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Biologist

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Name: Biologist

First Reported 23 hours ago - Updated 5 hours ago - 2 Documents (in Health)

Good News About Flu Production [Mike the Mad Biologist]

One of the problem with influenza vaccine production (as well as some other vaccines) is that the vaccine is made by injecting into chicken eggs--infecting chicken embryos--and then harvesting and killing the virus for use in the vaccine. This is a very ... [ScienceBlogs : Combined Feed - 5 hours ago]

Entities: Biologist, Vaccine, Virus

First Reported 11/06/2009 - Updated 11/06/2009 - 2 Documents (in Health)

Calculating Animal Intelligence.

In a column posted a few days ago (November 1) I mentioned that my friend John Evans, a Cambridge (England) mathematician, has developed a general formula for estimating biocomplexity. It is quite simple, using only two variables: the number of units ... [Scientific Blogging - Neuroscience - 11/06/2009]

Entities: Protein, John Evans, Biologist

First Reported 11/05/2009 - Updated 11/05/2009 - 2 Documents

Scientists say caribou is the new cod as supply dwindles

Font-size: Share PrintThe Canadian PressYELLOWKNIFE — Once, caribou wandered over the Arctic tundra in herds that took days to pass.So great were their numbers -- even 20 years ago -- that they were able to shake off man's puny imprint on the great ... [CTV.ca - 11/05/2009]

Entities: Biologist, Yellowknife (Canada), Canadian Wildlife Service, Bluenose, Lichen

First Reported 11/05/2009 - Updated 11/06/2009 - 2 Documents

Stephen Harper

Inquiry to examine the collapse of B.C.'s Sockeye salmon fishery

In what is sure to be welcome news to many people in British Columbia, Canada's Prime Minister, Stephen Harper, announced Thursday that the government of Canada will hold a judicial inquiry to examine the collapse of B.C.'s Sockeye salmon fishery. Fishermen, ... [Digital Journal - 11/06/2009]

Entities: Sockeye Salmon, ...And Oceans, Stephen Harper

First Reported 11/05/2009 - Updated 11/05/2009 - 2 Documents

Cleveland Clinic

Chimp Mauling Victim's Family To Sue CT For $150 Million

The family of a woman who was severely mauled by a chimpanzee plans to sue Connecticut for $150 million. A lawyer for Charla Nash, who remains at the Cleveland Clinic after 200-pound chimp Travis chewed off her hands, nose, lips and eyelids, says, "We ... [Gothamist - 11/05/2009]

Entities: Cleveland Clinic, Biologist, Attorney General

First Reported 11/05/2009 - Updated 11/05/2009 - 2 Documents (in Health)

Science & the Public: Genome 10K: A new ark

Biologists can tell a lot about how living things evolved by rooting around in their genes, comparing snippets of DNA from supposedly related — or unrelated — species. This only works, of course, if catalogs of those DNA snippets exist. Which they largely ... [Science News Online - 11/05/2009]

Entities: DNA, Species, Genome

First Reported 11/05/2009 - Updated 11/05/2009 - 1 Documents (in Health)

How Symbiotic Bacteria Evolve: Free Public Lecture At UC Riverside

Symbiotic bacteria, which thrive on all plants and animals, are a key yet poorly understood facet of our natural world. Living in symbiosis with their hosts, these bacteria perform a variety of useful functions, such as processing or 'fixing' gaseous ... [Medical News Today - 11/05/2009]

Entities: Bacteria, University of California Riverside, Biologist, Silent Majority Group, Evolution

First Reported 11/05/2009 - Updated 11/05/2009 - 1 Documents

Automated flow cytometry

Accuri Cytometers Inc. The Accuri C6 Flow Cytometer System gives you 24/7 access to a flow cytometer, just like your other essential laboratory tools. Designed specifically with the life scientist in mind, the system is compact, versatile and automated. ... [Drug Discovery News - 11/05/2009]

