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SCIENCE News, Studies, Research, Technology, Nov 01, 2011


Studies in “Choice Moms” – Single Mothers (and Mums) by Choice
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Linda Layne, the Hale Professor of Humanities and Social Sciences and professor of anthropology at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, has been researching choice moms, conducting ethnographic research, monitoring social scientific research, newsletters, ...
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Johns Hopkins Researcher Wins Prize for Breast Cancer Biomarker Studies
Newswise (press release)
The Johns Hopkins Alliance for Science and Technology Development was formed eight years ago as a way to help Johns Hopkins faculty commercialize their researchand technological innovations. High-level business executives now sit on the board and...
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Renal Research Institute Announces Scientific Presentations at the American ...
Sacramento Bee
RRI is dedicated to advancing therapy options for dialysis patients to provide the highest caliber of care based on advanced clinical technology. ASN's Kidney Week 2011 takes place Nov. 8-13 in Philadelphia, PA. It is the largest scientific gathering ...
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Total Nutraceutical Solutions Announces Ergothioneine Transporter Study and ...
MarketWatch (press release)
... leading Immunohistochemistry (IHC) technology platform and target validation expertise within the food sciences market. IHC is a process that detects the presence of specific antigens (eg, proteins) in cells and is widely used in basic research to ...
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Climate experts: Expect more weather disasters
CBS News
The snow-bearing Nor'easter cannot be blamed on climate change and probably isn't the type of storm that will increase with global warming, four meteorologists and climatescientists said. They agree more study is needed. But experts on extreme storms ...
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1st randomized study compares robotic, open procedures for bladder cancer
HealthCanal.com
UT Medicine is the clinical practice of the School of Medicine at the UT Health ScienceCenter San Antonio. “Robotic technology has been around for close to a decade, but a well-designed comparative study of effectiveness has not been performed in a ...
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Babies born via fertility treatment may be smaller
Reuters
"But it's been hard to tease out, is it the infertility or the technology used to treat it?" said Dr. Amber R. Cooper, an assistant professor of obstetrics and gynecology at Washington University in St. Louis who led the new study. ...
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RepliCel Provides Update on First-in-man Clinical Trials and Recent Corporate ...
MarketWatch (press release)
The RepliCel(TM) procedure has been developed over the past nine years by the Company's recognized research scientists and medical experts - specialists in the fields of hair growth, hair biology and dermatology. Additional information on RepliCel is...
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Monthly Tip Sheet: Research Highlights from Biomedical Optics Express ...
MarketWatch (press release)
... and imaging in the life sciences. The journal scope encompasses theoretical modeling and simulations, technology development, and biomedical studies and clinical applications. 1. Fast New Method for Mapping Blood Vessels May Aid Cancer Research2. ...
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White Smile Global, Inc. Announces Initiation of Prospective, Randomized U.S. ...
MarketWatch (press release)
More than eighty (80) subjects from the South Florida area will be enrolled in the studyto be performed by the PSC Research Institute of Delray Beach, FL. Dr. Martin Giniger, the Chief Science Officer of White Smile Global Inc. says, "The White Smile® ...
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Vision and eye problems may increase in high-tech classrooms
Royal Oak Daily Tribune
"Three-D technology can be confusing to the brain: 'Are we moving or not?' " said Roarty, who has not yet embraced the so-called educational benefits of 3-D. But according to the American Optometric Association, early research shows a link between 3-D ...
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Long-term study urged to make impact on society
Gulf Times
Specialisations that cater to the needs of the knowledge economy are in sciences, business and economics, engineering, language, pharmaceutics, medicine and education. “Research should focus on policy-relevance themes with operational relevance to ...
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ASU leads $5 million NIH-sponsored research initiative to advance diabetes ...
PhysOrg.com (press release)
Nelson is an expert in proteomics, a scientific discipline that studies the structure and function of the proteins that constitute an organism. The project is supported under an NIH program that encourages scientists from different disciplines to ...
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Projects to benefit humanity feature in UQ ARC Discovery Project success
UQ News
$700000 to Professor Paul Burn and Professor Ian Gentle of UQ's School of Chemistry and Molecular Biosciences and Professor Michael James of ANSTO (Australian NuclearScience and Technology Organisation) to look at diffusion, a key to performance in ...
