Book Reviews


[Day Permalink] Friday, February 14, 2003

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New York sues drugmakers over pricing scheme: "New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer on Thursday filed suit against Pharmacia and GlaxoSmithKline, charging those drugmakers with engaging in illegal schemes to boost market share at government and private payers' expense." [Reuters Health eLine]


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Mars Poles Covered by Water Ice, Research Shows: "For Martian astronauts, finding a plentiful water supply may be as simple as grabbing an ice pick and getting to work, according to California Institute of Technology planetary scientists." [Google Technology News]


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The Staggering Sum of IBM's Parts: "In the last year, among other accomplishments, IBM has achieved nanotechnology breakthroughs and forged a pact to operate an Internet film service with five Hollywood studios. What do nanotechnology and Internet films have in common? Not much, except that any company involved with both -- at the same time -- shows a fearless desire to embrace what's new." [osOpinion]


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I searched the net for bioinformatics, glycomics, and system biology resources. Here are a few pointers: The journal Genome Biology is interesting, and you can try the online version of the journal for free.