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24. May 2010 by admin.
Recently JCVI unveiled it’s manmade self-replicating cells. Today he spoke with NPR about his work and the questions it raises.
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24. May 2010 by admin.
New BioFuel Cell Uses Glucose in the Body to Produce Electricity for Cyborgs
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20. May 2010 by admin.
BioCapital Career Fair
Marriott Bethesda North Hotel & Conference Center
Thursday, May 20, 2010
11am to 4pm
Click here to register: http://www.biospace.com/jobs/career-fair-detail/?CareerFairId=195
Looking for a new job? Networking with industry peers in an ever-changing work environment?
Attend the BioCapital Career Fair!
Job seekers can spend a day with HR representatives and Hiring Managers from top biotech, pharma, and medical device companies in the mid-Atlantic region.
Who should attend?
Candidates with a 4-year degree in the life sciences and a minimum of 2-years of industry related experience are invited to attend.
(Equivalent work experience may be considered in lieu of a four-year college degree. PhD and Postdoc candidates welcome.)
What types of positions are available?
Exhibiting companies are recruiting for positions in areas such as: QA/QC, clinical research, engineering, biostatistics, clinical data management, chemistry, regulatory affairs, and research.
What companies will be there?
Scroll to the bottom of the pages to see a list of exhibiting companies. Take the time to research what each company is recruiting for to see if you are a match. Most companies will be from the mid-Atlantic region, but some will travel from other areas to attract top talent! If you can’t make it on event day, you can still pre-register online to allow exhibiting companies to view your resume and contact you outside of the career fair.
Exhibiting Companies
Aerotek Scientific, LLC
DHHS/FDA/Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research
Emergent BioSolutions
Osiris Therapeutics, Inc.
QIAGEN
SAIC-Frederick, Inc.
The Henry M. Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine
United States Food and Drug Administration
Click here to register: http://www.biospace.com/jobs/career-fair-detail/?CareerFairId=195
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20. May 2010 by admin.
Someone on the Hackerspace sites was passing around this link to a story on stemcell powders being used for regeneration of fingers.
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20. May 2010 by admin.
Just ran into this animation on Boing-Boing giving a face to many of the mathematical abstractions as they appear in the natural world.
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17. May 2010 by admin.
So Mary Spiro over at the INBT has a new periodical which focuses on the academic pursuits in the field of NANO BIO Techologies.
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13. May 2010 by admin.
I was looking for some introductory information into the use of microbial self-assembly and found this reference text on google books. It would be great if one of the faculty/mentors could order one for review.
Microbial bionanotechnology: biological self-assembly systems and biopolymer …
By Bernd Rehm
Chapter 5 addresses the biomineralization of magnetite in Magnetosomes - the cell structure that grows these inorganic structures. It begins on page 107.
In it we find that Magnetospirillum gryphiswaldense, is a preferred organism for cultivation. Here’s another pdf on magnetotactic bacterium.
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13. May 2010 by admin.
Nanotube transistor will help us bond with machines
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13. May 2010 by admin.
This short article references initial work using yeast to generate an electric current from the bloodstream.
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