oh poo poo.

POOP BREAKTHROUGH:
Scientists are using poop to identify tigers.

http://sciencenow.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/2009/617/1

This has great promise for use in the tracking of animals because using paw prints is not completely reliable. Humans decide which animals made which prints and humans are suspectible to error. The other method involves using video cameras to estimate population counts; this does not always work because some areas are not conducive to camera equipment. The poo is better because it has DNA, so scientists can be sure in their conclusions.

beyond the beaker

Being involved in the biotechnology industry does not mean you have to be that stereotypical mad scientist type, the one who sits at a lab bench staring at test tubes with goggle clad eyes.

The biotechnology industry is a business just as a Sears or Godiva is a business. There are many types of people who fill many different roles in the company.

These include: discovery research, product development, manufacturing, business development, corporate administration, & entrepreneurship.

Check out this website for more info- http://www.accessexcellence.org/RC/CC/

HUBO says

http://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=114909

please touch museum in Philly, how cool? HUBO the humanoid was here: http://www.pleasetouchmuseum.org/

ET phone home

Maybe all of those movies about extraterrestrial life aren't so far fetched after all. Check this out:

http://www.nsf.gov/news/special_reports/science_nation/index.jsp

If you were to lazy to watch that, I've got you covered. NASA scientist Richard Hoover has discovered a type of bacteria he calls "extremophiles." They're named for the extreme climates that they live in, makes sense. His research has raised questions about life on other planets. Does it exist? Have there been life forms on other planets? Hoover cracked open a meterorite which hit the earth in hopes of finding bacteria inside. He did and these “extremopiles” appear to be older than the Earth. This seems to mean that there may have been origins of life other than Earth. Comets can house bacteria which can then find new homes when the comets collide with planets.
Maybe life does exist outside of our planet Earth?


Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science. - Ralph Waldo Emerson