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<title><![CDATA[Genetic analysis helps dissect molecular basis of cardiovascular disease]]></title>
<link>http://www.bio-medicine.org/biology-news-1/Genetic-analysis-helps-dissect-molecular-basis-of-cardiovascular-disease-10845-1/</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 01:06:37 MST</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[	 Using highly precise measurements of plasma lipoprotein concentrations determined by nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy (NMR), researchers led by Daniel Chasman at Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School in Boston, MA, the Framingham Heart Study in Framingham, and the PROCARDIS consortium in Stockholm, Sweden and Oxford, England performed genetic association analysis acros... ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[NSF awards $7.5M grant to University of Oklahoma for plant genomics]]></title>
<link>http://www.bio-medicine.org/biology-news-1/NSF-awards--247-5M-grant-to-University-of-Oklahoma-for-plant-genomics-10844-1/</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 01:06:34 MST</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[	 A decade ago, a group of University of Oklahoma researchers were sequencing the first human chromosome as part of the human genome project.   Today, the OU Advanced Center for Genome Technology is contributing to an international effort to sequence the tomato genome with a $7.5 million grant awarded by the National Science Foundation for plant genomics.   	  "The tomato has tremendous agricult... ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Special sessions announced for World Congress on Osteoporosis 2010 - IOF WCO - ECCEO10]]></title>
<link>http://www.bio-medicine.org/biology-news-1/Special-sessions-announced-for-World-Congress-on-Osteoporosis-2010---IOF-WCO---ECCEO10-10843-1/</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 01:06:31 MST</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[	 Researchers are invited to contribute their abstracts to the World Congress on Osteoporosis 2010 (IOF WCO  ECCEO10), the largest global meeting devoted to all aspects of osteoporosis and osteoarthritis research and patient care. The Congress will be held in Florence, Italy from May 5-8, 2010.   	 Beginning today, abstracts can be submitted online at  http://www.iofwco-ecceo10.org     	 The sub... ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[International expedition investigates climate change, alternative fuels in Arctic]]></title>
<link>http://www.bio-medicine.org/biology-news-1/International-expedition-investigates-climate-change--alternative-fuels-in-Arctic-10842-1/</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 01:06:26 MST</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[	   (Washington, DC  Nov. 20, 2009)  Scientists from the Marine Biogeochemistry and Geology and Geophysics sections of the Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) organized and led a team of university and government scientists on an Arctic expedition to initiate methane hydrate exploration in the Beaufort Sea and determine the spatial variation of sediment contribution to Arctic climate change.   	 Uti... ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Just like old times: Generating RNA molecules in water]]></title>
<link>http://www.bio-medicine.org/biology-news-1/Just-like-old-times-3A-Generating-RNA-molecules-in-water-10841-1/</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 10:26:17 MST</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[	  	 A key question in the origin of biological molecules like RNA and DNA is how they first came together billions of years ago from simple precursors. Now, in a study appearing in this week's JBC, researchers in Italy have reconstructed one of the earliest evolutionary steps yet: generating long chains of RNA from individual subunits using nothing but warm water.    	 Many researchers believe... ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Barn personnel experience higher-than-average rates of respiratory symptoms]]></title>
<link>http://www.bio-medicine.org/biology-news-1/Barn-personnel-experience-higher-than-average-rates-of-respiratory-symptoms-10840-1/</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 10:10:13 MST</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[	 North Grafton, Mass., November 19, 2009  The estimated 4.6 million Americans involved in the equine industry may be at risk of developing respiratory symptoms due to poor air quality in horse barns, according to a questionnaire study undertaken earlier this year by investigators at Tufts University's Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine.   	 The studywhich polled more than 80 New England hor... ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[From toxic dust and algae to ill winds from Africa]]></title>
