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BTHSnews Major Review – Biology

Brooklyn Tech’s Bio-Medical program consists of two majors: Biological Sciences and Biomedical Engineering. Biological Sciences is ideal for students who aspire to obtain a career in healthcare such as becoming a doctor, pharmacist [...]

Posted On : Mar, 09 2011 | Comments : 0

The digital side of biology

At that time, many molecular biologists, including Wayne Mitchell who is now with the A*STAR Experimental Therapeutic Centre (ETC), had experienced years of frustration seeing their work in gene cloning beaten to the finish line time and [...]

Posted On : Mar, 08 2011 | Comments : 0

U.S. Bioethics Commission Make Recommendations On Developmen...

Instigated by the publication earlier this year of a document within the journal Science, documenting the creation associated with a replicating bacterium with a completely synthetic genetic code, President Obama’s Bioethics Commis [...]

Posted On : Mar, 07 2011 | Comments : 0

Synthetic Biology's Hunt for the Genetic Transistor

In 1977, a small group of researchers in California changed the world when they wrangled a common gut bacterium into producing a human protein. Using every technique in the book—and inventing some of their own—they scavenged, [...]

Posted On : Feb, 28 2011 | Comments : 0

Brain biology lessons recommended

Research on the neurological basis of learning should play a much greater role in education policy, a report from Britain's leading academic institution has said. The Royal Society also suggested that brain biology should form part o [...]

Posted On : Feb, 24 2011 | Comments : 0

UCSD biology journal a showcase for undergrads

Breakthroughs in science and medicine usually are first reported in big-name journals, including Science, Nature and the Journal of the American Medical Association. The world of peer-reviewed research journals is wider, however. San Die [...]

Posted On : Feb, 15 2011 | Comments : 0

Synthetic Biology Web Tools

This page contains a collection of links to online tools that are related to Synthetic Biology. DNA Tools BBOCUS by Ferro and Purrello lab BBOCUS (BackTranslation Based On Codon Usage Strategy) is a re-implementation of the algorithm in [...]

Posted On : Feb, 07 2011 | Comments : 0

Bingo for biology

What happens when 60 fifth-graders, 30 parents and two teachers need $4,000 for a field trip to study marine biology in Bandon — and costs have climbed by a whopping $1,000 from last year? You have bingo night at Helman Elemen [...]

Posted On : Feb, 06 2011 | Comments : 0

Putting the Dead to Work for Conservation Biology

The fossil record can help predict which modern species are most vulnerable to changes in the environment, says UA geoscientist Karl W. Flessa. By Mari N. Jensen, UA College of Science, and Cheryl Dybas, National Science Foundation, Febr [...]

Posted On : Feb, 04 2011 | Comments : 0

Seralini seeks to dilute biology education

Taking a page from the modern creationist movements that seek to weaken high school education in evolutionary biology, a French group is looking to do the same to biology classes – but now it’s genetic engineering that is the [...]

Posted On : Feb, 01 2011 | Comments : 0

Museum to host presentation on shrimp biology

The Coastal Discovery Museum at Honey Horn will host Al Stokes, manager of the Waddell Mariculture Center in Bluffton, at 3 p.m. March 8 for a presentation on shrimp biology. Stokes, a biologist with 3 years experience, will cover shrimp [...]

Posted On : Jan, 28 2011 | Comments : 0

Workhorse of biology gets a virus – that's good news

A rather unusual worm has been found in a rotting apple in France – a nematode suffering from a viral infection. This is the first time researchers have identified a population of Caenorhabditis elegans that has been naturally infe [...]

Posted On : Jan, 26 2011 | Comments : 0

Bank official calls on biology lessons

A senior Bank of England official has for the first time made the cover of Nature, the leading research journal, with a paper that examines the lessons that financial regulators can learn from biology and other sciences. Andrew [...]

Posted On : Jan, 20 2011 | Comments : 0

Jason gets down to biology

JASON Down had the time of his life at a science camp in December, but could be set to eclipse it this week. The 16-year-old Busselton Senior High School (BSHS) student, who will be in Year 12 this year, is on work placement with GeoCatc [...]