Columbia University licenses next-generation DNA sequencing technology
Columbia University announces today that it recently executed an exclusive license agreement for a next generation DNA sequencing technology to Intelligent Bio-Systems (IBS), Inc. This innovative DNA-sequencing technology was invented by Dr. Jingyue Ju, professor of Chemical Engi...Bacterial response to oxidation studied as toxin barometer
...al concentrations of individual chemicals. It also announces the presence of an oxidative toxin you haven’t identified.? “We don’t have to have 20 sensors for 20 toxins. We can sense the presence of any oxidative toxin,?Love said. Ikuma, who was an undergraduate biology student at Virginia Tech when she b...Fighting to keep Darwin in the classroom
...ttle. Today, on Darwin's 198th birthday, Springer announces plans for a new journal which will do just that. A father-and-son team—a world-renowned evolutionary biologist and a highly skilled and sophisticated science high school teacher—have decided it's time to help science educators fight back against the......on, how does the cell know to send the signal that announces a smoker’s high" As with other questions involving good sensations, the answer appears to be sugar. A University of Southern California study appearing with a commentary in Nature Neuroscience online proposes a role for sugar as the hinge that ope...