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Conference Update: New Zealand Microbiological SocietyEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
November 30 - December 3, 2010 New Zealand Microbiological Society and New Zealand Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology joint meetingAuckland, New Zealand Further informationThis is a multidisciplinary conference generally attracting 200-300 delegates. Most participants are New Zealand-based, although the conference also has a range of renowned international plenary speakers, encompassing diverse fields such as medical microbiology, wine science, food microbiology, industrial microbiology, microbial ecology, systems biology and molecular evolution.Suggested reading: Molecular Microbiology BooksFull range of books...
Source: Microbiology Blog: The weblog for microbiologists. - February 5, 2010 Category: Microbiology Tags: NZ Microbiological Society NZ Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology New Zealand Microbiology Conference Source Type: blogs

The Evolution of EmpathyEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
(Editor’s Note: we are pleased to bring you this article thanks to our collaboration with Greater Good Magazine). The Evolution of Empathy Empathy’s not a uniquely human trait, explains primatologist Frans de Waal. Apes and other animals feel it as well, suggesting that empathy is truly an essential part of who we are. Once upon a time, the United States had a president known for a peculiar facial display. In an act of controlled emotion, he would bite his lower lip and tell his audience, “I feel your pain.” Whether the display was sincere is not the issue here; how we are affected by another’s pr...
Source: SharpBrains - February 2, 2010 Category: Neurologists Authors: Greater Good Magazine Tags: Author Speaks Series Education & Lifelong Learning Biology brain Carolyn Zahn-Waxler Emotions empathy evolution Frans de Waal heart human Jules Masserman morality primate primatologist Psychology Source Type: blogs

Kids and Depression: Parents’ Call To Action, Part 1Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
As a child psychiatrist, I help teenagers struggling with depression, bipolar disorder, and suicide. It’s also my job to communicate with parents during what is often a very difficult and scary time. More than anything, parents want their children to be okay, and I often encourage them by stressing that mental illness is highly treatable, and adolescents are capable of extraordinary growth. With treatment and proactive parents, hope does persist and, with some time and commitment, life can and will go on for children and parents alike. When I do interviews or public readings parents often ask me about warning signs in ch...
Source: World of Psychology - February 1, 2010 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: Nancy Rappaport, MD Tags: Antidepressant Children and Teens Depression Disorders General Medications Parenting Stress Students Treatment Adolescents Array Behavioral Changes Biology Bipolar Bipolar Disorder Bursting Into Tears Child Psychiatrist Source Type: blogs

Evidence for stem/progenitor cells in mouse lung modelEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
I came across this excellent paper and summarized my "top 10 list" of points from the paper. The role of stem/progenitor cells in cancer is a crazy-active area in current research. If you catch some of the details, you can probably guess the technical challenges to this work. Evidence of an epithelial stem/progenitor cell hierarchy in the adult mouse lung Jonathan L. McQualtera, Karen Yuena, Brenda Williams, and Ivan Bertoncello PNAS 2010; 107:1414-1419. Mesenchymal progenitor cells (EpCAMneg Sca-1pos) regulate the growth of EpCAMpos lung progenitor/stem cells in in vitro matrigel cultures....
Source: The Daily Sign-Out - February 1, 2010 Category: Pathologists Authors: Mark D. Pool, M.D. Tags: Lung Biology Stem/Progenitor Cells Source Type: blogs

14th Workshop of the International Study Group for Systems Biology 2010Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
September 6 - 10, 2010 14th Workshop of the International Study Group for Systems Biology 2010Vladimir, Russia Further informationThe International Study Group for Systems Biology is a collective of international researchers interested in advancing the biological sciences through exploring the interplay between theory and experiment. The general theme is theoretical approaches to understanding the behaviour of cell systems, particularly transport, metabolism and signal transduction.Suggested reading: Molecular Biology BooksFull range of books on microbiology at Microbiology Books (Source: Microbiology Blog: The weblog for microbiologists.)
Source: Microbiology Blog: The weblog for microbiologists. - January 27, 2010 Category: Microbiology Tags: Systems Biology Workshops Systems Biology 2010 Source Type: blogs

