Biology & Life Sciences

Magazine articles on biology, life sciences, biotech, medical research.

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Science News July 26, 2003 Janet Raloff	Sweet Treatment for SARS In the future, people with the intense flu- and pneumonia-like symptoms of SARS could find relief in a therapy derived from licorice.
Bio-IT World July 15, 2003 John Russell	DoD's New War on Malaria 3rd Millennium helps the U.S. Army enlist genomics and IT to fight an old foe: Plasmodium falciparum, also known as the malaria parasite.
Bio-IT World July 15, 2003	Millennium's PARIS Illuminates Pathways To address high-throughput-data challenges, Millennium Pharmaceuticals built the PAthway Resource and Information System, or PARIS -- a unique platform for combining knowledge from heterogeneous data sources in the construction of a pathway knowledgebase.
Bio-IT World July 15, 2003	The BRAIN Behind BCM's Clinical Trials What ultimately came to be called the Biomedical Research and Information Network, or BRAIN, took two years to build and cost Baylor College of Medicine $1.5 million. Yet no one doubts the value of the investment.
Bio-IT World July 15, 2003	The Technology Behind Best Practices One of the most interesting revelations of the 2003 Best Practices Awards was how many of the life science technologies born during the late 1990s appear to have matured.
Bio-IT World July 15, 2003 Mark D. Uehling	Patient, Record Thyself As e-diaries get a boost -- and a knock -- from the FDA, Invivodata focuses on helping patients log their experiences.
Bio-IT World July 15, 2003 Malorye Branca	Silence Is Golden RNA interference's scientific, therapeutic, and economic potential is unquestionable, but some sticky questions still remain.
Bio-IT World July 15, 2003 Kevin Davies	Stem Cell Suicide The International Society for Stem Cell Research must engage in a political discourse to salvage the hope of embryonic stem cell research.
Bio-IT World July 15, 2003 Julia Boguslavsky	'Fingerprinting' a Single Cell Single-cell proteomics is finally within reach, thanks to a professor of analytical chemistry.
Wired August 2003 Jennifer Kahn	The End of Cancer (As we Know it) Diagnosis. Chemotherapy. Radiation. Slow painful death. No more. A new era of cancer treatment is dawning. Meet three scientists who are using the revelations of the Human Genome Project to reshape medicine.
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