Bourdain: Discovery killed ‘Brew Masters’ because big beer threatened to pull ads
Did Big Beer kill the TV show about Dogfish Head brewery? This short article will send you off in different directions trying to gauge the likelihood of this id...
Category: Links of note
Three start-ups took off despite recession – The Boston Globe
“The day Dann Paquette brewed his first barrel of beer in fall 2008, the US Senate passed the $700 billion bank bailout bill. If timing is everything, he ...
James King: Dressing the meat of tomorrow – Scientific American
"Growing meat without the animal sounds like a simple idea. Certainly much simpler than manipulating the genetic code. In reality there are hidden practica...
Biology’s ‘dark matter’ hints at fourth domain of life – New Scientist
Microbial geneticists found some really divergent sequences in ocean microbes collected on the Sorcerer II study by Venter and gang. One possible thought is tha...
Microbes Give Mice Intestinal Fortitude – ScienceNOW
"The findings add to the growing understanding of the complex relationship between our health and the bacteria living in and on our bodies. They also add t...
Plastic – Too Good to Throw Away – NYTimes.com
"“Eliminating plastic is one of the greenest actions you can do to lower your eco-footprint,” one noted while participating in a recent online challenge to...
Structural biology: Breaking the protein rules : Nature News
This review brings together the research that counters the fallacy that proteins need to have a defined structure (as seen in crystal structures) to have a func...
Friendly bacteria fight the flu : Nature News
“Neomycin-sensitive bacteria naturally present in the mice’s bodies provided a trigger that led to the production of T cells and antibodies that cou...
Do gut bacteria worsen malnourishment? : Nature News
“Ultimately, Smith would like to identify a bacterium or set of bacteria that protects children from kwashiorkor, and add it to the emergency rations hand...
Could Amateur Taxonomists Catalog Earth’s Fauna? – ScienceInsider
"Taxonomy has a reputation as one of science's least glamorous fields, and experts have been sounding an alarm over declining funding and a global dea...