Boston blog : 2007 archive

• 2007

  • December

    • Nature Network: 2007 in review; 2008 preview

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      20 December 2007

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    • The ethics of brain-boosting drugs

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      20 December 2007

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    • Nature's picks of the images of the year

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      19 December 2007

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    • From stem cells to spacesuits, a look back at this year’s research from Boston labs

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      19 December 2007

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    • News roundup: top court ruling on BU biolab; Allston residents ask Harvard for neighborhood spruce up

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      18 December 2007

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    • Why you should network…it’s good for your career

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      17 December 2007

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    • Experimental theater enters the lab

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      14 December 2007

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    • Invitation: last pub night of the year, this Thursday

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      10 December 2007

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    • Running interference

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      10 December 2007

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    • Bringing science out of the dark ages

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      06 December 2007

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    • Boston College wants to be bigger and better

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      05 December 2007

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    • Battle of the immune cells, captured on video

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      05 December 2007

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    November

    • News roundup: diabetes drug promise, stem cell startup, update on the Patrick life sciences plan

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      30 November 2007

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    • Your assignment for tomorrow: play this video game

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      30 November 2007

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    • NIH review of BU biolab deemed “not sound”

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      29 November 2007

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    • My meme of 4

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      27 November 2007

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    • Will you fund my honeymoon?

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      27 November 2007

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    • What's your wishlist for Nature Network?

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      27 November 2007

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    • Science blogging conference and anthology

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      19 November 2007

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    • In pursuit of a dream drug screen

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      19 November 2007

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    • The two-way career path between academia and biotech

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      19 November 2007

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    • Can the brain be engineered and controlled like a machine?

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      15 November 2007

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    • How would you change the way scientists are trained? An informal survey.

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      13 November 2007

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    • Harold Varmus on how to change the culture of publishing in biomedicine

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      12 November 2007

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    • Writing about science rather than doing it

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      09 November 2007

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    • News roundup: renewable energy; biotech hiring; virtual clinical trials and scientist of the year

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      08 November 2007

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    • Calling all postdocs/aspiring writers

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      08 November 2007

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    • Why I love Cambridge: random factoids

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      08 November 2007

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    • Catching cancer earlier with microRNA

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      07 November 2007

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    • It’s leaky and moldy. No, not a Boston basement apartment, but a $300 million MIT building. Oops.

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      07 November 2007

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    • Next NNB pub night: this Friday, Harvard Medical School

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      06 November 2007

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    • In celebration of the father of taxonomy; in other news, lung cancer genomics and synthetic biology Olympics

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      05 November 2007

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    • News roundup: the brain in Technicolor; the best place to work in academia is in Boston; and a Whitehead scientist goes to Iran

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      03 November 2007

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    • Restaurants near Massachusetts General Hospital

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      02 November 2007

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    • Why women leave academic science

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      01 November 2007

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    October

    • Cacophonies from space

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      31 October 2007

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    • MA Gov. Deval Patrick on clean energy

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      30 October 2007

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    • News roundup: Lots of funding news; radiation exposure; data sharing among autism researchers

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      26 October 2007

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    • Massachusetts to grant $20 million for life sciences research

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      26 October 2007

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    • Watson steps down

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      25 October 2007

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    • Mapping Boston’s competitiveness

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      23 October 2007

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    • A chip full of worms

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      23 October 2007

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    • Turkey alert

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      23 October 2007

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    • News roundup: Reviewing the review of the BU biolab; HapMap II

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      19 October 2007

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    • The next step in medical imaging: putting the scanner in you

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      19 October 2007

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    • BU announces plans to launch itself into the US college elite

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      18 October 2007

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    • Get your questions about careers in scientific publishing answered here

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      17 October 2007

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    • When acronyms get out of control

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      17 October 2007

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    • Coyotes in the ‘hood

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      17 October 2007

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    • A "bold proposal": you're limited to publishing only 20 papers

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      16 October 2007

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    • A network of Boston researchers studying networks

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      12 October 2007

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    • Congrats to the thousands of IPCC climate scientists

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      12 October 2007

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    • Spruced up homepages on Nature Network

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      11 October 2007

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    • From this week's Nature: how to get an academic job in biology; language evolution

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      10 October 2007

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    • Nobel blogosphere buzz and who predicted rightly (and wrongly)

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      10 October 2007

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    • Restaurants near the Hynes Convention Center

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      09 October 2007

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    • $100 million for MIT cancer research

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      09 October 2007

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    • News roundup: Biolab mishaps; a different way to teach engineers; chili anesthesia

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      05 October 2007

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    • A conversation with Ian Wilmut

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      05 October 2007

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    • And the Ig winners are....

