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- Four finalists for Teacher of the Year - Bismarck Tribune
- Rhesus macaque moms 'go gaga' for baby, too - Science Centric
- Now, an enzyme that cleans up pollution from RDX - Thaindian.com
- OCCC professor faces drug charges, on leave - Chickasha News
- Merck KGaA and Lonza Separately Acquire Indian Bioscience Companies - Genetic Engineering News
Four finalists for Teacher of the Year - Bismarck Tribune Posted: 13 Oct 2009 12:01 AM PDT
Two of the four finalists for North Dakota Teacher of the Year are biology teachers. One teaches science and one teaches marketing education. Their names were announced Monday by the state Department of Public Instruction. They are Mary Eldredge-Sandbo, a high school biology teacher at Des Lacs-Burlington; Craig Erickson, a marketing education teacher at Fargo North; Max Laird, a science teacher at Community High School in Grand Forks and Mike Voglewede, a biology teacher at Northwood. The 2010 North Dakota Teacher of the Year will be announced by Gov. John Hoeven at the North Dakota Education Association conference Oct. 22 in Grand Forks. Posted in State-and-regional on Tuesday, October 13, 2009 2:00 am | Tags: This content has passed through fivefilters.org. | |
Rhesus macaque moms 'go gaga' for baby, too - Science Centric Posted: 10 Oct 2009 02:56 AM PDT The intense exchanges that human mothers share with their newborn infants may have some pretty deep roots, suggests a study of rhesus macaques reported online on October 8th in Current Biology, a Cell Press publication. The new findings show that mother macaques and their infants have interactions in the first month of life that the researchers say look a lot like what humans tend to do. 'What does a mother or father do when looking at their own baby?' asked Pier Francesco Ferrari of the Universita di Parma in Italy. 'They smile at them and exaggerate their gestures, modify their voice pitch - the so-called 'motherese' - and kiss them. What we found in mother macaques is very similar: they exaggerate their gestures, 'kiss' their baby, and have sustained mutual gaze.' In humans, those communicative interactions go both ways, research in the last three decades has shown. Newborns are sensitive to their mother's expressions, movements, and voice, and they also mutually engage their mothers and are capable of emotional exchange. 'For years, these capacities were considered to be basically unique to humans,' the researchers said, 'although perhaps shared to some extent with chimpanzees.' The new findings extend those social skills to macaques, suggesting that the infant monkeys may 'have a rich internal world' that we are only now beginning to see. The researchers closely observed 14 mother-infant pairs for the first two months of the infants' lives. They found that mother macaques and their babies spent more time gazing at each other than at other monkeys. Mothers also more often smacked their lips at their infants, a gesture that the infants often imitated back to their mothers. The researchers also saw mothers holding their infant and actively searching for the infant's gaze, sometimes holding the infant's head and gently pulling it towards her face. In other instances, when infants were physically separated from their mothers, the parent moved her face very close to that of the infant, sometimes lowering her head and bouncing it in front of the youngster. Interestingly, those exchanges virtually disappeared when infants turned about one month old. Why so soon, you might ask? 'It's quite puzzling,' Ferrari said, 'but we should consider that macaque development is much faster that of humans. Motor competencies of a two-week-old macaque could be compared to an eight- to twelve-month-old human infant. Thus, independence from the mother occurs very early... what happens next in the first and second month of life is that infants become more interested in interacting with their same-age peers.' The findings offer new insight into the origins of such mother-infant behaviour. 'Our results demonstrate that humans are not unique in showing emotional communication between mother and infant,' the researchers wrote. 'Instead, we can trace the evolutionary foundation of those behaviours, which are considered crucial for the establishment of social exchange with others, to macaques. Mutual gaze, neonatal imitation, infant gestures, and exaggerated facial gesturing by mothers are distinctive signs in macaques, as well as in humans, of interpersonal communication and perhaps even a mutual appreciation of others' intentions and emotions.' Source: Cell PressThis content has passed through fivefilters.org. | |
Now, an enzyme that cleans up pollution from RDX - Thaindian.com Posted: 10 Oct 2009 01:16 AM PDT London, Oct 10 (IANS) Scientists have uncovered the structure of an unusual enzyme which can be used to reverse the contamination of land caused by RDX explosive. Gideon Grogan from the York Lab, said: "The biological process for tackling the pollution caused by RDX already exists but we need to find ways of making it work faster and on the scale required. "This research significantly improves our understanding of the structure of this enzyme and is therefore an important step towards exploiting its unusual properties." Neil Bruce, from the Centre for Novel Agricultural Products, said: "RDX is toxic and a possible carcinogen so it is important to identify ways of stopping it polluting land and water supplies. "We have already had significant success in engineering plants that can perform this task and this research will help further refine that technique," said Bruce, according to a York release. The latest findings were published in The Journal of Biological Chemistry. Sphere: Related ContentRelated Stories
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OCCC professor faces drug charges, on leave - Chickasha News Posted: 08 Oct 2009 10:18 PM PDT | Published: October 09, 2009 12:33 am OCCC professor faces drug charges, on leave OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — An Oklahoma City Community College professor has been placed on leave for the remainder of the semester after being charged with drug possession. Prosecutors have charged 39-year-old biology and chemistry professor Cassandra Meek with possession of methamphetamines, marijuana and drug paraphernalia. She's also charged with using a surveillance camera while committing a felony. Also facing those charges are 33-year-old Bobby Shane Pierce. Meek says she wasn't living at the house where the drugs were found and doesn't know who they belong to. She says she allowed recovering addicts to live in the home in exchange for working on the house
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Merck KGaA and Lonza Separately Acquire Indian Bioscience Companies - Genetic Engineering News Posted: 13 Oct 2009 08:36 AM PDT Oct 13 2009, 11:32 AM EST Merck KGaA and Lonza Separately Acquire Indian Bioscience CompaniesGEN News Highlights Merck KGaA's Indian subsidiary, Merck Specialties Private, acquired Bangalore Genei Private (BGIP; India) from the Sanmar Group. Lonza separately announced taking over the preclinical cell and molecular biology assets of Bangalore-based Simbiosys Biowares India, a subsidiary of Texas-based cell biology services company Simbiosys Biowares. Bangalore Genei specializes in the development, production, and sales of products for proteomic and genomic research. The company generated total revenues of about €3 million in fiscal year 2008. Christina Shassere, global head of Merck's bioscience business, says that BGIP's portfolio is tailored to the requirements of the Indian market. "BGIP's leadership in the Indian academic market, a segment with high growth potential, will ideally complement our existing customer base". Simbiosys Biowares India offers preclinical services for drug discovery (including lead validation and lead development) and molecular biology (DNA amplification, cloning, DNA/RNA isolation, synthetic gene construction, and quantitative PCR) along with process development services for small molecules, proteins, and mAbs. Anja Fiedler, head of Lonza Biosciences, maintains that the acquisition of the company's cell and molecular biology assets in India fits in with Lonza's strategy to further develop its life science platform and expand its global cell biology portfolio.
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