Boston blog : 2006 archive

• 2006

  • December

    • Cell mechanic

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      26 December 2006

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    • Out with the old NNB and in with version 2.0--year-end wrap-up

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      22 December 2006

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    • Special Year-End Research Roundup

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      22 December 2006

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    • Introducing our two newest bloggers: Neil Andrews and Anna Kushnir

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      22 December 2006

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    • A tale from Boston’s history: the first human organ transplantation

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      22 December 2006

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    • Millions in state funding for stem cells next year?

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      20 December 2006

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    • Banished from Boston restaurants: trans fat? In other news, Boston could make builders go green. And Havard buys more in Allston while its reputation falls.

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      20 December 2006

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    • I'm Time's person of the year!

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      19 December 2006

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    • Coming up short on promises: greenhouse gases rising. In other news: more of Novartis comes to town

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      19 December 2006

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    • Datapoints: Local universities in technology transfer

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      19 December 2006

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    • Research Roundup: This week’s papers from Boston labs

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      15 December 2006

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    • Introducing our new jobs listing on NNB!

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      13 December 2006

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    • Stem cell research – a Pandora’s box of issues

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      12 December 2006

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    • News roundup: invasion of the worms in New England and the spread of new university buildings in Boston

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      11 December 2006

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    • Quantum engineer

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      11 December 2006

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    • Research Roundup: This week’s papers from Boston labs

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      08 December 2006

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    • Could Harvard's next president be a scientist?

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      08 December 2006

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    • Science theater that probes the mind

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      07 December 2006

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    • Will blogs become a legitimate forum for scientific discussion? In other news: who will become Harvard’s next president?

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      06 December 2006

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    • Image consultant for scientists

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      05 December 2006

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    • NIH gets modern

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      01 December 2006

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    • Global warming in the courts-MA leads the charge in suing the EPA

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      01 December 2006

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    • Research Roundup: This week’s papers from Boston labs

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      01 December 2006

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    November

    • Laptops to the rescue?

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      30 November 2006

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    • Nano roundup: Materials Research Society meeting and nano products for the holidays!

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      28 November 2006

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    • Ali G in da chemistry lab

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      28 November 2006

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    • Museum makeover

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      28 November 2006

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    • US losing leadership in scientific publications?

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      27 November 2006

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    • Scientists' Youtube

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      27 November 2006

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    • To ether or either

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      22 November 2006

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    • Research Roundup: This week’s papers from Boston labs

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      22 November 2006

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    • Datapoints: Top states and top Boston institutions awarding science PhDs

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      22 November 2006

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    • Responses to Zerhouni on NIH funding

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      21 November 2006

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    • In today's news-big money for local sequencing center, creating an ocean sanctuary and the US as PhD-generating machine

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      20 November 2006

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    • Is a career in drug development for you?

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      20 November 2006

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    • Research Roundup: This week’s papers from Boston labs

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      17 November 2006

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    • Tonegawa steps down

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      17 November 2006

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    • A new tone in Washington and a new head of the House science committee

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      15 November 2006

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    • Are all scientists good cooks?

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      15 November 2006

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    • When the brain goes under

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      15 November 2006

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    • How much are you worth?

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      14 November 2006

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    • Large private donations for cancer research at MIT and Dana-Farber

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      14 November 2006

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    • Cambridge's biggest tenant could get bigger

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      13 November 2006

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    • Finding funding in new places

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      13 November 2006

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    • For sci-fi lovers: science on the screen back again at the Coolidge Corner theater

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      10 November 2006

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    • Research Roundup: This week’s papers from Boston labs

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      10 November 2006

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    • Foundations on campus

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      09 November 2006

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    • The warrior vs the wimp: the never-ending battle between science and religion

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      07 November 2006

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    • Harvard creating a “ghost town” in Allston?

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      06 November 2006

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    • Physicist turned technologist

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      06 November 2006

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    • Synthetic biology Olympics at MIT-and the winner is…

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      05 November 2006

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    • Synthetic biology olympics on this weekend at MIT

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      05 November 2006

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    • Research Roundup: This week’s papers from Boston labs

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      03 November 2006

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    • Gubernatorial candidates for MA-redux

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      03 November 2006

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    • A field of its own

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      03 November 2006

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    • Scathing report about MIT neuroscience released today

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      02 November 2006

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    • Accepting foundation money...how far would you go?

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      02 November 2006

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    • Scientist takes the stand

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      02 November 2006

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    • The search for the elixir of life...at Harvard and now in Nature

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      01 November 2006

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    October

    • Lasers and liquids on a chip

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      31 October 2006

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    • Turning buildings into chemistry lessons

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      30 October 2006

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    • Sunless tanning?