E. coli rides the waveEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
I'm fully immersed in writing a big grant proposal so I have even less time for blogging and reading blogs than usual, but that doesn't mean I have no time. Along with my colleagues I've been working on this beast for 9 months, but now with only 3 months to go before the deadline it's crunch time (the last time we did a competitive renewal of this thing the application was over 900 pages long and this one will be close to that). So time is a precious commodity. It is also a fascinating biological variable and scienceblogs is blessed with several experts on the subject, notably Coturnix at Blog Around the Clock. We also h...
Source: Effect Measure - January 23, 2010 Category: Epidemiologists Tags: Biology Source Type: blogs

Neurospora 2010 and upcoming fungal conferencesEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Don’t forget to register for Neurospora 2010 held at the beautiful Asilomar Conference center in Pacific Grove, CA held April 8-11, 2010. Get your filamentous fungi fix here! Also save the date for some other important upcoming conferences you may consider attending American Society of Microbiology, Candida and Dimorphic Fungi Meeting, March 22-26, Miami, FL, USA Joint Genome Institute, 2010 User Meeting, March 24-26, Walnut Creek, CA, USA New and emerging fungal diseases of animals and plants, April 17-21, Roscoff Biological Station (near Brest), Brittany, FRANCE American Society of Microbiology, 110th Annual Meeti...
Source: Fungal Genomes and Comparative Genomics - January 22, 2010 Category: Geneticists and Genetics Commentators Authors: Jason Stajich Tags: Mycological Society of America Society of Molecular Biology and Evolution conferences & courses asilomar fungi IMC9 neurospora Source Type: blogs

A new virology course at Columbia UniversityEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Tomorrow is the start of my new virology course at Columbia University. The course, Biology W3310, is aimed at advanced undergraduates and will be taught at the Morningside Campus of Columbia University. Columbia University encompasses two principal campuses: the historic, neoclassical campus in the Morningside Heights neighborhood and the modern Medical Center further uptown, in Washington Heights. The two are separated by fifty-two city blocks, a distance of over two miles and 20-30 minutes by subway. My laboratory is at the Medical Center, where I’ve taught a variety of virology courses over the years. However, a ...
Source: virology blog - January 19, 2010 Category: Virology Authors: Vincent Racaniello Tags: Basic virology Information biology w3310 columbia university viral virology course virus Source Type: blogs

The laws of the superorganismEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Mathematical support for insect colonies as superorganisms. Click through for the scatterplot. Read the comments on this post... (Source: Gene Expression)
Source: Gene Expression - January 18, 2010 Category: Geneticists and Genetics Commentators Tags: Biology Source Type: blogs

The OscillatorEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Interesting new ScienceBlog, Oscillator. From the about page: A collection of notes, thoughts, and news about synthetic biology and biologically inspired engineering in principle and in practice. Read the comments on this post... (Source: Gene Expression)
Source: Gene Expression - January 12, 2010 Category: Geneticists and Genetics Commentators Tags: Biology Source Type: blogs

Can you spot the mistake?Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
This month's cover of The Scientist has a mistake that makes me cringe. Can you spot what's wrong? And they call themselves "The Scientist" humph! Read the comments on this post... (Source: Discovering Biology in a Digital World)
Source: Discovering Biology in a Digital World - January 8, 2010 Category: Medical Scientists Tags: Biology (Macroscopic ) Source Type: blogs

2009 – the posts that never made itEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
So, people tell me 2009 ended recently. Apparently there were fireworks and stuff. This blog as seen very little action during 2009, despite my various good intentions for a blog ‘reboot’ (ala Pawel). Like many of my online friends, I blame FriendFeed. I find commenting on a FriendFeed post a much more productive way of having a conversation around some new development sweeping the web than writing a dedicated blog post. Still, despite this being my “year of FriendFeed”, I started writing a few blog posts / articles / essays this year which never made it out of the Drafts folder. There is a positive...
Source: Your bones got a little machine. - January 2, 2010 Category: Bioinformaticians Authors: Andrew Perry Tags: meta science 2009 diybio icecondor synthetic biology Source Type: blogs

