Subject: Ocean home to new proteins, families

From: "The Scientist" <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2007 12:55:24 -0400

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Ocean home to new proteins, families

Sequencing the sea's microbial communities uncovers millions of new proteins and thousands of unknown protein families

By Melissa Lee Phillips

news

VA healthcare research halted

Studies of healthcare quality at seven US Veterans Affairs research centers suspended indefinitely after security breach

By Andrea Gawrylewski

article

Leitz inverted microscope, Circa 1958

A sales rep gave Leonard Hayflick a microscope popular among crystallographers, and cell culture work was never the same

By Terry Sharrer

podcast

Non-retraction retractions

Andrea Gawrylewski talks with Pritpal S. Tamber about retraction trends and tracking misconduct

Fire fly

UC Berkeley's Mike Levine almost became a physician. Lucky for Drosophila research, he didn't

By Karen Hopkin

Scientist to watch

Fabrizio Chiti: Aggregation from every angle

By Kerry Grens

Hot paper in aging

Old mice hard to replicate

By Charles Q. Choi

The powers that might be

Two ecologists and a physicist hone a theory with the potential to unify all of biology. Can they extend its reach while fending off critics?

By Bob Grant

Judge to rule on chimp lawsuit

Decision will determine whether a scientist can seek damages from Ohio State University over chimp deaths

By Kerry Grens

Bucking the Zeitgeist

What happens when biologists and a physicist try to create a grand unifying theory of biology?

By Richard Gallagher

Biotechnology on display

A gallery-turned-laboratory fuses art and science

By Kirsten Weir

The biotech contrarian

Biotechnology does little to help local economies, says economist Joe Cortright

By Kent Steinriede

The self-experimenter

Psychologist Seth Roberts stares at his reflection in a mirror for one hour every day, convinced the practice is a mood-booster

By Gordy Slack

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