Photos: Local craft breweries are on the rise – Boston.com
“A new wave of niche breweries is the most noteworthy since the mid-1990s. New England is playing catch-up with California and other parts of the country ...
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Sociometric Solutions deploying digital ‘dog tags’ to track employee interactions – Boston.com
“The digital dog tag, which Watertown-based Sociometric Solutions calls the “sociometric badge,” has a built-in microphone that can gauge how ...
Impact of Endofungal Bacteria on Infection Biology, Food Safety, and Drug Development: PLoS Pathogens
“The filamentous mould Rhizopus microsporus is a member of the zygomycetes (lower fungi). While some strains serve as food fermenting fungi, others repres...
Follow our efforts to get bio panels into SXSW 2012
Folks, @thisischristina (and writer at SciAm’s Oscillator) and I both submitted panel proposals for SXSW 2012. We’re going to need some help getting...
Editor Explains ‘New Philosophy’ of Open Access Scientist-Run Journal – ScienceInsider
“The new open access biomedical journal announced last month by a trio of research charities now has an editor-in-chief. He is cell biologist Randy Schekm...
Bacteria Flash Like Christmas Lights – ScienceNOW
“But why would it need to, even for a second? The researchers aren’t sure, but they believe that depolarizing their membranes may allow the bacteria...
Ginkgo organism engineers and the pipe – Ginkgoo blog
“Here I’ll try to give a high-level picture of Ginkgo’s pipeline for organism engineering. If you’ve checked out our webpage, you’ll see that we have seve...
Chemically evolved bacteria
“European scientists have created an Escherichia coli strain with a separate genome using chlorinated DNA. The genome should be unable to transfer back in...
Patients, Caregivers Willing To Buy Health Monitoring Devices — InformationWeek
“Nearly 8 of out 10 Americans are willing to pay up to $100 for a medical device that monitors their vital signs, according to an IBM survey that tracks t...
Comprendia and New England Biolabs Connect Epigenetics Scientists – PRNewsWire
“Comprendia, leading developer of web 2.0 and social media tools for the life sciences, sponsored by molecular biology reagents provider New England Biola...