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For day 2 of Experimental Biology, I found an interesting poster on a new chemical, found in slime mold, that might have therapeutic potential for breast cancer treatment! Enjoy! We are always looking for new cancer treatments. Each type of cancer is different, from breast cancer to lung cancer or pancreatic, and there are also different subtypes of cancers within each type of cancer. Your breast cancer can be estrogen receptor positive or negative, and this can drastically effect what kind of treatments may work best.

This is an installment in the On My Shelf series reviews about books demonstrating anthropology in practice. Book details follow the post

It’s tough to pick a familiar face out of a crowd--but focusing on a known voice in a noisy room is easy. And a new study scanned volunteers’ brains to look at how we solve the so-called cocktail party problem.

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Interviewer: So, how powerful are you? Could you …say… destroy the Earth? Tick: Destroy the Earth?

Image courtesy of iStockphoto/Neurostockimages Eager eaters know that gulping a Slurpee or inhaling a sundae can cause that brief seizing sensation known in the not-so-technical literature as “brain freeze” or “ ice cream headache .” [More]

By Amy Maxmen of Nature magazine Researchers have identified a gene that makes some strains of an antibiotic-resistant bacterium more virulent, and have found that the gene is becoming more prevalent. Epidemics of infection with methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) come in waves. [More]

A series of graduate student conversations with leading women biologists, at the Women in Science Symposium at Cornell April 2-3. [More]

Objectively time is constant. A minute is a minute

The morning of my Board exams, my mother packed me a lunch comprising of seedless grapes, two Greek yogurts, a cheese sandwich, a bag of pistachio nuts, two cappuccinos, a diet coke, chocolate-covered coffee beans and a pouch of pretzels. Mum, this isn t the Hunger Games, I joked

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Researchers predict a new type of lithium battery under development could give an electric car enough juice to travel a whopping 800 kilometers before it needs to be plugged in again--about 10 times the energy that today's lithium ion batteries supply. It is a tantalizing prospect --a lighter, longer-lasting, air-breathing power source for the next generation of vehicles--if only someone could build a working model. Several roadblocks stand between these lithium–air batteries and the open road, however, primarily in finding electrodes and electrolytes that are stable enough for rechargeable battery chemistry.

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