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SCIENCE News, Studies, Research, Technology, May 04, 2011

Hospitals tap BI tools for prescription drug research
CMIO... technology to support research examining the effectiveness of prescription drugs. Harvard Medical School and Brigham & Women's research teams are conducting pharmacoepidemiology studies that look at the effects of drugs in large numbers of people. ...
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Euro Science Network Wins $44.5M in Funding
GenomeWeb Daily News
These BMBS research networks include studies of genome and protein structure and function, lipids, the central nervous system, contagious diseases, cellular research, and tropical diseases. These studies also include efforts to develop new medical ...
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IISC Publishes Research Study on Orbital Space Tourism Demand
Space Ref (press release)
In recent years excellent research has focused on suborbital demand, but few detailed studies have been available on actual market demand for orbital personal spaceflight. Additionally, the considerable change in the financial landscape since 2008 ...
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Nelson Institute director to lead environmental history society
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Mitman is interim director of the Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies and William Coleman Professor of History of Science and Professor of Medical History and Science & Technology Studies. He will be the third UW-Madison professor to lead the ...
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HistoRx Announces Launch of New Research Services: AQUAPrep™ and Access AQUA ...
PR Newswire (press release)
HistoRx recognizes that researchers often need high-quality data prior to the availability of funds for equipment purchase, such as proof-of-concept or grant support studies, and HistoRx wants to enable the expansion of AQUA technology's use into new ...
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Webcam technology used to measure medications' effects on the heart
EurekAlert (press release)
The technology provides a simple approach to perform evaluative studies of different drugs effects on cardiac cells. Cardiotoxicity is a significant problem in drug development, with more than 30 percent of drugs withdrawn from the market between 1996 ...
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Sole Tech Launches Website On STI Fusion Technology
Transworld Business
The 10000 square foot STI biomechanics research laboratory houses state-of-the-art testing equipment and a variety of obstacles like mini ramps, handrails, stairs, and ledges. STI studies every successful landing and fall in order to get a better ...
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SKA to spearhead capacity in astronomy
Mmegi Online
The Square Kilometre Array (SKA) project will spearhead capacity development in astronomy and related fields, says Johnie Swartz, Minister of Infrastructure, Science and Technology. Like South Africa, Botswana believes that there will be growth in ...
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Merion teacher earns Presidential award
Main Line
President Obama has committed to strengthen science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) education and prepare 100000 effective science and mathematics teachers over the next decade. These commitments build on the President's "Educate to ...
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Main Line
UW-Madison geneticist elected to National Academy of Sciences
University of Wisconsin-Madison
... is a private organization of scientists and engineers dedicated to the furtherance of science and its uses for the general welfare. Upon request, it serves in an advisory capacity to the federal government in any matter of science or technology.
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Hydrogen Fuel Tech Gets Boost from Low-Cost, Efficient Catalyst
Product Design & Development
SLAC is a multi-program laboratory exploring frontier questions in photon science, astrophysics, particle physics and accelerator research. Located in Menlo Park, California, SLAC is operated by Stanford University for the US Department of Energy ...
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Product Design & Development
Tomorrow's Technology Today
Express Healthcare
Apart from these cases, Mumbai based Kasiak Research is using ADSC for idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis. “Kasiak has a novel technique for the isolation of ADSCs and the pilot studies so far have yielded encouraging results. The turn around in patients ...
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Express Healthcare
Let there be light
Daily Pioneer
It is an imperative that students have a fascination for science and an eye for detail if they wish to go in for higher studies in Photonics. “One should be good in subjects like Physics and Mathematics. Creativity is also a much needed feature for ...
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World Asthma Day: NIH Research Advances Help People with Asthma
Newswise (press release)
These standards will enable investigators to better compare results across studies and better inform the direction of future research. The March 2010 workshop participants reached consensus on seven key outcome measures that will be required in future ...
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Scripps Florida scientists identify mechanism of long-term memory
TCPalm
JUPITER — Using advanced imaging technology, scientists from the Florida campus of The Scripps Research Institute have identified a change in chemical influx into a specific set of neurons in the common fruit fly that is fundamental to long-term ...