Ducks and the shape of things to comeEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
The natural home for influenza viruses is aquatic waterfowl, including ducks and geese (anseriformes). So I've read a fair amount about swabbing the claocae (rectums) of these animals as part of avian influenza surveillance. Recently it has been suggested that avian influenza is actually a sexually transmitted disease, so the question of anseriform sex is now on the agenda. It's not just consensual sex. It turns out that male ducks and geese haven't heard that rape (aka forced copulation) is frowned up in civilized society and, unusual among birds, they go in for it in a big way. Big in lots of ways. Because ducks seem to ...
Source: Effect Measure - December 27, 2009 Category: Epidemiologists Tags: Biology Source Type: blogs

The S. Bartnicki-Garcia travel awardEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Announced today at the 10th Frontiers in Fungal Biology meeting in Ensenada, Baja California: In honor of his contributions to research in cell biology fungi, in particular the growth of hyphae in fungi, the discovery and characterization of the Spitzenkörper, development numerous approaches for microscopic and biochemical characterization of fungal cell walls, and uncovering molecular mechanisms for growth and morphogenesis in filamentous fungi, a named award will be established for Salomón Bartnicki-García, Director in the Department of Microbiology at CICESE and Professor Emertius at UC Riverside. He has been honor...
Source: Fungal Genomes and Comparative Genomics - December 8, 2009 Category: Geneticists and Genetics Commentators Authors: Jason Stajich Tags: Mycological Society of America conferences & courses award Bartnicki-Garcia Ensenada Frontiers in Fungal Biology Frontiers of Fungal Biology spitzenkorper Source Type: blogs

New Species of Orchid is World's SmallestEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
tags: new species, biology, botany, orchid, tiniest orchid, Orchidaceae, Platystele, Lou Jost A close-up of the world's smallest orchid, at just over 2mm from petal tip to petal tip. Image: Lou Jost. The world's smallest orchid was discovered recently in a mountainous nature reserve in Ecuador by American botanist Lou Jost. Dr. Jost, a former physicist, is one of the world's leading orchid hunters. In the previous decade, Dr. Jost discovered 60 new species of orchids and 10 other new plant species. He discovered this diminutive plant whilst examining another species of small orchid. "I found it among the root...
Source: Living the Scientific Life (Scientist, Interrupted) - November 30, 2009 Category: Medical Scientists Tags: Biology newtag Source Type: blogs

Pics of the flu virus and some its componentsEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
We talk so much about the flu virus we thought we'd show you some nice pics that CDC has just put up. This is a review for many of you put reviews are always helpful. In these three pics, only one is the actual swine flu virus, the other two being "cartoon" depictions of a generic influenza virus. The cartoons are quite nice and helpful to see what you are looking at in the electron micrograph of influenza virions (virus particles), probably grown in tissue culture. I say "probably" because there is no other information on the site other than the micrograph was taken in the CDC Influenza Laboratory, but when the virus grow...
Source: Effect Measure - November 29, 2009 Category: Epidemiologists Tags: biology Source Type: blogs

Select Biosciences Conferences 2010Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
January 20 - 21, 2010 Stem Cells World CongressSan Francisco, CA, USA Further information4th annual Stem Cells World Congress and exhibition. There will be two parallel tracks focused specifically on: (1) Stem Cells in Drug Discovery and Development and (2) Regenerative MedicineFebruary 11 - 12, 2010 Screening EuropeBarcelona, Spain Further information7th annual Screening Europe conference and exhibition, claimed to be the largest screening event in Europe with four conference rooms in 2010. Novel Screening Platforms and Drug Discovery Methods, High Content Screening, Fragment Based Screening, Label Free Screening, Enzymes...
Source: Microbiology Blog: The weblog for microbiologists. - November 27, 2009 Category: Microbiology Tags: Single Cell Analysis Microarray Technology Lab-on-a-Chip RNAi and miRNA Select Biosciences Synthetic Biology Biodetection Stem Cells SelectBiosciences genomics Select Biosciences Conferences qPCR Source Type: blogs

