Take a LOOK:
Feb. 25, 2008 — A team of scientists led by Washington University in St. Louis has begun to unlock the genetic secrets of corn, a crop vital to U.S. agriculture. The researchers have completed a working draft of the corn genome, an accomplishment that should accelerate efforts to develop better crop varieties to [...]

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Partek GS announcement:
In an effort to provide both support and tools to the research community aimed to foster genomic insight, the Genome Sequencing Center at Washington University School of Medicine has purchased a site license to Partek Genomics Suite (Partek GS). This software package is now freely available for download to the entire Washington [...]

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Welcome to ProbeDB!
The NCBI Probe Database is a public registry of nucleic acid reagents designed for use in a wide variety of biomedical research applications, together with information on reagent distributors, probe effectiveness, and computed sequence similarities.
As of February 19th, there were almost 10,000,000 records in the probe database. These records cover experimental [...]

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The invitations have been sent out. The debate will be held in Philadelphia on April 18th. Read more about it in Andrew Revkin’s NYTimes blog, Dot Earth.

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from the San Francisco Chronicle today:
Darwin’s belated American birthday present
Susan Jacoby
Tuesday, February 12, 2008
Today is the anniversary of Charles Darwin’s birth (the 199th, as it happens) and, as usual, scientists around the world will hold ceremonies honoring the man responsible for the foundational insight of modern science - the theory of evolution by means of [...]

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I remember hearing about the SETI@Home project several years ago and thinking it was an incredible concept. Today I was reminded of this project by an article titled, “14 Best Ways to Use Your Computer’s Spare Time” by Sarah Bates in Discover magazine which arrived in my reader this afternoon. One of the [...]

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take a look:
National Science Foundation (NSF) Director Arden L. Bement Jr. has presented the agency’s proposed $6.85 billion budget for fiscal year (FY) 2009, a 13 percent increase over its actual FY 2008 budget. The additional $822.10 million would increase funding for agency programs that advance the frontiers of research and education in science and [...]

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The National Academies just issued the following:
February 4 — The National Academy of Sciences, National Academy of Engineering, and Institute of Medicine are joining the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the Carnegie Institution, the Council on Competitiveness, and several other organizations and universities in an effort to co-sponsor a presidential candidate debate on [...]

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