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      30 October 2006

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    • Taking gaming to the streets

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      27 October 2006

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    • Research Roundup: This week’s papers from Boston labs

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      27 October 2006

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    • Pipetting with one hand, pitching with the other

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      27 October 2006

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    • Roundup of news from today’s Nature: plummeting funding, open access and bees

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      26 October 2006

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    • Redesigning the periodic table

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      24 October 2006

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    • Redefining medical libraries

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      24 October 2006

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    • Construction can continue on BU biosafety lab

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      21 October 2006

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    • Research Roundup: This week’s papers from Boston labs

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      20 October 2006

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    • A scientist attacks religion

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      20 October 2006

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    • From today’s headlines

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      20 October 2006

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    • BU study of cancer in IBM employees finally published

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      19 October 2006

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    • Cambridge Science Festival-bringing science to the streets

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      19 October 2006

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    • Fish: good guy or bad guy?

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      19 October 2006

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    • Turning scientists into activists

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      19 October 2006

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    • Version 1.1 now live on NNB

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      18 October 2006

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    • How Woody keeps his head in check-an Ig Nobel analysis

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      12 October 2006

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    • Datapoints: Top 10 cities in university research spending

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      10 October 2006

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    • Science in an unusual setting

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      10 October 2006

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    • Research Roundup: This week’s papers from Boston labs

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      06 October 2006

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    • Ig Nobels-celebrating the hilarious

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      06 October 2006

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    • New England warming

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      05 October 2006

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    • Big money for genomics

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      05 October 2006

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    • Chemistry Nobel winner….but is it really chemistry?

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      04 October 2006

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    • Meeting Report: Biology under the microscope

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      03 October 2006

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    • Dawkins coming to town

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      02 October 2006

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    • And the winner is...

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      02 October 2006

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    September

    • Genetic database to fight disease

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      29 September 2006

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    • Nobel season

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      28 September 2006

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    • Scientists at the movies

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      28 September 2006

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    • environmental science wiki

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      27 September 2006

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    • Datapoints: Top 10 U.S. states in R&D spending

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      25 September 2006

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    • Shedding light on babies’ brains

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      19 September 2006

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    • Massachusetts candidates for governor: where they stand on science

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      15 September 2006

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    • Research Roundup: This week’s papers from Boston-area labs

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      15 September 2006

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    • Scientists can help bridge the gap with the developing world

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      15 September 2006

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    • Fighting back in the Massachusetts stem cell debate

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      14 September 2006

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    • MIT to construct new buildings

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      14 September 2006

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    • Planes play big role in spreading flu

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      12 September 2006

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    • Making molecular science fun for kids

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      11 September 2006

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    • Datapoints: Top 10 Massachusetts institutions in industry-funded R&D spending

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      11 September 2006

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    • Research Roundup: This week’s papers from Boston labs

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      08 September 2006

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    • Federal court considers halting BU biolab funding

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      07 September 2006

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    • Science cartoon contest-vote for your favorite!

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      07 September 2006

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    • Doctor as nano engineer

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      06 September 2006

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    • Datapoints: Top 10 Massachusetts institutions in R&D spending

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      05 September 2006

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    • Get out of lab – a science-ified newcomer’s guide to Boston

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      05 September 2006

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    • Research Roundup: This week’s papers from Boston labs

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      01 September 2006

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    August

    • You too can be Al Gore!

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      31 August 2006

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    • Stem cell battles continue

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      30 August 2006

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    • Call for ideas—newcomers guide to the Boston science scene

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      29 August 2006

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    • Removing ego from science

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      28 August 2006

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    • A bright idea for displays

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      28 August 2006

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    • Pity for Pluto or hurray for astronomy?

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      28 August 2006

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    • MIT FabLab abroad: turning African children into engineers

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      25 August 2006

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    • Betting on horses and university presidents

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      25 August 2006

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    • Slummerville to biotech hub?

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      24 August 2006

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    • The Gates effect

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      24 August 2006

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    • Datapoints: Largest Gates Foundation grants given to Massachusetts institutions for global health projects

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      24 August 2006

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    • Animal activists score a “victory”

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      22 August 2006

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    • How to deal with being scooped

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      21 August 2006

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    • Would you advise young science students to get a PhD and go into academia?