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      05 October 2007

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    • Making fun of science

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      04 October 2007

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    • Watson on Harvard’s low salaries, “girls”, and how to succeed in science

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      04 October 2007

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    • MA stem cell legislation: the double-edged sword

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      03 October 2007

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    • Allston construction could begin this year

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      03 October 2007

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    • The career path to venture capital

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      01 October 2007

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    September

    • News roundup: Novartis funds MIT center; John Harvard becomes videogame star; microRNA and cancer; local celebrities and their genes; Watson in town next week

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      28 September 2007

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    • City life on the screen

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      27 September 2007

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    • Nature Network-hosted Q&A session with Nature editors

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      24 September 2007

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    • News roundup: Watson attacks Harvard; RNA in the Globe; Personal Genome Project; $100 laptops slow to sell

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      24 September 2007

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    • A race to document biodiversity in China before it disappears

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      24 September 2007

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    • Reminder: NNB-hosted pub night tomorrow

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      24 September 2007

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    • News roundup: airport bomb scare; MIT zero-energy house; Merck funds Harvard research; artificial liver

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      21 September 2007

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    • Highlights from the Network

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      20 September 2007

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    • A social machine for autistics

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      20 September 2007

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    • The next NNB pub night will be...

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      19 September 2007

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    • Boston young investigators take home big NIH prizes

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      19 September 2007

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    • Harvard in Allston to limit CO2 emissions

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      18 September 2007

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    • The grad student is in: Cambridge residents lob their best science questions at local grad students.

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      17 September 2007

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    • Various critiques of the NIH

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      12 September 2007

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    • Who’s your favorite scientist in history? An informal survey of Boston scientists.

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      12 September 2007

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    • Alex the counting, talking parrot dies

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      11 September 2007

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    • Restaurants near Kenmore Square

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      10 September 2007

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    • Research roundup: common antibiotic mechanism; plastic for heart repair; and the effects of the Nobel network

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      07 September 2007

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    • Bye bye small grants, hello big ones; In other news: Judge calls BU biolab a “NIMBY” case

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      06 September 2007

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    • Fast, cheap DNA-sequencing technologies make their mark in local labs.

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      06 September 2007

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    • Wooing the wealthy: fundraising a job for everyone

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      05 September 2007

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    • Could you work in the same lab as your spouse?

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      04 September 2007

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    August

    • News roundup: state funding for research; orchids; and red tide

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      31 August 2007

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    • State research funding to roll out soon

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      31 August 2007

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    • Another successful NNB pub night last night

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      29 August 2007

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    • A conversation with Harvard Medical School’s incoming dean, Jeffrey Flier

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      27 August 2007

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    • Reminder: pub night in Cambridge tomorrow

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      27 August 2007

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    • Tenure not keeping up with number of biologists

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      24 August 2007

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    • A bridge between bio and geo

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      24 August 2007

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    • ACS in Boston-as documented in the blogosphere

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      23 August 2007

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    • NIH says BU biolab not a danger to the South End

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      23 August 2007

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    • Craig Mello's letters to Bush and Patrick

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      22 August 2007

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    • The next NNB pub night: next Tuesday

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      21 August 2007

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    • The eye as a window into the brain

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      21 August 2007

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    • Science museums off the beaten path

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      16 August 2007

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    • Local science/tech news roundup: faculty diversity (lack thereof), synthetic bio, and university tech transfer

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      15 August 2007

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    • Harvard doctor leaves for New Orleans

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      15 August 2007

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    • Win your very own cell biology playing cards

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      15 August 2007

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    • Boston is blogerific!