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Social media to be used to detect outbreak of diseases
Irish Independent
Professor Nello Cristianini and Vasileios Lampos at the university's Intelligent Systems Laboratory conducted the research on Twitter using two case studies - rainfall and the outbreak of flu. In the case of flu, over several months the researchers ...
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'Protein microarrays' may reveal new weapons against malaria
Medical Xpress
Credit: The Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research, Melbourne, Australia. A new research technology is revealing how humans develop immunity to malaria, and could assist programs aimed at eradicating this parasitic disease. ...
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Exercise your right to a “younger,” fitter you!
TCPalm
That's because new research from the Norwegian University of Science andTechnology shows that middle-aged people who exercise regularly can be as fit as a younger person. “This study found evidence that a physically active 50-year-old can be as fit as ...
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Domainex Awarded Technology Strategy Board Funding to Support its Research ...
b3c newswire (press release)
The funding of this proposal will allow Domainex to recruit a number of scientists, preserving highly-skilled drug discovery jobs in the UK. Given recent trends in the pharmaceutical industry it is very likely that the future of drug research in this ...
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URI Receives Major Grant for Hurricane Research
GoLocalProv
The JHT was formed by the USWRP to advance the transfer of new research andtechnology to improve the analysis and prediction hurricanes at forecast centers. The JHT provides a framework for NOAA, university, and industry researchers to work on ...
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Dr. Kirk Kindsfater Presents Knee Replacement Surgery Research Results at ...
PR Newswire (press release)
His research database also allows him to study different techniques and technologies, and share the information with other doctors. He has given educational talks at orthopaedic forums in Mexico City and Rome in recent years, for example. ...
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Inside the Minds of Babies
Voice of America
This week, we examine scientific findings about how intelligence develops in babies. (MUSIC) JUNE SIMMS: Not long ago, many people believed that babies only wanted food and to be kept warm and dry. Some people thought babies were not able to learn ...
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Consumer Demand Driving NFC-Enabled Mobile Wallet Solutions
MarketWatch (press release)
Founded in 1986, Parks Associates creates research capital for companies ranging from Fortune 500 to small start-ups through market reports, primary studies, consumerresearch, custom research, workshops, executive conferences, and annual service ...
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Brain Health and Performance Breakthrough by Brain Research Labs, LLC
San Francisco Chronicle (press release)
Later, with the advent of the internet, he invented and patented a technology enabling him and a team of brain scientists to harness the power of the web to measure the brain power, IQ, and memory of over 1000000 people worldwide. ...
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GEN's 30th Anniversary: Peptide Therapeutics
Genetic Engineering News
We feel, therefore, that this cooperation will be ultimately useful in all of our therapeutic areas of research.” The agreement was approved unanimously by Columbia's Scienceand Technology Policy Committee, composed of members of the university's ...
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A dog's life: £500k study launched into man's best friend
Media Newswire (press release)
The study, entitled 'Pedigree Chums: Science, Medicine and the Remaking of the Dog in the Twentieth Century', will include an exploration of the controversial role humans have played in the rise of dogs that are pure bred, which three years ago ...
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Cutting-Edge Approaches and Applications for RNAi
Genetic Engineering News
The company will continue to improve on the technology and expand the list of targets that can be knocked down. “We are also working to better understand the mechanism of action. Because our studies demonstrated that the GSOs complementary to various ...
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Lubbock ISD Equips 1300 Additional Classrooms With SMART Solutions
MarketWatch (press release)
LISD is installing a SMART Board 680i interactive whiteboard system, featuring the ultra-short-throw SMART UF75 projector, and the SMART Document Camera 330 in all classrooms where core subjects, such as science, math, language arts or socialstudies, ...
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Let others judge research impact: expert
The Australian
"We take the view that it's impossible to capture all of the impacts of research," Dr Sweeney says. "So what we ask universities to do is to selectively submit very many fewer case studies than they do outputs. "It is for the discipline-based panels, ...
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Photographic Memory: Wearable Nanny-Cam Could Help Patients Stave Off Effects ...
Scientific American
Gordon Bell of Microsoft Research, the engineer who had overseen development of the VAX minicomputer in the 1970s, co-authored an article in the March 2007 issue ofScientific American that chronicled his experiment, which recorded his every waking ...
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Basics on Lake Pontchartrain given at conference
The Lion's Roar Newspaper
According to the PBRP website, the program is an extension of the College of Scienceand Technology at Southeastern. It was founded in 2001 and has worked to restore and sustain cypress ecosystems of the Lake Pontchartrain Basin. ...