Entities: flow cytometry, Biologist

First Reported 11/05/2009 - Updated 11/05/2009 - 1 Documents

Penn Biologists Say There's A Speed Limit To The Pace Of Evolution

Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania have developed a theoretical model that informs the understanding of evolution and determines how quickly an organism will evolve using a catalogue of "evolutionary speed limits." The model provides quantitative ... [Medical News Today - 11/05/2009]

Entities: Evolution, Biologist, Organism, University of Pennsylvania, Bacteria

First Reported 11/05/2009 - Updated 11/05/2009 - 1 Documents (in Environment)

New Study Chronicles Declining Populations, Major Threats to Sage-Grouse

Feds Considering ESA Listing for Greater and Mono Basin Sage-GrouseThe U.S. Geological Survey has posted 24 of 25 chapters of a new, definitive monograph on sage-grouse just months before the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is scheduled to render multiple ... [Biodiversity Conservation Alliance - 11/05/2009]

Entities: Centrocercus, Habitat, Species, Biologist, Declination

First Reported 11/05/2009 - Updated 11/05/2009 - 1 Documents

Obama's Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement Is Not Hopey or Changey [Mike the Mad Biologist]

Over at BoingBoing, we read about the leaked version of the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement, a copyright treaty (so much for the Obama Administration's commitment to transparency. Maybe it's something in the White House water?). Two items caught ... [ScienceBlogs : Combined Feed - 11/05/2009]

Entities: Biologist, Infringement, Copyright Infringement, Censorship

First Reported 11/05/2009 - Updated 11/05/2009 - 1 Documents (in Health)

Podcast: An Embarrassment of Genomes

Many blog and Twitter readers may be acquainted with Jonathan Eisen, a biologist at UC Davis. In my latest podcast, I spend an hour chatting with Eisen about what you can learn by looking at the genomes of particularly weird microbesfrom radiation-resistant ... [Discover Magazine - 11/05/2009]

Entities: Genome, University of California Davis, Insect, Biologist

Quotes

...said Jordan, a research fish biologist with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Northwest Fisheries Science Center in Portland. "There are plenty of subtleties we need to understand much better."

New antenas help biologists study salmon [Research & Development - 2 hours ago]

..."A lot of scenarios have been imagined, from peaceful 'flower child' behavior to violent interactions to even cannibalism," Harvati said. "I think a lot of these scenarios happened. I think we probably tried interbreeding and maybe it worked, maybe it didn't. I'm sure there was violence at times. I think in some places they went extinct before modern humans even arrived. But you don't even need any of those if there is even a slight advantage in how many offspring modern humans produce successfully as opposed to Neanderthals." However, if Neanderthals did coincide with modern humans until 24,000 years ago, then we might not have had anything to do with their disappearance...

The Many Mysteries of Neanderthals (LiveScience.com) [Yahoo! News - 6 hours ago]

"Honestly, we don't know what happens to them when they go out into the ocean" Stan Proboszcz, a fish biologist from the Watershed Watch Salmon Society, told AFP in August

Canada launches probe into missing salmon stocks [Yahoo! Canada - 20 hours ago]

...'Ants are superb ecosystem engineers,' David Edwards the lead author of the study said, "but this is the first example of ants galling trees to make housing." Megan Frederickson, a Harvard biologist and member of the research team, searched 1,000 square kilometers of forest and found numerous galled trees inhabited...

Ants are friendly to some trees, but not others [EurekAlert! - 22 hours ago]

