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X-ray of electrode array

Cursor controlled just by thought
BBC News
By Jason Palmer Science and technology reporter, BBC News A cursor on a computer screen can be controlled using thoughts about a range of vowel sounds, research has found. Brain signals have been translated into motion or even pictures before, ...
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BBC News
W.M. Keck Foundation Awards $1 Million to Hutchinson Center to Study How ...
PR Newswire (press release)
This summer, by sequencing tens of millions of antibody genes per person – more than 100 times more genes than can be sequenced with existing technology – a research team led by Harlan Robins, Ph.D., and Chris Carlson, Ph.D., will track which changes ...
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Morgan Shares in $95.8 Million Grant; Largest in School History
Afro American
Morgan boasts doctoral programs in bioenvironmental sciences, the state-of-the-art Richard N. Dixon Center for Science Research and the Center for the Built Environment and Infrastructure Studies, which is currently being built. ...
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Afro American
Virtual Reality May Lead to Real-World Improvement for Stroke Patients
PR Newswire (press release)
Recent research indicates the brain has a remarkable potential for remodelling because after injury it shows neuroplasticity, the ability to create new nerve cell connections. Those studies indicate that training designed to maximize the brain's ...
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Science at a glance: Symposia, research and special events at Experimental ...
EurekAlert (press release)
Nine 25-minute talks and numerous other shorter talks about groundbreaking obesity studies will launch Sunday in Room 202B of the Walter E. Washington Convention Center. 9:55 am (ASBMB) What do blinking fireflies, the cellular power plants that are ...
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Bend Research Receives Patent for Technology That Enhances the Bioavailability ...
PR Newswire (press release)
Bend Research technologies have successfully enabled the advancement of hundreds of compounds from preclinical studies to several large Phase 3 clinical trials. For more than 30 years, Bend Research has worked with clients to create value by advancing ...
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NYSERDA announces new funding programs
The Greater Binghamton Business Journal
The New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA) is launching new investment programs aimed at the clean-energy industry. The Environmentally Preferred Power Systems Technologies Program seeks to invest up to $6 million to help ...
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Medicine 2.0 Conference at Stanford - Registration Now Open
HealthNewsDigest.com
17 and 18 — and will feature data-driven studies of the latest projects applying Web 2.0 and mobile computing applications to health, patient care and biomedical research. Reflecting the global nature of information technologies, the organizers expect ...
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HealthNewsDigest.com
Young Scientists Congregate in D.C. To Display Research Findings
PR Newswire (press release)
"Research on science, technology, engineering and math education is very important, because one of the major concerns among our nation's scientists is that America is falling behind in the standards we implement for those topics in the secondary ...
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Mentors help jump-start new faculty research, careers
WSU Today
By Marketing and Creative Services PULLMAN - If any of them needed a way to boost their research careers, they've found it. And now expectations are running high as four WSU faculty in the STEM disciplines (science, technology, engineering and ...
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TechAmerica Names Benioff, Capellas To Chair Cloud Commission
InformationWeek
It also includes representatives from technology-oriented academic institutions, including John Mallery, of MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, and Michael Nelson, visiting professor of Internet studies in Georgetown ...
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Clarkson University Undergraduate Named Prestigious NSF Fellow
Clarkson University News (press release)
The National Science Foundation's Graduate Research Fellowship Program is intended to help ensure the vitality of the human resource base of science and engineering in the United States. It provides three years of support for graduate study leading to ...
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Lithium to Elevate Equities and Investor Mood
Jutia Group
Currently, China is investing more in battery technology than any country—to the tune of hundreds of millions of dollars—even more if you consider its entire cleantech spending budget. In 2010, China invested $34 billion in cleantech research of ...
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Jutia Group
Former professor studies effect of sun exposure
Red and Black
Professor Michael Kimlin, director of the Australian National Center for Research Excellence (Sun and Health) at Queensland University of Technology, will discuss the effects of sun exposure on vitamin D production and skin cancer. ...
