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SCIENCE News, Studies, Research, Technology, Apr 06, 2011

USRA Selected to Lead Goddard Earth Sciences Technology and Research (GESTAR ...
PR-USA.net (press release)
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) has selected a team led by the Universities Space Research Association (USRA) to facilitate experimental, analytical, and theoretical research in support of NASA's strategic Earth and space science objectives. ...
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Pervasis Therapeutics Announces Positive Preclinical Study Data of Novel Cell ...
PR Newswire (press release)
Research conducted by Mr. Franses under the supervision of Elazer Edelman, MD, PhD, Professor of Health Sciences and Technology at MIT and Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, serves as the cornerstone of Pervasis' oncology program. ...
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Pandor calls for incentives for women in science
Mail & Guardian Online
And it shows in the studies of performance in maths and science at school. Boys do better because they are encouraged to do better." Pandor said South Africa therefore needed to add to existing measures, which include research fellowships and special ...
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Busy roads linked to early births
ABC Online
By Annabel McGilvray for ABC Science Online Expectant mothers living close to high traffic areas may be at increased risk of early birth, according to new Australian research. A cohort study by a group from the Queensland University of Technology's ...
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ABC Online
Consumer Bankers Association Technology Study Finds Regulatory Changes and ...
Insurance News Net (press release)
The report is available to CBA members and associate members as well as to Novarica Banking Technology Research Council members. Please contact Megan Baer at CBA (mbaer@cbanet.org) regarding CBA membership, or Madi Mantha at Novarica ...
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Breast Milk From a Cow? Not So Fast...
Discovery News
Before the milk will ever make it to market, though, researchers will need to conduct clinical studies in animals and people to prove its safety and its ability to heal the gut. For now, the research still has a long way to go, said Steven Miles, ...
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ENZON PHA : Enzon Presents Data at 2011 AACR Meeting
4-traders (press release)
Enzon Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Nasdaq: ENZN) today presented updated data from clinical and preclinical studies of four investigational messenger RNA (mRNA) antagonists based on the company's locked nucleic acid (LNA) technology platform, licensed from ...
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Technology briefs
NewsOK.com
Oklahoma's annual Health Research Conference hosted by the Oklahoma Center for the Advancement of Science and Technology is scheduled from 10 am to noon on Wednesday. The event, at the Devon Boathouse in Oklahoma City, will include more than 90 ...
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Yale's Jo Handelsman Making Science More Accessible
Hartford Courant
Science and technology are the fastest-growing sectors of the American economy in terms of job expansion, and we are not training scientists in increasing numbers to match that. We need to be training more scientists and training them better. ...
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Hartford Courant
Smartphone Ownership Doubles Year Over Year to Nearly One-Third of Americans ...
PR Newswire (press release)
The study, released today, is the 19th in a series of studies dating back to 1998. Among the many other findings: Facebook is now being used by a majority of all Americans age 12 and over (51%); this number was only 8% when Arbitron/Edison Research ...
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Springer launches Journal of Environmental Studies and Sciences
WebWire (press release)
Springer is part of the publishing group Springer Science+Business Media. In the science, technology and medicine (STM) sector, the group publishes around 2000 journals and more than 6500 new books a year, as well as the largest STM eBook Collection ...
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RainDance Technologies Launches Comprehensive Genetic Screening Research Tool ...
Genetic Engineering News
“These new products are part of our commitment to deliver innovative solutions using our proprietary microdroplet technology, by enabling researchers to conduct studies that were impossible with existing technologies.” The panel leverages RainDance's ...
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WARF: ProCertus BioPharm secures $1.7 million in financing
Wisbusiness.com
The firm invests in seed and early-stage life science and technology companies in the Mid west, with a primary focus on opportunities that spin out of the region's leading research universities. Formed in 1982, Venture Investors has offices ...
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Stipends for HCU scholars still pending
Times of India
... quit their studies for want of sustenance money. The Rajiv Gandhi Fellowships, worth Rs 12000 to Rs 15000 per month, are given to students from SC and ST communities pursuing research in humanities, engineering and technology, and social sciences. ...
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Scientists Find New Type of Mineral in Historic Meteorite
PR Newswire (press release)
"Through these kinds of studies we can learn about the conditions that existed and the processes that were occurring then." Johnson's advanced work in nanotechnology is part of Johnson's Astromaterial Research and Exploration Science Directorate. ...
