Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers in the mosh pit

Recently, it seems like lots of folks are bemoaning the fallen state of IT. I've come to lump these conversations in the "Dear Abby" bucket. Admit it. You've read at least one Dear Abby column that starts something like "When we started our relationship it was so exciting. Now we hardly ever talk a...

DOE JGI plumbs termite guts to yield novel enzymes for better biofuel production

...t with material from neighboring stomachs. Contents from 165 specimens were purified, yielding only a few valuable drops -- a veritable microbial mosh pit -- that was sent on ice to Verenium for DNA extraction and preparation, then on to DOE JGI's Walnut Creek (CA) Production Genomics Facility for sequen...

BSP Pharma Inc., Makers of FlexNow(TM) Joint Formula Sign Distribution Deal with Vitamin Shoppe and GNC

...riterpenes, the most powerful inflammation fighter of any known botanical. Harvested in the wild in West Africa, the shea nut (the nut is actually the pit of the shea fruit) which produces shea oil has been used for centuries as a food product and more recently as an effective additive to cosmetics and m...

Beware the Dreaded Off-Site Technology Meeting

... because it means you are bonding. While I may like my job and I may enjoy my co-workers, that doesn't mean I want to swing on a rope above a sand pit with them or play insultingly, juvenile guessing games in a stuffy conference room 60 miles from my home. Can I just do my job, please? After the ...

When technology is not enough, have more picnics

... email with them, and interview ad nausea via videoconferencing. But bringing them to your office and dropping them in the membership and events shark pit is infinitely more telling about whether theyll add value or not. High tech has its place. We need the right technology doing the right things. You...

High-content screening of GPCR activation with MetaXpress, AcuityXpress and the Transfluor assay system

...sted for optimal discrimination of each pit or vesicle from the local background. This signifi...ility to identify and accurately quantitate actual pit and vesicle formation even if the inten..., Hill curve fitting was performed on pit or vesicle area per cell, averaged across all repl...