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DISCOVERIES News, Nov 17, 2011


Purdue Discovery in Broadband Communications Highlighted in 2011 Better World ...
MarketWatch (press release)
"We take these discoveries and deliver them to the public. Completing this process requires a remarkable level of commitment by our university researchers and Purdue Research Foundation officials." This year marks the sixth edition of the Association ...
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Mass. research funding at risk
Boston.com
“There are important discoveries to be made,'' Fleisher said. “If we don't get the funding, we don't make the discoveries.'' For hospitals, the federal research cuts would be yet another hit on top of the $2.5 billion to $4.9 billion they are projected ...
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Professor Doug Hilton wins Research Australia Award
PhysOrg.com (press release)
In early 2011, Professor Hilton initiated the 'Discoveries Need Dollars: Protect MedicalResearch' campaign in response to indications that cuts to medical research funding were planned in the 2011-2012 Federal Budget. The campaign roused strong ...
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PhysOrg.com (press release)
New Support for Alleged Noah's Ark Discovery
SBWire (press release)
Now, a professional archaeologist states there is significant merit to their discovery. Harvard University educated archaeologist and director of the Paleontological Research Corporation, Dr. Joel Klenck, surveyed the site, analyzed the archaeological ...
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Deficit deal could place research grants, jobs, lives at risk
Columbus Dispatch
His mother, Beth, doubts it would be possible to fund cancer research from just private sources. WASHINGTON — Scientists on the cusp of life-saving discoveries about hundreds of diseases are facing the possibility of a significant financial roadblock. ...
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Columbus Dispatch
New discoveries about human risk aversion and decision-making
EurekAlert (press release)
Scientists presented research today identifying regions and functions of the brain involved in such decisions to provide fresh insights into how humans explore the unknown. These findings also add to a relatively new area of inquiry — neuroeconomics ...
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Oceanic Discoveries With Medicinal Powers
PolicyMic
Marine discoveries like these have helped to further medical progression, which in the case of the horseshoe crab includes the development of wound dressings, optical research, and the guarantee that all your injections are free from bacterial ...
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UAA anthropologist's discoveries rewrite history of Aleutian society
Anchorage Daily News
Whatever her research team finds will be public information, widely shared with Aleutian Island Native groups, land managers and educators. Already their Facebook page and You Tube channels have been conduits for sharing what they find, as they find it ...
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Sarah Cannon Research Institute to Present Clinical Trial Findings at ...
MarketWatch (press release)
... International Conference on Molecular Targets and Cancer Therapeutics: Discovery, Biology and Clinical Applications, November 12-16, in San Francisco. Conference organizers include the European Organisation for the Research and Treatment of Cancer, ...
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Research examines a growing immigrant population's self employment in the US
Science Codex
For a growing immigrant community in the United States, setting up shop means blending tools of the trade from home with discoveries made in the new country, and there's a strategy that's threading through an array of small businesses. ...
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AKC Canine Health Foundation Awards 21 Research Grants for 2012
MarketWatch (press release)
"Research funded by the Foundation often provides information for discoveries in human illnesses,"Warren said. "There are a number of research projects this year that have the potential to be translational from dogs to humans. ...
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Liquid Robotics Ocean Robots Embark on World Record Journey Across Pacific ...
MarketWatch (press release)
The purpose of this unprecedented PacX (Pacific crossing) voyage is to foster new scientificdiscoveries in ocean science by making available vast amounts of ocean data collected and transmitted globally during the Wave Gliders' yearlong journey. ...
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Cell death research wins professor Andreas Strasser 2011 Victoria Prize
EurekAlert (press release)
Professor David Vaux, head of the institute's Cell Signalling and Cell Death division, said Professor Strasser had made many significant discoveries into the control of cell death. "In the 22 years that I have collaborated with Andreas, ...
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Research on Flies Could Unlock Aging Mysteries
WHSV
You don't really think about discoveries in flies having very much to do with human life span or anything else," Garber said. However, Dr. Copeland says the flies are at the very center of unlocking the mysteries of aging. "A lot of our understanding ...
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First woman to get top NZ science award
Sydney Morning Herald
Royal Society president Garth Carnaby says Prof Winterbourn's work has opened the path for groundbreaking research. During the past 40 years, Prof Winterbourn had made several seminaldiscoveries which had important implications for medical research, ...
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Glaxo establishes health research fund in Canada
Globe and Mail
... research institutions or small companies, with the goal of commercializing the innovative work under way there, said Paul Lucas, the head of GSK's Canadian subsidiary. It will provide the risk capital needed to turn discoveries into real products,...
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Globe and Mail
Technology Changing Exploration's Paradigm
Huffington Post (blog)
Exploration and the discovery process will remain at the forefront as we struggle to find ways to balance and manage our natural world while providing for its peoples. More and more exploration and field research will serve to provide information ...
