Thursday, January 7, 2010

“ASME releases ‘Engineering for Medicine and Biology Journal Package ... - News-Medical.Net” plus 4 more

“ASME releases ‘Engineering for Medicine and Biology Journal Package ... - News-Medical.Net” plus 4 more

ASME releases ‘Engineering for Medicine and Biology Journal Package ... - News-Medical.Net

Posted: 06 Jan 2010 09:55 PM PST

The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) has announced the release of its Engineering for Medicine and Biology Journal Package, a collection of journals developed specifically for medical professionals. The package includes a new journal on Nanomedicine launched in Fall 2009, as well as four other established ASME journal publications.

This package offers information on the most recent developments at the crossroads of engineering, medicine and biology, helping the medical community to stay current on advancements and innovations related to the design of medical devices, systems, instrumentation and other bio-medical applications.

"Making advancements in the areas of medicine and biology requires a collaborative effort between medical professionals and engineers," said ASME President Amos E. Holt, Ph.D. "These journals help to open the channels of communication between the two disciplines in order to face current and future challenges in the global community."

Included in each of the journals are comprehensive peer-reviewed research papers from a wide range of experts, providing insight and perspective on how the engineering and medical communities can benefit from each other's skills and knowledge. By offering these journals in one convenient package, ASME is working as an essential resource to bridge the gap between the medical and engineering professions.

An annual subscription to the Engineering for Medicine and Biology Journal Package includes access to the following five journals: the Journal of Medical Devices, Journal of Engineering Materials and Technology, Journal of Biomechanical Engineering, Journal of Fluids Engineering and Journal of Nanotechnology in Engineering and Medicine.

Source: American Society of Mechanical Engineers

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Henenlotter's BAD BIOLOGY Comes To DVD - Chud.com

Posted: 06 Jan 2010 07:03 PM PST

Yes.

(The Creature-Corner review is gone and I can't find shit otherwise on Google, the Internet Wayback Machine at archive.org is equally useless)

EDIT: NEVERMIND, ALEX IS FASTER.

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Institute for Systems Biology Research Papers Have Highest Scientific ... - Consumer Electronics Net

Posted: 06 Jan 2010 04:26 PM PST

 

January 06, 2010 -- SEATTLE, BUSINESS WIRE --

Institute for Systems Biology research papers have the highest scientific impact in the United States and the third highest in the world, according to a report evaluating research-centered organizations released in December by the SCImago Research Group, based in Spain.


The report analyzes the impact of scientific papers published by more than 2,000 research institutes around the globe between 2003 and 2007. Reviewed institutions represent 84 countries and five continents. Other ranked U.S. institutes include the likes of MIT, Harvard Medical School, the California Institute of Technology, the University of Washington, Pacific Northwest National Laboratories, the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center and other elite research organizations.

'This achievement is first and foremost due to the talent and scientific insights of all the members of the Institute,' said Alan Aderem, co-founder and director of ISB. 'It demonstrates that our scientists are effective in working with each other across multiple disciplines to conduct truly groundbreaking research and shape scientific inquiry worldwide.'

ISB has assembled some of the best scholars and scientists in the world, from biologists, mathematicians and engineers, to computer scientists and physicists, in an interactive and collaborative environment. Much like a biological system, researchers from these different disciplines work effectively with each other in the pursuit of knowledge on the leading edge of science.

This systems approach is very different from more traditional 'siloed' academic research environments, where disciplines are segregated by departments that seldom interact. The international impact of ISB research papers demonstrates the value of a recent 'new biology' report from the National Academy of Sciences which outlines biological inquiry and discovery strategies that mirror the systems approach on which ISB was founded.

The SCImago report indicates that ISB's average research impact was 211 percent higher than the average research impact for all institutions around the globe combined.

Only four institutes -- 1) Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, 2) Institut National de Physique Nucleaire et de Physique des Particules, 3) Institute for Systems Biology, 4) Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory -- out of more than 2,000 analyzed had an impact of 200 percent or greater above the global average. ISB also scored among the highest (only five institutes scored higher) globally in terms of the 'importance' of journals which published its research.

'We launched ISB in 2000 because we wanted to be nimble, reduce bureaucratic barriers that inhibit scientific creativity at large organizations, foster an interdependence between disciplines and gain a better understanding of how all the components of biological systems interact to generate health or disease,' said Lee Hood, M.D., Ph.D., co-founder and president of ISB. 'It's great to see that an independent analysis of outcomes demonstrates that we were on track 10 years ago when we launched the world's first systems biology focused research institute.

Editor's Note: The SCImago Research Group and its institutional rankings report can be found at http://www.scimago.es/.

About the Institute for Systems Biology

The Institute for Systems Biology (ISB) is an internationally renowned, non-profit research institute headquartered in Seattle and dedicated to the study and application of systems biology. Founded by Leroy Hood, Alan Aderem and Ruedi Aebersold, ISB seeks to unravel the mysteries of human biology and identify strategies for predicting and preventing diseases such as cancer, diabetes and AIDS. ISBs systems approach integrates biology, computation and technological development, enabling scientists to analyze all elements in a biological system rather than one gene or protein at a time. Founded in 2000, the Institute has grown to 13 faculty and more than 280 staff members; an annual budget of nearly $40 million; and an extensive network of academic and industrial partners. For more information about ISB, visit www.systemsbiology.org.

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Lauren The Duck Slayer: High school biology teacher is good with a gun ... - News-Democrat

Posted: 07 Jan 2010 01:22 AM PST

"I was born Dec. 28, and my mom was still hunting at the end of November. She was out there every day in the duck boat," Thomas said.

Before long, Thomas was scurrying around in the duck boat with her parents, Jim and Lynn Thomas, of rural Carlyle.

