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Reason
October 2005
Kerry Howley |
The Man Who Marketed Sperm The Genius Factory is David Plotz's fascinating history of a social conservative who inadvertently launched a revolution in sperm shopping.   |
Scientific American
October 2, 2005
Diane Martindale |
One Face, One Neuron A recent study indicates that our brains employ far fewer cells to interpret a given image than previously believed, and the findings could help neuroscientists determine how memories are formed and stored. |
IEEE Spectrum
October 2005
Stephen Forrest |
The Dawn of Organic Electronics Organic semiconductors are strong candidates for creating flexible, full-color displays and circuits on plastic. |
Reactive Reports
September 2005
David Bradley |
When Good Turns Bad Prions, the protein-like pathogens at the heart of the fatal brain disorder CJD, so-called mad cow disease, and related diseases can rapidly "remodel" good proteins into bad, according to US scientists, who have demonstrated this for the first time in living cells. |
Wired
October 2005
Adam Rogers |
Sound Science? Doctors in Slovakia treat infants to five 20-minute classical listening sessions a day to help them relax and sleep better. Could this regimen also have the much-hyped "Mozart effect"? |
Science News
September 24, 2005
Janet Raloff |
Wheat Warning--New Rust Could Spread Like Wildfire Wheat growers face a challenging threat with the emergence of a new and virulent fungal pathogen that has been popping up in fields throughout East Africa. It has reduced grain yields by as much as 71 percent and could bloom into global crop epidemics within the next 15 years. |
Bio-IT World
September 2005
Mark D. Uehling |
Kings of Genes and Data The speed by which things move at Iceland's deCODE supports the company's claim that it is not only reconnecting the bifurcated worlds of drug discovery and clinical research - it is also internally cross-pollinating ideas between those two realms. |
Bio-IT World
September 2005
Kristen Amuzzini |
A More Efficient Approach to Biostatistical Data Analysis Using an efficient, integrated approach, data from many different sources can easily be acquired, massaged to ensure its integrity, and then combined into single tables that biostatisticians can use to search for patterns regardless of the source of the data. |
Bio-IT World
September 2005
Kevin Davies |
Bringing Good Things to Informatics In interview with Nick Giannasi, Head of Informatics for GE Healthcare's Bio-Sciences division on how the company is shedding light on data integration in discovery and clinical trials. |
Bio-IT World
September 2005
Alan Louie |
Molecular Imaging: Smarter and Better The expanding opportunity for molecular imaging (MI) technology to significantly improve drug development has not gone unobserved. Several drug development companies have added imaging capabilities to their arsenal of drug development tools. |
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