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      14 August 2007

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    • Bringing back the bees

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      14 August 2007

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    • Nature Network update: front and center on nature.com

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      13 August 2007

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    • Local biotech giant reaches out to academia

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      10 August 2007

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    • Scifoo ponderings: how to break the mold in science

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      09 August 2007

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    • Leading the charge in promoting women in science

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      07 August 2007

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    • Scifoo: day 1; open science

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      05 August 2007

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    • Freestyle conferencing: sci foo camp

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      04 August 2007

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    • Restaurants in Harvard Square

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      02 August 2007

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    July

    • Science meets MTV

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      31 July 2007

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    • Friday fun: science and the Simpsons; the physics of baseball

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      27 July 2007

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    • Combining cell biology with cinema

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      26 July 2007

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    • New improvements on Nature Network! Forum email alerts, events calendar

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      26 July 2007

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    • Another successful NNB pub night

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      26 July 2007

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    • Research philanthropy in Boston

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      24 July 2007

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    • How to build a zero-energy house in four months – a photo tour

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      23 July 2007

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    • Reminder: NNB pub night this Wednesday

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      23 July 2007

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    • After the storm, a change in research direction

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      21 July 2007

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    • Patrick $1 billion plan for life sciences revealed

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      20 July 2007

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    • Two new interdisciplinary programs at Harvard and MIT

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      19 July 2007

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    • Minority faculty study outlined at MIT; early recommendations issued

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      18 July 2007

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    • MIT pulls in 3 National Medals of Science

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      17 July 2007

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    • Advice on the academic job search

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      17 July 2007

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    • PhDs and undergraduate teaching colleges

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      16 July 2007

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    • The next NNB pub night: next Wed, near Longwood

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      16 July 2007

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    • Research roundup: papers from Boston labs this week

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      13 July 2007

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    • Vote for your favorite light micrographs

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      12 July 2007

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    • HMS appoints new dean--will only local people run Harvard now? And a statewide ban on trans fat could be on its way.

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      12 July 2007

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    • A picture of Boston in 2100: more smog, less cod

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      12 July 2007

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    • Guide to graduate students: how to pick a lab

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      10 July 2007

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    • RNAi news roundup: big money and the blood-brain barrier

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      10 July 2007

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    • Nature Network highlights-groups and blogs to check out

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      09 July 2007

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    • Now *this* is the kind of reality TV we need more of: nerd girls

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      09 July 2007

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    • Bugs bear RNA drugs

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      06 July 2007

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    • Are PhDs needed by all university teachers?

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      06 July 2007

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    • Where is NPG headed with Web 2.0?

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      05 July 2007

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    • Nature Network covered in the Guardian

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      03 July 2007

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    • Harvard president: first day at work

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      03 July 2007

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    • Sherley locked out

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      03 July 2007

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    • Can technology make science look better than it is?

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      02 July 2007

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    • Beth Israel Deaconess: unusual in technology use

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      02 July 2007

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    • Restaurants near Boston University Medical Campus

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      02 July 2007

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    June

    • New websites galore: NERD, screencasts and local spotlight on technology

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      29 June 2007

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    • Biologists and physicists make new neighbors

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      29 June 2007

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    • Our first drinks night - a success!

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      28 June 2007

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    • More on James Sherley

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      27 June 2007

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    • Expanding the surgeon’s toolbox

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      27 June 2007

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    • News roundup: stem cell news from down under, nanotech regulation, and where new MA funding will go

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      25 June 2007

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    • Reminder: NNB's pub night this Wed in Central Square

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      25 June 2007

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    • Feature update on Nature Network

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      21 June 2007

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    • New NNB Flickr groups-post your photos!

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      21 June 2007

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    • Studying forests through a social lens

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      21 June 2007

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    • Entrepreneurship event this Friday at Harvard

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      19 June 2007

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    • Lights, camera, protocols!

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      19 June 2007

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    • Kendall Square T bells need help to toll

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      18 June 2007

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    • Announcing Nature Precedings and Scintilla

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      15 June 2007

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    • Cancer cells in the bull’s eye

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      14 June 2007

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    • Nature on faculty diversity and discrimination

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      14 June 2007

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    • FBI tells scientists: watch out for spies!

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      13 June 2007

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    • Mark your calendars: announcing the first NNB pub night!

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      13 June 2007

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    • Digging up dirt to study storms of the past

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      13 June 2007

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    • Social networking for scientists-in the news

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      12 June 2007

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    • Bioinformatics-biology culture clash?

