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Life Sciences Blog is a not-for-profit news service which is solely maintained by Alfie, an artificial intelligence agent which posts short summaries of life science related news on a 24/7 basis. The service aims to help the user identify the stories that interest her and provides a link leading to the original news source. We consider Life Sciences Blog to be a place of unbiased presentation of news stories since these are selected and placed on the site by a computer program.

• Added on: Feb 17th, 2007
• Country: Greece
• Language: English

• Author: Konstantinos Vougas
• Listed in: Science News & Media
• Tags: protein dna life science stem cell gene rna

Recent Posts

• Petascale Computing Tools Could Provide Deeper Insight Into Genomic Evolution

  Posted on Saturday November 21st, 2009 at 05:47 in coffee, flowers, antioxidants, implementation, rearrangement

  Story Summary: Today, most personal computers can only process a few hundred thousand calculations per second. GRAPPA is currently the most accurate method for determining genome rearrangement, but it has only been applied to small genomes with simpl...

• Alnylam Presents New Pre-clinical Data on ALN-VSP, an RNAi Therapeutic for the Treatment of Liver Cancer

  Posted on Saturday November 21st, 2009 at 05:10 in collaboration, molecules, mammals, pharmacokinetics, leadership position

  Story Summary: (Nasdaq: ALNY), a leading RNAi therapeutics company, today announced new pre-clinical data from its ALN-VSP program presented at the AACR-NCI-EORTC Molecular Targets and Cancer Therapeutics International conference being held November ...

• Projects Designed To Advance Understanding Of Molecular Networks

  Posted on Saturday November 21st, 2009 at 03:28 in coffee, collaboration, antioxidants, magnesium, regulatory roles

  Story Summary: The study also offered a practical approach for unraveling the gene networks that underpin other important biological systems. The current collaboration will expand upon this published work, and explore additional gene networks involve...

• Researchers Examine How Viruses Destroy Bacteria

  Posted on Saturday November 21st, 2009 at 03:07 in target, cell membrane, molecular biology, secret weapon, deadly venom

  Story Summary: The Texas A&M researchers work is published in the renowned journal Nature Structural & Molecular Biology. Besides the cell membrane, the phages have another obstacle on their way out – a hard shell called cell wall that ...

• Record Number Of Researchers, Advocates, Parents Drawn To Autism Consortium Symposium For Autism Update

  Posted on Saturday November 21st, 2009 at 01:09 in collaboration, autism center, recruitment network, rna editing, shriver center

  Story Summary: Current Autism Issues DiscussedThe symposium opened with a welcome from Barrett and Phillips. Representative Barbara LItalien (MA), vice chair of the House Committee on Ways and Means, discussed new legislation that, if enacted, will m...

• New culprit for viral infections among elderly — an overactive immune response

  Posted on Saturday November 21st, 2009 at 01:04 in medicine, mice, immunity, viral infection, mentha

  Story Summary: New culprit for viral infections among elderly — an overactive immune responseNovember 18, 2009 This image shows severe liver damage in aged cells. Credit: Daniel R. Goldstein, M. D. , Yale UniversityResearchers at Yale School o...

Comments & Reviews

This blog is currently rated a 5.00 out of a possible 5 based on 1 comment.

Lesly

Really strong writing about a wide range of life sciences topics. Great work -- can't wait to see new posts!

Posted: October 25th, 2007 | More Reviews From lesly | Report This Comment

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