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1 hr ago | NBC San Diego

Mayor Vows to Wipe Out La Jolla Bird Stench

La Jolla's jagged coastline is renowned for its natural beauty. Unfortunately, with that beauty comes a strong, lingering stench caused by bird droppings that have accumulated on the rocks over time.

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Related Topix: La-Jolla, CA, Science

5 hrs ago | Seattle Times

NH student's disappearance, death detailed in docs

Five weeks into her first semester at the University of New Hampshire, the sophomore planned to attend a Tuesday night lab class that would end at 9 p.m. She wouldn't have to hurry - she was staying with her aunt and uncle only about a half-hour drive from the campus where she'd transferred to study marine biology.

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Related Topix: University of New Hampshire, Marine Biology, Science, Portsmouth, NH

9 hrs ago | DFW Catholic

God Relates To Us As Father, Son, And Holy Spirit

This weekend we celebrate the beginning of the summer season. For some of us it means opening up the cottage or lake house.

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Related Topix: Genetics, Science, Medicine

13 hrs ago | How Stuff Works

Stem Cell Study Researcher Admits Mistakes

A blockbuster study in which US researchers reported that they had turned human skin cells into embryonic stem cells contained errors, its lead author has acknowledged.

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Related Topix: Stem Cell Research, Science / Technology, Oregon Health & Science University, Cell Biology, Science, UC San Francisco, California

Fri May 24, 2013

Perez Hilton

The Queen Rides The Bus! Just Like Normal People

Queen Elizabeth II was spotted visiting the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, and instead of having the car brought 'round, she decided to be a woman of the people! Of course when the inevitable smelly guy got on, Her Majesty just closed her nose and thought of England! LOLz!

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Related Topix: Elizabeth Ii, Science

Nature Neuroscience

Postdoc in computational biology

Applications are invited for a postdoctoral researcher to join the multi-diciplinary groups of bioinformatics & medicine.

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Related Topix: Bioinformatics, Science, Biotech, Science / Technology, Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania Government

WNYC-AM New York

Last Chance Foods: Food In Danger

Seeing heaps of ramps at farmers markets can be a little alarming for anyone who has read about the possibility that the tender spring onion is being over-harvested in the woods.

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Related Topix: Plant Biology, Science, Home Gardening, Home

PhysOrg Weblog

Going live: Immune cell activation in multiple sclerosis

Using a calcium sensor shows that the calcium concentration in T cells changes when it interacts with dendritic cells [top]. The activation of the T cell can be illustrated by the migration of the NFAT signal protein from the cell plasma to the cell nucleus [bottom]. Credit: MPI of Neurobiology Biological processes are generally based on events at ... (more)

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Related Topix: Multiple Sclerosis, Health, Science

Discover

A little knowledge is dangerous

Being public on the internet means having to interact with many different sorts.

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Related Topix: Genetics, Science

University of Otago News

Otago honours leading physician-scientist Professor Helen Heslop

The University of Otago will this weekend confer the honorary degree of Doctor of Science on Professor Helen Heslop, an Otago graduate who has forged an outstanding medical and research career overseas.

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Related Topix: Immunology, Science, Baylor College of Medicine, Lymphoma, Health

Thu May 23, 2013

Santa Cruz Sentinel

Stanford University students study own DNA

Professor Stuart Kim teaches his Genetics class at Stanford University in Stanford, Calif., on Tuesday, May 21, 2013.

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Related Topix: Genetics, Medicine, Startups, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, Science, Mountain View, CA

Science Daily

The secret lives (and deaths) of neurons

It is a dance with death, however, because the molecular poison the neuron deploys to sever an axon could, if uncontained, kill the entire cell.

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Related Topix: Science, Cell Biology

The Atlantic

Race Is Not Biology

During the past two weeks, much outrage has arisen over former Heritage Foundation staffer Jason Richwine's Harvard doctoral dissertation, which speculated that IQ differences between "Hispanic" and "non-Hispanic' populations were genetically rooted.

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Related Topix: Science, Richard Chevolleau, Harvard University, Genetics, Medicine, US Politics, US News

IcWalsall

Queen tours 'Nobel Prize factory'

The mysteries of conception have been explained to the Queen as she toured a world-leading research institute dubbed the "Nobel Prize factory". Peering down a powerful microscope to look at minute mice eggs, the Queen appeared fascinated as scientists explained their work trying to discover why some women trying to conceive produce abnormal eggs.

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Related Topix: Molecular Biology, Science

Science Daily

Boosting body's natural flu killers as way to offset virus mutation problem

Researchers at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem have shown recently that another, more promising, approach is to focus on improving drugs that boost the body's natural flu killer system.

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Related Topix: Epidemic, Natural Disasters, Immunology, Science

Health.com

Scientists Map the Fungi on Your Feet

Anyone who has ever wrestled with athlete's foot knows there is something about feet that fungi seem to like.

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Related Topix: Immunology, Microbiology, Science, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA, Infectious Diseases, Medicine

Science Daily

Fast new, one-step genetic engineering technology

Published in the journal ACS Synthetic Biology , the method paves the way for more rapid development of designer microbes for drug development, environmental cleanup and other activities.

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Related Topix: Genetics, Medicine, Science

WauwatosaNOW.com

Dr. Paula Traktman Elected Fellow of the American Academy of Microbiology

Paula Traktman, PhD, Walter Schroeder Professor and Chairman of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics at the Medical College of Wisconsin , has been elected as a fellow of the American Academy of Microbiology.

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Related Topix: Microbiology, Science, Genetics, Medicine, Medical College of Wisconsin

Wed May 22, 2013

Science Daily

Slowing the aging process -- only with antibiotics

Now, EPFL researchers led by Johan Auwerx report in the journal Nature how a mechanism in mice plays a determining role in longevity.

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Related Topix: Nutrition, Medicine, Genetics, Science

Science Daily

Schizophrenia symptoms eliminated in animal model

They genetically engineered mice so they could turn up levels of neuregulin-1 to mimic high levels found in some patients then return levels to normal, said Dr.

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Related Topix: Schizophrenia, Medicine, Health, Genetics, Science, Medical College of Georgia