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Please add updates@feedmyinbox.com to your address book to make sure you receive these messages in the future. science / biology news stories aggregated by FeedZilla.com What Makes the Human Brain Unique (source: Topix.net) October 15, 2009 at 8:55 pm New Haven, Conn. - Leveraging more than $25 million in grants from the National Institutes of Health, the Yale School of Medicine has created a new research center to study how our brain evolved uniquely human traits. (source: Topix.net) - RSS and News widget on Feedzilla.com Beating Heart Tissue from Stem Cells (source: Scientific American) October 15, 2009 at 2:57 pm [ The following is an exact transcript of this podcast. ]One of the goals of regenerative medicine is to make tissue to replace our own damaged body parts. That's still a ways off. But starting with mouse embryonic stem cells, researchers have succeeded in... (source: Scientific American) - RSS and News widget on Feedzilla.com Scientists use math modeling to predict unknown biological mechanism of regulation (source: Topix.net) October 15, 2009 at 2:50 pm A team of scientists, led by a biomedical engineer at The University of Texas at Austin, have demonstrated -- for the first time -- that mathematical models created from data obtained by DNA microarrays, can be used to correctly predict previously unknown ... (source: Topix.net) - RSS and News widget on Feedzilla.com Tiny But Adaptable Wasp Brains Show Ability To Alter Their Architecture (source: Science daily) October 15, 2009 at 2:00 pm For an animal that has a brain about the size of two grains of sand, a lot of plasticity seems to be packed into the head of the tropical paper wasp Polybia aequatorialis. (source: Science daily) - News widgets and RSS feeds on Feedzilla.com Stem Cells from Fat Used to Grow Teen's Missing Facial Bones (source: Scientific American) October 15, 2009 at 11:15 am Stem cells so far have been used to mend tissues ranging from damaged hearts to collapsed tracheas . Now the multifaceted cells have proved successful at regrowing bone in humans. In the first procedure of its kind, doctors at Cincinnati Children's Hospit... (source: Scientific American) - RSS widgets and RSS feeds on Feedzilla.com Culture Is More Important Than Genes To Altruistic Behavior In Large-scale Societies (source: Science daily) October 15, 2009 at 11:00 am Socially learned behavior and belief are much better candidates than genetics to explain the self-sacrificing behavior we see among strangers in societies, from soldiers to blood donors to those who contribute to food banks. (source: Science daily) - RSS widgets and RSS feeds on Feedzilla.com Bird Moves: Dancing with the Starlings (source: Scientific American) October 15, 2009 at 11:00 am Researchers have long assumed that humans were the only animals that could dance--even our close primate relatives cannot keep a steady beat or be taught to move to a rhythm. But new evidence shows that birds can dance, revealing that the mysterious abilit... (source: Scientific American) - RSS and News widget on Feedzilla.com Cell Study Explains Why Younger People More At Risk Of VCJD (source: Topix.net) October 15, 2009 at 10:21 am Specific cells within the immune system could help explain why younger people are more susceptible to variant CJD, scientists believe Specific cells within the immune system could help explain why younger people are more susceptible to variant CJD, scienti... (source: Topix.net) - RSS widgets and RSS feeds on Feedzilla.com Sustainable Water Use, Climate Change Impacts On International Markets, Restoration Of Chicago Ecosystems Among Research Projects (source: Medical News Today) October 15, 2009 at 8:00 am How do humans and their environment interact, and how can we use knowledge of these links to adapt to a planet undergoing radical climate and other environmental changes? To answer these and related questions, the National Science Foundation (NSF) has a... (source: Medical News Today) - RSS news feeds and Widgets on Feedzilla.com NSF Funding In Basic Research Yields Great Payoffs In Scientific Contributions Worldwide (source: Medical News Today) October 15, 2009 at 8:00 am The National Science Foundation (NSF) congratulates the 2009 Nobel laureates, particularly those who have received NSF funding over the years: Jack W. Szostak, who shared the prize in physiology or medicine; Thomas A. Steitz, who shared the prize in chemis... (source: Medical News Today) - RSS widgets and RSS feeds on Feedzilla.com Absent Pheromones Turn Flies Into Lusty Lotharios (source: Medical News Today) October 15, 2009 