Biological Sciences
Effective emergency management requires preparedness, mitigation, response and recovery to protect personnel, samples, records and operations.
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Artificial bone marrow that can continuously make red and white blood cells has been created in a University of Michigan lab.
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Researchers can monitor drug distribution and perform medical diagnostics rapidly using a new 3D imaging technique.
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Environmental research at colleges and universities isnt just scientific anymore. Increasingly, scientists are taking an approach to their work that includes more than laboratory analysis.
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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency should examine whether combined exposures to chemicals known as phthalates could cause adverse health effects in humans, says a new report from the National Research Council. In addition, this analysis, called a cumulative risk assessment, should consider other chemicals that could potentially cause the same health effects as phthalates, instead of focusing on chemicals that are similar in structure, which is EPA's current practice. Furthermore, EPA should consider using the recommended approach for future cumulative risk assessments on other kinds of chemicals.
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USC and Cambridge biologists measure expression of chosen gene at every point and time of a flys life. The method has potential applications for a wide range of experiments across many species.
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The Hastings Center has received a $500,000 grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation for a two-year project to examine the ethical questions surrounding synthetic biology.
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A potent combination of powerful new analysis methods and abundant data from genomics projects is carrying microbiology forward into a new era.
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Researchers from Albert Einstein College of Medicine describe a technique for looking more precisely at a fundamental step of a cell's life a gene, DNA, being read into a message, mRNA.
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EPA has finalized the Academic Laboratory rule to provide increased regulatory flexibility, while enhancing safe management of hazardous waste.
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David P. Friedman, Ph.D., professor of physiology and pharmacology at Wake Forest University School of Medicine, says that until the 1980s, the scientific community did a very poor job of communicating with anyone beyond their own campuses. That, he
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One hundred safety leaders from around North America gathered in San Francisco, CA last month to attend the third annual DBO2 User Summit, and to define how industry will look at and measure safety in the future.
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