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Havasupai get go-ahead to sue universities (Arizona Daily Star)
PHOENIX — An Indian tribe has won approval to sue the state university system over claims researchers improperly used member blood samples, including for one study that undermined tribal beliefs.
(Nov 29, 2008)
Iowa State Crop Genomics Lab largest in nation (High Plains Journal)
The largest cluster of plant databases in the nation has a new home, the Crop Genome Informatics Laboratory, a USDA-Agricultural Research Service and Iowa State University facility.
(Nov 29, 2008)
K-State entomologists studying wheat plant genes affected by aphids to create low-risk method of pest management (High Plains Journal)
Russian wheat aphids are insects that are as small as one-sixteenth of an inch, but are capable of much larger damage. The tiny insects have been feeding on wheat plants in the United States since 1986, and their plant destruction has been costing Kansas wheat producers.
(Nov 29, 2008)
Napolitano exit worries biotech boosters (The Arizona Republic)
Bioscience boosters hope that any post-Napolitano Arizona will help foster a research-based economy.
(Nov 29, 2008)
Insight Into Adaptive Ability Of Cells Offered By Rong Li Lab (Medical News Today)
The Stowers Institute's Rong Li Lab has published findings that shed light on the ability of cells to adapt to disruptions to their basic division machineries - findings that may help explain how cancer cells elude the body's natural defense mechanisms or chemotherapy treatment. The work was published in the November 26 issue of Cell.
(Nov 29, 2008)
Court: Tribe can sue university system over blood use (The Sierra Vista Herald)
PHOENIX — A Native American tribe has been given the goahead to sue the state university system over claims that researchers improperly used blood samples of tribal members — including to undermine tribal beliefs.
(Nov 29, 2008)
How Do Individuals React To Metabolic Stress? - Genetic Variation In Metabolism Identified (Medical News Today)
Metabolic diseases in particular the increasingly prevalent type 2 diabetes are caused by a complex interaction between genetic disposition and unfavorable lifestyle, above all unbalanced diet and too little physical exercise.
(Nov 29, 2008)
Havasupai blood lawsuit reinstated (Arizona Daily Sun)
PHOENIX -- A Native American tribe has been given the go ahead to sue the state university system over claims that researchers improperly used blood samples of tribal members -- including to undermine tribal beliefs.
(Nov 29, 2008)
Cornell scientists find key to vitamin B1 biosynthesis (Central New York Business Journal)
A key enzyme in the biosynthesis of vitamin B1 has somehow evolved the ability to perform a complex series of some 15 to 20 steps, report two Cornell chemists.
(Nov 29, 2008)
Havasupai blood lawsuit reinstated (Arizona Daily Sun)
PHOENIX -- A Native American tribe has been given the go ahead to sue the state university system over claims that researchers improperly used blood samples of tribal members -- including to undermine tribal beliefs.
(Nov 29, 2008)
New Genetic Test Asks Which Sport a Child Was Born to Play (New York Times)
A genetics company in Boulder, Colorado, is offering a $149 test that aims to predict a child?s natural athletic strengths.
(Nov 29, 2008)
British troops in fatal Kabul shooting (Guardian Unlimited)
Isaf soldiers in 'misunderstanding' that leaves one person dead and three injured
(Nov 29, 2008)
Jakob Seviour's emergency phone call (Guardian Unlimited)
Listen to the phone call Jakob Seviour, 5, made to the emergency operator when his mother had a fit
(Nov 29, 2008)
Life Stories: 'Frugal Fran' a mom, traveler and humanitarian (The Wilmington Star-News)
Betsy Booth best describes her mother, Frances Dozier, as a saint."I know because I was one of the major testers of her sainthood," said Booth.Dozier died Nov. 11 at the age of 77.Growing up as an only child did not sway Dozier from forming a family of her own, made up of four children and a poodle named Cheri.
(Nov 29, 2008)
New genetic test asks which sport a child was born to play (International Herald Tribune)
A genetics company in Boulder, Colorado, is offering a $149 test that aims to predict a child's natural athletic strengths.
(Nov 29, 2008)
Frye Chief Curator Awarded Leadership Fellowship (Art Daily)
SEATTLE.- Robin Held, Frye Art Museum chief curator and director of exhibitions and collections, has been named one of ten outstanding curators from art museums across the United States selected as a 2009 fellow of the Center for Curatorial Leadership (CCL).
(Nov 30, 2008)
Western New York's first ladies of almost everything (The Buffalo News)
This is the best of times, for women in Western New York, and it's the worst of times.