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New antenas help biologists study salmon [Research & Development - 2 hours ago]
Wednesday, Nov 11, 2009: Veterans Day Ceremony [Seminole County Florida Government - 3 hours ago]
North American Origins for the Falklands Wolf [New York Times - 5 hours ago]
The Many Mysteries of Neanderthals (LiveSc... [Yahoo! News - 6 hours ago]
LITERARY CALENDAR November 9-15, 2009 [Washington Post - 6 hours ago]
Protecting both livestock and wildlife from dis... [Livestock Roundup - 9 hours ago]
EMBL Scientists Take New Approach To Predict Ge... [MediLexicon - 12 hours ago]
Dolphins implicated in porpoise deaths [New Zealand Herald - 16 hours ago]
Southern Roundup: Novartis Prevails in Medicaid... [Community Pharmacist - 18 hours ago]
Profile of Rudolf Jaenisch [Bio Techniques - 18 hours ago]
New World Data [Bio Techniques - 18 hours ago]
Canada launches probe into missing salmon stocks [Yahoo! Canada - 20 hours ago]
Face to faith [Guardian.co.uk - 20 hours ago]
Bird Island Tours, Rocky Point, Puerto Penasco,... [Prlog - 21 hours ago]
Ion Torrent, Stealthy Company Tied to Harvard’s... [Xconomy - 21 hours ago]
Macquarie Island: Iceberg a big surprise for Au... [West Australia Sunday Times - 21 hours ago]
Iceberg a big surprise for Aussie scientist [The Australian - 21 hours ago]
Aussie scientist sees unexpected iceberg [Herald Sun - 22 hours ago]
Environmental activist screens in Humboldt [Individual.com - 22 hours ago]
Ants are friendly to some trees, but not others [EurekAlert! - 22 hours ago]
A tale of two tigers [The Scientist - 22 hours ago]
Coal company destroys last intact mountain in C... [Online Journal - 22 hours ago]
Boron-based compounds inhibit key HIV enzyme [RSC - 11/06/2009]
FASEB Puts Some Numbers Together [GenomeWeb - 11/06/2009]
Turkmen Case Highlights Plight Of Activists In ... [Radio Free Europe - 11/06/2009]
Light on river may boost fish migration [Canada.com - 11/06/2009]
Overfishing ruled out for missing fish [Canada.com - 11/06/2009]
The bear essentials of saving salmon [Canada.com - 11/06/2009]
Escaped farmed salmon can hunt prey, biologist ... [Canada.com - 11/06/2009]
Evolution and Spirituality [The Arusha Times - 11/06/2009]

Blogs

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Good News About Flu Production [Mike the Mad Bi... [ScienceBlogs : Combined Feed - 5 hours ago] One of the problem with influenza vaccine production (as well as some other vaccines) is that the vaccine is made by injecting into chicken eggs--infecting chicken ...
Face to faith: The Religious Experience Researc... [Comment is free \| guardian.co.uk - 20 hours ago] The Religious Experience Research Centre's evidence of everyday divinity is a joy, says Roger TagholmAbout three times a month a letter or email arrives at the library ...
Friday Links [Mike the Mad Biologist] [ScienceBlogs : Combined Feed - 23 hours ago] Thank the Intelligent Designer it's Friday; I've had a long week. Anyway, here are some weekend links for you. Science: Read the rest of this post... \| Read the ...
Ethical Humanist Society of Chicago: You're doi... [Pharyngula - 11/06/2009] The Ethical Humanist Society of Chicago revoked a speaking invitation to Sunsara Taylor, which led to much drama. I've already posted Taylor's version of events; ...
Ethical Humanist Society of Chicago: You're doi... [ScienceBlogs : Combined Feed - 11/06/2009] The Ethical Humanist Society of Chicago revoked a speaking invitation to Sunsara Taylor, which led to much drama. I've already posted Taylor's version of events; ...

Audio/Video

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NSN \| Profile: Maydianne Andrade [Mefeedia Video Tag : biolo - 11/06/2009]
NSN \| Profile: Maydianne Andrade [Mefeedia Video Tag : biolo - 11/06/2009]
Richard Dawkins - The Evidence for Evolution [Mefeedia Video Tag : biolo - 10/30/2009]
Why Richard Dawkins Doesn't Debate Creationists [Mefeedia Video Tag : evoluti - 10/28/2009]
Why Richard Dawkins Doesn't Debate Creationists [Mefeedia Video Tag : biolo - 10/28/2009]

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