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Issue 72,   February 18 - March 2, 2000
Adapt or Die
Profiting from Your Thesis:
The Merrill Lynch Innovation Grants Competition - encouraging commercial development of dissertation topics
New Debate
Persistent Vegetative State - a new HMS Beagle debate
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Gene Therapy Trials: Pressing for Answers - media coverage of gene therapy
Meeting Brief INABIS 2000 - the Sixth Internet World Congress for Biomedical Sciences

The Current Biology Photomicrography Competition - enter for a chance to win a digital camera!
Virtual Cures: Entelos, Inc. - modeling diseases for virtual drug trials

Networks of Neurons - Web resources on neural networks

The Truth about Global Warming - science versus politics

Citation 7.1 for Windows - Software Review

BioFeedback - organic chemist Eric Kool

Sensory Exotica: A World Beyond Human Experience - Book Review

Flora and Shauna - Fiction

Top Ten - Reasons to Work in Industry

Darwin, Once Meant For The Clergy, Imagines His Sermon On Noah - Poem

Art on the Molecular Level - Art Gallery

LabConsumer - automated sequencing systems; confocal microscopy technology; protein-protein interaction identification; protein standards; used lab equipment for sale

The Undiscovered Mind - How the Human Brain Defies Replication, Medication, And Explanation, by John Horgan - Essay

Understanding the Summary Statement - Humor
 

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Daily Research News
Wednesday, March 1, 2000
BIOLOGICAL SCIENCE
Neuronal tunes
The strength of the neural responses of a songbird to a song correlates with how much of the song the bird has previously learned. (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences)

Rats look and learn
Neuroimaging studies involving rats indicate a common neural basis for observing an action to be copied and the actual execution of the action. (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences)

Mushroom bodies and fruit fly learning
Genes that control the development of the Drosophila eye also control the development of "mushroom bodies," structures involved in learning. (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences)

Today's Web Pick African Americans Do Science - provides biographical profiles, related links, essays, and more. From the U.S. Department of Education.

MEDICINE/ HEALTH
We can talk it out
Cognitive-behavioral therapy is effective in treating schizophrenia that is resistant to standard antipsychotic drugs. (Archives of General Psychiatry)

The brains of sociopaths
The prefrontal cortex is known to be critical to many behaviors, and there is now evidence for reduced prefrontal volume in sociopaths. (Archives of General Psychiatry)

Getting taller sooner
American children seem to be getting taller at younger ages, which may require a revision of older data sets. (Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine)

Today's Web Pick NephroWorld - a virtual community and marketplace for people interested in nephrology. Includes a calendar of events, news, related sites, and more.

BIOTECH/ PHARMACEUTICAL
Adding interleukin to injury
A herpes virus engineered to infect and destroy brain tumor cells gets more ammunition in the form of IL-12, which elicits an immune response toward the infected cancer cells. (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences)

When in doubt, model
Computer modeling can be used to study cell processes when experiments would be too disruptive. (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences)

Churning out islet cells
Islet cell transplantation for the treatment of diabetes has lagged due to production difficulties, but researchers have now produced large numbers of islet cells from mouse pluripotent pancreatic ductal epithelial cells. (Nature Medicine)

Today's Web Pick WebElements - an online periodic table. Supplies descriptions of the elements, links, and more.

NEWS
Australian R&D goes hungry
Australian science is ranked low in R&D expenditure. (Nature)

Greenpeace versus GM
Greenpeace celebrates GM turnaround. (The Times (London))

Salmonella is good for you
Scientists try to use Salmonella infection to slow down tumor growth. (The Scientist)

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Molecular Motors Group (University of York) - Investigators in this group of laboratories use single-molecule techniques to study the mechanisms of molecular motors. Their site includes background on many research projects, including single-molecule fluorescence imaging, visualizing single molecules in living cells, and measuring the force of contraction in single cells. This site also includes many full-text articles, related links, and additional resources.

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