http://www.congoo.com/feed/newschannelsfeed.aspx?chid=22&catid=269News Feed for - Biological-scienceshttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96425179&Channel_ID=22&Category_ID=2692009-11-25T00:46:00WASHINGTON, Nov. 24 (Xinhua) -- Researchers from Boston University (BU) have identified a number of proteins whose activation allows them to distinguish between cancer and normal cells with almost 97 SINAhttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96435049&Channel_ID=22&Category_ID=2692009-11-25T01:44:00Terence Price, founder of the Uranium Institute, fondly remembers a reliable journalist. When in December 2008 the Harwell Research Establishment celebrated the fiftieth anniversary of the commissioning Nuclear Engineering Internationalhttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96435009&Channel_ID=22&Category_ID=2692009-11-25T01:44:00general procurement notice, kraine, (eadline: 18 ovember 2010) 24 ovember 2009 he following notice refers to goods, works, or consultancy services to be procured through open and competitive tendering Nuclear Engineering Internationalhttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96424412&Channel_ID=22&Category_ID=2692009-11-25T00:10:00Charles Darwin had been mulling over his observations of and theories about natural selection for years, but what finally prompted him to write On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection (published Scientific Americanhttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96379354&Channel_ID=22&Category_ID=2692009-11-24T23:32:00-0400 (Reuters Health) WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Cases of a drug-resistant bacterial infection known as MRSA have risen by 90 percent since 1999, and they are increasingly being acquired outside hospitals, Reuters Healthhttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96432898&Channel_ID=22&Category_ID=2692009-11-25T01:26:00Are you a student or early-career professional interested in an alternative science career? Have you ever thought that a career in science policy or public affairs might be right for you? If so, an upcoming American Institute of Biological Scienceshttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96432888&Channel_ID=22&Category_ID=2692009-11-25T01:26:00Are you a student or early-career professional interested in an alternative science career? Have you ever thought that a career in science policy or public affairs might be right for you? If so, an upcoming American Institute of Biological Scienceshttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96321838&Channel_ID=22&Category_ID=2692009-11-25T01:36:00Surplus biomass from the production of flax shives, and generated from Brassica carinata, a yellow-flowered plant related to those which engulf fields in spring, can be used to produce bioethanol. This Biobased Information Systemshttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96427618&Channel_ID=22&Category_ID=2692009-11-25T00:40:00Case-bearing leaf beetles get crap from their moms, and itâ??s a good thing they do. These beetles spend their youth wearing a growing cylinder of excrement that typically started as rows of rectangular Science News Onlinehttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96398089&Channel_ID=22&Category_ID=2692009-11-25T00:42:00Roche (SIX: RO, ROG; OTCQX: RHHBY) and the Department of Health of Junta de Andalucia, Spain have signed an agreement for a cooperation in the Medical Genome Project (MGP), a research project created Individual.comhttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96409488&Channel_ID=22&Category_ID=2692009-11-24T16:04:00If there were any doubts that dinosaurs once roamed Prince George's County, a 9-year-old girl may have put them to rest. On Saturday, just the second time the newly named Dinosaur Park south of Laurel Washington Posthttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96309892&Channel_ID=22&Category_ID=2692009-11-24T07:40:00A new species of chameleon was discovered in an African forest living in the mouth of a snake. The tiny lizard came out of the mouth of a twig snake disturbed by Dr Andrew Marshall in Tanzania's Magombera Telegraphhttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96341003&Channel_ID=22&Category_ID=2692009-11-24T01:03:00In 2003, scientists discovered something startling in the Potomac, from which at least 3 million Washington area residents get their drinking water: Male fish were growing eggs. But six years later, a Washington Posthttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96306405&Channel_ID=22&Category_ID=2692009-11-24T16:30:00Being caked in germs sounds unpleasant, but 'friendly' bacteria living on our skin may have the vital role of keeping in check inflammation triggered by injury and unwanted bacteria. The discovery extends American Scientisthttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96284369&Channel_ID=22&Category_ID=2692009-11-24T16:00:00USDA scientists and their colleagues have completed a four-year effort to sequence the genome of corn, an achievement expected to speed up development of corn varieties that will help feed the world and Delta Farm Presshttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96395410&Channel_ID=22&Category_ID=2692009-11-24T12:47:00With Marty Crump's precise yet jolly prose, Sexy Orchids Make Lousy Lovers puts soap operas to shameNew Scientisthttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96378427&Channel_ID=22&Category_ID=2692009-11-24T08:20:00Nature Reviews Genetics. doi:10.1038/nrg2695 Authors: Rotem Sorek & Pascale CossartNature Reviews Geneticshttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96353421&Channel_ID=22&Category_ID=2692009-11-24T00:26:00Hat off to these people working hard on the maize genome sequencing project. This is a great achievement. While the communities are celebrating this breakthrough, Science, Nature, and NSF should investigate Naturehttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96259951&Channel_ID=22&Category_ID=2692009-11-24T23:58:00- A team of pioneering South Korean scientists have succeeded in producing the polymers used for everyday plastics through bioengineering, rather than through the use of fossil fuel based chemicals. This Bionity.comhttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96329233&Channel_ID=22&Category_ID=2692009-11-23T18:54:00Acid oceans leave fish at more risk from predators Ocean acidification could cause fish to become "fatally attracted" to their predators, according to scientists. A team studying the effects of acidification BBChttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96423375&Channel_ID=22&Category_ID=2692009-11-24T23:57:00pain and Latin American countries have an opportunity to take the lead in two small biotechnology sectors. Researchers from the University of Valencia (UV), working together with the IDICHUS Foundation, Bionity.comhttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96370813&Channel_ID=22&Category_ID=2692009-11-24T23:58:00efficacy on both chorea and dystonia in PD-LID model24 Nov 2009 - Addex Pharmaceuticals announced that in a non-human primate model of Parkinson's disease (PD) levodopa induced dyskinesia (LID), ADX48621 Bionity.comhttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96084581&Channel_ID=22&Category_ID=2692009-11-24T23:57:00acteria possess an ingenious mechanism for preventing oxygen from harming the building blocks of the cell. This is the new finding of a team of biologists that includes Joris Messens of VIB, a life sciences Bionity.comhttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96300108&Channel_ID=22&Category_ID=2692009-11-23T13:16:00Companies: Advanced Battery Technologies Inc (ABAT), Human Genome Sciences, Inc. (HGSI), Intel Corp. (INTC), Intuit Inc. (INTU), Linn Energy LLC (LINE) Economic data fails to come to rescue for stocks Zibbhttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96259715&Channel_ID=22&Category_ID=2692009-11-23T00:19:00The tiny creatures can cover 100 miles in two days Fig wasps can travel at speeds of 17mph. Photograph: Robert F. Sisson/National Geographic/ At just 1.5mm in size, the fig wasp is easily missed. But Guardian.co.uk