<link>http://www.bio-medicine.org/biology-news-1/From-toxic-dust-and-algae-to-ill-winds-from-Africa-10839-1/</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 10:10:10 MST</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[	  	  	  Toxic dust: Toxins in coal-tar-based sealcoats in parking lots may be the culprit in contaminated house dust, according to a USGS study.  PAHs  or polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons  are large molecules found in oil, coal and tar deposits, and can have toxic effects. It's long been known that PAHs are often found in house dust; however, the specific sources of these PAHs are largely undet... ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Delft breakthrough in bioethanol production from agricultural waste]]></title>
<link>http://www.bio-medicine.org/biology-news-1/Delft-breakthrough-in-bioethanol-production-from-agricultural-waste-10838-1/</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 08:50:36 MST</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[	 With the introduction of a single bacterial gene into yeast, researchers from Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands achieved three improvements in bioethanol production from agricultural waste material: 'More ethanol, less acetate and elimination of the major by-product glycerol' This week the invention was published in the scientific journal  Applied and Environmental Microbiology... ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Biologists discover bacterial defense mechanism against aggressive oxygen]]></title>
<link>http://www.bio-medicine.org/biology-news-1/Biologists-discover-bacterial-defense-mechanism-against-aggressive-oxygen-10837-1/</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 08:50:33 MST</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[	 Brussel, November 19th 2009 - Bacteria possess an ingenious mechanism for preventing oxygen from harming the building blocks of the cell. This is the new finding of a team of biologists that includes Joris Messens of VIB, a life sciences research institute in Flanders, Belgium, connected to the Vrije Universiteit Brussel. The scientists made this discovery by modifying the DNA of the intestina... ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Discovery of new type of immune cells regulating inflammation in chronic diseases]]></title>
<link>http://www.bio-medicine.org/biology-news-1/Discovery-of-new-type-of-immune-cells-regulating-inflammation-in-chronic-diseases-10836-1/</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 08:50:30 MST</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[This release is available in  German .   	     In the current online issue of the  Journal of Clinical Investigation , Dr. Stefanie Eyerich and Dr. Kilian Eyerich together with their colleagues from Imperial College London and Istituto Dermopatico dell'Immacolata in Rome, present their groundbreaking discovery. It represents a milestone on the way to developing new treatment methods for infla... ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Flax and yellow flowers can produce bioethanol]]></title>
<link>http://www.bio-medicine.org/biology-news-1/Flax-and-yellow-flowers-can-produce-bioethanol-10835-1/</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 08:50:27 MST</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[	 Surplus biomass from the production of flax shives, and generated from  Brassica carinata , a yellow-flowered plant related to those which engulf fields in spring, can be used to produce bioethanol. This has been suggested by two studies carried out by Spanish and Dutch researchers and published in the journal  Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews .    "These studies evaluate, from an envi... ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Gaining a better picture of lung disease]]></title>
<link>http://www.bio-medicine.org/biology-news-1/Gaining-a-better-picture-of-lung-disease-10834-1/</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 08:50:20 MST</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[	 Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), a respiratory disease commonly known as chronic bronchitis or emphysema, is the fourth leading cause of death worldwide.  600 million people live with COPD and while researchers have yet to find any real treatment or cure, Grace Parraga of Robarts Research Institute at The University of Western Ontario in London, Canada, is using various imaging te... ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Lehigh receives grant to reduce cost of carbon capture at coal-fired power plants]]></title>
<link>http://www.bio-medicine.org/biology-news-1/Lehigh-receives-grant-to-reduce-cost-of-carbon-capture-at-coal-fired-power-plants-10833-1/</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 08:50:16 MST</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[	 Lehigh University's Energy Research Center (ERC) has been awarded a grant from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) to develop methods of recovering and reusing the heat that would be generated by the carbon-dioxide (CO 2 ) compression process in a carbon capture system. The goal of the research project is to facilitate carbon capture and sequestration, or storage (CCS), and thus limit the amou... ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Carvedilol shown to have unique characteristics among beta blockers]]></title>