Molecular Biology Conferences 2010Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Details of conferences on molecular biology from our comprehensive list at Molecular Biology Conferences 2010January 2010January 8 - 13, 2010 Structural Genomics: Expanding the Horizons of Structural BiologyBreckenridge, CO, USA Further informationStructural Biology continues to be one of the most prolific and informative ways to make biological and biomedical discoveries at the turn of the millennium, and provides fundamental molecular level insights into the underlying biological and biochemical functions. Structural genomics has been at the forefront of these developments as a major contributor to the advances of high t...
Source: Microbiology Blog: The weblog for microbiologists. - November 23, 2009 Category: Microbiology Tags: Molecular Biology Meetings 2010 Molecular Biology Symposia 2010 Molecular Biology Conferences 2010 Molecular Biology Symposium Source Type: blogs

Entamoeba histolytica Genomic AnalysesEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
The sequencing of the Entamoeba histolytica genome, as well as the development of genome-wide techniques to allow study of gene expression, has led to many advances in our understanding of the biology of this parasite. Recent work used genomic technologies (DNA microarrays and proteomics) to study important aspects of amebic biology, including pathogenesis, host interaction, phagocytosis, stage conversion, responses to stressful stimuli, and mechanisms of gene regulation. These studies identify pathways involved in regulating major functions in this important human pathogen.from Anaerobic Parasitic Protozoa: Genomics and M...
Source: Microbiology Blog: The weblog for microbiologists. - November 5, 2009 Category: Microbiology Tags: Amebic biology Proteomics DNA microarrays Source Type: blogs

LentivirusesEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
comprise a genus of diverse viruses in the Retroviridae family which are united in their ability to infect and persist in macrophages. Infections are characterized by immune system dysfunctions following sometimes lengthy incubation periods. The viruses in this genus include primate lentiviruses such as HIV as well as animal lentiviruses including equine infectious anemia virus (EIAV). An intriguing feature of lentiviruses is their ability to hijack macrophages so that they are simultaneously involved in the dissemination and control of virus spread throughout the host, leading to disease induction and/or transmission to ...
Source: Microbiology Blog: The weblog for microbiologists. - November 4, 2009 Category: Microbiology Tags: Lentiviral-macrophage interaction Macrophage biology Source Type: blogs

Scientists of note now on ScienceBlogsEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Pamela Ronald of Tommorow's Table, author of Tomorrow's Table: Organic Farming, Genetics, and the Future of Food. Additionally, David Sloan Wilson, has moved his blog to ScienceBlogs. It's called Evolution for Everyone, after the book of the same name. You can read my review of his book here. Read the comments on this post... (Source: Gene Expression)
Source: Gene Expression - October 21, 2009 Category: Geneticists and Genetics Commentators Tags: Biology Source Type: blogs

Disease Diagnosed By Gene SequenceEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
This is such a cool application of genetics! By sequencing all the genes of a patient, scientists diagnosed a congenital disease that could not be identified using clinical observations. Because of the “molecular diagnostics technique”, doctors were able to provide a treatment tailored for the disease. The patient, an infant, was persistently dehydrated and failing to gain weight, and researchers uncovered a gene mutation that was responsible to the infant’s condition called congenital chloride diarrhea. Instead of sequencing all the thousand base pairs in a genome, researchers focused only on DNA that encode...
Source: Genetics and Health - October 21, 2009 Category: Geneticists and Genetics Commentators Authors: Grace Ibay Tags: DNA Genetic Diseases and Conditions Molecular Biology and Biotechnology congenital chloride diarrhea gene mutation molecular diagnostics sequence encoding dna Source Type: blogs

