Natural Science Forum / Biology / Biology / March 2005

Please could anyone help, I'm a mature student at college doing access
to university and im doing a reseach project on asthma at the local
school and I found out that 30% of the children had eczema and 40% had
asthma and 30% didnt have angthing wrong with them, out of a sample of

It is a little inconvenient to search the biological literature using
Biological Abstracts. Is there a free way to do it online or using a
suitable CD database? Also, sites such as www.arxiv.org are good for
finding free, current math and physics papers, but I don't know of a

Some years ago I used "Rasmol" and "Weblab Viewer" for protein
structure simulation, but these seem to be a bit out of date. Do you
happen to know a good free software for viewing protein structures (in
.pdb format)?

I was wondering does anyone here have any views on the ethical side to
biotechnology? Ethical views such as on Human Genetic Enhancement?

We are working with embryonic stem cells, these particular cells have a
temperature sensitive mutation in a Gas. This G-protein is locked on
at 33 and off at 37ºC. At the latter temperature in vitro, these cells
remain undifferentiated (self-renewal) in the presence of a cytokine

New York Times
March 23, 2005
Startling Scientists, Plant Fixes Its Flawed Gene
By NICHOLAS WADE

his eyes were blue during his first 8 months and then turn lighter,
lighter and now when he was 2 years old, they are "very" pale blue,
like blue sky covering with a thin layer of white cloud, mostlyly
white. What makes my boy eyes change during that time ? Thank you

A father with XY and a mother with XX but in what way will I be able
to know who their daughter's XX took its X from ? I mean how can I
mark that this x is from the father, that X is from the mother ?
I am no good at biology, please help..

Does anyone have any information on careers in the Biotech industry vs.
academic research. I am graduating in May with a MS in molecular
biology and am looking at positions in both industry and academia. I am
trying to get an idea of salary, benefits, job satisfaction, and

I please need help on a term to describe a concept. The idea that human
population is the greatest single factor shaping history. The idea that
wars are primarily caused from overpopulation, albeit there are other
factors but the single largest factor is group A has too many humans ...

Saturday, March 12, 2005
Louisville Zoo to put rare albino alligator on display
The Associated Press
LOUISVILLE - A rare white alligator is on permanent display at the

Hi friends,
I  am a research scholar working in the area of biosensors. I have
completed experimentation and now need to windup. As you know thesis
writing is most dirtiest part of Ph.D. So pLz. if anybody suggest or

I searched, but didn't see a specific biology group on my
server that would be appropriate to this question.
I saw "Aliens from the Deep" recently and the movie said that the
tubeworms that live near volcanic vents have a "gill" for supplying

Hi. I was chatting to an acquaintance who claimed that the genetic
diversity of black Africans was greater than the genetic diversity of
all other human races. I found this puzzling, and asked why this was
true. He was not able to supply me with an answer, saying he could not

Here's some interesting news:
http://www.betterhumans.com/News/news.aspx?articleID=2005-02-23-3
So here, mitochondria are being targetted for gene delivery using some
novel protein coat delivery vehicle. Let's see how it works for ataxia