at 8:00 am When Professor Joel Levine's team genetically tweaked fruit flies so that they didn't produce certain pheromones, they triggered a sexual tsunami in their University of Toronto Mississauga laboratory. In fact, they produced bugs so irresistible that normal... (source: Medical News Today) - RSS feeds and Feed widget on Feedzilla.com Female Frog Internal Anatomy (source: About) October 15, 2009 at 7:00 am Frog dissection images and information on internal and external frog anatomy. (source: About) - RSS news feeds and Widgets on Feedzilla.com Genetics Quiz (source: About) October 15, 2009 at 7:00 am Take the Genetics Quiz.: mendelian genetics genetics glossary law of segregation independent assortment dihybrid cross (source: About) - RSS feeds and Feed widget on Feedzilla.com Spinal Cord Regeneration (source: About) October 15, 2009 at 7:00 am Moving closer to spinal cord regeneration with a unique breakthrough. (source: About) - RSS news feeds and Widgets on Feedzilla.com Transcriptome analysis of functional differentiation between haploid and diploid cells of Emiliania huxleyi, a globally significant photosynthetic calcifying cell (source: Genomebiology.com) October 15, 2009 at 7:00 am Background: Eukaryotes are classified as either haplontic, diplontic, or haplo-diplontic, depending on which ploidy levels undergo mitotic cell division in the life cycle. Emiliania huxleyi is one of the most abundant phytoplankton species in the ocean, pl... (source: Genomebiology.com) - RSS widgets and RSS feeds on Feedzilla.com Silence Of The Genes: Researchers Get First Look At Gene-Silencing Human RISC-Loading Complex (source: Topix.net) October 15, 2009 at 5:53 am Known as a human RISC-loading complex, this structure consists of snippets of ribonucleic acid that control whether genetic messages are silenced or expressed. (source: Topix.net) - RSS and News widget on Feedzilla.com College Of Medicine Researcher Among World's Top Structural Biologists (source: Medical News Today) October 15, 2009 at 5:00 am A Florida State University College of Medicine biomedical sciences professor has been recognized as having one of the most influential structural biology laboratories in the world. Michael Blaber has been named No. 36 in a ranking of top scientists in t... (source: Medical News Today) - RSS news feeds and Widgets on Feedzilla.com Are Commercial Genetic Tests Worth Taking? (source: Topix.net) October 15, 2009 at 1:32 am Peter Orszag, the 40-year-old head of the White House Office of Management and Budget, is reported to drink so much tea, hot and iced, that he took a genetic test to see if his body could metabolize his voluminous intake of caffeine . (source: Topix.net) - RSS feeds and Feed widget on Feedzilla.com NIMBioS hosts 200 undergraduates at national research conference (source: Eurekalert.org) October 15, 2009 at 12:00 am (National Institute for Mathematical and Biological Synthesis (NIMBioS)) Nearly 200 undergraduates and faculty from more than 40 academic institutions in North America will gather Oct. 23-24 in Knoxville for the first annual Undergraduate Research Conferen... (source: Eurekalert.org) - RSS widgets and RSS feeds on Feedzilla.com Improved diet and exercise alone unlikely to cure obstructive sleep apnea in obese patients (source: Eurekalert.org) October 15, 2009 at 12:00 am (American Academy of Sleep Medicine) A study in the Oct. 15 issue of the Journal of Clinical Sleep Medicine found that while a strict diet and exercise program may benefit obese patients with mild to moderate obstructive sleep apnea, it is unlikely to elim... (source: Eurekalert.org) - RSS and News widget on Feedzilla.com NeuroAIDS is target of federal grant to Children's Hospital (source: Eurekalert.org) October 15, 2009 at 12:00 am (Children's Hospital of Philadelphia) A $6 million, five-year federal grant to the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia will enable researchers to investigate a novel approach in treating HIV infection -- a unique class of drugs focused on developing therap... (source: Eurekalert.org) - RSS widgets and RSS feeds on Feedzilla.com Concordia University to construct new building for genomics research (source: Eurekalert.org) October 15, 2009 at 12:00 am (Concordia University) Judith Woodsworth, President and Vice-Chancellor of Concordia University is pleased to announce the construction of a new building for the Centre for Structural and Functional Genomics. The Centre will be built thanks to a grant of ... (source: Eurekalert.org) - RSS feeds and Feed widget on Feedzilla.com Concordia University to build innovative centre for health research