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		<title>See No Evil, Hear No Evil, Speak No Evil&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.biotechmashup.com/2008/03/26/see-no-evil-hear-no-evil-speak-no-evil/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Mar 2008 19:55:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wendell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Researchers from George Washington University have published in Animal Cognition that monkeys make character judgments based on reputation. In the past research has suggested that primates use eavesdropping and third-party interactions to help judge character, now Dr. Francy&#8217;s Subiaul believes that his work provides further evidence that a primate system exist similar to human social [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mosquito Repellent Haywires Neurons</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Mar 2008 16:25:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wendell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Researchers at Rockefeller University have published in Science the first chemical mechanism on how DEET, mosquito repellent, works on mosquito&#8217;s preventing them from biting humans. According to the paper DEET inhibits signals from the olfactory co-receptor  OR83b. This receptor responds to 1-octen-3-ol, a chemical secreted by humans. When DEET is sprayed on human skin it competitively binds to OR83b [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Crabby Personality</title>
		<link>http://www.biotechmashup.com/2008/03/13/a-crabby-personality/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Mar 2008 16:58:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wendell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As reported yesterday in LiveScience, Mark Briffa, a behavioral ecologist published in Proceedings of the Royal Society B that hermit crabs have different personalities. In the past he has examined how they behave in combat and the value they place on a shell. 
Dr. Briffa&#8217;s method for determining a crab&#8217;s personality was to flip crabs upside down and measure how long [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Stem Cells Used to Create Kidneys and Pancreas in Mice</title>
		<link>http://www.biotechmashup.com/2008/03/12/stem-cells-used-to-create-kidneys-and-pancreas-in-mice/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Mar 2008 19:14:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wendell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Researchers from the University of Tokyo have announced they have successfully grown kidneys and pancreas in mice missing the ability to grow their own said organs. According to Japan Today, the researchers injected embryonic stem cells from healthy mice into eggs of genetically engineered mice that do not grow kidneys and pancreases three days after fertilization and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hormones from the Heart</title>
		<link>http://www.biotechmashup.com/2008/03/11/hormones-from-the-heart/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Mar 2008 00:47:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Most of us think of the heart as a highly sophisticated and durable pump. But another function of the heart is to secrete peptide hormones, which are small proteins that function as hormones. Multiple hormones are encoded by the atrial natriuretic factor (ANF) gene that help to regulate blood pressure and volume. At the Experimental Biology 2008 conference in San Diego [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Building Small Molecules using a DNA Program</title>
		<link>http://www.biotechmashup.com/2008/03/10/building-small-molecules-using-a-dna-program/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Mar 2008 05:13:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The main function of DNA is to encode the building blocks of proteins, and molecular biologists have become quite adept at cutting and pasting stretches of DNA to make nearly any protein they can envision. Unfortunately, small molecules, which are some of the most effective drugs, cannot usually be built so readily. Rather, synthetic organic chemists must [...]]]></description>
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		<title>HemCon Medical Technologies Uses Shrimp to Save Lives</title>
		<link>http://www.biotechmashup.com/2008/03/10/hemcon-medical-technologies-uses-shrimp-to-save-lives/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Mar 2008 16:06:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wendell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ten years ago if you had a car wreck and suffered deep lacerations the standard treatment would have been a tourniquet to prevent bleed out. While waiting to reach a hospital, the result of this treatment could have been loss of a limb or death. Now, it is the year 2008, and treatment procedures have slowly been changing to use [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Do You Speak Fly?</title>
		<link>http://www.biotechmashup.com/2008/03/07/do-you-speak-fly/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Mar 2008 23:34:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wendell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you are a computational biologist you may want to learn &#8220;Fly.&#8221; A group of researchers published in PLoS ONE Computation Biology that through the use of electrodes they have been able to monitor neuron impulses in a fly as it was &#8220;flying.&#8221; The group was able to simulate flying by harnessing the fly into a turntable [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Menssana Research Takes Your Breath Away</title>
		<link>http://www.biotechmashup.com/2008/03/07/menssana-research-takes-your-breath-away/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Mar 2008 21:59:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wendell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If I told you in the future you will be able breath into a device and know if you have cancer, would you believe me or would you ask me what new science fiction book I was talking about? Menssana Research would tell you that the future is now. They have developed and tested a new [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sangamo Designing Proteins that Target DNA</title>
		<link>http://www.biotechmashup.com/2008/03/06/sangamo-designing-proteins-that-target-dna/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Mar 2008 02:34:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Many of the drugs we use to fight cancer or ward off pain aim to inhibit the activity of proteins that the body naturally produces. Instead of inhibiting the activity of a protein, what if you could just instruct your body to stop making it altogether? Or instead of getting injected with a lab-produced protein that your body [...]]]></description>
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