Today: DISCOVERIES, Inventions News, Apr 29, 2011

Apr 29, 2011

Researchers question ban on gene patent
Sky News Australia
It sought to change the law so medical discoveries would no longer be regarded as inventions. The legislation would cover DNA, proteins and cells. But Professor Douglas Hilton, the director of the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research, ...
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Cape cave yields early abstract art treasures
Independent Online
In Europe, no equivalent discoveries have been made for sites dated older than 33 000 BCE. According to Professor John Parkington from UCT: “It is hard to find regularly marked objects any earlier in the archaeological record anywhere in the world. ...
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Independent Online
Bentley named assistant vice chancellor for Technology Transfer
Vanderbilt University News
Research funding continues to grow in many research areas including: drug discovery, personalized medicine, biostatistics, prosthetics, engineering and education. During fiscal year 2010, the OTTED was responsible for overseeing 133 invention ...
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You're not in a hurry, Sagittarius
Poughkeepsie Journal
Take a moment to celebrate the discoveries and inventions that have provided you with a higher quality of life. You'll appreciate an experience that could only occur at this moment in the modern world. SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 21). ...
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"Cave of Forgotten Dreams": Herzog's dazzling journey to the dawn of art
Salon
But it's not as if gore and splatter, along with the obligatory philosophical lessons about the transitory nature of life and the futility of war, are new inventions in Japanese cinema. Actually, the story Miike takes on here is highly conventional, ...
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