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11 award-winning scientists to talk about successes, future of biomedical research
EurekAlert (press release)
The award is given to a scientist for innovative and accessible development or application of computer technology to enhance research in the life sciences at the molecular level. Brunger's concepts and strategies helped provide the foundation of much ...
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Breakthrough Study Regarding Childhood Blindness Shared at Macula Vision ...
PR Newswire (press release)
These studies, supported by the Macula Vision Research Foundation, lead directly from recent results indicating safety and success in treatment trials of one form of LCA. Dr. Jacobson's intent is to extend the progress and bring increased vision to ...
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Government Investment for Feasibility Studies on Nanotechnology
AZoNano.com
The grants, from the Technology Strategy Board (TSB) and the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC), will allow focus on joint ventures to explore programmes in applications based on EHS. The studies will also endeavor to understand ...
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Supercomputer Center to research large-scale data
PhysOrg.com (press release)
“It is new technology such as SDSC's flash memory-based systems that is changing how science and research will be done in the Information Age,” added Norman. “CLDS will serve as a laboratory that will put us on the leading edge of adaptation and ...
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Retrospective clinical research studies of FFPE samples can now inform cancer ...
Connectus.net (press release)
SU2C is founded on the belief that there is a strong understanding of the basic science of cancer, and with the technologies available, now is the time to take that understanding to the next level by translating this knowledge to the clinic, ...
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Tanzanians win IFP scholarship for further studies
IPPmedia
He said being a computer illiterate would hardly take anybody to anywhere during this era of science and technology. “The computer course you have completed will help you a lot in your studies because you already know computer application basics,” he ...
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High ideals meet ground truths
Business Standard
The blueprint for post-Independence India's development, formulated as early as the 1930s by the Congress party, essentially sought to leapfrog the conventional development process on the back of rapid advances in science and technology. ...
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Going mobile: Mobile marketing strategies
New England Real Estate Journal Online
Recent studies by Chadwick Martin Bailey and iModerate Research Technologies have found that smartphones are becoming a key component of consumer research, assisting in pre-purchase decisions and even shopping. This is great news for real estate ...
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Polaris Study on Translating Addictions Research into Practice Published in ...
Newswire Today (press release)
Polaris's advanced technology and science driven assessment systems are designed to capture the clinical data essential to quality improvement and enhanced organizational management. Polaris solutions provide advanced analytics to help you improve and ...
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New model of whiskers provides insight into sense of touch
EurekAlert (press release)
The research is published online in the journal Public Library of Science Computational Biology. Understanding the mechanics of the rat whisker system may provide a step toward understanding the human sense of touch. "The big question our laboratory is ...
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Additive to laundry may kill important soil bacteria
CTV.ca
EDMONTON — Research suggests that tiny particles used in such things as odour-free socks may threaten crucial soil bacteria that help plants grow. Biologists from Queen's University in Kingston, Ont., have found that silver nanoparticles found in an ...
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Windows That Block Heat Only On Hot Days: New Research Brings Us Closer
UB News Center
BUFFALO, NY -- New materials science research from the University at Buffalo could hasten the creation of "smart" windows that reflect heat from the sun on hot summer days but let in the heat in colder weather. The findings concern a unique class of ...
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Research in Jeopardy: Plasma lab may face cuts, layoffs
The Daily Princetonian
The lab, about a 10 minute drive south east of central campus, is a major US research center that studies plasma fusion, a technology that researchers say is the energy source of the future. Fusion energy imitates processes in the sun and stars by ...
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Corona '11 fest kicks off at National Institute of Technology
Times of India
Preliminary rounds of a quiz competition based on technology was also organised on the day one. "In the afternoon session students divided into 15 different teams and presented their research papers on new envisaged advancements in their respective ...
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Proveri Inc. Announces Publication in 'Cancer Research' of Study Results with ...
PR Newswire (press release)
Professors Mercola and McClelland are co-founders of Proveri Inc. who licensed the technology from The Regents of the University of California. Over 1 million prostate biopsies are performed in the United States each year, and these diagnostic tests ...
