<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.congoo.com/css/rss.css" type="text/css" media="screen"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Biological-sciences News - Congoo</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/feed/newschannelsfeed.aspx?chid=23&amp;catid=269</link><description>News Feed for - Biological-sciences</description><item><title>Chirps and whistles help estimate the size of bird populations</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96634058&amp;Channel_ID=23&amp;Category_ID=269</link><pubDate>2009-11-27T12:47:00</pubDate><description>Science correspondent, BBC News Please turn on JavaScript. Media requires JavaScript to play. Ecologists have developed a way of monitoring the sizes of bird populations by recording their song. Writing </description><source>BBC</source></item><item><title>Bird song intensity used to calculate size of population</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96641606&amp;Channel_ID=23&amp;Category_ID=269</link><pubDate>2009-11-27T08:08:00</pubDate><description>Scientists have for the first time worked out a way of using birdsong to accurately measure the size of bird populations. Biologists have long counted songs to get an idea of bird abundance but it is </description><source>Telegraph</source></item><item><title>Thermo Fisher Scientific offers on-demand webinar</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96650221&amp;Channel_ID=23&amp;Category_ID=269</link><pubDate>2009-11-27T11:03:00</pubDate><description>Thermo Fisher Scientific has announced a new educational webinar â??Eat Safe: Use ICP-MSâ?. Precise, real-time food safety testing is critical to ensure the finest product quality, meet food safety legislation </description><source>Separation Science</source></item><item><title>Human Genome Sciences submits Zalbin BLA to US FDA to treat chronic hepatitis C</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96464204&amp;Channel_ID=23&amp;Category_ID=269</link><pubDate>2009-11-27T08:06:00</pubDate><description>Human Genome Sciences, Inc has submitted a Biologics License Application (BLA) to the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for Zalbin (albinterferon alfa-2b) for the treatment of chronic hepatitis C. </description><source>PharmaBiz</source></item><item><title>Two Molecules That Affect Brain Plasticity In Mice Identified By Stanford Scientists</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96497481&amp;Channel_ID=23&amp;Category_ID=269</link><pubDate>2009-11-27T12:16:00</pubDate><description>You wouldn't want a car with no brakes. It turns out that the developing brain needs them, too. Researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine have identified a set of molecular brakes that </description><source>Medical News Today</source></item><item><title>Scientists To Complete Turkey Genetic Map</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96551401&amp;Channel_ID=23&amp;Category_ID=269</link><pubDate>2009-11-27T11:53:00</pubDate><description>U.S. scientists have secured funding to complete the genetic map of the North American domesticated turkey adorning millions of U.S. dinner tables Thursday. The Turkey Genome Sequencing Consortium -- </description><source>OfficialWire</source></item><item><title>Study of â??bacterial immune systemâ?? may lead to new antibiotics</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96497476&amp;Channel_ID=23&amp;Category_ID=269</link><pubDate>2009-11-27T06:46:00</pubDate><description>Study of Ã¢â?¬Ë?bacterial immune systemÃ¢â?¬â?¢ may lead to new antibiotics ANI A study of bacterial defence systems could lead to the development of new antibiotics, say US researchers. The study could </description><source>The Pioneer</source></item><item><title>Turkey genome sequencing grant is awarded</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96636853&amp;Channel_ID=23&amp;Category_ID=269</link><pubDate>2009-11-27T07:09:00</pubDate><description>Virginia Tech and the University of Minnesota have been awarded a 2-year, $908,280 grant by the USDA to complete sequencing the genome of the domesticated turkey, Meleagris gallopavo. The funding will </description><source>WorldPoultry.net</source></item><item><title>SUNYIT to offer biology degree</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96579812&amp;Channel_ID=23&amp;Category_ID=269</link><pubDate>2009-11-27T06:33:00</pubDate><description>In what is being heralded as another step toward a nanotechnology partnership, SUNYIT Tuesday announced it would add a biology program beginning in 2011.'This will fit in very nicely with growing science </description><source>Nanotechnology News</source></item><item><title>Paper-thin batteries made from algae</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96486188&amp;Channel_ID=23&amp;Category_ID=269</link><pubDate>2009-11-27T06:33:00</pubDate><description>'We have long hoped to find some sort of constructive use for the material from algae blooms and have now been shown this to be possible,' said researcher Maria Strmme, a nanotechnologist at Uppsala University </description><source>Nanotechnology News</source></item><item><title>MOgene, LC Participates in Consortium That Sequenced Three Oil Palm Genomes</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96627489&amp;Channel_ID=23&amp;Category_ID=269</link><pubDate>2009-11-27T05:23:00</pubDate><description>- (NewsRx.com) -- MOgene, a member of a consortium co-led by the Malaysian Palm Oil Board (MPOB) and Orion Genomics, announced the sequencing of three oil palm genomes, two of which originated in Africa </description><source>Poten &amp; Partners</source></item><item><title>Introducing the DNA/DNR-AI-255 2 channel synchro/resolver interface</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96479036&amp;Channel_ID=23&amp;Category_ID=269</link><pubDate>2009-11-27T05:09:00</pubDate><description>Home Latest News Submit News About Us FAQ News Search: Technology: Introducing the DNA: DNR-AI-255 2 channel synchro: resolver interface Previous Release Next Release The DNA/DNR-AI-255, United Electronic </description><source>UK PRWire</source></item><item><title>Roche and the Department of Health of Junta de Andalucía Collaborate