
Most chimp experiments unnecessary, says US panel
Posted in Bioethics, Science News Links.
– December 16, 2011
Zoologger: My brain’s so big it spills into my legs
Little spiders have a big problem – their brains are so big they have literally spilled out of their body cavities and into their legs

Posted in Science News Links, Strange Lifeforms.
– December 14, 2011
Persistence pays off for crystal chemist : Nature News
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Posted in About Publication, Science News Links.
– October 27, 2011
Science publishing: The trouble with retractions : Nature News
Nature - the world's best science and medicine on your desktop
Posted in About Publication, Science News Links.
– October 27, 2011
Lunchtime science : Nature : Nature Publishing Group
Biophysicist at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut. Shared 2009 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for knowledge of the structure and function of the ribosome [mdash] the intracellular machine that builds proteins from instructions carried by RNA. Born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin in 1940. The oldest of five children, Steitz has admitted to being an average student in high school, until motivated to compete against his youngest brother who was getting better grades. Steitz was a keen musician and chorister, and considered a career in music before finally choosing to pursue science.
Posted in Science News Links, Scientist Profiles.
– October 27, 2011
Lunchtime science : Nature : Nature Publishing Group
Biophysicist at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut. Shared 2009 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for knowledge of the structure and function of the ribosome [mdash] the intracellular machine that builds proteins from instructions carried by RNA. Born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin in 1940. The oldest of five children, Steitz has admitted to being an average student in high school, until motivated to compete against his youngest brother who was getting better grades. Steitz was a keen musician and chorister, and considered a career in music before finally choosing to pursue science.
Posted in Science News Links, Scientist Profiles.
– October 27, 2011
The Most Highly Cited Paper in Publishing History: Protein Determination by Oliver H. Lowry
Posted in About Publication, Science News Links.
– October 27, 2011
Evolution: New origins for old plants : Nature : Nature Publishing Group
Posted in Plants, Science News Links.
– October 27, 2011
Biophysics: More than a bystander : Nature : Nature Publishing Group
The tendency of hydrophobic surfaces to aggregate in water is often invoked to explain how biomolecules recognize and bind to each other. Water seems to have a much more active role in these processes than had been thought.
Posted in Physiology, Protein Biology, Science News Links.
– October 27, 2011
Ralph Steinman (1943–2011)
Ralph Steinman (1943–2011)
Nature 478, 7370 (2011). doi:10.1038/478460a
Authors: Michel C. Nussenzweig & Ira Mellman
Immunologist and cheerleader for dendritic-cell biology.
Posted in Science News Links, Scientist Profiles.
– October 25, 2011