Life Science Conflict Grows from Stem Cells (The Harvard Crimson)
Pharmas Nudge Semantic Web Technology Toward Practical Drug Discovery Applications (GenomeWeb News)While proponents of the semantic web have long pointed to pharmaceutical R&D as a prime testing ground for the technology because it promises to ease the industry’s perpetual data-integration challenges, critics have been quick to note the dearth of success stories from companies that have adopted the approach.
Student Developer of Versatile “G-gels” Wins $30,000 Lemelson-Rensselaer Prize (Newswise)Yuehua “Tony” Yu, a doctoral student in Rensselaer’ Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, is the first researcher to create binary guanosine gels, or G-gels, with unique, highly tunable properties. The discovery, which could enable a practical, cost-effective, and scalable method for better exploiting the beneficial properties of many nanoparticles, earned Yu the $30,000 .
Metal Bits Self-Assemble Into Lifelike Snakes (Wired News)Exclusive Wired Science video: Bits of nickel can self-assemble, under the influence of a magnetic field, into a chain that acts like a live, swimming snake. The scientists who discovered the phenomenon hope to learn something fundamental about the rules that underpin the behavior of similar groups and maybe shed light on how life first assembled itself in the primordial soup.
mental note to self : see a counsellor asap! 
o man, word of .:D, ttn was fun with yuqing, fernadez, ros and naveeda, waiting for ttn to start on thursday (come early start late), biology practical, chemistry practical, bbt with usuals, shopping with sister, fadzli entertaining me (thanks), .