in Spanish </title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96398089&amp;Channel_ID=23&amp;Category_ID=269</link><pubDate>2009-11-27T04:09:00</pubDate><description>oche and the Department of Health of Junta de Andalucía, Spain have signed an agreement for a cooperation in the Medical Genome Project (MGP), a research project created to analyse the genomes of people </description><source>Bionity.com</source></item><item><title>Ecologists Sound Out Solution For Monitoring Birds</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96621707&amp;Channel_ID=23&amp;Category_ID=269</link><pubDate>2009-11-27T03:26:00</pubDate><description>Ecologists have at last worked out a way of using recordings of birdsong to accurately measure the size of bird populations. This is the first time sound recordings from a microphone array have been translated </description><source>Voxy.co.nz</source></item><item><title>Caveman Thanksgiving: Prehistoric Man Roasted Birds Too</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96504889&amp;Channel_ID=23&amp;Category_ID=269</link><pubDate>2009-11-27T00:27:00</pubDate><description>New findings, published in the October issue of the Journal of Archaeological Science, indicate early Europeans enjoyed a much broader diet than first suspected. We have known for a long while that early </description><source>Planetsave.com</source></item><item><title>Biology, Training And Profit Sharing Make Best Traders</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96459740&amp;Channel_ID=23&amp;Category_ID=269</link><pubDate>2009-11-27T00:40:00</pubDate><description>Researchers have identified a group of traders consistently able to outperform the market, even during the credit crisis. The study by John Coates and Lionel Page of the University of Cambridge offers </description><source>Red Orbit</source></item><item><title>Medical News: The Mammalian System For Controlling Bone Remodelling Also Regulates </title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96506221&amp;Channel_ID=23&amp;Category_ID=269</link><pubDate>2009-11-27T12:22:00</pubDate><description>- 0:00 PST Current Article Ratings: Patient / Public: Health Professional: Article Opinions: 0 posts The so-called RANK protein and the molecule that binds to it, the RANK ligand or RANKL, form a focus </description><source>BioFind</source></item><item><title>Drug-resistant bacteria on increase</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96379354&amp;Channel_ID=23&amp;Category_ID=269</link><pubDate>2009-11-27T07:18:00</pubDate><description>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, researchers reported </description><source>KISS 95.7</source></item><item><title>Caltech Scientists Find Emotion-like Behaviors, Regulated by Dopamine, in Fruit </title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96487118&amp;Channel_ID=23&amp;Category_ID=269</link><pubDate>2009-11-27T02:46:00</pubDate><description>Finding may provide new insights into the neurological basis of ADHD, learning deficits, and more PASADENA, Calif. Scientists at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) have uncovered evidence </description><source>Caltech Daily News</source></item><item><title>Hypervalent N-sulfonylimino-[small lambda]3-bromane: active nitrenoid species at </title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96655211&amp;Channel_ID=23&amp;Category_ID=269</link><pubDate>2009-11-27T11:53:00</pubDate><description>Masahito Ochiai, Kazunori Miyamoto, Satoko Hayashi, Waro Nakanishi  (Feature Article from Chem. Commun.)  Masahito Ochiai, Chem. Commun., 2010, DOI: 10.1039/b922033j  To cite this article before page </description><source>RSC</source></item><item><title>Scientists Use Knockout Cells to Discover New Genes Involved in Viral and Bacterial </title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96603338&amp;Channel_ID=23&amp;Category_ID=269</link><pubDate>2009-11-26T23:08:00</pubDate><description>Researchers from Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research say theyâ??ve developed a new type of genetic screen for human cells to pinpoint specific genes and proteins used by pathogens. The identification </description><source>Genetic Engineering News</source></item><item><title>'Simple' bacterium shows surprising complexity</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96588875&amp;Channel_ID=23&amp;Category_ID=269</link><pubDate>2009-11-26T19:48:00</pubDate><description>The inner workings of a supposedly simple bacterial cell have turned out to be much more sophisticated than expected. An in-depth 'blueprint' of an apparently minimalist species has revealed details that </description><source>New Scientist</source></item><item><title>A whole genome bayesian scan for adaptive genetic divergence in West African cattle.</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96583887&amp;Channel_ID=23&amp;Category_ID=269</link><pubDate>2009-11-26T17:24:00</pubDate><description>Biological or potency assays are frequently analyzed with the help of the parallel-line or parallel-logistic (4 or 5 parameter fit) methods. These methods have major advantages over traditional single-point </description><source>Bioscience Technology Online</source></item><item><title>Review: Designing materials to direct stem cell fate</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96582933&amp;Channel_ID=23&amp;Category_ID=269</link><pubDate>2009-11-26T17:11:00</pubDate><description>AbstractProper tissue function and regeneration rely on robust spatial and temporal control of biophysical and biochemical microenvironmental cues through mechanisms that remain poorly understood. Biomaterials </description><source>Nature</source></item><item><title>Letter: A novel intracellular protein delivery platform based on single-protein </title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96582878&amp;Channel_ID=23&amp;Category_ID=269</link><pubDate>2009-11-26T17:10:00</pubDate><description>Abstract An average cell contains thousands of proteins that participate in normal cellular functions, and most diseases are somehow related to the malfunctioning of one or more of these proteins. Protein </description><source>Nature</source></item></channel></rss>