Systems Biology Graphical NotationEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
I haven’t updated this blog for a while, the reason being the usual for many researchers working in the US: grant writing. Part of this grant writing involved producing diagrams to illustrate various processes occurring at different scales in prostate tissue. These diagrams describe rather sophisticated intra and extra cellular interactions in the simplest possible manner. Yet these diagrams can be complicated and selecting the right symbols and colours to describe these interactions in a visually appealing but consistent manner can be far from trivial. As someone with a background in computer science I appreciate t...
Source: Cancerevo: Evolution and cancer - October 21, 2009 Category: Cancer Authors: David Basanta Tags: systems biology computational biology diagram notation graphs standard Source Type: blogs

Discussion with a Cancer SurgeonEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
This weekend, I had the opportunity to sit down with a friend, a cancer surgeon who works at a major teaching hospital in the US. He, his wife and two kids were up visiting us for the weekend. Over coffee, I was asking him about the state of cancer therapeutics. Although he himself does not administer drugs or design treatments, he is part of a larger team which includes molecular oncologists that perform this task. What I heard was quite surprising. Read the rest of this post... | Read the comments on this post... (Source: The Daily Transcript)
Source: The Daily Transcript - October 20, 2009 Category: Medical Scientists Tags: Pure Biology Source Type: blogs

All Your Ribosomes Belong to UsEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
So more than a week has gone by and there has been little press about the science Nobels. And I must say that this year's Medicine and Chemistry prizes are some of the most important in quite a while. But even between the two, the Chemistry is especially important. Why? I'm not sure. Maybe they were overshadowed by Obama's award??? Or maybe science journalists are sleeping on the job. Ribosomes ... boring. Nothing could be further from the truth. Ribosomes are arguably the most important biological molecule that we know of. I don't have much time to write long essays on the subject so I'll just throw some ideas at yo...
Source: The Daily Transcript - October 16, 2009 Category: Medical Scientists Tags: Pure Biology Source Type: blogs

Dyslexic Molecular Biologist Carol Greider Wins 2009 Nobel Prize in MedicineEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
“It's going to be hard work whether you think it's fun or not, so you might as well have fun while you're doing the hard work.” - Carol Greider, PhD, 2009 Nobel Prize Winner in MedicineHer application package was a bit unusual, Greider says. “I had great research experience, great letters of recommendation, and outstanding grades, but I had poor GREs.” Although she did not know it growing up, Greider suffers from dyslexia, which affected her scores on standardized tests. Only two schools—the California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, CA) and the University of California, Berkeley— offered her an interview......
Source: Eide Neurolearning Blog - October 12, 2009 Category: Neurologists Tags: molecular biology Nobel Prize science physics spatial Source Type: blogs

microRNAsEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Until 2001, few people had heard the term micro ribonucleic acids, but these little chunks of nucleic acid, just 21 to 23 bases long, have been conserved throughout evolution. They don’t code for proteins, but they do seem to be involved in the regulation of immunity, the development and differentiation of immune cells, antibody production and the release of chemicals involved in the inflammatory response. So micro by name, but not by nature, you might say. Indeed, microRNA, or miRNA, represent something of a new paradigm in the regulation of a vast array of responses of physiological and hence medical importance. Th...
Source: Sciencebase Science Blog - September 28, 2009 Category: Medical Scientists Authors: David Bradley Tags: Science biomedicine miRNA molecular biology Source Type: blogs

Synthetic biology goes mainstreamEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
If The New Yorker is giving the topic coverage.... (though a lot of probably is more Craig Venter's celebrity status) (Source: Gene Expression)
Source: Gene Expression - September 22, 2009 Category: Geneticists and Genetics Commentators Tags: Synthetic biology Source Type: blogs

Does Tamiflu resistant swine flu virus really spread less well?Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
There is no way to keep up with all the flu news, so we pick and choose, usually based on some kind of point we want to make. That's both the good and the bad of this blog: the news comes with a point of view. But so does most news, and we try to make ours both explicit and scientifically as accurate as we can with the information at hand. Today is a typical example. Bloomberg is reporting that any swine flu virus resistant to oseltamivir (trade name Tamiflu), the only antiviral pill effective at all for the infection, transmits less well than swine flu that's sensitive to Tamiflu. The source of this information is Dr. Dav...
Source: Effect Measure - September 16, 2009 Category: Epidemiologists Tags: Biology Source Type: blogs

