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1. Princeton researchers attempting to transform neuroscience
(Sci/Tech/Science updates)

... Grant through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, Lynn Enquist, a professor in Princeton's Department of Molecular Biology and in the Princeton Neuroscience Institute, is leading an effort to use ...

2. Study: Females drive males to drink
(Health/Healthquest)

... it formally adopted in the 1950s. Researchers at the center study alcohol from a range of academic disciplines, including neurobiology, pharmacology and genetics. The studies on gender effect will ...

3. Now That's Funny: Pollution – this time, it's personal
(Life/Style)

... there is a cottage industry. I recently read in The New York Times about a building biology consultant who performs "healthy home" evaluations. He charges money for this. He will do all kinds of tests ...

4. Disaster in the Gulf: How do marshes and beaches recover from oil spills?
(Sci/Tech/Science updates)

... along the Gulf Coast, one of the world's richest seafood grounds. Joanna Burger, professor of cell biology and neuroscience in Rutgers' School of Arts and Sciences, has spent years studying how animals, ...

5. Princeton scientist Thomas Gregor solves mystery of coordination in nature
(Sci/Tech/Science updates)

... Professor Emeritus of Biology, put the substance on the map for amoebae in 1967. He showed with his collaborators that certain cells are drawn to cAMP, and provided through a series of experiments one ...

6. New N.J. Environmental Protection science advisory board members announced
(Sci/Tech/Science updates)

... as chairwoman of the board. A professor of biological sciences, with a Ph.D. and master's degree in biology, her research focuses on estuarine ecology and ecotoxicology. The other members of the advisory ...

7. UMDNJ expert warns consumers on worth of genetic test kits
(Health/Healthquest)

... is the director of the Center for Pharmacogenomics and Complex Disease Research at UMDNJ-NJDS and a professor of health informatics and oral biology. His research focuses on advancing the understanding ...

8. Princeton scientists devise way to link complex traits with underlying genes
(Sci/Tech/Science updates)

... a professor in Princeton's Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics, report that they developed a straightforward method for studying millions ...

9. Speechless
(Comments/Unsorted comments)

... over biology. Wrong is wrong and regardless of what your children do you must correct them. I really hope that all the details or the media has this story wrong...it is tragic to think that a father or ...

10. Stimulus funds to pay for robotics-operated lab at Rutgers
(Sci/Tech/Science updates)

... facilities. Rather than erect a new building, the project calls for renovating the 2nd floor of the C Wing in the Nelson Biology Laboratories. Part of the wing will house the laboratory and part will ...

11. Fossil hunters donate 215 million-year-old specimen to N.J. State Museum
(Sci/Tech/Science updates)

... biology of this animal, its ecology and its evolution. Two hundred fifteen million years ago, northern New Jersey was covered by many rift-valley lakes that were home to a diverse array of insects, ...

12. Researchers at Rutgers find that early training can improve memory in mice
(Sci/Tech/Science updates)

... today in Current Biology by researchers at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey. "Working memory refers to a short-term memory system used to complete a task, such as remembering a phone number, ...

13. Biological breakthrough: Princeton scientists find new mechanism to regulate embryonic development
(Sci/Tech/Science updates)

... to influence and control the expression of genes. Results published March 9 in the journal Current Biology, however, suggest that competition for the MAPK enzyme among proteins in different pathways influences ...

14. Oldwick’s David Larsen running for Congress against Leonard Lance
(N.J./State)

... Missouri and then returned to New York City to attend CSI (College of Staten Island), where he studied biology and business administration. At 19, he started a construction and home improvement company. ...

15. An environmental to do list for New Jersey’s new Governor
(Opinion/Commentary)

... where an animal was documented. The Landscape Project approach is based on both the actual occurrence of a species and generally accepted scientific principles of animal biology and movement. Protecting ...

16. NASA discovers five new planets with Kepler Space Telescope
(Sci/Tech/Science updates)

... good news for astrobiology because if most stars are quiescent, if stars don't become terribly active, then they don't scour the surfaces of their planets, and we're more likely to have habitats where ...

17. Science magazine picks Ardipithecus ramidus as breakthrough of the year
(Sci/Tech/Science updates)

BY ART CHIMES VOA NEWS WASHINGTON — The prestigious journal Science is out with its top 10 breakthroughs of 2009. They include developments in anthropology, astronomy, and biology. The breakthrough ...

18. Gay Catholics respond to the New Jersey Bishops’ stand on issue of gay marriage
(Opinion/Commentary)

... homophobia, and to give silent obedience to the Bishops request to do so. It is time for them to find their courage and speak out about this injustice. To define marriage solely by biology puts marriage ...

19. Princeton scientists make new insights into cancer cells
(Sci/Tech/Science updates)

... kill a broad variety of rapidly dividing cells, good and bad — that's why they have massive side effects," said Saeed Tavazoie, a professor in the Department of Molecular Biology and the Lewis-Sigler Institute ...

20. There's no Hollywood glitter in Westfield forensics lab; the thrill is in the science
(Sci/Tech/Science updates)

... biology section handles DNA evidence from first- and second-degree crimes including burglaries, rapes and homicides. In a four-step extraction process, technicians use extreme heat and chemicals to pull ...