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Physics of the future
chinadialogue
A new deep science programme at Cambridge University, funded by a high-flying financier, will hunt for technologies to protect the planet. John Elkington went to the launch. “Materials research has often been the Cinderella of science, ignored despite ...
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chinadialogue
NewCardio Study Shows my3KG Improves Diagnostic Accuracy in Diabetics With ...
PR Newswire (press release)
NewCardio's innovative 3-D ECG platform technology dramatically improves the accuracy and significantly increases the diagnostic value of the standard 12L ECG. NewCardio is developing the my3KG solution for urgent diagnosis of serious cardiac ...
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Some diabetes drugs are better than others, according to new study ...
By News
New research suggests that several commonly prescribed drugs for type 2 diabetes may not be as effective at preventing death and cardiovascular diseases, such as heart attacks and stroke, as the oral anti-diabetic drug, metformin.
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InVivo Therapeutics Presents Data on Novel Hydrogel Technology in ...
By ABMN Staff
Woodard continued: “Furthermore, in vitro studies demonstrate the hydrogel's potential for promoting cell adhesion, indicating the technology's potential to treat not just the symptoms of SCI, but its underlying neurological cause. ... of the Company's products and technology in connection with spinal cord injuries ; the availability of substantial additional funding for the Company to continue its operations and to conduct research and development, clinical studies and ...
American Banking News - http://www.americanbankingnews.com/
Find Out The Reality About African Mango Diet Regime Capsule ...
But from my study I have discovered the compressed sort of Irvingia gabonensis named African mango diet regime tablets has some web page results, though not so really serious. The most popular side effects has been reported, ...
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BioLaw: Law and the Life Sciences: The Patent Conference
By Andrew W. Torrance
This year, The Patent Conference schedule features research on patent infringement, patent damages, patent courts, empirical patent analysis, patent litigation, interdisciplinary patent studies, and Asian patent law. Here is a press release from the ... In a world that depends on technological innovation more than ever before, the cofounders and I hope this event will help spur the field of patent research to even greater success.” The Patent Conference is sponsored by ...
BioLaw: Law and the Life Sciences - http://biolaw.blogspot.com/
What's New in the eCitizenship World? A Short List of Notable ...
By Cecilia Orphan
The eCitizenship initiative was created to address these technological changes. The participating institutions are working together to study how emerging technologies, particularly social networking tools, support, transform, and shape citizenship behaviors. ... In the last few weeks I have come across a few organizations and research studies that are of particular interest to the eCitizenship: New Tools, New Strategies, New Spaces initiative. I am sharing them as a way ...
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How are interactive technologies changing business communication ...
By Jim Porter
His areas of research and teaching include digital rhetoric and composition theory, technical and business communication, and ethics and methodology for Internet research. Overall, his research focuses on the question of how ... Armstrong Institute for Interactive Media Studies (AIMS, aims.muohio.edu): Lecturer (ongoing, full-time, non-tenure-track) to teach courses in interactive media studies; work with new media technologies and their intellectual, conceptual, ...
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HeartMath's emWave Personal Stress Reliever Wins People's Choice ...
By BO News Network
HeartMath has earned a global reputation for their innovative research and is acknowledged worldwide as a pioneer in the science of stress reduction through heart coherence. More than ten thousand health professionals are now using ... HeartMath clinical studies have demonstrated the critical link between emotions, heart function, and cognitive performance. HeartMath's compelling solutions for stress relief have been published in numerous peer-reviewed journals such as ...
Technology Blog Online - http://www.technologybo.com/
'Good Cholesterol' Nanoparticles Seek and Destroy Cancer Cells ...
By Kate Penolope
“RNA interference has great therapeutic potential but delivering it to cancer cells has been problematic,” said Anil Sood, M.D., the study's senior author and MD Anderson's director of Ovarian Cancer Research and co-director of the Center for .... Deborah Gonzalez Women's Health Fellowship Award, the Puerto Rico Comprehensive Cancer Center, Cowtown Cruisin' for the Cure and a HER grant from the University of North Texas Health Science Center. Share/Bookmark. Related News: ...
