Animal Testing: Crucial or Cruel?
ABC15.com (KNXV-TV)
After a panel discussion on “Why it is unethical NOT to continue animal research” held during the February meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in Washington, during which several scientists said they dropped out of animal ...
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UW study: Kindle DX long way from being BMOC
TechFlash
Last spring -- seven months into the study -- the UW research study said less than 40 percent of the students were regularly doing their academic reading on the Kindle DX. They said it lacked support for taking notes and make it difficult to look up ...
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Gaming systems drive learning in project
Marion Star
Students are required to put together a presentation that relates to their studies in English, science, algebra and world history. The science, for example, may be how the motion sensors work in each wireless game. The history includes how the use of ...
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Studies: Smart Meters are Safe Meters
NBC Bay Area
The problem is that the technology is still very new, and there are still a few unanswered questions about the utility meters' long-term effects. That's why scientists have launched a massive research project into the impact of wireless devices. ...
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Global warming won't harm wind energy production
7thSpace Interactive (press release)
Wind farms are nearly carbon neutral, and studies show that a turbine pays for itself after only three months of energy production. A typical turbine lasts about 30 years, Pryor says, not because parts break, but because advances in technology make it ...
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Our Plastic Brains
T.H.E. Journal
The promise of neuroscience research does not stop at reading--it can help identify and treat children with math and other learning issues. It turns out that the neural architecture children need to be good at math, social studies, science, ...
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Professional Architects Face Obstacles in Employing Solar Strategies
Newswise (press release)
IEA-SHC Task 41's Team Canada is led by Professor Miljana Horvat of the Department of Architectural Science at Ryerson University and Professor Marie-Claude Dubois of the École d'Architecture at Université Laval. The research team is made up of faculty ...
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23 Studies Find Positive Link Between Library Spending and Student Learning
Newswise (press release)
“Quality school library programs impact student achievement,” says Debra E. Kachel, a professor in the School Library and Information Technologies Department at Mansfield University. “The research shows clearly that schools that support their library ...
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Study: USPSTF guidelines may impact survival in younger women
Health Imaging & IT
Excluding women aged 40 to 49 from annual screening mammography exams under the revised US Preventative Service Task Force (USPSTF) mammography guidelines would have a negative effect on survival, according to research presented last week at the ...
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MIT Report: Spent Nuclear Fuel Storage More Crucial Than Ever
VAdvert Press Center (press release)
While there has been no change in the basic conclusions of the study, called “The Future of the Nuclear Fuel Cycle,” the study's executive director Charles Forsberg, a research scientist in MIT's Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering (NSE), ...
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MPI Research Adds Gyrolab Workstation
Drug Discovery & Development
Gyros AB, a leader in utilization of microfluidic technologies to miniaturize and automate immunoassays, announced today that MPI Research, a contract research organization (CRO) based in Mattawan Michigan, has implemented a Gyrolab xP workstation into ...
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A Clearer Regulatory Pathway for Cell Therapy May Help Improve Investment
Genetic Engineering News
High treatment costs are one of the key challenges—but not the only one—faced by developers of cell therapies, especially in the US Cell therapy has also struggled to find interest among venture capitalists and other investors—more so since the ...
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Genetic Engineering News
ClearTrial Named a "Cool Vendor in Life Sciences, 2011" by Leading Analyst Firm
Life Science Leader Magazine
"This is really a testament to our vision of helping life science companies manage the increasing complexities of planning and conducting clinical studies to bring new treatments to market more quickly and cost-effectively." Gartner is a registered ...
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Using trees to detect contaminants and health threats
EP Magazine
Such solvents "are all small molecules that are fairly hydrophobic and volatile," says Limmer, who has received a National Science Foundation fellowship for this research and will begin his doctoral studies at S&T in the fall. ...
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NYU Abu Dhabi Institute awards grants to support Abu Dhabi based research ...
Zawya (press release)
Together, the four projects encompass a range of cross-disciplinary subjects, including mathematics, science, engineering, public policy, and information technology. "These research projects have been selected based on their promise to contribute ...
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Out of the Club
Inside Higher Ed
Cantor asserted in an interview that the changes AAU had made in its membership criteria last year had put more emphasis on the volume of federally sponsored science and engineering research and put a particularly premium on biomedical studies. ...
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M. D. Anderson Researchers Demonstrate Power of miRview(TM) mets to Identify ...
Marketwire (press release)
The study, entitled "microRNA-based diagnosis of Carcinoma of Unknown Primary," was published online April 29, 2011, and is set to appear in the print edition of Clinical Cancer Research. This prospective study evaluated the performance of a ...
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USCAR Announces New Fastening Technology
Design News
Initial studies and research in ultrasonic bolt tightening at Oakland University in Rochester, MI, determined that real-time ultrasonic clamp-load measurement could cut manufacturing costs and improve vehicle assembly quality. ...
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Design News
March of Dimes Awards $250000 Prize to Scientists Who Explained Human Sex ...
PR Newswire (press release)
David Page's studies of the Y chromosome revealed its role as a complex genetic system with many specialized functions, far beyond determining male sex. "Taken together, the research of Patricia Ann Jacobs and David Page has expanded medicine's ability ...
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caBIG - 5 Useful Online Biology Research Tools
FierceBiotech IT
The information technology network provides researchers all over the country with free access to numerous collections of biological data as well as tools to manage and analyze the information. Those available data include studies from the Cancer Genome ...
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FCC, FDA pave the way for wireless medical devices
Government Health IT
If a device or technology is going to touch the patient, the FDA steps in to assure patient safety and effectiveness. That means the innovator must conduct clinical studies, and early feasibility studies are undertaken to understand how the technology ...
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Embryo stemcell research is inconclusive
The West Australian
We should be encouraging more research in alternative areas that don't involve the wanton destruction of a living human embryo in the name of science. While debate has raged around the world as to whether or not to use adult or embryonic stemcells in ...
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Israel's Technion Develops 'Electronic Nose' to Detect Cancer
Arutz Sheva
by Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu Researchers at Israel's Technion (Israel Institute of Technology) are developing an”electronic nose” that can ”smell” head-and-neck cancer, which often is discovered too late. The initial study by the Israeli research team was ...
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Higher Colleges of Technology Maths Conference opens at ADWC
AME Info
Under the patronage of His Excellency Sheikh Nahayan Mabarak Al Nahayan, Minister of Higher Education and Scientific Research and Chancellor of the Higher Colleges of Technology, HCT's Abu Dhabi Women's College will host the 8th HCT Maths Conference ...
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Alnylam Pharmaceuticals Reports First Quarter 2011 Financial Results
Business Wire (press release)
Alnylam, Max Planck Society, the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, the University of Massachusetts (UMass), and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) signed a global settlement agreement resolving litigation regarding the Tuschl ...
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iCardiac Awarded Seven Global Cardiac Safety Studies for Oncology Compounds
PR Web (press release)
The studies will be conducted leveraging iCardiac's next generation solutions for cost-effective centralization of digital ECG data as well as COMPAS technology platform for ECG data analysis. “We continue to see accelerating adoption of iCardiac's ...
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