"I wasn't allowed to go out in the boat until I was 2," she said. "They finally got clothes that were warm enough for me."

At age 8, she completed the hunter safety course for youths, which meant she could carry her own gun.

"The guy who taught the class actually had to read me the test. I answered the questions out loud to him," Thomas said.

"I got to start carrying my first gun, a little 20-gauge, when I was 8," she said. "I killed my first duck a little after that."

While attending Southern Illinois University Carbondale, where she studied biology and education, Thomas worked at a hunting supply store. Through that job, she got to attend a shooting and hunting show in Las Vegas, where she met the owners of Drake Waterfowl Systems, a manufacturer of waterfowl hunting apparel.

Soon, Thomas became a field expert for Drake Waterfowl, serving as a representative of the brand at a variety of events and dealing with nonprofit groups.

Thomas has been with the company roughly six years. She admits that when she tried to help guys in the store, or when guys have seen "field expert" stitched on her Drake apparel, she has gotten some funny looks.

"The big, burly guys don't always want my help, especially if their girlfriend is there," she said.

For a duck hunter, though, being young, blonde and female does have some advantages.

"I get lots of invites, I have to admit," she said.

Thomas says she is prone, as a woman hunter, to having an occasional conniption.

"I do have a bit of attitude, so when I'm duck hunting and things don't go my way, I've been known to throw a hissy fit," she said.

She recalled the 32-degree day when all sorts of things went wrong, including her gun fouling up.

"We were in this hot, hot hole for mallards -- birds were everywhere," Thomas said. "I had two mallards come in right in front of me. I pulled up and I missed, all three shots."

She started storming around and fell in.

"I was completely under water," she said.

Thomas stripped down to her thermal layer, with no socks.

"It was freezing. It felt like forever," she said.

"They kept saying, 'Do you want to go?' I said, 'No, kill the damned ducks!' I sat in the airboat until they limited out."

Thomas also does some turkey and upland hunting, and bowhunts for deer. "You name it, I've hunted it," she said.

But she prefers waterfowl hunting, where if the decoy spread is lifelike enough, the calling is true enough and the conditions are nasty enough, you just might get a shot at a couple of ducks or geese. And if your shooting is on, the dog gets to retrieve.

"There's nothing I enjoy more, now that I have a dog, than watching my dog work," Thomas said. "The killing is fun, too."

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Institute for Systems Biology Research Papers Have Highest Scientific ... - Forbes

Posted: 06 Jan 2010 03:28 PM PST


BusinessWire - Institute for Systems Biology research papers have the highest scientific impact in the United States and the third highest in the world, according to a report evaluating research-centered organizations released in December by the SCImago Research Group, based in Spain.

The report analyzes the impact of scientific papers published by more than 2,000 research institutes around the globe between 2003 and 2007. Reviewed institutions represent 84 countries and five continents. Other ranked U.S. institutes include the likes of MIT, Harvard Medical School, the California Institute of Technology, the University of Washington, Pacific Northwest National Laboratories, the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center and other elite research organizations.

"This achievement is first and foremost due to the talent and scientific insights of all the members of the Institute," said Alan Aderem, co-founder and director of ISB. "It demonstrates that our scientists are effective in working with each other across multiple disciplines to conduct truly groundbreaking research and shape scientific inquiry worldwide."

ISB has assembled some of the best scholars and scientists in the world, from biologists, mathematicians and engineers, to computer scientists and physicists, in an interactive and collaborative environment. Much like a biological system, researchers from these different disciplines work effectively with each other in the pursuit of knowledge on the leading edge of science.

This systems approach is very different from more traditional "siloed" academic research environments, where disciplines are segregated by departments that seldom interact. The international impact of ISB research papers demonstrates the value of a recent "new biology" report from the National Academy of Sciences which outlines biological inquiry and discovery strategies that mirror the systems approach on which ISB was founded.

The SCImago report indicates that ISB's average research impact was 211 percent higher than the average research impact for all institutions around the globe combined.

Only four institutes -- 1) Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, 2) Institut National de Physique Nucleaire et de Physique des Particules, 3) Institute for Systems Biology, 4) Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory -- out of more than 2,000 analyzed had an impact of 200 percent or greater above the global average. ISB also scored among the highest (only five institutes scored higher) globally in terms of the "importance" of journals which published its research.

"We launched ISB in 2000 because we wanted to be nimble, reduce bureaucratic barriers that inhibit scientific creativity at large organizations, foster an interdependence between disciplines and gain a better understanding of how all the components of biological systems interact to generate health or disease," said Lee Hood, M.D., Ph.D., co-founder and president of ISB. "It's great to see that an independent analysis of outcomes demonstrates that we were on track 10 years ago when we launched the world's first systems biology focused research institute.

Editor's Note: The SCImago Research Group and its institutional rankings report can be found at http://www.scimago.es/.

About the Institute for Systems Biology

The Institute for Systems Biology (ISB) is an internationally renowned, non-profit research institute headquartered in Seattle and dedicated to the study and application of systems biology. Founded by Leroy Hood, Alan Aderem and Ruedi Aebersold, ISB seeks to unravel the mysteries of human biology and identify strategies for predicting and preventing diseases such as cancer, diabetes and AIDS. ISB's systems approach integrates biology, computation and technological development, enabling scientists to analyze all elements in a biological system rather than one gene or protein at a time. Founded in 2000, the Institute has grown to 13 faculty and more than 280 staff members; an annual budget of nearly $40 million; and an extensive network of academic and industrial partners. For more information about ISB, visit www.systemsbiology.org.

SOURCE: Institute for Systems Biology

Institute for Systems Biology Todd Langton, 206-732-1333 tlangton@systemsbiology.org

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