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Aeterna Zentaris to Present at Upcoming Major Cancer Conferences
MarketWatch (press release)
Event: BIT's 9th Annual Congress 2011 of International Drug Discovery Science andTechnology (IDDST), Shenzhen, China - Nov. 3-6, 2011 Lecture title: "LHRH receptors as targets for drug development in cancer" Presenter: Juergen Engel*, Ph. D., ...
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Alzheimer's Disease Now Unraveled With Science Articles
Heal Blog (blog)
The research involved several of scientists from different universities andresearch institutions, which also include the Whitehead Institute and Massachusetts Institute of Technology. It has been reported that a repeated misfolding of the amyloid beta ...
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Heal Blog (blog)
Lung Cancer Study Evaluating Changes in Biodesix's VeriStrat Test Over the ...
MarketWatch (press release)
The authors conclude that this finding may support the potential utility of VeriStrat in treatment monitoring, although more research is needed to support the use of VeriStrat in this setting. Authors also surmise that the study results suggest that a ...
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Check Your Receipt: It May Be Tainted
New York Times (blog)
“If we see BPA every day, and it accumulates in our bodies, it might pose a risk,” says Chunyang Liao, an environmental scientist with the New York State Department of Health and an author of a study in the journal Environmental Science and Technology ...
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New York Times (blog)
Helix BioPharma Corp. Announces Fiscal 2011 Results
MarketWatch (press release)
The National Research Council of Canada ("NRC") has granted Helix the right to use this antibody in combination with Helix's DOS47 technology under a worldwide exclusive license agreement that extends to the full term of the applicable patents. ...
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Qatar Shell signs accord with varsity
Gulf Times
“I am a Researcher,” the name given to the final year of the Al-Bairaq programme, aims to further support Qatar University's efforts in promotingscientific research and studies with secondary school students. The “I am a Researcher” initiative gives ...
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Gulf Times
The truth about cancer risk and cell phone use
Western Herald
By Catie Dymond There is no evidential support in scientific studies that has proved a definite 'yes' to whether cell phones contribute to brain cancer, yet the possibility has not been ruled out. According to a recent study done by researchers from ...
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Catherine ... - Science and Technology Studies (STS) at Oxford
By Malte
Catherine Montgomery With the start of a new academic year and a new project on BioProperty: Biomedical Research and the Future of Property Rights, InSIS welcomes a number of new colleagues. The latest addition to the team is Catherine ...
Science and Technology Studies...
Scientists develop technology revolutionizing single-cell studies
Scientists develop technology revolutionizing single-cell studies ... Researchers at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, in collaboration with scientists at the J. ...
manoa.hawaii.edu/news/article.php?aId=4754
Alien abductions may be vivid dreams: study - Technology & science ...
In a sleep study by the Out-Of-Body Experience Research Center in Los Angeles, 20 volunteers were ... More science news from MSNBC Tech & Science ...
www.msnbc.msn.com/.../alien-abductions-may-be-vivid-drea...
Science and Technology - Science and Technology News
Special Issue Highlights Environment Canada Research on Border Air Quality. By: S&T... study, presenting research that contributes significantly to our scientific ...
www.ec.gc.ca/scitech/default.asp?lang=En&n...1...
Cellphone study finds no cancer risk - Technology & Science - CBC ...
CBC News Technology & Science. Major StoriesIn The News. Population: 7 ... Thestudy was paid for by the government's Danish Strategic Research Council. ...
www.cbc.ca/news/.../10/.../health-cellphone-cancer-study.html
Research links water disinfection byproducts to ... - e! Science News
This study, published in Environmental Science & Technology, suggests a possible ...Their research will also help the water treatment community develop new ...
esciencenews.com/.../research.links.water.disinfection.byprodu...
New York City College of Technology - Social Science - News
New York City College of Technology - the college of technology of The City ... The Social Science Lecture Series is proud to announce upcoming lectures for the ... for the integration of laboratory research and technology into the psychology ...
https://www.citytech.cuny.edu/academics/deptsites/.../news.asp...
Science Saturday: Roddenberry Research Center + Skeptic-Funded ...
Take a break and read about this week's science news! ... Roddenbery's new stem cellresearch center, the results of a skeptic-funded climate change study, .... We need this country to begin innovating again, developing better tech and then ...
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