Borman
» Progress Toward Artificial Tissue? :: By
» Wolfram Alpha Braces for Heavy Traffic :: By David Talbot
» New Tool Isolates RNA Within Specific Cells :: By
» Researchers Gain Fine-scale, Genome-wide Insights into Patterns of Human Population Structures Around the World :: By Leila Gray
» How an Enzyme Tells Stem Cells Which Way to Divide :: By
» New Catalyst Could Boost Cleaner Fuel Use :: By Tony Fitzpatrick
» Embryo?s Heartbeat Drives Generation of New Blood Cells :: By
» A Lockbox Built from DNA :: By Jocelyn Rice
» Ink-Jet Printing for Cheaper Solar Cells :: By Kevin Bullis
» Understanding the Genetic Architecture of Complex Traits :: By Daniel MacArthur
» Smarter Screening :: By Mark A. Collins
» The Sky's the Limit :: By James Netterwald, PhD, MT
» Purely Protein Pluripotency :: By Elie Dolgin
» DNA Repeats Hold RNA Starts :: By Edyta Zielinska

RESEARCH ADVANCEMENTS

» How Superbugs Control Their Lethal Weapons :: By
» Breathe Easy :: By
» Why Do People with Down Syndrome Have Less Cancer? :: By
» Alzheimer's Scary Link To Diabetes :: By Sophie L. Rovner
» Scientists Find RNA Surprises in Listeria Bacteria :: By
» Tiny Implants for Treating Chronic Pain :: By Emily Singer
» Scientists Discover How UV Radiation Causes Cells to Die to Avoid Cancer Damage :: By
» Pig-to-Monkey Transplant Treats Diabetes :: By Michael Day
» Scientists Discover How Smallpox May Derail Human Immune System :: By
» Protein-protein Interaction Explains Vision Loss in Genetic Diseases :: By Glenna Picton
» Relax and Learn: New Drugs that Help DNA Unwind May Improve Memory :: By
» Genetic Study Confirms the Immune System?s Role in Narcolepsy :: By
» Hunting for Clues in the Swine Flu Genetic Code :: By Emily Singer
» Risk of Autism Tied to Genes that Influence Brain Cell Connections :: By

RESEARCH TOOLS

» The Evolution of Gene Regulation :: By
» Better Safeguards For The Food Supply :: By Sophie L. Rovner
» Next-Generation DNA Sequencing Raises The Bar In Laboratory Data Management :: By Rick Mullin
» The Vagaries of Genome Variation: Do You Copy? :: By Kevin Davies
» The next Generation of Genome-wide Association Studies :: By Daniel MacArthur
» Research Team Finds Important Role for Junk DNA :: By Kitta MacPherson
» New Tool Helps Researchers Identify DNA Patterns of Cancer, Genetic Disorders :: By
» Life?s First Spark Re-Created in the Laboratory :: By Brandon Keim
» Fluorescent Proteins Go Invisible :: By Robert F. Service
» A Smarter Search for What Ails You :: By Erica Naone
» Brewing with Synthetic Biology :: By Courtney Humphries