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7 min ago | CiteULike

Baculovirus expression vector system: an emerging host for...

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4 hrs ago | The Panda's Thumb

Do the creationist shuffle and twist

Don't you hate it when you get up in the morning and the first thing you read on the internet is the news that your entire career has been a waste of time, your whole field of study has collapsed, and you're going to have to rethink your entire future? Happens to me all the time.

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6 hrs ago | Nature Neuroscience

Postdoctoral fellowships in bioinformatics and systems biology of RNA

The scientific goal of this project is to characterize the relationships between sequence, structure, and function for all RNAs, using combined tools of bioinformatics, experimental biochemistry and structural biology.

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Related Topix: Biology, Science, Bioinformatics, Biotech, Science / Technology, Biochemistry, Computer Science

Mon Jun 17, 2013

JD Supra

Supreme Court Rules That Isolated Genes Are Unpatentable Products Of Nature

On June 13, 2013, the Supreme Court issued its highly anticipated decision in Association for Molecular Pathology v.

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Related Topix: Biotech, Medicine, Myriad Genetics, Healthcare Industry, Genetics, Biology, Science, Inventions, Science / Technology

Scientific Blogging

Gene Patents: The Contradictions And Loopholes

I have given up on categories. I did a BA in physics, a PhD in molecular biology, and now a postdoc in a bioengineering department.

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Related Topix: Biology, Science, US News, US Supreme Court, Biotech, Medicine, Myriad Genetics, Healthcare Industry, Antonin Scalia

Sun Jun 16, 2013

Washington Examiner

High school students get summer research at ULM

Forty-eight high school students from Marrero to Monroe got hands-on experience in the diverse field of molecular biology as part of a summer research program at the University of Louisiana at Monroe.

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Related Topix: Education Etc., Monroe, LA, Biology, Science, Louisiana, University of Louisiana at Monroe

MediLexicon

Scientists At A*STAR's Genome Institute Of Singapore Unify, Optimise...

Scientists at A*STAR's Genome Institute of Singapore have developed a revolutionary method to quickly cut through noise and generate a unified and simplified analysis of high-throughput biological data from, for example, patient samples.

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Related Topix: Biology, Science, Electrical Engineering, Genetics, Medicine

Watersblogged

QK725 .J37 2013 - Jasmonate signaling : methods and protocols /...

It is now well established that jasmonates, originally identified as the major component of jasmine scent, play a universal role in the plant kingdom and are involved in the regulation of diverse aspects of plant biology, including growth, development, metabolism, and interaction with the environment.

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Related Topix: Biology, Science, Plant Biology, Biotech, Science / Technology, Bioinformatics, Entomology

Sat Jun 15, 2013

CiteULike

Odor response properties of rat olfactory receptor neurons.

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World Magazine

Darwin's head-scratcher

How intelligent design offers the best explanation for the sudden appearance of many animals upon the earth-an event Darwin could not reconcile Stephen Meyer, 54, is director of the Discovery Institute's Center for Science and Culture.

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Related Topix: Evolution Debate, World News, United Kingdom, Cambridgeshire County, England, Science / Technology, Biology, Science, Inventions

Fri Jun 14, 2013

EurekAlert!

Genome decoding of the medieval leprosy pathogen

This is the skull of a ca. 25-year-old woman with leprosy from the medieval cemetery of St. Jorgensen, Denmark.

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Related Topix: Genetics, Medicine, Biology, Science

Slate Magazine

The Supreme Court's Sketchy Science

A scientist of Brazilian Enterprise for Agricultural Research analyzes vegetables samples at the National Center for Genetic Resources laboratory in Brasilia on Dec. 19, 2012.

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Tech Review

U.S. Supreme Court Says "Natural" Human Genes May Not Be Patented

Thousands of genes have been patented in the United States; some argue that this stifles medical research, while others say it is necessary to support innovation.

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Related Topix: US News, US Supreme Court, Biotech, Medicine, Myriad Genetics, Healthcare Industry, Genetics, Biology, Science, Inventions, Science / Technology

MediLexicon

New Details Uncovered Of Natural Anticancer Mechanism

Scientists at The Scripps Research Institute have identified key triggers of an important cancer-blocking mechanism in cells.

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Related Topix: Medicine, Cancer, Health, Scripps Research Institute, Technical Services, Skin Cancer, Biology, Science

Gizmag

Landmark decision? US Supreme Court rules human genes cannot be patented

In what is being ballyhooed as a landmark decision likely to set the course of DNA-based diagnostic and therapeutic medicine for the next several decades, the US Supreme Court unanimously decided on June 13 that human genes are not patentable.

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Daily Kos

Open thread for night owls: Scalia and the case of the non-controversial description of DNA

This part of Antonin Scalia's concurrence on today's decision that a genetics company cannot patent a naturally occurring human gene has been getting some attention : I join the judgment of the Court, and all of its opinion except Part I-A and some portions of the rest of the opinion going into fine details of molecular biology.

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Related Topix: Genetics, Biology, Science, US News

Thu Jun 13, 2013

Lucianne.com

SCOTUS Rules Lab-CreatedGenes Can Be Patented,Natural Genes Can t

Nobody can claim a patent on genes naturally found in human DNA, but you can patent them if you created them in a lab, the Supreme Court ruled today.

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Balloon Juice

Justice Scalia: Not Down with Science

The Supreme Court issued three major decisions today , but Justice Scalia's concurrence in the case on patenting genetic material, Association for Molecular Pathology v.

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Related Topix: US News, Antonin Scalia, Biotech, Medicine, Myriad Genetics, Healthcare Industry, Genetics, Biology, Science

Gawker

Antonin Scalia Does Not Believe in Molecular Biology

Justice Antonin Scalia agrees with his fellow Supreme Court justices that naturally occurring genes can't be patented.

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Related Topix: Biology, Science, US News, Antonin Scalia, Clarence Thomas, Genetics, Medicine

PR-inside.com

Market Report, "Amgen Inc. (AMGN) - Financial and Strategic SWOT Analysis Review", published

It launched blockbuster drugs based on advances in recombinant DNA and molecular biology.

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Related Topix: Biotech, Medicine, Amgen, Healthcare Industry, Rheumatoid Arthritis, Health, Arthritis, Biology, Science, Enbrel, Etanercept (generic)