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Nature Chemical Biology 4, v (2008). doi:10.1038/nchembio0708-v

The amphioxus genome and the evolution of the chordate karyotype

Nature 453, 1064 (2008). doi:10.1038/nature06967

Authors: Nicholas H. Putnam, Thomas Butts, David E. K. Ferrier, Rebecca F. Furlong, Uffe Hellsten, Takeshi Kawashima, Marc Robinson-Rechavi, Eiichi Shoguchi, Astrid Terry, Jr-Kai Yu, E`lia Benito-Gutiérrez, Inna Dubchak, Jordi Garcia-Fernàndez, Jeremy J. Gibson-Brown, Igor V. Grigoriev, Amy C. Horton, Pieter J. […]

There is still a soft spot in my heart for Palm OS devices since they were what I started out with back in 1997 (actually the OS looks just about the same as it was then) and this latest news has me considering a new Palm device. Palm announced that you can now purchase a […]

Jay Shah, CIO of E-Loan talks about taking mortgage products to market in a matter of weeks using Web 2.0 tools that foster collaboration and help speed up product cycles.
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Correcting the scientific record

Nature Chemical Biology 4, 381 (2008). doi:10.1038/nchembio0708-381

The retraction of a Nature Chemical Biology paper is a step toward a full accounting of a case of scientific misconduct.

PML targeting eradicates quiescent leukaemia-initiating cells

Nature 453, 1072 (2008). doi:10.1038/nature07016

Authors: Keisuke Ito, Rosa Bernardi, Alessandro Morotti, Sahoko Matsuoka, Giuseppe Saglio, Yasuo Ikeda, Jacalyn Rosenblatt, David E. Avigan, Julie Teruya-Feldstein
& Pier Paolo Pandolfi
The existence of a small population of ‘cancer-initiating cells’ responsible for tumour maintenance has been firmly demonstrated in leukaemia. This concept is currently being […]

Do high performance filters really work? Do induction kits really provide 35% more power? Here we try and shed some light on the subject. Do induction kits really provide 35% more power? Here we try and shed some light on the subject. The first example is a so called high performance flatbed filter replacement: We […]

A new shape for nanoparticles helps deliver imaging agents.

I wrote a post about how it seems that AT&T was going to be the big winner when the iPhone 3G is launched in a couple of weeks due to the increase in data and text message rates and the monthly subsidy that will no longer have to be paid to Apple. According to one […]

VeriSign found that “.cn” overtook “.net” sometime in Q1 2008. ‘.cn’ registrations grew 23% from Q4 2007 and were triple those in Q1 2007. The organization that runs Germany’s “.de” domain pegged “.cn” registrations at 11.8 mln and “.net” at 11.6 mln as of May 2008. The number of Internet users in China has soared […]