Biology & Life Sciences

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Bio-IT World July 2005 John Russell	Harvard Tackles Systems Biology Towards the end of this summer, researchers at the Virtual Cell Program expect to unleash b -- pronounced "little b" -- a new open-source computer language they hope will energize the biological modeling community as nothing has before.
Bio-IT World July 2005	DBS Model Full color illustrations of a deep brain stimulation system using a pulse generator in the chest and four electrodes in the brain.
Science News July 30, 2005	Virtual Insects Created by an entomologist, this Web site provides dramatic, close-up, three-dimensional views of various insects.
Technology Research News July 27, 2005	Baited molecule fights cancer Many teams of researchers are working on ways to use nanotechnology to deliver anticancer drugs directly to cancerous tissue.
Technology Research News July 27, 2005	Bacteria drive biochip sensor Researchers are working to connect living cells to computer chips to gain the best of both worlds.
Smithsonian August 2005 Scott Weidensaul	Presence of Mind - Ghost of a Chance How did the ivory-billed woodpecker, which was feared extinct, hang on all these years?
Reactive Reports Issue 47 David Bradley	Lending Muscle to Artificial Meat Production Can you imagine eating meat that required no animal to be killed, no slaughterhouse, and no butcher? Four scientists have written about two techniques that could make lab or factory grown meat possible. The possible benefits are intriguing.
Outside July 2005 Anthony Cerretani	Sharky's Machine Fabien Cousteau, 37, climbed inside Troy, a 14.5-foot submarine/shark decoy, to film the great whites around Guadalupe Island, off Mexico's Pacific coast.
PC Magazine July 13, 2005 Sebastian Rupley	Mind Meld: The First Computer-Based Human Brain Model IBM and researchers will collaborate to create the first complete computer-based model of a human brain.
PC Magazine July 13, 2005 John R. Quain	DNA Printing Press A group of scientists believes it has an inexpensive nanoprinting technique that could lead to the mass production of DNA-based chips that could revolutionize disease detection.
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