Lost World, 2009Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
The story about the giant rat discovered in an isolated crater in Papua New Guinea is fascinating. It's kind of atypical in these days, but if you read through really old copies of National Geographic from the early 20th century it you observe that it occurred all the time back then. I would of course much rather live now at the turn of the 21st century than the turn of the 20th, but there's a certain amount of zoological and anthropological wonder that we'll not be able to attain because so much of the sample space of possibilities has been mapped out. Read the comments on this post... (Source: Gene Expression)
Source: Gene Expression - September 8, 2009 Category: Geneticists and Genetics Commentators Tags: Biology Source Type: blogs

The Role of Transforming Growth Factor-Beta -Mediated Tumor-Stroma Interactions in Prostate Cancer Progression: An Integrative ApproachEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Can biologists and mathematicians accomplish more together than working separately? My answer to that question has always been a resounding yes but today I am backing up that statement with a piece of research: the result of a collaboration involving mathematicians and biologists (and a pathologist) in Tampa, Nashville and Houston. Basanta, D., Strand, D., Lukner, R., Franco, O., Cliffel, D., Ayala, G., Hayward, S., & Anderson, A. (2009). The Role of Transforming Growth Factor- -Mediated Tumor-Stroma Interactions in Prostate Cancer Progression: An Integrative Approach Cancer Research, 69 (17), 7111-7120 DOI: 10.1158/0...
Source: Cancerevo: Evolution and cancer - September 4, 2009 Category: Cancer Authors: David Basanta Tags: integrative biology cancer stroma tumour interactions paper article Source Type: blogs

Did You Ever Wonder What Your Hair Looks Like Close Up?Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
This really appeals to the scientist in me. You can see all of the important hair structures like the cuticle, the cortex and even the melanin that gives hair it’s color. It also shows you why you can’t fix a split end. Once the hair fiber has been broken, no amount of hair treatment is going to rebuild a broken strand. (Source: thebeautybrains.com)
Source: thebeautybrains.com - August 5, 2009 Category: Physicians With Health Advice Authors: Mid Brain Tags: Beauty Research Biology of Hair Source Type: blogs

Drug synergies tend to be context specificEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
A little over a year ago I mentioned a paper published in MSB on how drug-combinations could be used to study pathways. Recently, some of the same authors have now published a study in Nature Biotech analyzing drug combinations under different contexts (i.e. different tissues, different species, different outputs, etc). The underlying methodology of the study is essentially the same as in above mentioned paper. The authors try to study the effect of combining drugs on specific phenotypes. One example of a phenotype could be the inhibition of growth of a pathogenic strain. Different concentrations of two drugs are combined...
Source: Public Rambling - August 1, 2009 Category: Bioinformaticians Tags: chemogenomics systems biology Source Type: blogs

Artificial SpermEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Read this news story about how human sperm have been made in the lab (Source: Jemma's Biology Blog)
Source: Jemma's Biology Blog - July 9, 2009 Category: Medical Scientists Tags: Topic 3 - Voice of the Genome BIOLOGY NEWS Source Type: blogs

Conversations from Penn State: Emerging DiseasesEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
In the current episode of the Penn State University interview series called “Conversations from Penn State“, Peter Hudson, who is Willaman professor of biology and director of Penn State’s Huck Institutes of the Life Sciences, discusses the dynamics of infectious diseases, their spread, and their transmission from animals to humans. (Source: virology blog)
Source: virology blog - June 22, 2009 Category: Virology Authors: Vincent Racaniello Tags: Information biology infectious disease penn state university peter hudson video viral virology virus Source Type: blogs

