NOBEL ANNOUNCEMENT (from Reuters) “This year’s Nobel laureates have revolutionized our understanding of the immune system by discovering key principles for its activation,” the award panel at Sweden’s Karolinska Institute said in a statement in Stockholm. The award went to [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Biology’
September 25th, 2011 - 7:18 am § in Misc.
Sunday Revelations: of Naturopathy, God, Love, Auras, Scooby Doo and STORM!
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What Human Origins Mean to Berkeley
Ardipithecus and the research university Kevin Padian, professor of paleontology and evolutionary biology | 10/10/09 | excerpted from the Berkeley Blog Ardipithecusis the focus of a lot of media attention at the moment. New research discoveries made by the Berkeley faculty seem to make the news co[...]
September 21st, 2011 - 7:58 am § in Science
Scientific Hype: “Epi” Genetics
The epigenetics miracle? from Pharyngula Jerry Coyne is mildly incensed — once again, there’s a lot of recent hype about epigenetics, and he doesn’t believe it’s at all revolutionary. Well, I’ve written about epigenetics before, I think it’s an extremely important s[...]
September 15th, 2011 - 1:23 am § in Uncategorized
Mistakes Scientists Make
To Err is Human by Sarah Green, The Scientist Researchers bring their own values and passions to the lab bench. I was delighted to see a couple recent F1000 evaluations that strayed from traditional peer-reviewed literature. F1000 Members Frank Harrell, a biostatistician at Vanderbilt Medical School[...]
August 15th, 2011 - 6:58 am § in Uncategorized
Animal Rights: Real Science is Archaic!
Jean Williams, an environmental writer n Seattle, has a blog post supporting the efforts of Dr. Kerry Kriger, founder of Santa Cruz based Save the Frogs, to get frog dissections out of the classroom and teach students more advanced and enlightened techniques. Her post is titled: Frog dissection: Rep[...]
August 1st, 2011 - 12:12 pm § in America
US Founds First Cancer Lab
NIH: Chronology of Events 1700 | 1800 | 1900 | 1910 | 1920 | 1930 | 1940 | 1950 | 1960 | 1970 | 1980 | 1990 | 2000 1700 1798 The Marine Hospital Service was established with the July 16 signing by President John Adams of an act for the relief of sick and […][...]
June 20th, 2011 - 3:10 am § in America
Job Opportunities
Group in Kentucy advertising great jobs. Job Opportunities in the United States: Constituent Data Administrator (CDA) Guest Services Coordinator Public Safety Console Operator Senior Database Administrator (Senior DBA) Video Editor/Animator/VFX Web Developer–Python Zoo Keeper Ark Encounter Job[...]
June 18th, 2011 - 6:06 am § in Religion
Juju Juice Decoded
‘Juju Juice’ to go to Nairobi for Testing from Freethought Kampala, by James Onen On November 6th 2010 I witnessed an attempt by a witchdoctor to try to catch a car thief. I posted a detailed account of what I witnessed, in which I also narrated how I was able to retrieve a sample of a [&hell[...]
June 8th, 2011 - 6:42 am § in Schools & Colleges
Wellcome Fund Focuses on the best, the brightest, the Britishest and the most Oxbridgish with a touch of London added.
from Times Higher Education by Paul Jump excerpted In an interview with Times Higher Education to coincide with this week’s announcement of the first beneficiaries of the £56 million programme, Sir Mark said that the trust had concluded that the way to enable the best science was “to su[...]