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Science News
July 12, 2003
Janet Raloff |
Cholesterol Medicine for Eggs? A Taiwanese research team has been investigating red-yeast rice as a food supplement for chickens that might in turn lay low-cholesterol eggs.   |
Reactive Reports
Issue 32
David Bradley |
Combined effort for cholesterol New drugs for lipid disorders might be on the horizon thanks to new work on the transcriptional sensor FXR. |
BusinessWeek
July 14, 2003
Arlene Weintraub |
The Outcry over "Terminator" Genes in Food Critics fear such safeguards present fresh genetic perils |
Technology Research News
July 2, 2003
Kimberly Patch |
DNA makes nano barcode Sheets of DNA that form a barcode pattern could make reading answers generated from DNA computing a lot easier. The method may also make it possible to construct electronics components molecule-by-molecule. |
Science News
June 28, 2003
Ben Harder |
McDonald's Cutback in Antibiotics Use Could Reduce Drug-Resistant Bacteria The fast-food chain McDonald's announced on June 19 that it will stop its farms under contract from feeding chicken, cattle, and pigs certain antibiotics intended to accelerate the animals' growth. That step might slow or reverse the rise of antibiotic-resistant bacteria that can infect people. |
Science News
June 21, 2003
Janet Raloff |
Treaty is Imminent for Genetically Engineered Foods The new treaty, when it goes into force next September, will require that documentation accompany all shipments of GMOs to and through nations that ratified the treaty, which so far doesn't include the United States. |
Technology Research News
June 18, 2003 |
Protein traps nanoparticles Researchers from the University of Tokyo in Japan have adapted a tubular bacterial protein for technological applications by coaxing it to combine with individual luminescent semiconductor nanoparticles. |
Bio-IT World
June 15, 2003
Malorye Branca |
A View to a Kill Genomics, bioinformatics, and novel laboratory techniques are converging to boost vaccine research against a new wave of emerging diseases, natural and man-made. Now, will in silico modeling ramp up sufficiently to further speed vaccine discovery? |
Bio-IT World
June 15, 2003
Elizabeth Gardner |
Mouse Hunt The deluge of data and accompanying proliferation of databases is spiraling out of control. New federations and solutions may offer partial relief. |
Bio-IT World
June 15, 2003 |
State of the States for Biotech Biotech executives deciding this year where to launch, expand, or relocate their companies face an embarrassment of riches. |
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