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Only in The News; A LPN exclusive: LPHS biology teacher learns lesson in Northwest Territory (Lake Placid News)
LAKE PLACID - Lake Placid High School biology teacher Tammy Morgan spent 10 days this summer in Canada's Northwest Territory studying astrobiology and learning lessons she will try to impart to her students this fall. "It changed my entire teaching perspective," she said. "I've been rewriting lessons since I got back." Morgan, who lives in Saranac Lake, was one of
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JPS Teacher Named National Biology Teacher Of The Year (WJTV Jackson)
A Jackson Public Schools teacher is named the National Association of Biology Teachers’ 2008 Biology Teacher of the Year.
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Biology student assigned to dissect puppy at home (Tiger Weekly)
When most people think of dissections in their biology classes, they reminisce about the frog or the fetal pig, and sometimes even a cat. One Woodlawn High School student will have a little more interesting memory about her dissection experience.
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WHO: Social environment key factor for health inequities (People's Daily)
A lot of people in the world can not enjoy good health because of the social environment where they are born, live, grow, work and age, the World Health Organization (WHO) said in a report on Thursday. Biology does not explain why a girl in Lesotho is likely to live 42 years less than another in Japan, and why the risk of a woman dying during pregnancy and childbirth is 1 in 17,400 in Sweden, ...
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Creek teacher joins seabird research expedition in Alaska (The Bay Area Citizen)
A biology and anatomy teacher from Clear Creek High School spent part of her summer on a research trip to Alaska.
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Variant Of Mad Cow Disease May Be Transmitted By Blood Transfusions, According To Animal Study (Science Daily)
Blood transfusions are a valuable treatment mechanism in modern medicine, but can come with the risk of donor disease transmission. Researchers are continually studying the biology of blood products to understand how certain diseases are transmitted in an effort to reduce this risk during blood transfusions.
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From biology to bread (Albany Times Union)
Professor finds lessons of sustainability in fresh loaves Gary Kleppel slides the metal rake through the small iron door, sparks flying from chunks of ashen maple he scrapes from the oven's floor.The dome of the Tuscan-style fieldstone oven risesabove him, and bowls of sourdough wait on the table a few steps away, releasing the earthy scent of yeast throughout the mid-19th-century building ...
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2008 congress in Nice heralds fusion of ELSO with EMBO (EurekAlert!)
( European Molecular Biology Organization ) The four full days of cutting-edge molecular life science research on display in Nice this week mark the seventh and last ELSO congress. The organization will fuse at the end of 2008 with EMBO. This incorporation of ELSO into EMBO not only sets the stage for the EMBO Meeting, a new annual life science conference beginning in Amsterdam in 2009, but also ...
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Springer bee expert Juergen Tautz wins prize for public communication (EurekAlert!)
( Springer ) Juergen Tautz will receive a special discretionary prize as part of the 2008 European Molecular Biology Organization Award for Communication in the Life Sciences. The award was made in recognition of Tautz's long-term public communication activity on a single organism using all available media. Tautz is the author of the Springer book "The Buzz About Bees," a fascinating treatise ...
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Clearing the airways in cystic fibrosis (EurekAlert!)
( Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology ) By manipulating the machinery used by our cells for quality control, researchers from the University of Pittsburgh have found a way to restore the function of cystic fibrosis (CF) airway cells. This could significantly reduce the sticky mucus that plugs the lungs of CF patients, which leads to antibiotic-resistant infections and ...
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