Transgenic MonkeysEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
News story about how transgenic monkeys may be used to find cures for human diseases.What does transgenic mean? (Source: Jemma's Biology Blog)
Source: Jemma's Biology Blog - June 11, 2009 Category: Medical Scientists Tags: Topic 3 - Voice of the Genome BIOLOGY NEWS Source Type: blogs

Can I Tan Sunless Safely?Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Mid Brain muses: According to this article, the Fake Bake sunless tanning market is hot. Over the last few years major skin care manufacturers have discovered how to combine a skin moisturizer with a sunless tanner to make an effective light sunless tanner that gives a steady color change. These new tech products prevent the streaking effect that has been a major drawback of traditional sunless tanners. They also provide daily moisturization so there’s a reason to use them everyday. You get healthy skin and a natural looking color. How do sunless tanners work? To understand sunless tanning it is helpful to have a si...
Source: thebeautybrains.com - May 20, 2009 Category: Physicians With Health Advice Authors: Mid Brain Tags: Beauty Industry Biology of Skin How cosmetics work Questions DHA self tanner tan sunless Source Type: blogs

Teen-age children as experimental subjectsEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
We always enjoy home science experiments and it was fun the other night to learn about a new experiment we could try with our teenage daughter and an iPhone. As it turned out, the joke was on us. Read the rest of this post... | Read the comments on this post... (Source: Discovering Biology in a Digital World)
Source: Discovering Biology in a Digital World - May 6, 2009 Category: Medical Scientists Tags: Biology (Macroscopic ) Source Type: blogs

Why are the schools closing and other good H1N1 links...Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Over at DailyKos, DemfromCT has an excellent post explaining why it may be beneficial for schools to close temporarily, even if they only have one confirmed case of swine influenza: H1N1: Why Do Schools Close, And When Do They Open? DarkSyde also has one up on the basic biology and evolution of the flu. Nick Kristof discusses our lack of attention to public health and what it means in the event of a pandemic in today's NY Times. [Updated: and via the comment theads, this post which further discusses what I mentioned here regarding testing--and how the confirmed cases are only the tip of the iceberg (complete with dia...
Source: Aetiology - May 3, 2009 Category: Epidemiologists Tags: General biology Source Type: blogs

Adamantane resistance in flu explainedEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Nick Anthis has a very nice (and very readable!) overview of why flu viruses (including the new A/H1N1 strain) are resistant to adamantane, one of the antiviral drugs that can be used to treat influenza infections. Read the comments on this post... (Source: Aetiology)
Source: Aetiology - May 1, 2009 Category: Epidemiologists Tags: General biology Source Type: blogs

Noninvasive Down Syndrome test no go (for now)Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
I blogged about this a few months ago, but Dan MacArthur reports that the firm which was going to roll it out first claims that it doesn't really work as advertised. Read the comments on this post... (Source: Gene Expression)
Source: Gene Expression - April 30, 2009 Category: Geneticists and Genetics Commentators Tags: Biology Source Type: blogs

Drink wine to live longer!Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
I'm in the mood for a "feel good" story with the past week's fixation in swine flu. Half A Glass Of Wine A Day May Boost Life Expectancy By Five Years: The Dutch authors base their findings on a total of 1,373 randomly selected men whose cardiovascular health and life expectancy at age 50 were repeatedly monitored between 1960 and 2000. Here are the findings: Read the rest of this post... | Read the comments on this post... (Source: Gene Expression)
Source: Gene Expression - April 30, 2009 Category: Geneticists and Genetics Commentators Tags: Biology Source Type: blogs

Pray the virus awayEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Carl Zimmer points out that Marianne Williamson is making some real strange suggestions in regards to the swine flue in The Huffington Post: l) Pray it away. Just pray it away, asking God as you understand Him, the Divine Physician, Jesus or whatever other form of divine imagery works for you. Simply ask that it be removed from our midst. 2) Send love to Mexico. Between what's actually been happening there with the drug wars, plus all the "Mexico is dangerous" thoughts we've loaded onto it over the last several weeks, it needs a major dose of love - the most powerful medicine of all - to dissolve the fear thoughts that h...
Source: Gene Expression - April 29, 2009 Category: Geneticists and Genetics Commentators Tags: Biology Source Type: blogs

