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Guardian Unlimited - If you've never heard of synbio, you will hear plenty in the next decade. Synthetic biology now occupies roughly the same space on the public's radar that computing might have done in the 1960s or genetic modification in the 1970s - it's largely ...

New York Post - October 21, 2007 -- Investment in biotech facilities is not a crap shoot, as you suggest in “Bribing Biotech" (Editorial, Oct. 17). New York City is a world-renowned center of life-sciences research and discovery. However, the city loses out to ...

Baltimore Sun - As the deadline draws closer for this year's high school juniors to pass tests in algebra, government, biology and English, there is increasing concern that many of them are going to be left behind. The latest assessment results showed that a ...

Inside Higher Ed - As a general rule, she said, “biologists shouldn’t tell historians how to interpret Middle Eastern history and historians shouldn’t tell biologists what good biology is.” Many colleges — and this was the case at DePaul with Finkelstein ...

Raleigh News & Observer - And in eastern Chatham, the fastest-growing part of the county, creeks feed Jordan Lake, which provides drinking water for Cary and east Chatham. Dirt also harms aquatic life, Willis said. "The way sunlight comes through the water affects the biology ...

New York Times - In a study published last week in PLoS Biology, the researchers reported on an effort to breed a colony of narcoleptic zebrafish by obtaining mutant fish that lacked hypocretin receptors. “I was hoping that they would collapse, like the dogs ...

Wired News - ... The substance that gives this classic ingredient its essential flavor crystallizes upon evaporation. "Crystallization is a guiding motif in the organization of matter," Davidson says. "In biology, it's a way of packaging molecules."

Forbes - Beginning with her work at the Department of Justice dealing with illicit trade in animal and plant resources through her years of service and leadership at WWF (1989-2005), Fuller demonstrated that training in biology and law and a talent for ...

Daily Telegraph - The latest A-level Biology syllabus enjoins teachers to consider their students' spiritual, ethical and cultural sensitivities when introducing them to the subject. They should certainly omit James Watson, the double helix man, and his much-reported ...

Forbes - The company applies its expertise in the biology of menopause and cancer to design new drugs derived from botanical sources which have novel mechanisms of action. Based on the results of early and mid-stage clinical trials, Bionovo believes they have ...