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Written by admin on 10 February 2010
RayBiotech, Inc., today announced that they are extending the deadline for submitting applications for its Biomarker Discovery Pilot Grant program. RayBiotech will now accept applications for the pilot grants through February 22nd, 2010. “The last-minute surge in interest in the grant program has been overwhelming,” said Brett Burkholder, Director of Marketing & Business Development for RayBiotech, Inc.Norcross, GA, February 02, 2010 –(PR.com)– RayBiotech, Inc., today announced that they are extending the deadline for submitting applications for its Biomarker Discovery Pilot Grant program. RayBiotech will now accept applications for the pilot grants through February 22nd, 2010. Grant recipients will receive restricted grants of $10,000 to $20,000 worth of RayBiotech products and/or services for conducting biomarker research.
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Written by admin on 07 February 2010
Anvita Abbie, the reputed linguist from Nehru University of New Delhi, India, announced with sadness that Boa Sr, an elderly woman of 85 years and the last speaker of an ancient language from the Andaman Islands just died.
The lost language was part of a group of languages spoken only by indigenous tribes of Andaman Islands (India). It is believed to be of an African origins, some of its forms of verbal communication dated more than 70,000 years old.
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Written by admin on 07 February 2010
The researchers concluded that an aggressive personality, temperamental and intolerant, could be a sign of evolution.
On the contrary, an attitude manifested by tolerance and generosity, should be an indicator of lower development, new study shows. Researchers have studied two different types of monkeys – the chimpanzee and less evolved but friendly, bonobo (pygmy chimpanzee), two of the closest relatives of man.
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Written by admin on 11 December 2008
Computer expert Aubrey de Grey, author of the bestselling non-fiction “ Ending aging” is sure of having drawn, in his work, the theoretical basis of scientific conquests meant to allow people to control their biologic aging and live hundreds to thousands of years. Read the rest of this entry »
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Written by admin on 08 December 2008
Creating artificial life has stopped being a theme for science fiction novels and may be achieved in reality in the next three to ten years, states Jack Szostak, a professor at Harvard University also well-known in the field of madicine.
According to Szostak, Harvard specialists have already managed to create a synthetic cell from basic DNA chemical compounds. Also, scientists from the Research Insitute J. Craig Venter have come up with a method to achieve a complete genome on a fully artificial way.
“ The creation of synthetic proto-cells has may demonstrate our place in the universe and reveal the mysteries of genesis, affirms Marc Bedau, director of the ProtoLife Institute in Venice, Italy. Read the rest of this entry »
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Written by admin on 03 December 2008
A photograph made by NASA during a Mars mission and published recently, brings to life new dispute among scientists. The shocking image, presents a formation that looks like a tree trunk, which again brings up question about the existence of past or present life on the Red Planet.
Scientists at NASA said that is only an interpretation,made by people who discover unknown objects and try to associate them with pictures stored in their memory. Read the rest of this entry »
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Written by admin on 06 October 2008
The much railed-against phenomenon of global warming affects an Australian lizard species past recall. According to the latest studies of Australian herpetologists, the female lizards from the island of Tasmania have difficulties in finding males. This is a consequence of the high temperatures brought by the last years, temperatures which strongly affect the eggs laid by these reptiles.
Erik Wastra, a herpetologist from the University of Tasmania, has observed an alarming phenomenon over the last few years, regarding the lizards which populate the Tasmanian island: a proportional increase of the number of females, while the number of males shrinks from one year to another.
As regards all reptiles, from crocodiles to lizards or turtles, the temperature of the environment before the hatching is the only agent determining the sex. In prevailingly warm periods, the hatching brood will be female. If, before the hatching, the weather is a little cooler, the brood will be male. The border temperature at which there is male brood is up to circa 17 degrees Celsius. Until Erik Wastra’s study, carried out between 2000-2008, this phenomenon was only observed experimentally, in the lab. The study underlines the negative impact of the global warming in the perimeter of Tasmanian lizards: if only female brood survives, whole reptile species are facing total extinction.
Source: National Geographic
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Written by admin on 04 October 2008
Researchers from the United States invest effort in the development of a new branch, controversial from its forthcoming a few years ago: synthetic biology. The competition between them and European scientists is fairly tight, especially since the actual presidential governance does not give these futuristic technologies much credit.
According to a study made in the United States, the residents themselves do not know much about this type of science meant to ease our life conditions. The new science is an interdisciplinary field resulting from the merging of biology and technology with the purpose of creating new life forms which Nature has never conceived. The biologist engineers create or reconstruct living organisms, such as bacteria, to have specific functions, all experiments being grounded on manipulation of the genetic code. The new life forms will come forth in laboratories, will resist against diseases, will be able to produce alternate combustible and even create live computers.
“We are facing issues such as climate change, health problems, the shrinking of water and energy resources. Synthetic biology can offer solutions to all these deficiencies: microorganisms able to convert vegetal matter into fuel, to integrate new drugs which could destroy the ill cells in a body.” Affirms a team of researchers hoping to obtain research funds.
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RayBiotech, Inc., today announced that they are extending the deadline for submitting applications for its Biomarker Discovery Pilot Grant program. RayBiotech will now accept applications for the pilot grants through February 22nd, 2010. “The last-minute surge in interest in the grant program has been overwhelming,” said Brett Burkholder, Director of Marketing & Business Development for RayBiotech, Inc.