(Nov 30, 2008)
HIGHER EDUCATION NOTEBOOK: Students and professors show off work at NU, NCCC (Niagara Gazette)
Niagara County Community College Gallery presents the Fall 2008 Student Exhibition from Dec. 4 to 18 in the College’s Art Gallery featuring a jamming, salon-style exhibition of work from students in all fall semester fine arts classes.
(Nov 30, 2008)
HIGHER EDUCATION NOTEBOOK: Students and professors show off work at NU, NCCC (Lockport Union-Sun & Journal)
Niagara County Community College Gallery presents the Fall 2008 Student Exhibition from Dec. 4 to 18 in the College’s Art Gallery featuring a jamming, salon-style exhibition of work from students in all fall semester fine arts classes.
(Nov 30, 2008)
HIGHER EDUCATION NOTEBOOK: Students and professors show off work at NU, NCCC (Tonawanda News)
Niagara County Community College Gallery presents the Fall 2008 Student Exhibition from Dec. 4 to 18 in the College’s Art Gallery featuring a jamming, salon-style exhibition of work from students in all fall semester fine arts classes.
(Nov 30, 2008)
Can genetic tests identify athletic talent? (The Wichita Eagle)
When Donna Campiglia learned recently that a genetic test might be able to determine which sports suit the talents of her 2 ½-year-old son, Noah, she instantly said, "Where can I get it, and how much does it cost?" "I could see how some people might think the test would pigeonhole your child into doing fewer sports or being exposed to fewer things, but I still think it's good to match them ...
(Nov 30, 2008)
Moving Up (Arizona Daily Star)
The changing face of Tucson's business
(Nov 30, 2008)
Genomics sets new standard for livestock breeding FWi (Farmers Weekly Interactive)
"DNA technology" is set to change the way some semen companies select bulls and is claimed to be the biggest development since frozen semen.
(Nov 30, 2008)
Parents turn to genetics to test toddlers' sports aptitude (Boston Globe)
BOULDER, Colo. - When Donna Campiglia learned recently that a genetic test might be able to determine which sports suit the talents of her 2 1/2-year-old son, Noah, she instantly said, "Where can I get it, and how much does it cost?"
(Nov 30, 2008)
Experimental TB Drug Explodes Bacteria from the Inside Out (Kansas City InfoZine)
Research Advance May Lead to New Ways to Attack Latent TB and Other Bacteria
(Nov 30, 2008)
Test aims to predict athletic strengths (San Diego Union-Tribune)
BOULDER, Colo. – When Donna Campiglia learned recently that a genetic test might be able to determine which sports suit the talents of her 2½ -year-old son, Noah, she instantly said, “Where can I get it, and how much does it cost?”
(Nov 30, 2008)
A Potentially Universal Mechanism Of Aging Identified By Researchers (Medical News Today)
Like our current financial crisis, the aging process might also be a product of excessive deregulation. Researchers have discovered that DNA damage decreases a cell's ability to regulate which genes are turned on and off in particular settings. This mechanism, which applies both to fungus and to us, might represent a universal culprit for aging.
(Nov 30, 2008)
Ladies first (The Buffalo News)
This is the best of times, for women in Western New York, and it's the worst of times. Look around and you'll see why: stunning achievement is mixed with stagnation. Women in politics on the national and state levels – like Sarah Palin and Hillary Rodham Clinton – are blazing trails. But back home in Buffalo, no woman has yet helmed a major political party.
(Nov 30, 2008)
Born to Run' Little Ones Get Test for Sports Gene (The Hendersonville Times-News)
A genetics company is offering a $149 test that aims to predict a childs natural athletic strengths.
(Nov 30, 2008)
Born to sprint? DNA tests could hold the answer (International Herald Tribune)
Scientists have linked a gene to predisposition to athletic tendencies. Some suggest early testing can help parents channel their children into games they can win.
(Nov 30, 2008)
Cell Movements Totally Modular, Stanford Study Shows (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance)
STANFORD, Calif.----A study describing how cells within blood vessel walls move en masse overturns an assumption common in the age of genomics—that the proteins driving cell behavior are doing so much multitasking that it would be near impossible to group them according to a few discrete functions.
(Nov 30, 2008)
Cell movements totally modular, Stanford study shows (EurekAlert!)
A study describing how cells within blood vessel walls move en masse overturns an assumption common in the age of genomics -- that the proteins driving cell behavior are doing so much multitasking that it would be near impossible to group them according to a few discrete functions.But now researchers at the Stanford have shown that distinct groups of proteins each control one of four simple ...
(Nov 30, 2008)
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