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PBIO and KeraFAST Sign Worldwide E-Commerce Distribution Deal
Zacks.com
KeraFAST is committed to providing the next generation of research tools to life science laboratories worldwide. KeraFAST is an emerging leader in the application of FASTCell™ keratin protein technologies for cell culture systems and in FAST® Slide ...
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Family Time In The Age Of Ubiquitous Computing
PSFK
The Times interviewed Sherry Turkle, a professor of social studies of science and technology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and the author of Alone Together: Why We Expect More From Technology and Less From Each Other: “… people's ...
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Protein identified as enemy of vital tumor suppressor PTEN
EurekAlert (press release)
This work was supported in part by a grant from the Department of Biotechnology, Ministry of Science and Technology, India, a US Department of Defense Era of Hope Research Scholar Award, an NIH Specialized Program of Research Excellence award to Mayo ...
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Dividing by zero
Wilsonville Spokesman
Schauer helps coordinate ISEF projects for Wilsonville students each year along with his wife Amy, who works as a program coordinator at the West Linn-Wilsonville School District's Center for Research of Environmental Science and Technology. ...
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Santa Clara University Faculty Peter Kareiva Named to The National Academy of ...
Genetic Engineering News (press release)
The National Academy of Sciences is a private, nonprofit honorific society of distinguished scholars engaged in scientific and engineering research, dedicated to the furtherance of science and technology and to their use for the general welfare. ...
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8th Annual "What Keeps Network Administrators Up At Night" Survey Spotlights ...
PR Newswire (press release)
Amplitude Research® is a leading market research firm headquartered in Boca Raton, Florida specializing in b2b and technology market research studies. Amplitude specializes in full-service survey research including study design, questionnaire writing, ...
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Lamar's Westgate earns elite honor as 2011 Piper Professor
Lamar University
“Just as the best scientific research today happens through collaborative efforts, the same applies to science education – it works best as a team effort. I think the Piper Professor Award is really a recognition of the successes of the teams I work ...
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Lamar University
RETRANSMISSION: Med BioGene Reports Financial Results for 2010
Marketwire (press release)
MBI will receive royalty payments based on a market percentage rate of Precision's future revenues associated with the commercialization of LungExpress Dx or any other products incorporating MBI's technology. Precision is responsible for all future ...
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Science geek but not so green
Taranaki Daily News
The 17-year-old is one of 14 New Zealand year 12 and 13 students picked from more than 300 applicants to attend one of six international science and technology events around the world. Tamsin said she's a bit of a science geek – not that the label ...
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Taranaki Daily News

Study Demonstrates Electrical Stimulation Therapy Safe and Well-Tolerated in ...
Business Wire (press release)
“While much is still unknown about EST technology, the results of the study are a great step toward determining efficacy of this treatment and we look forward to conducting further studies to potentially reach out to those who are hopeful in delaying ...
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Vacciguard: vanquishing deadly diseases
Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs (press release)
The company, whose technology is based on research by a world-renowned professor at Rehovot's Weizmann Institute of Science, provides the tools to develop vaccines to treat a wide range of diseases, from cancer to other infectious diseases for which ...
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Men and Women Respond Differently to PTSD
Massage Magazine
New research indicates how a person's immune system responds to chronic PTSD depends largely on one factor: gender. According to two new research studies, one from the San Francisco VA Medical Center (SFVAMC) and the other from the University of ...
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Innovation 'crucial' for EU's global economic position
EUobserver.com
It is failing to bring enough new products to the market although it has the biggest research budget in the world. Sunset at King's College, Cambridge, the EU's top-ranked science university. Asian research centres are catching up fast (Photo: ...
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Tech's Top 25
Wall Street Journal
He served as president of the IDEA league, a network of European universities of science and technology in 2008 and 2009, and remains vice president of European Affairs of the IDEA League to this day. He is also a member of various international ...
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District parent fears Wi-Fi effects on students
Canada.com
... districts in BC are conducting their own research into the potential health issues around Wi-Fi technology, and the district will wait until the results of these studies are completed before any final decisions are recommended to the school board. ...
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Successful Blueprints Recycled By Evolution
Medical News Today (press release)
The study which is published online by Nature Genetics has been supported by the GEN-AU Programme of the Austrian Ministry for Science and Research. During the development of an embryo, a large number of different, specialised cell-types arise from the ...