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      12 June 2007

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    • Stem cell news galore

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      11 June 2007

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    • Scientists write stories too!

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      11 June 2007

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    • Restaurants in Kendall and Central Squares

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      07 June 2007

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    • Loading gels is hard!

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      05 June 2007

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    • An informal survey of Boston researchers

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      05 June 2007

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    • How experimental biology can be treacherous

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      04 June 2007

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    • What does it take to be a successful scientist?

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      02 June 2007

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    • Live cell microscopy: takes time!

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      01 June 2007

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    May

    • A member of Al Gore’s cavalry

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      31 May 2007

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    • The Woods Hole scene

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      31 May 2007

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    • Reporting from the science summer camp for journalists

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      29 May 2007

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    • Will high housing costs be Boston's downfall?

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      29 May 2007

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    • Free wireless Internet cafés

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      29 May 2007

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    • Friday roundup: Humanizing mouse cancer, malaria’s protein weapons, and celebrity sequencing

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      26 May 2007

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    • Cambridge vs. Cambridge: a personal comparison

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      25 May 2007

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    • Who will be the next dean of HMS?

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      24 May 2007

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    • New feature update on Nature Network

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      23 May 2007

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    • Greening the Sahara

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      22 May 2007

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    • One way to save the planet: use more paper, not less!

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      22 May 2007

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    • And the winner is.....

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      21 May 2007

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    • Friday Roundup: Improbable research online, powerful philanthropists, kids’ brains, and shrinking NMR

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      18 May 2007

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    • Can blogging help get you a job?

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      18 May 2007

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    • Biofuels and robotic surgery win the MIT business plan competition

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      17 May 2007

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    • Cure a disease, win a prize

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      16 May 2007

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    • NERD club launches

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      16 May 2007

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    • Probing space for planets like ours

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      14 May 2007

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    • What makes prions so dangerous and what makes gravity dip

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      11 May 2007

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    • Why some scientists blog, why some don't

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      10 May 2007

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    • Animal genomes to sequence: opossum. Check.

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      10 May 2007

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    • The Media Lab's take on the human body, version 2.0

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      10 May 2007

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    • Local scientists map the brain, one connection at a time

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      10 May 2007

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    • A mechanical view of biology gains ground

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      10 May 2007

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    • Cataloguing all life on Earth

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      09 May 2007

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    • Reactions to Patrick's $1B life sciences plan

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      09 May 2007

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    • More details on Patrick's $1 billion plan

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      08 May 2007

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    • It's not just about ethanol

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      08 May 2007

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    • MA governor to announce $1B plan for life sciences

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      08 May 2007

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    • Michael J. Fox on drug development

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      07 May 2007

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    • Drugs targeting cancer stem cells

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      07 May 2007

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    • Update on biotech protests

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      06 May 2007

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    • Why is Boston a biotech mecca? Money and perception

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      06 May 2007

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    • BIO/biotech in Boston, then and now

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      06 May 2007

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    • High biotech drug costs, loads of biotech jobs in Boston, and how women can better succeed in biotech than academia

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      06 May 2007

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    • Boston braces for biotech protests

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      05 May 2007

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    • Finding lost memories through experience; putting PCR in your pocket; and how neural circuits stay organized in the brain

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      04 May 2007

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    • BIO buzz from Nature: events, blogs, podcasts, discussion forum

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      02 May 2007

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    • Restaurants near the Boston Convention and Exhibition Center

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      02 May 2007

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    • Cambridge scientists put on a show

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      01 May 2007

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    April

    • Harvard/MIT scientists looking for Martian DNA

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      30 April 2007

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    • Communicating science the wiki way

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      27 April 2007

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    • Research Roundup: Measuring the weight of molecules and cells; working together to pinpoint diabetes genes; and how to spread rumors faster through a network

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      27 April 2007

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    • Cause of fire at BU lab determined

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      27 April 2007

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    • To save salamanders, biologists get their feet wet

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      27 April 2007

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    • In Cambridge, science means business

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      26 April 2007

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    • What will cities ban next?

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      26 April 2007

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    • Which historical figure would you most like to have dinner with – and why?