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Going Mobile in the PreK-12 School Market | Market Research Report
By admin
Going Mobile in the PreK-12 Market outlines opportunities for mobile device makers in the PreK-12 market, analyzing survey results from district and elementary technology directors and coordinators, as well as providing case studies of ...
Market Research News - http://www.salisonline.org/
Arrowhead Research Corporation (NASDAQ: ARWR) $107M (MarketCap ...
By admin
The fund offers research superiority awards, matching grant awards, and commercialization awards to applicants who demonstrate innovative case studies and are developing some variation of bio-chemical technology to research centers , ... Leonardo is a drug delivery company built around technology developed by Dr. Mauro Ferrari, one of the world's best-known nano-science innovators and has a multi-stage delivery platform that has been shown in animal models to be highly ...
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Does Thinking of Death Make Intelligent Design More Appealing ...
By Institute for Creation Research
Discovery News reported on recent research that suggested people who believe in intelligent design theory (IDT) and reject evolutionary theory (ET) as an explanation for the origins of life do so not necessarily because of religious views, ... For 40 years, ICR has been the leader in scientific research from a biblical perspective, conducting innovative laboratory and field research in the major disciplines of science, as well as in ancient biblical studies and graduate ...
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Only actual and fresh news » Blog Archive » Pitt, UPCI researchers ...
By admin
Pitt, UPCI researchers' cancer studies presented at AACR meeting. April 7th, 2011 by admin. How do certain multiple myeloma treatment drugs cause complications? How does the immune system become dysfunctional due to cancer? ...
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Heidelberg Instruments to Support Micro- and Nanotechnology ...
EnerG2 Announces New Advancements in the Science of Energy Storage. Posted: Apr 5th, 2011. Aldrich Materials Science Collaborates with Agfa to Further Expand Organic and Printed Electronics Portfolio. Posted: Apr 5th, 2011 ... Heidelberg Instruments to Support Micro- and Nanotechnology Research at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology. (Nanowerk News) Heidelberg Instruments announced the sale of an advanced DWL 66FS maskless laser lithography system to Karlsruhe Institute ...
Nanowerk Nanotechnology News - http://www.nanowerk.com/
HPCwire: Business Information Consumption: 9.57 Zettabytes per ...
2010 Report on Enterprise Server Information" are Bohn, James E. Short, a research scientist at UC San Diego's School of International Relations and Pacific Studies and research director of the HMI? project, and Chaitanya K. Baru , .... 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 ...
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Micro-particles may help to overcome high-protein formulation ...
By nathan.gray@decisionnews.com (Nathan GRAY)
Research has indicated that food products with increased protein content have important health benefits, including strong satiating effects that may be of use for weight control. Previous studies have also emphasized the importance of ...
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US radiation study sparks debate - Physics Today News Picks
By Physics Today
The agency has asked the National Academy of Sciences to examine the potential cancer risk involved in living near a nuclear power plant, and the NAS is consulting experts on the best way to go about this. ... Nonetheless, various potential problems with the new study have been cited: It can't control for the presence of confounding factors, as laboratory research can; low-dose effects of radiation might not be picked up; epidemiological studies measure correlation and do ...
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Fox Harrell: "Strategies for Arts + Science + Technology Research ...
MIT Comparative Media Studies ... CMS In The News ... CMS News Archives. April 7 , 2011. Fox Harrell: "Strategies for Arts + Science + Technology Research" ...
cms.mit.edu/news/2011/04/fox_harrell_strategies_for_art.php
African Technology Policy Studies Network | Recent News
Recent News. The third African Congress for Scientific Research and Technology. 2 - 4 November 2010, Cairo, Egypt. ATPS championed the success of its youth ...
www.atpsnet.org/media_centre/news/article.php?article=58
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