The Team at ScienceDebate2008.com sent an email update on several developments:

Reminder of our terrific conference in Minnesota Monday and Tuesday, with several top-name speakers.
[Be sure to] vote and comment on the candidates’ responses to the 14 questions - we have had over 1000 votes on innovation.
We’re hosting a pdf from our friends at The Association [...]

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Well folks, it is finally here…Open Access Day! What??? You didn’t hear about the celebration?
Open Access Day will help to broaden awareness and understanding of Open Access, including recent mandates and emerging policies, within the international higher education community and the general public.
Read more in the full Press Release.
–http://openaccessday.org/about/
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ncRNA portal
Science Magazine is hosting a webinar on non-coding RNAs (ncRNA) on Wednesday, October 22. Here’s the invitation:

Noncoding RNAs WEBINAR
You are invited to join our panel of experts on Wednesday, 22 October 2008, for a live, online educational seminar, “Noncoding RNAs: A New Paradigm for Gene Regulation.”
Submit your questions LIVE to the experts during [...]

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Nature offers a technology feature on Metabolomics this week.
Metabolomics is the “systematic study of the unique chemical fingerprints that specific cellular processes leave behind” - specifically, the study of their small-molecule metabolite profiles. The metabolome represents the collection of all metabolites in a biological organism, which are the end products of its gene expression. Thus, [...]

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