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      25 April 2007

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    • Einstein on stage

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      23 April 2007

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    • Dispatch from Day 1 of the Cambridge Science Festival

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      22 April 2007

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    • Preview of the Cambridge Science Festival-starting this weekend

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      20 April 2007

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    • How the brain tells rough from smooth and what bacteria need to hop from one species to the next

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      20 April 2007

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    • How to speed up the peer review process: punish the slowpokes!

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      20 April 2007

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    • Taking the needles out of TB vaccination

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      19 April 2007

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    • MIT students praise math professor in unusual ways

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      18 April 2007

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    • Open campuses, safe campuses?

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      18 April 2007

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    • Boston RNA group coming soon

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      16 April 2007

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    • Can buildings change the culture of science?

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      13 April 2007

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    • Science building boom

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      13 April 2007

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    • Finding more than just bone in dinosaur fossils; what makes the body clock tick; and delving into dark energy’s past

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      13 April 2007

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    • Who's the top Massachusetts employer?

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      13 April 2007

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    • Battling climate change the Boston way

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      13 April 2007

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    • Biosafety lab coming to Tufts

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      10 April 2007

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    • MIT names committee to study race in faculty hiring

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      10 April 2007

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    • From medical imaging to bomb detection

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      10 April 2007

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    • Cleaning up an image in Photoshop or manipulating the data?

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      09 April 2007

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    • News roundup: Cambridge gets wireless sensor network, hospitals go green and Novartis grows bigger

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      05 April 2007

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    • It's official. Harvard gets new regenerative biology department

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      05 April 2007

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    • What a campus minister brings to science

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      05 April 2007

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    • Marine institute ramps up research

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      03 April 2007

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    March

    • Research Roundup: Modeling marine microbes and tracking down trans fat in the body

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      30 March 2007

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    • Looking for fossils with a shotgun on your back

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      29 March 2007

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    • Cambridge goes green

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      29 March 2007

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    • Local startup targets drug-resistant bugs

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      29 March 2007

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    • Review: Longwood-area restaurants

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      27 March 2007

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    • Scientists, and now Globe editors, protest cuts to NIH funding

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      26 March 2007

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    • New university presidents in Boston: stark contrasts from the old

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      26 March 2007

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    • A new roadblock for HIV and the emotional side of decision-making

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      23 March 2007

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    • BU biosafety lab case heads to state’s top court

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      23 March 2007

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    • Parrot talks, counts, and helps researcher raise money, too

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      22 March 2007

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    • Data deluge: scientists call for help

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      22 March 2007

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    • Welcome Nature Network London

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      22 March 2007

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    • A tale from Boston’s history: The naturalist who didn’t believe in evolution

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      21 March 2007

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    • Biotech madness to hit Boston in May

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      19 March 2007

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    • Microsoft and synthetic biology

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      15 March 2007

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    • Cleaning up old king coal

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      15 March 2007

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    • Cramming the world of science into 90-minute classes

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      14 March 2007

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    • My blog has moved, temporarily

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      14 March 2007

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    • Ovulating orangutans, movie-star monkeys, and leaping lemurs

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      12 March 2007

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    • Research Roundup: Sizing up dinosaur genomes, tracking down Mars groundwater, and reversing the effects of menopause

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      09 March 2007

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    • Windfall for the Broad, more philanthropic money in Boston

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      08 March 2007

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    • Synthetic biology gets down to business

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      07 March 2007

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    • The best places for postdocs to work? Not so much in Boston…

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      05 March 2007

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    • Stem cell scientist goes to Washington

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      05 March 2007

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    • Whitehead turns 25, time to reminisce

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      02 March 2007

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    • Research Roundup: Watching RNA in action and searching for the best hydrogen storage tank

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      02 March 2007

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    • Lessons in community relations for Harvard

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      01 March 2007

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    • Tadpoles regrow tails, and no, it’s not because of stem cells

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      01 March 2007

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    February

    • A few things I missed this month: drug company giveaway and women-in-science award at MIT

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      28 February 2007

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    • Three thousand meters under the ice

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      28 February 2007

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    • Faust's first move

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      26 February 2007

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    • Not your average blogger: CEO of a major hospital

