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<title><![CDATA[Natural compound stops retinopathy]]></title>
<link>http://www.bio-medicine.org/biology-news-1/Natural-compound-stops-retinopathy-9106-1/</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2009 09:36:03 MST</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[	 OKLAHOMA CITY  Researchers at the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center have found a way to use a natural compound to stop one of the leading causes of blindness in the United States. The research appears online this month in the journal  Diabetes , a publication of the American Diabetes Association.    	 	The discovery of the compound's function in inflammation and blood vessel form... ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[UT multimedia program increases middle school interest in science]]></title>
<link>http://www.bio-medicine.org/biology-news-1/UT-multimedia-program-increases-middle-school-interest-in-science-9105-1/</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2009 09:35:57 MST</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[	 Middle school students who were part of a unique science learning program developed by The University of Texas School of Public Health showed significant increases in interest and achievement scores compared to other students, a recent study found.   	 Results from the study are published in the June issue of the Association of American Medical Colleges'  Academic Medicine .     	 The program,... ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Ben-Gurion U. researchers reveal connection between cancer and human evolution]]></title>
<link>http://www.bio-medicine.org/biology-news-1/Ben-Gurion-U--researchers-reveal-connection-between-cancer-and-human-evolution-9104-1/</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2009 09:35:39 MST</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[BEER-SHEVA, ISRAEL, July 2, 2009  Researchers at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) have discovered that gene mutations that once helped humans survive may increase the possibility for diseases, including cancer.   The findings were recently the cover story in the journal  Genome Research .   The team of researchers from BGU's National Institute for Biotechnology in the Negev (NIBN) set o... ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Pacific Northwest forests could store more carbon, help address greenhouse issues]]></title>
<link>http://www.bio-medicine.org/biology-news-1/Pacific-Northwest-forests-could-store-more-carbon--help-address-greenhouse-issues-9103-1/</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2009 09:35:35 MST</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[	 CORVALLIS, Ore.  The forests of the Pacific Northwest hold significant potential to increase carbon storage and help mitigate greenhouse gas emissions in coming years, a recent study concludes, if they are managed primarily for that purpose through timber harvest reductions and increased rotation ages.   	 In the complete absence of stand-replacing disturbances  via fire or timber harvest  for... ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Brain malformations significantly associated with preterm birth, Wake Forest research shows]]></title>
<link>http://www.bio-medicine.org/biology-news-1/Brain-malformations-significantly-associated-with-preterm-birth--Wake-Forest-research-shows-9102-1/</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2009 09:35:28 MST</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[	 WINSTON-SALEM, N.C.  New research out of Wake Forest University School of Medicine provides for the first time a solid scientific answer for the long-standing question of whether there is an association between preterm birth and brain malformations.    	 In a study of more than 1,000 preterm infant autopsies, researchers found that there is a strong association between congenital brain defects... ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Evolution: Crabs go deep to avoid hot water]]></title>
<link>http://www.bio-medicine.org/biology-news-1/Evolution-3A-Crabs-go-deep-to-avoid-hot-water-9101-1/</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2009 08:23:02 MST</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[	 Researchers from the National Oceanography Centre, Southampton, have drawn together 200 years' worth of oceanographic knowledge to investigate the distribution of a notorious deep-sea giant  the king crab.  The results, published this week in the  Journal of Biogeography , reveal temperature as a driving force behind the speciation and radiation of a major seafloor predator; globally, and over... ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Rampant helper syndrome]]></title>
<link>http://www.bio-medicine.org/biology-news-1/Rampant-helper-syndrome-9100-1/</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2009 08:22:56 MST</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[	 The Archaea are single-celled organisms and a domain unto themselves, quite apart from the so called eukaryotes, being bacteria and higher organisms. Many species live under extreme conditions, and carry out unique biochemical processes shared neither with bacteria nor with eukaryotes. Methanogenic archaeans, for example, can produce methane gas out of carbon dioxide and hydrogen. The underlyi... ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[All in sight]]></title>
<link>http://www.bio-medicine.org/biology-news-1/All-in-sight-9099-1/</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2009 08:22:51 MST</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[	 Bremerhaven, July 2nd 2009. A new measurement system for the detection of whales is used for the first time on board of the research vessel Polarstern. Whales are usually difficult to spot. On the one hand, they spend the greater part of their life under water. On the other hand, only a small part of their body can be seen when they surface, and this can even hardly be distinguished from the... ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Virus-resistant grapevines]]></title>
<link>http://www.bio-medicine.org/biology-news-1/Virus-resistant-grapevines-9098-1/</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2009 08:22:45 MST</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[This release is available in  German .     	   A good wine needs to ripen. But it's a long way to the barrel. Even before the harvest, the grapevines have to overcome all kinds of obstacles. Extremely hot or rainy periods can destroy entire crops, not to mention the wide variety of pests that can appear on the scene. Bugs such as the vine louse or the rust mite, fungi such as mildew, or virus... ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[UT scientist receives hemophilia research award]]></title>
<link>http://www.bio-medicine.org/biology-news-1/UT-scientist-receives-hemophilia-research-award-9097-1/</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2009 08:22:37 MST</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[	 Keri Smith, Ph.D., an assistant professor of pathology and laboratory medicine at The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, has received a Career Development Award from the National Hemophilia Foundation.    	 The award will support Smith's research into the development of a therapy for people with Hemophilia A, a bleeding disorder, whose immune systems are resistant to treatme... ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Biological warfare in bacteria offers hope for new antibiotics]]></title>
