The News Review:
- Mumps outbreak prompts calls for 2nd dose of vaccine.
- Behind the Headlines: Laser therapy targets acne and fat.(Free…
- Q&A: Eddie Vedder: Addicted to Rock
- Spider woman: Maydianne Andrade discovered the strange cannibalism of…
- Next generation bioscience centres
Mumps outbreak prompts calls for 2nd dose of vaccine.
Free with registration - Baltimore Sun - AccessMyLibrary.com - Apr 21, 2006
“The college kids in Iowa were in pre-school in the time when the second dose wasn’t required there,” said Dr. McMillan, professor of pediatrics at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. “So there’s a relatively large number. who didn’t get their second dose, 20 percent of whom would be susceptible to mumps.
Behind the Headlines: Laser therapy targets acne and fat.(Free…
Free with registration - GP - AccessMyLibrary.com - Apr 21, 2006
By setting the laser to selected wavelengths, the scientists could ‘melt’ the fat, so it could be broken down and excreted by the body, newspapers claimed. The reports stated that FEL treatment could potentially be used to treat obesity, cellulite, acne and heart disease. What is the research? The results of the research, led by Dr Rox Anderson, a dermatologist at Massachusetts General Hospital, were presented at the 26th annual meeting of the American Society for Laser Medicine and Surgery, recently held in Boston. Dr Anderson reported that a laser set.
Q&A: Eddie Vedder: Addicted to Rock
Rolling Stone - Apr 21, 2006
a peyote kind of deal. It’s the whole Mary Poppins theory oftripping out — a spoonful of sugar makes the medicine go down. It’s so typical that an American woman in love with an Indian hasto add sugar to something to keep herself totally culturallyintact. So did you have a piano growing up in your house in SanDiego?Well, my brother got the guitar and we got a stand-up piano, andthen I got a Les Paul copy guitar. He excelled immediately. He wasplaying blindfolded, and I still couldn’t get my fingers to pushdown a chord… these waves come from 2,000 milesaway sometimes. These swells, they crack in a kind of firework, andyou ride the firework and give it meaning, and you’re connected tonature. It’s like no other thing I’ve felt except for maybe music. And holding your newborn. How much fun did you have getting onstage with the Kingsof Leon?It’s a great record, and the song “Slow Night, So Long” — I haddisappeared onto some little island to write and surf and the onlyrecord I had besides the Pearl Jam stuff I was working on was that[Aha Shake Heartbreak]. I played it for some of thelocals, who didn’t know anything outside of their local traditionalmusic, and they had such strong positive reactions to the record.
Spider woman: Maydianne Andrade discovered the strange cannibalism of…
Free with registration - Current Science, a Weekly Reader… - AccessMyLibrary.com - Apr 21, 2006
They even lived near a college, Simon Fraser University. When Andrade graduated from high school and enrolled at Simon Fraser, her parents wanted her to be a physician. But biology interested her more than medicine. She was particularly inspired by one professor who spiced.
Next generation bioscience centres
Laboratory Talk - Apr 21, 2006
The new centres focus specifically on: dynamic biological systems, such as biological clocks, the nature and behaviour of plant roots and signalling pathways in. They will also have an ‘outreach’ function, stimulating systems biology research across the whole of biological science research. They will combine experimentation with computer simulations in order to process experimental results, design new experiments and to generate generic and predictive ’solutions’ that are widely applicable. The centres will also produce a new generation of young scientists able to work at the interface between experimentation, modelling and theory outside the constraints of current disciplinary boundaries… University of Edinburgh. The University of Edinburgh is committed to a multidisciplinary approach that integrates the life sciences with the physical sciences. The Centre for Systems Biology at Edinburgh aims to model dynamic biological systems - focusing on RNA metabolism, the interferon pathway and circadian rhythms - and will bring together researchers from informatics, molecular plant sciences, medicine and cell and. Professor Andrew Millar, one of the Edinburgh research leaders commented: “The Centre for Systems Biology at Edinburgh faces the challenge of modelling complex and dynamic biological systems without restricting our focus to a single organism”. “Our approach will demonstrate the strength of systems biology by producing data and models of circadian rhythms, RNA metabolism and the interferon pathway that will be broadly applicable across species”. “We will be looking for general principles of biological organisation to help us understand and manipulate a wide range of biological processes”.
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