GlaxoSmithKline has inked a five year, $25 million collaboration deal with the Disease Institute of Boston to conduct on immunoinflammation research. GSK and IDI researchers will develop joint grant proposals in targeted areas of research under an Alliance Research grant program. GSK gets first dibs on any drug targets identified through the collaboration.
“GSK is committed […]

Shai Meiri is interested in the evolution of body size and its implications, in biogeographical correlates of morphology and in the morphological signatures of speciation and community composition.
Relevance of biogeography to your workAntje Ahrends. Do you think that biogeography has important implications for conservation in practice?Shai Meiri. I think it sometime have important implication for […]

Whithead Institute for Biomedical Research: Paradigm Magazine - Despite a victory in the Dover school board trial, the battle against creationism needs a steady stream of recruits:

For the last 100 years, scientists, teachers and parents have been relying mostly on lawyers to keep religion out of public school science classes in this country. So far, […]

By Jeremy Patterson
“Two U.S. nuclear weapons labs are opening biological research labs capable of studying more dangerous pathogens, raising concerns about the U.S. ability to meet demands for transparency in line with the 1972 Biological Weapons Convention (BWC)…” Click here to return to full story.
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I have published my research agenda on my web site.
I will resume my work on OAI this summer to prepare a lecture that I need to give in October. However, my first priority is to translate my book into English.
I am currently finishing my computational experiments on Social Networks. Contrary to what I have posted […]

Graduate research assistantship (Ph.D.) to work on the development and evolution of skeletal adaptations in Antarctic icefish. Albertson Lab, Department of Biology, Syracuse University
The highly successful evolutionary radiation of Antarctic notothenioid fish involved several structural changes in the musculoskeletal system to accommodate a pelagic lifestyle. These include the evolution of bone loss to […]

By Aussiegirl
I’m not sure how this spinach molecule will be, to quote from the article, a novel route for creating nanoscale logic circuits or mechanical switches for future medical, computer technology or green energy applications. Are we to imagine some day eating a large plate of spinach and thereby powering our computer?
Nanoscientists Create Biological […]

An open access/free article from PLoS Biology:
Citation: Weitz JS, Benfey PN, Wingreen NS (2007) Evolution, Interactions, and Biological Networks. PLoS Biol 5(1): e11 doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.0050011
The study of networks has expanded rapidly over the last 10 years; networks are now widely recognized not only as outcomes of complex interactions, but as key determinants of structure, function, and […]

Zebrafish cost about a dollar at the pet store। They grow from eggs to hunting their own food in three days. Adults can lay up to 500 eggs at once… and you have more in common with them than you think.

“For all their differences, humans and zebrafish aren’t that dissimilar,” said Rice University zebrafish expert […]

Element 8 cover the hazards and the control of associated with using chemicals or being exposed to biological substances.
The main regulations that cover these activities are COSHH Control of Substances Hazardous to Health 2002 (as amended 2004), there are others such as CHIP (The Chemicals (Hazards and Packaging for supply) Regulations 2002), Control of Asbestos […]