<link>http://www.bio-medicine.org/biology-news-1/Carvedilol-shown-to-have-unique-characteristics-among-beta-blockers-10832-1/</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 08:50:13 MST</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[	 CHAMPAIGN, Ill.  In a new study, researchers report that a class of heart medications called beta-blockers can have a helpful, or harmful, effect on the heart, depending on their molecular activity.   	 The study, which appears in the journal  Circulation Research , found that beta-blockers that target both the alpha- and beta-receptors on the heart muscle offer the most benefit to cardiac pat... ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Researchers begin to decipher metabolism of sexual assault drug]]></title>
<link>http://www.bio-medicine.org/biology-news-1/Researchers-begin-to-decipher-metabolism-of-sexual-assault-drug-10831-1/</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 10:15:30 MST</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[	 It's a naturally occurring brain chemical with an unwieldy name: 4-hydroxybutyrate (4-HB). Taken by mouth, it can be abused or used as a date-rape drug.    	 Now, a team of Ohio and Michigan scientists have determined new routes by which 4-HB is metabolized by the body. "This is new and important information," said K. Michael Gibson, professor and chair of biological sciences at Michigan Techn... ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[After mastodons and mammoths, a transformed landscape]]></title>
<link>http://www.bio-medicine.org/biology-news-1/After-mastodons-and-mammoths--a-transformed-landscape-10830-1/</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 07:17:53 MST</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[	 MADISON  Roughly 15,000 years ago, at the end of the last ice age, North America's vast assemblage of large animals  including such iconic creatures as mammoths, mastodons, camels, horses, ground sloths and giant beavers  began their precipitous slide to extinction.   	 And when their populations crashed, emptying a land whose diversity of large animals equaled or surpassed Africa's wildlife-r... ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Like humans, ants use bacteria to make their gardens grow]]></title>
<link>http://www.bio-medicine.org/biology-news-1/Like-humans--ants-use-bacteria-to-make-their-gardens-grow-10829-1/</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 07:17:50 MST</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[	 MADISON  Leaf-cutter ants, which cultivate fungus for food, have many remarkable qualities.    	 Here's a new one to add to the list: the ant farmers, like their human counterparts, depend on nitrogen-fixing bacteria to make their gardens grow. The finding, reported this week (Nov. 20) in the journal  Science , documents a previously unknown symbiosis between ants and bacteria and provides ins... ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Sweet corn story begins in UW-Madison lab]]></title>
<link>http://www.bio-medicine.org/biology-news-1/Sweet-corn-story-begins-in-UW-Madison-lab-10828-1/</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 07:17:47 MST</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[	 MADISON  This week, scientists are revealing the genetic instructions inside corn, one of the big three cereal crops. Corn, or maize, has one of the most complex sequences of DNA ever analyzed, says University of Wisconsin-Madison genomicist David Schwartz, who was one of more than 100 authors in the article in the journal  Science .   	 "The maize genome is a true maze  full of confusing repe... ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[PLoS Genetics 2009 maize genome collection]]></title>
<link>http://www.bio-medicine.org/biology-news-1/PLoS-Genetics-2009-maize-genome-collection-10827-1/</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 07:17:44 MST</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[	 Maize is an important crop in many countries of the world. It is widely used for human consumption, animal feed, and industrial materials. It also is considered an exemplar plant species for studying domestication, molecular evolution, and genome architecture. The authors of the research presented in this special collection used the first description of the B73 maize genome to probe some of th... ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[U of M plant scientist uncovers clues to yield-boosting quirks of corn genome]]></title>
<link>http://www.bio-medicine.org/biology-news-1/U-of-M-plant-scientist-uncovers-clues-to-yield-boosting-quirks-of-corn-genome-10826-1/</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 07:17:41 MST</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[	 When it comes to corn, 1 + 1 = more than 2: The offspring of two inbred strains tend to be superior to both of their parents. Characterizing the gene-level variability that leads to this phenomenon, known as heterosis or hybrid vigor, could boost our ability to custom-tailor crops for specific traits, such as high protein content for human consumption or high glucose content for biomass fuel.... ]]></description>
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