In Massachusetts, entrepreneurs are on a mission to make a difference – The Boston Globe
“I was knocking back a Harpoon IPA last week in an old textile warehouse in Boston, thinking about what Massachusetts will mean to the global economy in t...
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Probiotics In Future May Be Prescribed For Your Neurological Well-Being – Medical News Today
“The study was led by Professor Mark Lyte and has been published recently in BioEssays. The researchers have proposed that neuroactive compounds if delive...
Open access comes of age : Nature News
“A study of open-access publishing — published last week in the open-access journal PLoS ONE — has found that the number of papers in freely accessible jo...
Navy probe descends on bacteria power | SmartPlanet
“The U.S. Navy has enlisted some very tiny sailors to fuel their latest research vessel. Microorganisms are descending into the sea, enabling unmanned pod...
Three Biomedical Funders to Launch Open Access Journal – ScienceInsider
“Three heavyweight, nongovernmental funders of science announced today that they are launching a free online biology journal aimed at publishing the very ...
Biosphere 2 Gets New Owner, Funding – ScienceInsider
“The future of Biosphere 2 as a scientific facility is on a firmer footing, thanks to two major gifts announced this week. On Friday, the University of Ar...
Rediscovered glowing mushroom could shed light on bioluminescence (Wired UK)
“Researchers believe that fungi make light just as the firefly does, using a chemical mix of a compound called luciferin and an enzyme luciferase. However...
Eurekometrics: Analyzing the Nature of Discovery: PLoS Computational Biology
“Despite the great strides in automated discovery and digitization of data that is currently occurring, however, there are limits to eurekometrics. The mo...
PLoS Computational Biology: Ten Simple Rules for Building and Maintaining a Scientific Reputation
Common sense for scientists. Read this article…
“DIYbio: hackspaces, open source & f*ck yeah ethics” a proposed SXSW session
I’ve done it. I’ve submitted a proposal to SXSW. Alas, I was only able to submit one, despite all the ideas I had (anyone going to submit others, wa...