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Pharma on Facebook?

Within ten minutes after placing a phone call to say I was attending a Philadelphia conference for pharmaceutical marketing professionals who want to jump on the social media bandwagon, an electronic version of the childhood game "telephone" was in ...

From KERRY GRENS, The Scientist,  22 May 2009
Related Topics: Facebook Inc.,  Twitter Inc,  AstraZeneca PLC,  Jonathan Richman,  LinkedIn Corp

Tooth ferrying

"These are from Justin," says Ruth McCarrick-Walmsley, as she slides a dish of cells under a microscope. The view through the eyepiece includes an array of silvery cells, fanned out in curved lines, looking like a school of fish. These bone ...

From KERRY GRENS, The Scientist,  24 Mar 2009

How hearing machinery works

My husband and his family become deaf by the age of approximately 35 due to "nerve deafness." It seems that R & D in this field has not moved forward since his parents' generation. I have wondered if there is a connection with the fluid within the ...

From KERRY GRENS, The Scientist,  2 Jan 2009

Darwin hits dating

If only Charles Darwin could see what his work has come to. In April 2006, Michael Fox, a 26-year old advertising salesman from Sydney, Australia, decided to start a joke dating Web site. People say that it's what's inside that matters, but what they ...

From KERRY GRENS, The Scientist,  25 Apr 2008
Related Topics: Charles Darwin,  John Kerry,  Francis Galton,  James Bond

Common resistance

N. Houstis et al., "Reactive oxygen species have a causal role in multiple forms of insulin resistance," Nature, 440:944—8, 2006. (Cited in 109 papers) Evan Rosen, from Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston, and other colleagues tested ...

From KERRY GRENS, The Scientist,  16 Apr 2008

Supercharging proteins

David Liu's group supercharged green fluorescent protein (left) with a super positive (middle) and super negative (right) charge. David Liu / Reprinted with permission from American Chemical Society,J Am Chem Soc, 129:10110–2, 2007. One day in ...

From KERRY GRENS, The Scientist,  28 Mar 2008
Related Topics: Kevin Phillips,  Harvard University

Spine control

In 2006, Michael Greenberg's group at Harvard Medical School and Austrian colleagues hypothesized that microRNAs are involved in the regulation of protein synthesis in neuronal dendrites. To test this, they overexpressed a hippocampal microRNA, ...

From KERRY GRENS, The Scientist,  19 Mar 2008
Related Topics: Michael Greenberg,  Harvard Medical School

Lab transformation

Aedes aegypti mosquito larva with a PTEN homolog and DsRed marker inserted into its genome. Dave O'Brochta places his fingers on a net that covers the top of a bucket containing hundreds of Anopheles stephensi, a mosquito responsible for ...

From KERRY GRENS, The Scientist,  7 Mar 2008

Demystifying histone demethylases

The discovery that the jumanji protein domain can remove a methyl group (Me) from histones led to the identification of numerous demethylase enzymes. Methylation of histone residues can have various consequences for genetic regulation, such as flagging ...

From KERRY GRENS, The Scientist,  20 Feb 2008
Related Topics: Harvard Medical School,  David Bentley,  Fred Hutchinson

Needling into addiction

Was Kate Moss on to something? In 2006 the BBC reported that the supermodel and sometimes drug user was getting acupuncture to combat her cravings. "People say it seems to work," says Kenneth Kwong, at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH). Now, Kwong ...

From KERRY GRENS, The Scientist,  15 Feb 2008
Related Topics: Kate Moss,  Baylor College of Medicine

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