Biology & Life Sciences

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Bio-IT World September 11, 2003 John Russell	Not Some Mickey Mouse Operation A week at The Jackson Laboratory reveals much of the nature of mice and men.
ifeminists September 9, 2003 Carey Roberts	Genetic Breakthrough Undercuts Androgeny Dogma Researchers were worrying about the longevity of the male species. This dismal view was turned on its head with a recent article published in the journal Nature. Dr. David Page of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology reported on two startling discoveries.
Science News September 6, 2003 John Travis	A New Shot at Fighting Obesity Researchers who recognize the need for new obesity-fighting drugs are searching for such medicines among the complex web of biochemical signals that controls appetite. Two recent reports suggest that investigators are making progress in their quest but that its end is far from near.
Geotimes September 2003 Megan Sever	Textbook battle over evolution Now that the Texas board is considering 11 biology and science textbooks for adoption and use in its 2004-2005 school year, the evolution debate has once again erupted in Texas and around the country.
Geotimes September 2003 David Applegate	Opposition to Evolution Takes Many Forms A 1987 Supreme Court decision forced evolution opponents to reassess their approach and seek alternative strategies that would not run afoul of the constitutional wall of separation between church and state. In the intervening years, two such strategies have emerged.
Technology Research News August 27, 2003 Kimberly Patch	DNA plays tic-tac-toe In addition to its natural role as the blueprint of life, DNA has been tapped to compute and to form nanoscale machines. A new type of DNA logic is aimed at marrying these artificial functions to make control circuits for nano machines. The first result is an unbeatable tic-tac-toe player.
Technology Research News August 27, 2003	Detector senses single DNA Researchers from the University of California at Los Angeles have tapped differences in the folding characteristics of single-stranded and double-stranded DNA to make a sensor capable of detecting a single DNA molecule.
Geotimes August 2003 Tim Palucka	Looking for life in the Atacama Desert A so-called "terrestrial astrobiology" venture is probing the hyper-arid Atacama Desert in Chile to test the limits of life on Earth and to develop instrumentation to search for life on Mars.
Information Today August 18, 2003 Barbara Quint	CAS Pursues Patent Searching Market with Science IP Chemical Abstracts Service has long had a custom search service available to do intermediated searches, primarily sophisticated searching of chemical files. Now, CAS has re-named and re-targeted its custom search service to focus on patents, both within and outside the chemical field.
Bio-IT World August 13, 2003 Malorye Branca	Targeting Tumors Next-generation cancer drugs will take aim with unprecedented certainty, but making them requires a new discovery and development paradigm.
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