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Science News March 13, 2004 Edna Francisco |
Formula for Failure A bacterium that has been known to cause rare, yet fatal infections in infants appears to be more widespread than scientists have realized.  |
Technology Research News March 10, 2004 |
Chip controls neural connection Researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Biochemistry in Germany and the University of Calgary in Canada have used a silicon chip to coax a pair of nerve cells to communicat  |
Technology Research News March 10, 2004 |
Atomic microscope spots viruses Researchers from BioForce Nanosciences Inc., Iowa State University and Des Moines University have combined an atomic force microscope with a method of capturing virus particles to produce a tool that rapidly detects viruses.  |
Science News March 6, 2004 Alexandra Goho |
Fishy Alpha Males Lab experiments suggest that fish genetically modified to grow big fast could outcompete and thus threaten native fish in the wild.  |
The Motley Fool March 2, 2004 Wherrett & Yelovich |
Commercializing Nanotechnology This article gives you an overview of the three "industries" -- nanomaterials, nanobiotechnology, and nanoelectronics -- that will most use the technology, and some of the companies poised to benefit from the emerging science.  |
Smithsonian March 2004 Stephen S. Hall |
Kenyon's Ageless Quest A San Francisco scientist's genetic research renews the ancient hope for a way to slow aging. The company, Elixir Pharmaceuticals, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, is developing drugs and other products to treat age-related diseases and slow the process of aging.  |
Smithsonian March 2004 |
Signal Discovery? A Los Angeles scientist says living cells may make distinct sounds, which might someday help doctors "hear" diseases  |
Smithsonian March 2004 Lawrence M. Small |
From the Secretary - World View Panama offers an ideal vantage point for scientists to see the big picture of life on earth. The forests and coral reefs of the tropics are the world's most biologically diverse ecosystems.  |
Science News February 21, 2004 Ivars Peterson |
Computing on a Cellular Scale John Conway, a British mathemetician at Princeton University, has created a cellular game that is unpredictable. In studying the behavior of leaf pores, physicist David Peak, biologist Keith A. Mott, and their coworkers at Utah State University in Logan found that stomata activity resembles that of cellular automata able to perform specific computational tasks.  |
Bio-IT World February 18, 2004 |
The Quest for Complex Genes Genetic sleuths are homing in on genes for complex diseases with the help of new, and some not so new, tools and strategies.  |
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