] One of the challenges of proteomics is sample size.
] Researchers need to fractionate complex protein mixtures
] into their component parts for subsequent analysis, but
] the miniscule quantities and volumes involved preclude
] standard large-scale chromatography. Three years ago
] Agilent Technologies, headquartered in Palo Alto, Calif.,
] introduced its 1100 series capillary LC system, featuring
] tiny tubes that could pump nanoliter volumes through
] columns with high accuracy. Now the company is following
] that up with a microfraction collection system for single
] or multidimensional separation of protein and peptide
] mixtures.

The Scientist :: Nano-LC for Proteomics, Jul. 14, 2003

] Is there an Artificial God?
]
] Douglas Adams' speech at Digital Biota 2, Cambridge U.K.
]
] September 1998

Interesting Read

Douglas Adams' speech at Digital Biota 2

] Scientists have created the ultimate pet: genetically
] modified fish that glow in the dark. In future, there
] will be no need for aquarium lights - fluorescent fish
] will provide their own illumination.

] Scientists have not restricted their GM work to
] aquarium creatures. In other experiments, scientists
] have attempted to engineer cats that do not produce
] allergens.

This is just freakin cool. This is the kind of fish that would motivate me to actually use the 20 gallon aquarium that I bought that I never used:)

'Fluorescent fish' give the green light to GM pets

] Even as the World Health Organization declared that
] severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) is coming under
] control everywhere but in China, researchers meeting in
] New York on Saturday said that too little is known about
] the SARS virus to predict what will happen next. To gain
] some clues, the scientists looked to other coronaviruses
] to shed light on the new disease's next move.

The Scientist :: SARS unanswered questions

] Scientists yesterday said they have discovered a
] long-sought master gene in embryonic stem
] cells that is largely responsible for giving those cells
] their unique regenerative and therapeutic potential.

Stem cell -holy grail- found

] Physicists, psychologists and mathematicians who study
] network effects, the scientific field that the
] six-degrees-of-separation notion has engendered, are busy
] creating mathematical models that attempt to explain the
] quick spread of SARS.

Wired News: Behind the Six Degrees of SARS

] SARS is caused by a new member of the coronavirus family,
] which also causes some forms of the common cold. Some
] scientists have noted that the rapid mutations shown by
] cold viruses have prevented the development of a vaccine,
] and that the same may be true for SARS. The mutations
] change the surface proteins, known as antigens, which
] elicit the immune response.

New Scientist - SARS vaccine tests begin in monkeys

] "The suggested mechanism turns the high UV levels on
] primordial Earth from a perceived obstacle to the origin
] of life into the selective factor that, in fact, might
] have driven the whole process," write the team in BMC
] Evolutionary Biology.

RNA world baby....w00t

New Scientist - UV light may have sparked life on Earth

] BRAUNSCHWEIG, Germany — In these girth-conscious times,
] even weight itself has weight issues. The kilogram is
] getting lighter, scientists say, sowing potential
] confusion over a range of scientific endeavor.
]
] The kilogram is defined by a platinum-iridium cylinder,
] cast in England in 1889. No one knows why it is shedding
] weight, at least in comparison with other reference
] weights, but the change has spurred an international
] search for a more stable definition.

Scientists Struggling to Make the Kilogram Right Again

] Canadian officials quarantined two more cattle herds on
] Thursday, as investigators scrambled to find out how a
] single cow contracted mad cow disease, and if any other
] animals in North America are infected.

New Scientist- Mad cow quarantine in Canada extended