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Pantarhei Bioscience announces discovery of antigen (ZP3) as a treatment to ...
PharmiWeb.com (press release)
Since its foundation in 1907, Imperial's contributions to society have included the discovery of penicillin, the development of holography and the foundations of fibre optics. This commitment to the application of research for the benefit of all ...
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Elsevier's BrainNavigator 3.2 Offers New Functionality to Speed Neurological ...
PR Newswire (press release)
Offering both free and subscription-based content, this dynamic new resource represents a promising step towards new discoveries in the advancement of brain research. All users will be able to browse images and structures. Paid subscribers will enjoy ...
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Medco Research Institute Study Shows Some Patients Discontinue New ...
PR Newswire (press release)
Medco Research Institute® is an evidence-based research organization focused solely on novelresearch, analytics and new discoveries that close the gap between scientific discovery and medical practice for improved patient outcomes and lower overall ...
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What they're saying about The Great Dinosaur Discoveries
Scientific American (blog)
In writing GDD I deliberately chose those key or interesting dinosaur discoveries that helped shape our view of dinosaurs and their history and evolution; I tried to make it clear that human history, culture and research focus has indeed shaped our ...
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Scientific American (blog)
The World's Most Difficult Chemical Experiment: The Struggle to Discover the ...
Science Daily (press release)
Although this is basic research in its truest sense, these discoveries may improve current mathematical chemical models. These models are the basis for all chemistry. The chemists use them to predict chemical reactions. "The data from the experiments ...
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What Newton Never Knew: the Physics of Insight
AdAge.com
The first major discovery concerns the relationship between your ideas and your physical experiences. Research has revealed that your brain is built to use interactions with the physical world -- like sensations of hot and cold, or the feeling of ...
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Review: Aliens: Fast Track to Heaven
The Outhouse
But more spectacular discoveries elsewhere in the cosmos have left Europa's research facilities underfunded and ignored, a lonely wayside with an orbital station and a decaying space elevator. When one of the elevators stops midway, the rescue team ...
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American Heart Association honors two Brigham and Women's cardiologists
Boston.com
... was given the basic research prize for what Dr. Gordon Tomaselli, the group's president, called “seminal contributions to cardiovascular science” made by Libby and colleagues in his lab. Among those is the discovery that cells in the blood vessel ...
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Swedish Awarded Major NIH Grant for Brain Disorders Research
Sacramento Bee
He noted that the major challenge for the NeuroNEXT consortium will be to translate discoveriesabout neurological diseases into improvements in health, while pushing the frontiers of basicresearch forward. Many serious neurological disorders will ...
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Binghamton University Opens New Engineering and Science Facility
WBGH
“The cutting-edge research and development being done at Binghamton University is valuable to both our local and state economies. This state-of-the-art building will be home to many new ideas and newdiscoveries.” The building is tracking LEED ...
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NASA Research: Astronauts' Vision at Risk
Empowered News
The knowledge and discoveries that we have today, we owe it to our astronauts or men of space who are considered to be heroes for giving their lives for the sake of science. Lately its was found out by NASA researchers that astronauts who spend six...
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Empowered News
Domino's Pizza Gives Thanks and Raises Some 'Dough' for St. Jude Children's ...
PR Newswire (press release)
"This year, in addition to our $250000 donation, our goal is to raise $3 million for St. Jude to support their breakthrough discoveries and research that lead to lifesaving cures for children and their families around the world. ...
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UCSF Research Shows How the Bite of a Small Texas Snake Causes Extreme Pain
UCSF Today
The work follows up on earlier discoveries Julius and his colleagues have made involving the spice of chili peppers, wasabi and mint, and how their chemicals work in the body. In the study, Julius' graduate student Christopher J. Bohlen screened venom...
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UCSF Today
Stem cell research offers hope to thousands
89.3 KPCC
"In just the four short years that funding's been allowed, we have just over a thousand new medical discoveries published. We're beginning to save lives," Klein said. Scientists Continue Stem Cell Research While Courts Debate Ban.
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89.3 KPCC
DBI research team works to sequence, assemble, annotate medicago genome
University of Delaware
“It represents a model plant providing tremendous value for basic research. It's very rewarding that we were able to develop this and be among the first to use this resource for exciting discoveries in plant biology.” With the annotation of the ...
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University of Delaware
Gladstone Founder Receives American Heart Association Distinguished Scientist ...
UCSF Today
“Dr. Mahley has long been an exemplar of excellence in cardiovascular research,” said Garret FitzGerald, chair of the American Heart Association's Distinguished Scientists Selection Committee. “His penetrating insights and discoveries around apoE have ...
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New 'Pathophysiology in Medicine' Series Launches in The American Journal of ...
Newswise (press release)
(November 17, 2011) – As scientific research delves into the processes underlying human disease, doctors are challenged to integrate these new discoveries into patient care. To help bridge the gap between basic science research and clinical practice, ...
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