Biology & Life Sciences

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Bio-IT World February 10, 2003 Wendy Wolfson	Safe Water World CDC scientists, simple technology, and a splash of advertising acumen deliver pure water to developing nations. Epidemiologists at Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) blend technology with marketing to make drinking water safe. It could save millions of lives.
Bio-IT World February 10, 2003 Robert M. Frederickson	Bringing Integrated Circuits to Life Cell-sized biochips mean that channels, pumps, and valves must become minuscule, too.
Bio-IT World February 10, 2003 Kevin Davies	With a Click of the Mouse What do Eminem and Mus musculus have in common? About 30,000 genes, for a start. The author mulls over the second mammalian genome.
Reason February 2003 Ronald Bailey	The Battle for Your Brain Science is developing ways to boost intelligence, expand memory, and more. But will you be allowed to change your own mind?
CIO February 1, 2003 John Edwards	Golden Alfalfa Jorge Gardea-Torresdey, chemistry department chairman at the University of Texas at El Paso, says alfalfa filtering is a potentially efficient and cost-effective way of retrieving gold nanoparticles. Best of all, the process is environmentally friendly.
Technology Research News January 29, 2003 Kimberly Patch	Data stored in live cells Every type of storage media -- from stone to paper to magnetic disks -- is subject to destruction. Researchers from Pacific Northwest National Laboratory are tapping forces of nature to store information more permanently.
Technology Research News January 29, 2003 Kimberly Patch	Tiny hole guides atoms against tide Researchers in Poland have made a synthetic device that uses an electrical field and an extremely small, conical pore in a thin film of material to coax potassium ions through the artificial membrane against their electrochemical potential.
Bio-IT World January 13, 2003 John Russell	When Only Brute Force Will Do Listening to CEO Fred Hausheer talk about supercomputers, it's not always clear if BioNumerik Pharmaceuticals Inc. is a drug discovery company or high-performance computing play. Even its name suggests a mixed identity. But that's the point.
Bio-IT World January 13, 2003 Mark D. Uehling	Prescription for Success: Mix IT and Science Blending IT and R&D: At Eli Lilly, scientists define the "what," IT decides the "how." In the post-genomic era, "Collaboration will be absolutely critical," says CIO Roy Dunbar.
Bio-IT World January 13, 2003 Malorye Branca	The Power of Expression Clayton Naeve's annual budget tripled overnight. Naeve is director of what was formerly called The Biotechnology Center, at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital. The windfall came from an anonymous donor who pledged $5 million a year to the Center for the next five years.
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