Plants defy Mendel's inheritance laws, may prompt textbook changes
Contrary to inheritance laws the scientific world has accepted for more than 100 years, some plants revert to normal traits carried by their grandparents, bypassing genetic abnormalities carried by both parents. These mutant parent plants apparently have hidden templates containing genetic information from the preceding generation that can be transferred to their offspring, even though the...Bugs, even 'bad' ones, can be educationally beneficial, new book says
We have much to learn from bad bugs, according to Gilbert Waldbauer, whose book "Insights From Insects: What Bad Bugs Can Teach Us" was published March 1 (Prometheus Books). "We know a lot about pests, because so much money is spent on their research," said Waldbauer, professor emeritus of entomology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Of the 900,000 known species of insect...New book explains antibiotic resistance for a broad audience
Media coverage about "superbugs" that defy current treatments has increased the public's awareness of and fears surrounding the issue of antibiotic resistance. A new book from ASM Press, Revenge of the Microbes: How Bacterial Resistance is Undermining the Antibiotic Miracle, provides an in-depth overview of the subject in a reader-friendly, comprehensible style that will engage everyone from scie...'Cookbook recipes' would cure disease with nontoxic DNA delivery systems
Scientists studying the structure and interaction of negatively charged lipids and DNA molecules have created a "cookbook" for a class of nontoxic DNA delivery systems that will assist doctors and clinicians in the safe and effective delivery of genetic medicine. As reported in the Aug. 9 issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, researchers have now performed a careful...New book expands biological classifications to account for 'alien' life
What would you call an alien if you encountered it on the street tomorrow? What if that alien didn't come from another world but rather was created in a laboratory right here on Earth and functioned differently from other Earth life? Either way, Peter Ward has the beginnings of an answer. In a new book, the University of Washington paleontologist puts forth an expanded "tree of life," or b...PROTEIN PROTOCOLS Book from Pierce Biotechnology, Inc.
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The Drug Inspectors' Association of Andhra Pradesh has brought out a handbook cum diary for the benefit of all chemists, drug manufacturers and the Association members in the state. The Association has managed to put together all necessary information with regard to the regulatory requirement in an easy-to-locate format in the diary. The information is to be extremely useful to the drug t...Scientists open the book of life
A scientific achievement once thought impossible has been achieved. The human genetic instruction is complete to an accuracy of 99.99 percent. However it is now considered the foundation for a new era of medical advances. With the entire sequence in hand experts predicted it would lead to new drugs, better forecasts of people's health and new ways of treating or preventing many of the mos...Book Seeks To Rehabilitate Soldiers
A new book is offering strategies for the Afghanistan and Iraq war veterans to cope with the community members, employers, and their families. A person undergoes tremendous change after fighting in a battlefield, and // returning to normal civilian life again can be very difficult. The book is named ‘Courage After Fire’, and it is aimed to be of service to about 1 million war veterans...72 year old cheat, brought to book
A 72 year old man, languishing in a London hospital, purposefully//, for nearly three years without any actual need for medical assistance, has been ordered by the High court to leave the hospital. Mr X, as he is known, was given an eviction order which stipulated that he leave Finchley Memorial Hospital in north London within 14 days. Along with the order of eviction, he was also sla...Perpetrators of $20 Million Medicare Fraud, Brought To Book
Los Angeles: Five Fraudulent people were arrested after it became known that they had cheated the Medicare by more than $20 million in Medicare// payments, for superfluous tests that were not mandated and hence was never conducted. Federal prosecutors nailed Konstantin Grigoryan, 56, of Altadena, in charge of the illegal scheme from 1997 to 2005. He and four others are charged with th...Ishihara Test Unlettered Pediatric 10 Plate Book
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BLOOMFIELD, N.J., March 20, 2007 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ --Alfacell Corporation's ONCONASE (ranpirnase) has shown potential toact as a potent payload in antibody conjugates for cancer therapy,according to the latest edition of the Handbook of TherapeuticAntibodies. In a chapter of the text that reviews immunotoxins, SusannaRybak, Ph.D. summarizes preclinical research indicating that...