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I’m a big fan of the singer Jack Johnson and for some reason I’ve recently had the song Inaudible Melodies in my head. The song references a story about martial artist Bruce Lee, who apparently moved so quickly that a director for one of his early films asked him to slow down. The reasoning was that he was moving faster than the individual film frames in the camera and that made his action look blurry, or out of focus. The song chorus goes like this:

Can fighting poverty, hunger and improving health in the developing world lessen the threat of bioterrorism?

Project aims to streamline, shorten drug development for tuberculosis therapies

BERKELEY, Calif.—Scientists at UC-Berkeley and Amyris Biotechnologies biosynthetically produce high yields of antimalarial precursors in yeast

CAMBRIDGE, Mass.—Scientists at Acambis, Johnson County Clin-Trials, and UMass developed and tested a live, attenuated vaccine against West Nile virus

STAFFORDSHIRE, U.K.—Cobra Biomanufacturing developed a method that provides cleaner biologics

PALO ALTO, Calif.—Agilent announced it has acquired SynPro Corp.

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.—RNAi company announced a cost-reduction plan within its U.S. subsidiary

SANTA CLARA, Calif.—Agilent Technologies announced at Pittcon 2006 last month a portfolio of internet-based services that promise to monitor its tools in the field.