Seminar - July 12, 11-1:00

You are invited to a SPECIAL SEMINAR about “Novel Technology in Biosensors”
July 12th, 2007
11:00 am-1:00 pm
Kiewit Auditorium, Arizona Cancer Center

Octet Using Biolayer Interferometry for Affordable,
Rapid, Label-Free, Real Time Kinetics Analysis.

Kathi Williams
West Coast Field
Application Scientist

Lunch will be provided.

Science News Sources

A number of web sites focus on science news.

EurekAlert! is one of the best, produced by AAAS. For Bio5, the agriculture, biology and medicine sections are worth following each day. Its primary source is press releases from science centers for governments, universities and journals.

ScienceDaily is a far more commercial venture, but it includes a breaking news section updated every 15 minutes. Its Health and Plants sections are most interest to us.

Science news aggregators such as Google News, Yahoo News, CNN and BBC tend to offer stories about science news, instead of straight science links.

Yahoo and Google both have directory listings for science news sources, with subcatories.

Human Protein Atlas - images

The Human Protein Atlas is a database of "high resolution images of immunohistochemically stained tissues and cell lines" for normal and cancerous human proteins. The database can be searched by chromosome-location or by keyword. Note that every character -- including spaces -- is searched. "FTCD" is not the same as "FTCD ". Searchable terms include gene name, antibody ID (either CAB001519 or 1519 works), and descriptor terms such as protein names. Click on the Antibody ID to view annotation data; click on the link-dots to view Ensembl/NCBI/RefSeq/Uniprot info.

MedGadget: Biomedical engineering blog

MedGadget covers both consumer and research biomedical gadgets. Postings cover topics such as nasal drug delivery units, museum openings, nanotube carriers and weekly news reports on the latest biomedical engineering feats.

Nature's Blogs

The journal Nature supports fifteen blogs, ranging from chemistry to climate to methods to biology.

Seven Stones -- "The Molecular Systems Biology blog on systems and synthetic biology" -- works in conjunction with Nature's Molecular Systems Biology page and the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO.) Seven Stones covers systems and synthetic biology, including technical, scientific and societal issues. Conference presentations are summarized and discussed, as well as the journal literature.

Nature blogs provides links to news, and work with Connotea as well as Precedings.

Nature Precedings launches

"Nature Precedings is a free online service that enables researchers to rapidly share, discuss, and cite their early findings." It is modelled on the Pre-Print services common in astronomy and physics. Like other Web 2 services, it makes use of user-generated tags as well as formal subjects to classify information.

There is a discussion on the use of Blogs in research -- http://precedings.nature.com/documents/39/version/1

Translational research at UA

UA received a Clinical and Translational Science Award (CTSA) to explore state-wide focus on translational research -- moving data from the lab to the bedside. Two major groups have come out of this at UA & ASU: ACTREC & Clinical Scholars Circle.

Sandwalk blog

Sandwalk - http://sandwalk.blogspot.com/ - is another biomedical blog, this one dedicated to biochemistry. Moran's "Monday Molecules" series offers a molecular challenge to be rewarded with a free lunch. The Bio5 librarians might want to emulate this challenge for our Bio5 folks.