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      18 August 2006

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    • Cooperation—not competition—drives modern biomedical science

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      18 August 2006

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    • Boston: a hotspot for chemical biology

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      17 August 2006

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    • Datapoints: Top NIH-funded institutions in Massachusetts

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      17 August 2006

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    • Back from vacation with some thoughts for the future

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      17 August 2006

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    • Making Massachusetts more biotech friendly

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      14 August 2006

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    • PhDs and patent law

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      08 August 2006

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    • Nature’s chemists

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      04 August 2006

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    • Environmental assessment of BU biolab deemed “arbitrary and capricious” by judge

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      04 August 2006

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    • Female life scientists patent at less than half the rate of male counterparts

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      03 August 2006

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    • Not your grandmothers’s goats

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      03 August 2006

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    July

    • A mix of physics, religion and, now, $2.2 million in grant money

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      31 July 2006

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    • Faltering NIH funding alters Longwood quest for lab space

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      31 July 2006

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    • Blanketing Boston with WiFi

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      31 July 2006

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    • Competition vs. collaboration

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      28 July 2006

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    • Beyond research on the mouth

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      27 July 2006

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    • Conflicts of interest-in the news again

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      27 July 2006

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    • A questionable source of hands

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      26 July 2006

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    • States jump into the stem cell fray--will Massachusetts?

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      25 July 2006

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    • A career based on carbon

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      21 July 2006

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    • Schoolteachers at the bench

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      20 July 2006

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    • $18 million of Gates Foundation money to Beth Israel Deaconess

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      20 July 2006

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    • Getting professors to “play” nicely together

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      19 July 2006

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    • Harvard faculty proposes sweeping changes to science

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      17 July 2006

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    • A problem with hyper-competitiveness in biology?

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      15 July 2006

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    • Local blood substitute biotech company faces challenges

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      14 July 2006

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    • Swimming against the current

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      13 July 2006

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    • A potential $390 million in donations for Harvard, gone along with Summers

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      13 July 2006

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    • Bionic brains become a reality

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      13 July 2006

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    • From plasma physics to public policy

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      12 July 2006

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    • Community curation and websites

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      11 July 2006

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    • In the eye of the storm

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      11 July 2006

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    • Another drug company neighbor in Cambridge

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      10 July 2006

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    • Nature stem cells podcast, almost all made in Boston

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      10 July 2006

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    • MIT makes a move into Singapore

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      07 July 2006

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    • Achieving equity for women in science

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      07 July 2006

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    • Painting the campus green

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      06 July 2006

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    • NIH funding in the doldrums--what to do?

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      05 July 2006

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    June

    • Summers is leaving, and so are potential donors

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      28 June 2006

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    • Museum exhibit to open this fall at the Broad

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      27 June 2006

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    • UMass: university and contract manufacturer

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      26 June 2006

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    • New MRI facilities appear across Cambridge

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      26 June 2006

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    • Brain 'traffic jams' drive Parkinson's symptoms

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      22 June 2006

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    • Where has all the funding gone? Scientific brain drain part 2

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      22 June 2006

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    • Pushing beyond patents

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      21 June 2006

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    • A scientific brain drain in Boston?

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      21 June 2006

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    • From electrons to slabs

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      20 June 2006

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    • Raising patient hopes and hurting them instead: what do to with Dr. Huang?

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      19 June 2006

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    • Boston proposes stricter oversight of bio labs

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      14 June 2006

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    • What's coming up next on NNB

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      14 June 2006

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    • Trying to make Harvard more women-friendly

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      13 June 2006

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    • The student and the squid

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      13 June 2006

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    • An experiment in systems biology

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      12 June 2006

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    • A one-million-subject study in the US?

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      12 June 2006

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    • Boston to require labs to register with fire department

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      10 June 2006

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    • New jobs at pharmaceutical research center

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      10 June 2006

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    • The rise of wiki protocols

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      08 June 2006

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    • Eating your cake, and living longer too

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      07 June 2006

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    • Would I donate my eggs to science?

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      07 June 2006

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    • Bound for Boston

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      07 June 2006

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    • Partying with 100 of our closest friends

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      07 June 2006

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    • Cloning of human embryos begins at Harvard

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      06 June 2006

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    • BU biosafety lab faces renewed opposition

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      06 June 2006

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    • Paying attention to postdocs

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      06 June 2006

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    • A move towards open access

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      06 June 2006

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    • Today's the big day....Welcome!

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      06 June 2006

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    • The marriage of science and theater

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      05 June 2006

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    • Boston must take the lead in energy R&D

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      05 June 2006

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    • Earth science on the big screen

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      02 June 2006

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    • A brain gained

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      02 June 2006

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