<link>http://www.bio-medicine.org/biology-news-1/Biological-warfare-in-bacteria-offers-hope-for-new-antibiotics-9096-1/</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2009 08:22:33 MST</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[	 Scientists are to study a group of proteins that are highly effective at killing bacteria and which could hold the key to developing new types of antibiotics.   	 Researchers from the Universities of York and Leeds have been awarded 3.3m from the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) to find out how a family of proteins known as colicins force their way into bacterial... ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Ferns took to the trees and thrived]]></title>
<link>http://www.bio-medicine.org/biology-news-1/Ferns-took-to-the-trees-and-thrived-9095-1/</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2009 08:22:29 MST</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[	 DURHAM, N.C. -- As flowering plants like giant trees quickly rose to dominate plant communities during the Cretaceous period, the ferns that had preceded them hardly saw it as a disappointment.   	 In fact, they flourished. While modern tropical rain forests were becoming established, ferns climbed aboard, and experienced a flowering of their own species diversity.   	 "The canopy is there and... ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Nursery programs for corals receive TLC from NOAA this Independence Day]]></title>
<link>http://www.bio-medicine.org/biology-news-1/Nursery-programs-for-corals-receive-TLC-from-NOAA-this-Independence-Day-9094-1/</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2009 07:02:19 MST</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[	   VIRGINIA KEY, Fla.  As the nation celebrates its birth on the 4th of July, University of Miami (UM) Professor Diego Lirman and fellow Caribbean coral reef nursery scientists will be celebrating as well.  The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) today announced that The Nature Conservancy and its partners' staghorn and elkhorn coral recovery project, including Lirman's nurse... ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Scientists 'rebuild' giant moa using ancient DNA]]></title>
<link>http://www.bio-medicine.org/biology-news-1/Scientists-rebuild-giant-moa-using-ancient-DNA-9093-1/</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2009 07:02:12 MST</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[	 Scientists have performed the first DNA-based reconstruction of the giant extinct moa bird, using prehistoric feathers recovered from caves and rock shelters in New Zealand.   	 Researchers from the University of Adelaide and Landcare Research in New Zealand have identified four different moa species after retrieving ancient DNA from moa feathers believed to be at least 2500 years old.   	 The... ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Research network wins approximately &#163;5.7 million to target human and animal diseases in Africa]]></title>
<link>http://www.bio-medicine.org/biology-news-1/Research-network-wins-approximately--26-23163-3B5-7-million-to-target-human-and-animal-diseases-in-Africa-9092-1/</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2009 04:38:11 MST</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[	 Deadly diseases including plague, Ebola and Rift Valley Fever are being targeted as part of a new multi-million pound international partnership involving African researchers and the London International Development Centre (LIDC). The Southern African Centre for Infectious Disease Surveillance (SACIDS) links medical and veterinary institutions from five African countries and the UK to improve t... ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Axel Ullrich named winner of 2009 Dr. Paul Janssen Award for Biomedical Research]]></title>
<link>http://www.bio-medicine.org/biology-news-1/Axel-Ullrich-named-winner-of-2009-Dr--Paul-Janssen-Award-for-Biomedical-Research-9091-1/</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2009 10:34:33 MST</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[	 London, 1 July, 2009  Johnson & Johnson today announced that Axel Ullrich, Ph.D., director of the Department of Molecular Biology at the Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry in Germany, whose discoveries have led to novel cancer therapies including Herceptin (trastuzumab) , is the winner of the 2009 Dr. Paul Janssen Award for Biomedical Research.  An independent committee of world-renowned sci... ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Colorectal cancer]]></title>
<link>http://www.bio-medicine.org/biology-news-1/Colorectal-cancer-9090-1/</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2009 07:55:02 MST</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[	   Previously, only a few genes had been associated with the formation of metastases in colorectal cancer. Now, researchers of the Max Delbrck Center for Molecular Medicine (MDC) Berlin-Buch and Charit  University Medicine Berlin, Germany, have identified 115 genes that are disregulated both in the primary tumor and in its metastases. In the future, their findings may help identify patients wit... ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[New e-science service could accelerate cancer research]]></title>
<link>http://www.bio-medicine.org/biology-news-1/New-e-science-service-could-accelerate-cancer-research-9089-1/</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2009 07:54:57 MST</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[	 The University of Manchester and the European Molecular Biology Laboratory's European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI) have launched a major new e-science resource for biologists  which could accelerate research into treatments for H1N1 flu and cancer.   	  Biocatalogue.org , a centralised registry of curated life science Web Services, is being officially launched today (Wednesday 1 July) a... ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Double success for Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciencia scientists working on chromosome segregation]]></title>
<link>http://www.bio-medicine.org/biology-news-1/Double-success-for-Instituto-Gulbenkian-de-Ciencia-scientists-working-on-chromosome-segregation-9088-1/</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2009 07:54:52 MST</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[	 Lars Jansen's work on the formation of the centromere, a key cellular structure in powering and controlling chromosome segregation and accurate cell division, has just earned him a paper in  Nature Cell Biology  and a prestigious EMBO installation grant, of 50,000 euro per year, for a maximum of five years.   	 Lars Jansen moved from California to the Instituto Gulbenkian de Cincia (IGC), in... ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Desert rhubarb -- a self-irrigating plant]]></title>
<link>http://www.bio-medicine.org/biology-news-1/Desert-rhubarb----a-self-irrigating-plant-9087-1/</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2009 07:54:47 MST</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[	   Researchers from the Department of Science Education-Biology at the University of Haifa-Oranim have managed to make out the "self-irrigating" mechanism of the desert rhubarb, which enables it to harvest 16 times the amount of water than otherwise expected for a plant in this region based on the quantities of rain in the desert. This is the first example of a self-irrigating plant worldwide.... ]]></description>
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