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      26 February 2007

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    • Research Roundup: A link between microRNA and cancer, the physics of Islamic art, and the missing water on planet HD 189733b

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      23 February 2007

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    • Datapoints: Top Boston-based Nature authors

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      22 February 2007

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    • Review: Darwin exhibit at the Museum of Science

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      21 February 2007

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    • One week post launch

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      21 February 2007

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    • MIT biologist ends hunger strike

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      16 February 2007

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    • Research Roundup: A planet that’s lighter than water; a brain cancer “on” switch that’s shared by stem cells; and a nap a day keeps the heart attack away

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      16 February 2007

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    • Special: Energy and climate change

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      14 February 2007

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    • MIT biologists expand their focus from biomedicine to energy

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      14 February 2007

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    • Citizens as amateur scientists

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      14 February 2007

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    • How do you get hundreds of climate scientists to agree?

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      14 February 2007

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    • Green energy in the Bay State

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      14 February 2007

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    • Introducing the NEW Nature Network and NNB!

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      14 February 2007

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    • Teenage battle of the brains—about the brain

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      12 February 2007

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    • It's official-first woman to lead Harvard in its 371-year history

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      11 February 2007

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    • Can you imagine two women university presidents in Cambridge?

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      10 February 2007

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

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      09 February 2007

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    • News from Harvard this weekend-woman president?

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      09 February 2007

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    • MIT biologist begins hunger strike

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      05 February 2007

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    • Mercury—and sea level—rising

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      05 February 2007

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    • Yes, it is getting hot in here. And we’re to blame.

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      02 February 2007

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

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      02 February 2007

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    January

    • Cech pulls out of Harvard presidential race

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      31 January 2007

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    • What do abstract paintings, Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy and fractals have in common?

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      30 January 2007

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    • The inescapable politics of climate change

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      30 January 2007

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    • Reeling in math’s “big fish”

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      30 January 2007

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    • Monday miscellany: climate change, how geothermal plants work, biofuels and global warming artists

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      30 January 2007

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    • Open access debate, ignited again

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      29 January 2007

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

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      26 January 2007

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    • What happens when science, news and blogs collide

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      25 January 2007

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    • Publishers fight open access with high-profile spin doctor

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      24 January 2007

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    • Modern-day alchemy for alternative energy

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      24 January 2007

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    • North Carolina Science Blogging conference: pt. 3 - Would you put your lab book on the web? Also, be Zerhouni for a day!

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      23 January 2007

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    • Science inspiring art

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      23 January 2007

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    • Who will move to Allston? You go first.

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      23 January 2007

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    • North Carolina Science Blogging Conference-pt 2-how blogging saved one man’s science career

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      22 January 2007

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    • MIT study says: let's go geothermal

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      22 January 2007

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    • The North Carolina Science Blogging conference-part 1

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      21 January 2007

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    • The best science blogging of 2006-Harvard blogger included!

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      19 January 2007

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

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      19 January 2007

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    • Harvard to form new biology department

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      19 January 2007

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    • Fair-trade fish

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      18 January 2007

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    • The buzzwords of Boston: interdisciplinary research

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      17 January 2007

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    • Should a scientist lead Harvard? Answer this online poll

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      16 January 2007

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    • This is what Harvard’s Allston could look like

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      12 January 2007

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

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      12 January 2007

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    • Not your average shovel

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      11 January 2007

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    • How to survive graduate school, according to Herman

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      10 January 2007

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    • Harvard presidency speculation continues

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      10 January 2007

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    • Learn how to start a company and win money along the way

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      10 January 2007

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    • Monday Miscellany: Harvard presidential gossip, weird weather and climate change, more grim funding news, and will Finneran be asked to leave?

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      08 January 2007

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    • Astronomy-inspired music

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      05 January 2007

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    • Why aren’t more women in science? In other news: mighty mouse and the downside of ethanol

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      05 January 2007

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

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      05 January 2007

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    • Introducing our newest blogger

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      04 January 2007

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    • Rolling out a lunar telescope

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      04 January 2007

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    • Who needs peer review?

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      03 January 2007

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    • Datapoints: Boston science publication stats

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      03 January 2007

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    • Monday Miscellany: museums, octopus and deep thinking for 2007

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      03 January 2007

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