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Second National Congress on Philippine Lakes set
Philippine Information Agency
MANILA, Apr. 5 (PIA)--The Philippine Council for Aquatic and Marine Research and Development (PCAMRD) of the Department of Science and Technology (DOST) is organizing the Second National Congress on Philippine Lakes to be held at the SEARCA Auditorium, ...
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Out of Fuel: Why Hasn't Innovation Provided a Reliable Alternative to Oil?
Knowledge@Wharton
According to a study done by the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory for the US Department of Energy, the US government spent nearly US$4 trillion on research and development (R&D) from 1961 to 2008. Of that amount, energy technology development ...
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Knowledge@Wharton
AACR: Nanoparticles May Aid IP Therapy for Ovarian Ca
MedPage Today
Note that animal studies show that targeted nanoparticle technology may be a feasible way to deliver intraperitoneal chemoradiation for ovarian cancer. ORLANDO -- Targeted nanoparticle technology demonstrated its potential as a vehicle for ...
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Research and Markets: Gravity-Driven Water Flow in Networks: Theory and Design
Business Wire (press release)
After attaining his PhD, he was technical staff member at Los Alamos National Laboratory for seven years, where he performed research on solar and geothermal technologies. He is a co-initiator of the service-learning effort at Villanova to engage ...
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Acceleron Presents Positive Results from Phase 1 Study of ACE-041 in Patients ...
Business Wire (press release)
Findings were presented during the annual meeting of the American Association of Cancer Research (AACR) by Johanna Bendell, MD, from the Sarah Cannon Research Institute. “I am excited to present these interesting data of the novel anti-angiogenic agent ...
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Caliper Announces New Oncology Research Collaboration
PR Newswire (press release)
Under this program, CTR will provide fresh human tumor samples to CDAS for CDAS to perform biomarker and standard-of-care drug resistance/sensitivity studies on these samples. CDAS will grow the CTR samples under various experimental conditions, ...
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Durham College hosts first-ever Research Day
Newsdurhamregion.com
"We're working together to advance a lot of science and technology with renewable energy." Various research initiatives were presented by students and faculty throughout the event. Student presentations were judged by a panel from Ontario Centres of ...
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Utilities had similar report in 2004, EWG says
Norman Transcript
Instead, the studies are provided to subscribers to the WRF's services and shared at professional conferences, in professional journals and in trade publications. In the future, Renner said technology will allow people to see what's in the water more ...
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Btech at NIIT university
Daily Pioneer
NIIT University invites application for four-year full time BTech programmes in Computer Science & Engineering and Information & Communication Technology, Biotechnology and Electronics and Communication Engineering. The programme has been designed and ...
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BioClinica, Inc. to Participate in Upcoming Industry Events and Demonstrate ...
SYS-CON Media (press release)
This workshop will focus on aspects that clinical research professionals from both the data management and clinical monitoring arena can do together. These practices lead to improved data quality and increase the speed and quality by which study ...
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Day 2 of 31st ARAB-ACRAO conference examines technology-enabled links among ...
Zawya (press release)
... Saad Mesbah, Essam Kosba, and Mahmoud Farouk, Arab Academy for Science, Technology and Maritime Transport, Egypt. The final session on day two revolved around scientific competencies that university students should possess. It began with a research ...
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Zawya (press release)
The Science and Technology of Gaming Continues to Evolve » Blog ...
Out-of-towners also were gratified by this recent gaming technology discovery, and some made a 2-3 hour sojourn to the town square in order to hear the good news: “I came all the way from Fondow Svetz county to witness this great day in the history of Wetzstein ... In the long haul, we really would not have made that much money on licensing them anyway, and this way, students and historians in the gaming technology field can use them for further research and studies. ...
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Aldrich Materials Science Collaborates with Agfa to Further Expand ...
(Nanowerk News) Aldrich® Materials Science, a technology growth initiative of Sigma-Aldrich, today announced that it has entered into collaboration with Agfa Materials, a division of Agfa-Gevaert N.V., a world renowned imaging and ... Sigma-Aldrich is a leading Life Science and High Technology company committed to Enabling Science to Improve the Quality of Life. Its chemical and biochemical products and kits are used in scientific research, including genomic and proteomic ...
Nanowerk Nanotechnology News - http://www.nanowerk.com/
Do Bears Hold Key to Treating Osteoporosis? Michigan Tech ...