and training (source: Eurekalert.org) October 15, 2009 at 12:00 am (Concordia University) Judith Woodsworth, President and Vice-Chancellor of Concordia University is delighted to announce the creation of the PERFORM Research Centre. The acronym PERFORM stands for Prevention, Evaluation, Rehabilitation, FORMation. The Ce... (source: Eurekalert.org) - RSS widgets and RSS feeds on Feedzilla.com Research shows treating HIV-AIDS with interleukin-2 is ineffective (source: Eurekalert.org) October 15, 2009 at 12:00 am (McGill University Health Centre) An international research team has demonstrated that treating HIV-AIDS with interleukin-2 is ineffective. As a result, the researchers recommend that clinical trials on this compound be stopped. Their finding was published... (source: Eurekalert.org) - RSS widgets and RSS feeds on Feedzilla.com Stimulus grant of nearly $9 million to UC San Diego funds big study of young brains (source: Eurekalert.org) October 15, 2009 at 12:00 am (University of California - San Diego) Thanks to a grant of $8,950,590 provided through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, researchers at the University of California San Diego looking for the biological bases of differences in human behavior will... (source: Eurekalert.org) - RSS news feeds and Widgets on Feedzilla.com What Drives Genes? Human Epigenome Mapped (source: Topix.net) October 14, 2009 at 9:09 pm Now, researchers at the Salk Institute provide the first detailed map of the human epigenome, the layer of genetic control beyond the regulation inherent in the sequence of the genes themselves. (source: Topix.net) - RSS feeds and Feed widget on Feedzilla.com Chimpanzees help each other on request but not voluntarily (source: Biologynews.net) October 14, 2009 at 8:21 pm The evolution of altruism has long puzzled researchers and has mainly been explained previously from ultimate perspectives-I will help you now because I expect there to be some long-term benefit to me. However, a new study by researchers at the Primate Res... (source: Biologynews.net) - News widgets and RSS feeds on Feedzilla.com Crushed bones reveal literal dino stomping ground (source: Biologynews.net) October 14, 2009 at 8:21 pm Imagine the gruesome sound of bones snapping as a thirsty, 30-ton dinosaur tramples a heap of fresh carcasses on his way to a rapidly shrinking lake. (source: Biologynews.net) - RSS news feeds and Widgets on Feedzilla.com Tiny but adaptable wasp brains show ability to alter their architecture (source: Biologynews.net) October 14, 2009 at 8:21 pm For an animal that has a brain about the size of two grains of sand, a lot of plasticity seems to be packed into the head of the tropical paper wasp Polybia aequatorialis. (source: Biologynews.net) - RSS news feeds and Widgets on Feedzilla.com Absent pheromones turn flies into lusty Lotharios (source: Biologynews.com) October 14, 2009 at 8:21 pm When Professor Joel Levine's team genetically tweaked fruit flies so that they didn't produce certain pheromones, they triggered a sexual tsunami in their University of Toronto Mississauga laboratory. In fact, they produced bugs so irresistible that normal... (source: Biologynews.com) - News widgets and RSS feeds on Feedzilla.com Burning bunnies for biofuel? (source: Scientific American) October 14, 2009 at 6:21 pm The Swedes, those latter-day descendants of bloodthirsty Vikings, have found a new use for rabbits: heating fuel. According to Der Spiege l, stray rabbits in Stockholm are being shot, frozen and then shipped to a heating plant to be incinerated. [Mor... (source: Scientific American) - News widgets and RSS feeds on Feedzilla.com Should advanced dementia be considered a terminal illness? (source: Scientific American) October 14, 2009 at 6:01 pm Advanced dementia has often been treated as an amalgamation of symptoms in the aging, rather than a deadly illness in itself. A new study, published online today in The New England Journal of Medicine , proposes that it may be beneficial--for patients a... (source: Scientific American) - RSS and News widget on Feedzilla.com No Such Thing As 'Junk RNA,' Say Pitt Researchers (source: Topix.net) October 14, 2009 at 4:44 pm Tiny strands of RNA previously dismissed as cellular junk are actually very stable molecules that may play significant roles in cellular processes, according to researchers at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and the University of Pittsburgh... (source: Topix.net) - RSS widgets and RSS feeds on Feedzilla.com   This email was sent to 4ndr1fm@gmail.com.  Manage Your Account Don't want to receive this feed any longer? Unsubscribe here.