NewsBlog: [Entry posted at 20th March 2008 07:15 PM GMT] Researchers have identified a small group of neurons in Drosophila that are key to determining how female flies choose where to lay their eggs, a study in Science reports. The neurons are part of a neural circuit that could serve as a model to probe the molecular basis of decision-making, the study's authors say.
Chung-hui Yang, a postdoc in Yuh-Nung Jan's lab at the University of California, San Francisco, was... Click to continue
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NewsBlog: [Entry posted at 20th March 2008 04:53 PM GMT] The Indian government is moving towards approving a law that will create a framework for universities to patent their discoveries.
Currently, ownership of innovations made through government-funded institutions belong to the Indian government, much like the situation in the US before the Baye-Dole Act was passed in 1980. That law stated that technologies developed with federal funding at a university belong to the institution. Its passing spurred universities to establish ... Click to continue
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NewsBlog: [Entry posted at 12th March 2008 11:49 PM GMT] A nuclear watchdog group filed a federal lawsuit on Monday (March 10) to suspend work at a Biosafety Level 3 lab at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, which opened to little fanfare earlier this year and conducts research on pathogens such as Ebola, anthrax and Q fever.
The suit, filed by Tri-Valley CAREs, a Livermore-based community group that monitors nuclear weapons and environmental cleanup activities locally and... Click to continue
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NewsBlog: [Entry posted at 6th March 2008 06:22 PM GMT] NIH has established a new panel to review safety considerations in the biocontainment lab currently under construction in a densely populated Boston neighborhood, the agency announced today in a press release.
Boston University has had plans to build the Biosafety Level 4 facility since 2003, when it received a $120 million grant from the National Institutes of Allergy and Infectious... Click to continue
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NewsBlog: [Entry posted at 4th March 2008 10:50 PM GMT] Researchers have proposed a new scheme for ranking the quality or impact of scientific journals that they say is more accurate than the Impact Factor, according to a paper published last week in PLoS ONE.
Rather than relying on an average of citations to rate a journal, the system uses a mathematical model to characterize the typical number of citations that papers in specific journals are likely to... Click to continue
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