University of Northern Iowa
Posted in Stem Cells on Feb 28th, 2007
The Illinois Senate voted Friday to spend state tax dollars on embryonic stem cell research, despite objections from those who argue the research destroys human life.
CBS News
Posted in Bioenergy on Feb 28th, 2007
Scientists looking for new enzymes to boost biofuel production and help America kick its addiction to imported oil say they have found hundreds of prospects in the unlikeliest of places: bug guts.
MSNBC.com
Posted in Microbial Biotechnology on Feb 28th, 2007
IT can take years, sometimes decades, for the commercial applications of a scientific or intellectual breakthrough to become apparent — like the notion that brainless bacteria communicate through networks to cause diseases that can also wreak social or economic havoc.
The New York Times
Posted in Plant Biotechnology on Feb 28th, 2007
Citing a broad range of risks, U.S. federal judges in three separate cases have asked the U.S. Department of Agriculture to esamine genetically engineered crops more closely.
Science
Posted in Human Genome on Feb 28th, 2007
Scientists have found new autism genes by scanning the largest collection of families with multiple cases of autism ever assembled.
BBC News
Posted in Forensic Science on Feb 28th, 2007
America loves its crime dramas. But as our reporter found out, the reality of crime-scene investigation is often more gross than sexy.
MSNBC
Posted in Events on Feb 16th, 2007
The global event for biotechnology
http://www.bio2007.org/index.html
Posted in Artificial Photosynthesis on Feb 2nd, 2007
Harnessing light energy by mimicking photosynthesis could be the future for energy systems, say Japanese scientists.
RSC Publishing