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Need Cures? Who Ya Gonna Call?

Margaret Anderson | Posted 01.14.2013 | Healthy Living
Read More: Nih, New Research, Science, Cures, Life Sciences, Health Care, Medical Breakthroughs, Sequestration, Research, Medical Funding, Medical Research, Scientific Funding, Medical Cures, Medical Research Funding, Health Research, Health News, Science Funding, Healthy Living News
Margaret Anderson

While we need to celebrate the success stories in medical research that allow us to carry on our lives, we have more work to do. We must ensure that we continue to have a robust flow of scientific discoveries that we can then translate into better health.

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'Trust Molecule' Dictates How We Form Relationships, Expert Writes

online.wsj.com | Posted 04.30.2012 | Science
Read More: Neurotransmitter, Oxytocin, Trust Molecule, Life Sciences, Brain, Biology, Neurochemistry, Science News

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What Really Causes Brain Freeze? Scientists Pinpoint Cause

Posted 04.23.2012 | Science
Read More: Video, Neuroscience, Migraines, Brain, Ice Cream, Biology, Ice Cream Headache, Brain Science, Life Sciences, Headache, Brain Freeze, Science News

By: Jennifer Welsh, LiveScience Staff Writer Published: 04/22/2012 05:03 PM EDT on LiveScience Most people have likely experienced brain freeze ...

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WATCH: Leg-Snapping Study Spotlights Bug's Amazing Strength

| Erin Loury | Posted 04.12.2012 | Science
Read More: Biomimicry, Grasshopper, Locust, Locust Iron, Biology, Chitin, Grasshopper Legs, Insects, Life Sciences, Insect Cuticle, Locust Legs, Video, Science News

A cockroach crunched underfoot may not seem like a model of strength, but scientists have discovered that bug skeletons are tougher than we think. I...

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WATCH: Up Close, Microbes Look Menacing, Marvelous

Posted 04.11.2012 | Science
Read More: Micro Empire, Video, Microscope, Microorganism, Biology, Dark Field Microscopy, Clemens Wirth, Microbiology, Life Sciences, Microbe Pictures, Science News

Would you get up close to a 200 million-year-old creature with squirming tentacles and ferocious, snapping pincers? Austrian filmmaker and multimedia ...

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PHOTOS: 'Animal Inside Out' Exhibition Shows Guts, Blood Vessels

Posted 04.05.2012 | Science
Read More: Video, Animals Inside Out, Cadaver, Natural History Museum, Body Worlds, Gunther Von Hagen, Slidewide, Life Sciences, Animals, Plastination, Slidepollajax, Anatomy, Science News

Do the 'plasticized' cadavers in German anatomist Gunther von Hagens' "Body Worlds exhibitions take your breath away, or get under your skin? What...

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WATCH: Ants' Dying Queen Mated With As Spider Eats Her Head-First

Posted 03.26.2012 | Science
Read More: Prenolepis Nitens, Video, Ecology, Biology, Crab Spider, Dying Queen, Insects, Ants, Animals, Life Sciences, Insect Mating, Science News

By: Jennifer Welsh, LiveScience Staff Writer Published: 03/24/2012 11:46 AM EDT on LiveScience We can't all be picky about our mates, and ants e...

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WATCH: Surprising Way Tiny Plankton Avoid Hungry Fish

| Daniel Strain | Posted 03.22.2012 | Science
Read More: Video, Plankton, Biology, Crustacean, Predator Prey, Flying Plankton, Copepod, Animals, Life Sciences, Marine Biology, Science News

Plankton bring the flea circus to the ocean. Like flying trapeze artists or tumbling acrobats, these tiniest of marine animals can really soar above t...

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World's Oldest Salamander Species Discovered In China

Posted 03.13.2012 | Science
Read More: Beiyanerpeton Jianpingensis, Salamander, Paleontology, Jurassic Salamander, Reptile, Dinosaurs, Animals, Life Sciences, Peking University, Video, Science News

By: Jennifer Welsh, LiveScience Staff Writer Published: 03/12/2012 03:06 PM EDT on LiveScience A newly discovered 157-million-year-old salamande...

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What Thoreau's Journals Reveal About Climate Change

Posted 03.12.2012 | Science
Read More: Video, Plants, Henry David Thoreau, Flowers, Spring, Climate Change, Botany, Life Sciences, Global Warming, Science News

By: Wynne Parry, LiveScience Senior Writer Published: 03/09/2012 12:11 PM EST on LiveScience Springtime in Concord, Mass., has changed since the t...

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Woolly Mammoth Extinction Gets Surprising New Explanation

| Posted 03.06.2012 | Science
Read More: Video, Prehistoric Animals, Elephants, Megafauna, Woolly Mammoth, Paleontology, Extinction, Mammoth, Climate Change, Woolly Mammoth Extinction, Zoology, Life Sciences, Slidepollajax, Science News

The past few tens of millennia were hard times for the "megafauna" of the world. Hundreds of big-bodied species—from the mammoths of North America t...

