Search Results for 'Biology'

Biology in the Palm of Your Hand?

As students become more tech-savvy, more dependent on round-the-clock access to far-flung places and limitless information, more used to instant feedback and more charmed by graphically-rich, interactive entertainment in their home lives, [...]

Posted On : Jul, 21 2011 | Comments : 0

Biology essay

Biology essay writing includes all essays that are written about living things. Biology encompasses a wide range of topics within one vast area of study. Different writers tend to specialize in different areas of this field. Whil [...]

Posted On : Jul, 07 2011 | Comments : 0

Ashburner, Troyanskaya Win ISCB Computational Biology Awards

The International Society for Computational Biology has given its 2011 senior scientist award to Michael Ashburner (Department of Genetics, University of Cambridge, UK), while the Overton Prize for a young scientist making a significant i [...]

Posted On : Jul, 06 2011 | Comments : 0

How to Study Aging Cell by Computational Biology

Aging is an imminent process for both the cells and the organism. Aging is the natural way to death. Aging cells are critical for the aging of the individual. We still do not know how aging takes place to the cell or how the aging of the [...]

Posted On : Jun, 30 2011 | Comments : 0

Synthetic Biology companies Ziopharm and Intrexon

Lewis says Ziopharm's most advanced drug in development, palifosfamide for sarcoma and lung cancer, can be a $1 billion a year seller even if reasonably priced. But the linchpin to Ziopharm producing less expensive biotech drugs is an [...]

Posted On : Jun, 15 2011 | Comments : 0

Biology students described as guinea pigs in course changes

First-year Biology students have criticised the way the new Biology course has been set up, with the majority of the module being examined in the space of four days. Students have complained at the overload and concentration of work in [...]

Posted On : Jun, 02 2011 | Comments : 0

Natural GMOs Part 83: Natural biology comes with no guarante...

Natural GMOs can be really really bad and fundamentally unsafe, because Nature is not scrutinised by any human regulatory agency, and many natural GMOs get their genes from all over the place. The first investigated example of this over-t [...]

Posted On : May, 31 2011 | Comments : 0

ASCC Land Grant Hosts Molecular Biology Workshop

In recent decades, new technologies for studying the genetic foundations of life have transformed the biomedical sciences, resulting in numerous breakthroughs that have improved people’s lives worldwide. Local high school students w [...]

Posted On : May, 30 2011 | Comments : 0

Systems biology key to vaccine breakthroughs?

In an article published in Nature, Seattle BioMed Director Alan Aderem and head of Novartis' vaccine division Rino Rappuoli note that news tools for vaccine development--including systems biology and structure-based antigen d [...]

Posted On : May, 27 2011 | Comments : 0

California State University opts for $49 e-book over expensi...

Nature Publishing Group and California State University (CSU) on Tuesday announced a three-year partnership that will eliminate paper textbooks from certain classes, and replace them with interactive e-books instead.College textbooks are [...]

Posted On : May, 25 2011 | Comments : 0

A Breakthrough in Backyard Biology

ESSEX – For much of the past year, Doug Bonham has holed up in his Essex home, building circuit boards and dreaming about birds. His last paycheck came last April, around the time he lost his electronics job in Seattle. Since then, [...]

Posted On : May, 24 2011 | Comments : 0

FCC to hold seminar on ‘Biology of HCV’

The Forman Christian College (FCC) will hold a one-day seminar on the Biology of Hepatitis C Virus (HCV) on campus at the Armacost Science Building on Saturday. The seminar has been organised by the Pakistan Academy of Sciences and the [...]

Posted On : May, 20 2011 | Comments : 0

SFA shows off biology dept. to E. Texas students

More than 400 East Texas high school students walked the hallways of the Stephen F. Austin State University biology department. They saw things they can't see with the naked eye. They held things big enough to creep them out. For 2 [...]

Posted On : May, 14 2011 | Comments : 0

UOG Biology Students Prepare for Costa Rican Summer

For the third year in a row, two University of Guam students were chosen to participate in the Native American and Pacific Islander Research Experience (NAPIRE) summer program in Costa Rica funded by the National Science Foundation. Bi [...]