Selected articles and books

New York Academy of Sciences
Update Magaine feature story
The Explosive Silence of RNAi

NYAS eBriefings from RNAi Discussion Group Meetings:
Enzymatic Sculptors: The proteins that shape siRNAs and microRNAs - (overview free, full mtg requires NYAS membership)
Mandatory Morphogens: MicroRNAs in Development - (overview free, full mtg requires NYAS membership)
Knockdown Punch to the Brain: RNAi Comes to Neuroscience - (overview free, full mtg requires NYAS membership)
Running Interference: Tactics for a Gene Silencing Strategy - (overview free, full mtg requires NYAS membership)
Base Camp: Developing Strategies for predicting microRNA Targets - (overview free, full mtg requires NYAS membership)
1st Meeting of the Oligonucleotide Therapeutics Society - (overview free; full mtg requires NYAS membership)
A Taste of Molecular Asymmetry - posted February 2005
How Glucose Governs Insulin Release - posted February 2005
RNAi-Based Analysis of Gene Function - posted January 2004 (full meeting report)
Biochemistry of RNAi - posted June 2004 (full meeting report)
RNAI and Chromatin Remodeling- posted September 2004
RNAI and Mouse Embryogenesis - posted September 2004

NYAS Annals Extra Articles in this monthly column
See, for example,
Footprints of Disease: What secrets of cancer are told in the blood? prints of Disease: What Secrets
Growing Old Gracefully A cure for human aging?
Cancer's Crystal Ball Predictive cancer infomatics
What Made Charles Darwin Smile? Expressing emotions

Nature Biotechnology
Slimy Business: The Biotechnology of Biofilms. 21:361-5, 2003. pdf
New insight into the biology of biofilms is spawning novel commercial strategies for treating the intractable infections they cause.

Folio: Magazine
Of Mice and Medicine: The changing landsace of science journal publishing and the impact of the Open Access model

The Scientist (registration required)
Partners in Research, Competitors in Pay Interdisciplinary research programs 16:44, Mar. 4, 2002
Interdisciplinary Research Gets Formal By C. Bahls & B Schachter, 16:17, Mar. 4, 2002

Journal of Thoracic Oncology
2007 Annual Meeting of the National Lung Cancer Partnership: Meeting Highlights Regina Vidaver and Beth Schachter pdf

Bio-IT World
Informatics moves to the head of the class - new academic programs in bioinformatics, June, 2002, p. 62

New York Times
Far from the madding crowd, dinosaurs await. Reviews of paleontology museum Web sites. In Circuits: p.12 1/14/99.
    From unusual homework assignments to a virtual museum. Carlton University's Hooper Virtual Museum
    With minimalist approach, paleontology is brought to Life: Univ. of Calif, Berkeley's Paleontology Museum
    Museum of Natural History puts the desert at your doostep: American Museum of Natural History
Naturalists' new tools are delicate and dazzling. In Science p. 5. 03/02/99.

Genomics and Proteomics Magazine
Options for DNA Microarrays
Integrating the Pieces of Systems Biology

HMS Beagle
A Tree Grow in Manhattan: Profile of Am. Mus.Nat. Hist. Comparative Genomics project. Issue 110
The Case of the Dinucleotides that Spell Danger:Profile of Arthur Krieg and Coley Pharmaceutical Group, Issue 100
Time Off for Good Behavior: Scientists discuss their sabbatical experiences, Issue 93
Goodbye Benchtop, Hello Laptop: Scientists move into science writing and editing, Issue 86
Gatekeepers, Cargo Carriers, & Other Cellular Machines:Review of American Society for Cell Biology Meeting, Issue 71
Drug Discovery- A Team Sport: Review of The Whitehead Institute's Biology of Drug Discovery Meeting. Issue 69
Pharming the Genome: Review of Nature Biotechnology’s Validating Pharmacogenomics meeting .Issue 41, 11/30/98
Windows on Paleontology: Review of the Univ. of California Museum of Paleontology Web Site.Issue 39, 11/02/98
Pixels at an Exhibition: Review of science museum Web sites. Issue 39, 11/02/98

BioMedNet
Reports from the American Association for Cancer Research Meeting, April 10-14, 1999:
   Self-serving tumor cells remodel their local environment
   Bcl-2 Antisense to the rescue in mice with lymphoma
   A novel retinoid metabolite that pushes tumor cells to differentiate
   Antisense moves beyond nonsenseense
   Form or function : Mina Bissell’s award-winning work on the tumor microenvironment
   Profile of Mina Bissell

Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Profile of Chinweike Ukomadu, MD, PhD for HHMI 1999 Annual Report
Send in the Clones: Bioethics Drama Program at Boston Museum of Science
Science Museums teach about biodiversity in urban areas. (Bulletin, 2000)

Whitehead Institute (MIT)
Whitehead Member Gerald Fink Receives Lifetime Achievement Award
Statistics Show Strengths and Weaknesses of Genetics-Common Disease Studies
SNPs Reveal Natural Selection in Human Populations
Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research
Spotlight: NY-ESO-1 in the Clinic
Spotlight: PDGF-C and PDGF-D: New siblings with unexpected traits
Trends in Genetics
Creative alternatives to diploid gene expression: Review of Sex and Gene Expression Conference 16: 290-291, 2000.

Bioresearch Online
Viva la difference: Review of Sex and gene expression conference
Turning data in knowledge: Review of NAS Bioinformatics workshop

The Alchemist
Out-partnering with Big Pharma:Review of the Outsourcing of Drug Discovery & Pre-Clini. Dev. Services meeting,Posted 09/19./99.
New Twists on Chirality in Drug Development. Spotlight, posted 01/28/00.

Current Biology
SPIDER: Astrobiology on the Web Vol. 9: 29, 1999
SPIDER: Human Genetic Diseases. Vol 10: R212, 2000.

CBE Views
Review of  "Breakthrough? The science and politics of medical journalism"  A Columbia University School of Journalism seminar. (Council of Biological Editors Newsletter). 22: 117, 1999.

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