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Stringham pens sci-fi Civil War novel
The Shippensburg News-Chronicle
Following years of DOD-sponsored research on time observation and time travel technology, it all finally comes together. As the project team, led by US Army Colonel Barton Stauffer, begins testing the new temporal technology using the Civil War Battle ...
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ERP Cloud Solutions Are Facing an Uphill Battle with India SMBS
SYS-CON Media (press release)
For more information about our studies, AMI-Partners, or our global SMB research, call 212-944-5100, e-mail ask_ami@ami-partners.com, or visit us at www.ami-partners.com. AMI-Partners specializes in IT, Internet, telecommunications and business ...
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LivePerson Named a Recognized Innovator Finalist by TSIA
PR Newswire (press release)
"The key differentiator of LivePerson's Intelligent Engagement Solution is the ability to proactively engage the right customer at the right time, when they need assistance the most," said John Ragsdale, Vice President of Technology Research for TSIA. ...
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Study Island Announces Winners of Project-Based Learning Activities Contest
GlobeNewsWire (press release)
Used in more than 23000 schools across the country, the web-based educational program combines rigorous content in math, reading, writing, science and social studies with engaging, interactive features that reinforce and reward student accomplishments. ...
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UT Southwestern's Luis Parada elected to National Academy of Sciences
PR Newswire (press release)
Dr. Parada's research integrates the fields of molecular genetics, embryonic development and signal transduction. His studies have provided critical insights into brain development, associated disorders and cancer biology, and have led to the ...
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SVA D-Crit Preview: Q&A with Avinash Rajagopal
Core77.com (blog)
He studied Industrial Design at the National Institute of Design (NID), India, where he was a Research Associate over the past year. He is fascinated by social history, mythology, religion and culture studies. It sounds like you explored other ...
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Core77.com (blog)
School of Medicine Teaching Awards
UPENN Almanac
Dr. Schmitz came to Penn in 2005 to grow a research program on exercise and cancer rehabilitation. Along the way, she became connected to two masters training programs in the School: the Master of Science in Clinical Epidemiology (MSCE) and Master of ...
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UPENN Almanac
Rosetta Genomics Launches Oncology Sales Team
Marketwire (press release)
Our marketing efforts will continue to be supported by the on-going clinical validation of our tests and underlying microRNA technology, such as the recently published data by MD Anderson researchers in Clinical Cancer Research which showed our ...
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Breast cancers found between mammograms more likely to be aggressive
EurekAlert (press release)
Other studies have shown that cancers diagnosed between mammograms, known as interval cancers, tend to have a worse prognosis than those detected during routine screening. This study examined the difference between "true" interval cancers—those not ...
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Millennials Take on the Workforce
SMU Daily Mustang
Furthermore, Pew Research describes Millennials as “open to change,” which allows the generation to pioneer new methods and ideologies and uses of technology in the workplace to advance the work and productivity of a company. ...
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A Buoyant Future for Floating Wind Turbines?
RenewableEnergyWorld.com
In addition, the company is currently undertaking extensive research work with partners Timolor Leroux & Lotz in what it calls Project DIWET (Deepwater Innovative Wind Energy Technology). The project, located off the coast of Brittany, France, ...
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Earley & Associates Offers Two-Part Webinar Series on Challenges and Solutions ...
PR Newswire (press release)
Reich is responsible for the technical infrastructure, medical terminology and successful execution of the research studies. He was a practicing physician before joining the Human Genome Project, and then held positions at Millenium Pharmaceuticals and ...
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The Historyscoper's Science & Technology News Blog: Antimatter ...
By T.L. Winslow (TLW), the Historyscoper (tm)
The Historyscoper's Science & Technology News Blog. Ever wonder why universities don't endow chairs of super-generalist studies? Answer: they only want super- specialists, who feverishly plumb one narrow area for a lifetime but can't drive a car. How many nearly worthless PhDs .... Non-coding RNAs - Kevin V. Morris ( The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, California, USA) presents a new book on Non-coding RNAs and Epigenetic Regulation of Gene Expres... 24 minutes ago ...
The Historyscoper's Science &... - http://historyscoper-sci-tech-blog.blogspot.com/
Electronic medical records speed genetic health studies ...
But that arduous process of collecting data for genetic studies could be faster ... Science News · Scripps Research scientists create new genetic model of ...
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