Vitamin D & asthmaEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Serum Vitamin D Levels and Markers of Severity of Childhood Asthma in Costa Rica. See ScienceDaily. Anecdote: my own asthma has gotten much better since I started Vitamin D supplementation. Not only have I had many fewer bouts of bronchitis the past few years, but my basal respiratory functioning is much improved. Read the comments on this post... (Source: Gene Expression)
Source: Gene Expression - April 27, 2009 Category: Geneticists and Genetics Commentators Tags: Biology Source Type: blogs

Swine flu and deaths in healthy adults--cytokine storm?Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Discussion after the jump... Read the rest of this post... | Read the comments on this post... (Source: Aetiology)
Source: Aetiology - April 26, 2009 Category: Epidemiologists Tags: General biology Source Type: blogs

Swine flu: a quick overview--and new New York and Kansas casesEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Sorry for the radio silence--I've been working on grants and manuscripts like a fiend, and so have tried to limit as many distractions as possible (which, unfortunately, includes blogging). However, the swine flu news is right up my alley, so I do just want to say a few words about it, and point you to some excellent stories already up elsewhere. First, in case you've not been paying attention to the news in the last few days, there have been 8 reported cases of swine influenza infections in humans (6 in California and 2 in Texas, with additional suspected cases) and reports from Mexico suggesting as many as 1000 ill and...
Source: Aetiology - April 25, 2009 Category: Epidemiologists Tags: General biology Source Type: blogs

The Semantic Web of Life ScienceEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
This summary was born out of a question on Twitter and percolated to FriendFeed, which was “Who is using RDF and integrating other resources at the minute and what are those resources? From this question, several resources were highlighted. UniProt. The comprehensive resource of protein information is available as an RDF distribution and each Protein record has a corresponding RDF download option. Phil pointed out Semantic Systems Biology, As systems biology is largely concerned with representing networks and interactions at a systems level, a language like RDF would seem an obvious choice to represent this type of kno...
Source: peanutbutter - April 25, 2009 Category: Bioinformaticians Authors: peanutbutter Tags: bioinformatics life-science semantic web Biology Resource Description Framework RDF Twitter FriendFeed systems biology open data Linked Open Data Source Type: blogs

Swine flu...2009 as annus horribilis?Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
See FuturePundit & Effect Measure. Also see H5N1. CDC recommends (especially for residents of California & Texas): Read the rest of this post... | Read the comments on this post... (Source: Gene Expression)
Source: Gene Expression - April 25, 2009 Category: Geneticists and Genetics Commentators Tags: Biology Source Type: blogs

Injection, Collection, and SexEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
That's how new life forms are created every day in the wild, folks. Human researchers of course have added a few twists on the theme. If we can't induce bacteria or animal cells to collect new bits of DNA on their own, we turn to electroshock therapy. With plants.... aw heck, we just shoot them. And where did this crazy rant come from you ask? Last Saturday morning, at the crack of 9 am I got to be interviewed on a radio program with two of the main spokespeople from the DIY bio movement, Mackenzie Cowell and Meredith Patterson. The program was "The Food Chain" (you can listen to it here: ) Read the rest of this post....
Source: Discovering Biology in a Digital World - April 22, 2009 Category: Medical Scientists Tags: DIY biology Source Type: blogs

Tropical latitude = more girlsEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
The New York Times has a story about a new paper, Humans at tropical latitudes produce more females: Skews in the human sex ratio at birth have captivated scientists for over a century. The accepted average human natal sex ratio is slightly male biased, at 106 males per 100 females or 51.5 per cent males. Studies conducted on a localized scale show that sex ratios deviate from this average in response to a staggering number of social, economical and physiological variables. However, these patterns often prove inconsistent when expanded to other human populations, perhaps because the nature of the influences themselves exhi...
Source: Gene Expression - April 21, 2009 Category: Geneticists and Genetics Commentators Tags: Biology Source Type: blogs