Genes Culled From Desert Soils Suggest Potential Medical Resource Despite their ecologic similarity, soils from three geographically distinct areas of the American southwest harbor vastly different collections of small, biosynthetic genes, a finding that suggests the existence of a far greater diversity of potentially useful products than was previously ...

WASHINGTON, May 21, 2012 Almost a century after telephone pioneer Alexander Graham Bell first popularized the idea of measuring smells, chemical vapor sensors ― "electronic noses" ― are being developed for use in diagnosing disease, detecting national security threats, and other futuristic uses. A new episode ...

Ellen Jo Baron, Ph.D., D(ABMM), Professor Emerita, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, has been honored with the 2012 ASM Founders Distinguished Service Award for her years of volunteer service to ASM. "For as long as I can recall during my career in clinical microbiology, Baron has ...

(American Chemical Society) Almost a century after telephone pioneer Alexander Graham Bell first popularized the idea of measuring smells, chemical vapor sensors -- "electronic noses" -- are being developed for use in diagnosing disease, detecting national security threats, and other futuristic uses.

(American Society for Microbiology) In this month's issue: "Genes Culled From Desert Soils Suggest Potential Medical Resource"; "Garlic Constituent Blocks Biofilm Formation, Could Benefit CF Patients and Others"; "Experimental Vaccine Elicits Robust Response Against Both HIV and Tuberculosis"; and "Antibiotics Boost Risk of Infection with Antifungal-Resistant Candida."

(Kessler Foundation) John DeLuca, Ph.D., VP of Research & Training at Kessler Foundation, is a panelist for the May 23 (7-8 pm ET) national webcast sponsored by National MS Society, "The Next Frontier: Understanding and Treating Progressive MS." Dr. DeLuca, an expert in cognition, joins Peter Calabresi, M.D., of Johns ...

The world's leading event in reproductive medicine is less than two months away. The field is one of the most exciting in journalism - and ESHRE's annual meeting one of the best sources of news and feature material. This year's event in Istanbul promises to be as scientifically and clinically ...

(European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology) The world's leading event in reproductive medicine is less than two months away. The field is one of the most exciting in journalism -- and ESHRE's annual meeting one of the best sources of news and feature material. This year's event in Istanbul ...

(Wiley-Blackwell) Wiley-Blackwell, the scientific, technical, medical, and scholarly publishing business of John Wiley & Sons, Inc. (NYSE: JWa), (NYSE: JWb), today announced that it has been selected by the Obesity Society to publish their journal, Obesity.

(New Jersey Institute of Technology) NJIT Associate Professor Stephen Pemberton will speak about hemophilia to physicians on May 16, 2012 in Princeton at the Nassau Club at a special meeting of the Medical History Society of New Jersey.

(American Society for Microbiology) The American Society for Microbiology will hold its 112th General Meeting June 16-19, 2012 in San Francisco, California. The meeting will feature approximately 3,000 individual scientific presentations spanning the breadth of microbiology and has an expected attendance of 10,000.

"Over-consumption in rich countries and rapid population growth in the poorest both need to be tackled to put society on a sustainable path," according to a report by an expert group convened by the Royal Society, BBC News reports.