Search News ... A critical step in testing that hypothesis was to get a supply of bear parathyroid hormone, so Donahue and his research team made their own. Using samples of American black bear blood provided by another research study, they isolated ... Michigan Tech offers more than 130 undergraduate and graduate degree programs in engineering; forest resources; computing; technology; business; economics; natural, physical and environmental sciences; arts; humanities; ...
Michigan Tech 'Latest News' - http://www.mtu.edu/news/
SpaceX Unveils its New 'Falcon Heavy' Rocket, a 22-Story Heavy ...
By Clay Dillow
04/05/11 at 3:48 pm. whoa, offended? It is neat that the space race is going private. I'd hopefully look to see a greater push towards non-research related flights. To comment, please Login. ... Download Our iPhone App. Stay up to date on the latest news of the future of science and technology from your iPhone with full articles, images and offline viewing ...
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From science fiction to research breakthrough
By fraser.shand@nanomagazine.co.uk (Fraser Shand)
Together with colleagues at the Nano-Science Center, her team has been able to combine nanoscale materials and technologies that are traditionally used for electronic devices with individual living cells. The researchers have shown that ...
General News Feed - http://www.nanomagazine.co.uk/
HPCwire: Maryland Science and Computing Firm Awarded National ...
Mar 14 | | This paper presents an overview of NGS followed by key technological and computational issues related to life sciences research, with specific reference to Sanger Institute, that are addressed through IBM's Intel based eX5 systems. ... boost warranty revenue, and improve sales team productivity. Two case studies are presented that highlight how to differentiate your business from competitors, while reducing costs and eliminating inefficiencies. ...
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The Xconomy.com coverage and expansion strategy
By Carolina Business News Initiative
TALKING BIZ NEWS EXCLUSIVE. Bob Buderi, a former technology editor at BusinessWeek magazine, founded Xconomy.com — a news site that covers technology and innovation — nearly four years ago and remains its editor in chief. ... Before launching Xconomy, Buderi was a research fellow in MIT's Center for International Studies. He previously served as editor in chief of MIT's Technology Review, leading the magazine to numerous editorial and design awards and overseeing its ...
Ethiopian Review - http://www.ethiopianreview.com/index/20111/
New Report: “Reinventing Research? Information Practices in the ...
By ID Team
They follow the first round of case studies in the life sciences(November 2009). The overall aim of RIN case studies was to: develop an in-depth understanding of humanities researchers' approaches to discovering, accessing, analysing, ...
INFOdocket - http://infodocket.com/
JRF, SRF and RA Positions at Translational Health Science And ...
Translational Health Science and Technology Institute Announce JRF, SRF and RA Positions in Investigating the Role of Tyrosine Kinases in the Lifecycle of. ... Vaccine and Infectious Disease Research Center (VIDRC) has been set up as a mission center of the THSTI to study infectious disease and pathogens with the aim to generate translational knowledge for developing prophylactic and ...
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JSU researchers awarded major grant to study levee strengthening ...
By Jackson State University
News, Awards, Interviews and more… ... Thanks to a major research project sponsored by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, researchers at Jackson State University are developing innovative techniques for levee strengthening during hurricanes. ... The simulations will evaluate the use of high-performance turf reinforcement mats, which have extremely high tensile strengths and use a fiber technology specially created to lock soil in place. This project also applies ...
Jackson State University News Room - http://jacksonstate.wordpress.com/
FoS Students' Weekly E-Newsletter #28 : Faculty of Science
By Dawna MacIvor
In the news this week: 1. Dates to remember 2. “Science as Art” upcoming Photo Competition for 2012 Calendars on April 6 3. EPSS Wants You! 4. Just@Dal.ca 5. Undergraduate Research Prize - deadline is April 8th ..... All application documentation should be sent directly to the Research & Graduate Studies Office at NSAC. Applicants must reference this specific research assistantship in their description of research interests to be considered for this position. ...
Faculty of Science - https://blogs.dal.ca/science/
Kidney Cancer Patients Who Have Only Partial Organ Removal Are ...
By Health
Over the last couple decades, patients with kidney cancer have been diagnosed earlier thanks to improved technology. Earlier diagnosis and an aging population have all contributed to an increasing incidence of kidney cancer. Those in the research and medical fields have been surprised that patient survival rates haven't increased despite earlier diagnosis of renal cell carcinoma. That concern led to studies on partial vs. whole-organ removal. The results of this study ...
Health Medicine Daily News - http://www.healthmagdaily.com/
USRA Selected to Lead Goddard Earth Sciences Technology and ...
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