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Red Dress Study Shows What Men REALLY Think About Women In Crimson

| By Daniel Strain | Posted 02.29.2012 | Science
Read More: Video, Red Dress, Red Dress Effect, Sex Psychology, Psychology, Life Sciences, Science News

Red dresses muddle men's minds, just ask The Matrix's Neo. In a scene from the 1999 sci-fi film, the hero is famously ambushed after becoming distract...

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WATCH: Ferocious Fish's Secret Weapon Revealed

| Jane J. Lee | Posted 02.27.2012 | Science
Read More: Lionfish, Video, Fish, Pacific, Animals, Life Sciences, Atlantic, Red Pacific Lionfish, Science News

Since their introduction to the Atlantic Ocean in the 1980s, Pacific red lionfish (Pterois volitans) have gobbled up native Caribbean and western Atla...

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PHOTOS: Puppy-Sized Prehistoric Horses May Portend Puny Humans

| Katherine Harmon | Posted 02.24.2012 | Science
Read More: Ancient Miniature Horse, Paleontology, Sifrhippus, Climate Change, Miniature Horse, Sifrhippus Sandrae, Zoology, Life Sciences, Global Warming, Sifrippus, Science News

The first horses in North America would not have been able to hold their own in the Triple Crown. At just about 5.6 kilograms the Sifrhippus sandra...

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Station Wagon to Space

David Freeman | Posted 03.05.2012 | Science
Read More: Science Writing, Science's Greatest Accomplishments, Life Sciences, Secrets of the Universe, Animal Mating Rituals, Huffpost Science, Science News
David Freeman

Unless you've forsaken the modern world for a primitive dwelling deep in the woods, science is part of the molecular structure of life. HuffPost Science is here to put it under the microscope.

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Boardroom Diversity Means Better Business

Lucy P. Marcus | Posted 07.04.2011 | Business
Read More: Affirmative Action, Biotech, Business, Corporate Sustainability, Women in Business, Gender Equality, Life Sciences, Women Directors, Clean Tech, Business and Diversity, Business and Women, Boardroom Diversity, Business Diversity, Business Women, Business News
Lucy P. Marcus

In the life sciences and beyond, diversity makes business sense and social sense, and every one of us has an interest in making sure that diversity is put on the agenda.

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Why Helping Only 'Main Street' Won't Fix The Economy

Greg Becker | Posted 05.26.2011 | Business
Read More: Congress, Small Business, Economy, Main Street, Entrepreneurs, Economic Growth, Innovation, Cleantech, Obama Administration, Small Business America, Social Media, Treasury, Startups, Timothy Geithner, Gdp, Life Sciences, Entrepreneurship, Business News
Greg Becker

All small businesses are not the same. Until this is registered and embraced by our legislators, this country will not succeed in its efforts to promote economic growth through innovation or unleash our full capacity to compete globally.

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A Perfect Storm: Global Shifts in Venture Capital and Science Funding

Lucy P. Marcus | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green
Read More: Energy, UK, Entrepreneurship, Public Policy, Research, United Kingdom, Science, United States, Biotech, Intellectual Property, China, Vc, Business, Engineering, Cleantech, Government, Innovation, Politics, China Energy, Group of Seven Economies, G-7, Business News, Startups, Clean Technology, India, Economic Growth, Life Sciences, US, Venture Capital, Economy, Corporate, Green News
Lucy P. Marcus

Partly a consequence of the global financial crisis, unprecedented change in venture capital and the science sector is on the cards. And it has additional consequences too.

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How to Invest in Life Sciences

Angela Haines | Posted 05.25.2011 | Business
Read More: Angel Investing, Life Sciences, Biogen, Alzheimer's Disease, Venture Capital, Arthur Little, Parkinson's Disease, Dupont, Golden Seeds, Marie Wesselhoft, Valeritas, Investment, Science, Patents, Business News
Angela Haines

No area of investing has greater potential pay-offs than companies in the life sciences sector. Who doesn't want to contribute to a cure for Parkinson's or Alzheimer's disease?

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A Sunrise Industry: Life Sciences and the Genomics Wave

Fred Hassan | Posted 05.25.2011 | Technology
Read More: Pharmaceutical Industry, Disruptive Technology, Innovation, Life Sciences, Genomics, Health Care, Fred Hassan, Genomics Revolution, Cancer Research, Cancer, Alzheimers, Human Genome Project, Technology News
Fred Hassan

Life sciences will be our country's most important sunrise industry over the next several decades. Because of this sunrise, tens of millions of baby boomers can expect to live longer and live better.

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