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SCIENCE News, Studies, Research, Technology, Nov 22, 2011


EpiGen announces collaboration with Nestlé
EurekAlert (press release)
22 2011 – The EpiGen Consortium, an international alliance of the world's leading epigenetics researchers (Singapore Institute for Clinical Sciences of the Agency forScience, Technology and Research (A*STAR), National University of Singapore, ...
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New Dual Masters Degree in Information Studies and Latin American Studies Offered
University of Texas at Austin News
AUSTIN, Texas — The School of Information and the Teresa Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies (LLILAS) at The University of Texas at Austin are offering a three-year dual degree program leading to a master of science in information studies ...
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TSA Head Reneges on Vow to Research Airport Scanner Radiation
The New American
Still, Pistole attempted to assuage concerns regarding the machines by promising further studies on the technology. During another Nov. 9 hearing — this one before Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation— he commented, ...
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AcceleDent(TM) System, Used for Accelerated Orthodontic Tooth Movement ...
MarketWatch (press release)
Indicative of the commitment to advance the understanding and efficacy of this appliance through scientific clinical evidence, OrthoAccel® has initiated clinicalstudies with the AcceleDent(TM) System in other countries. The science behind the ...
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Couple who meet at work have autistic babies?
Times of India
"A clear test of the hypothesis will enable us to test if couples who are both strong systemisers, for example those who studied and worked in STEM subjects [science,technology, engineering and maths] and other fields related to systemising, ...
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Iowa State University scientists genetically increase algae biomass by more ...
Science Codex
Martin Spalding, professor in the Department of Genetics, Development, and Cell Biology and associate dean for research and graduate studiesin the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, is leading a team that discovered a genetic method that can ...
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Science Codex
Dartmouth orgs. team up for cancer research
The Dartmouth
DMS professor and physician-scientist Ethan Dmitrovsky, whose studies of retinoids in immune response have been published in a number of national medical journals, attributed his team's success to Dartmouth's research-conducive environment. ...
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UCSD symposium focuses on interdisciplinary research
La Jolla Light
Dean Steve A. Kay of the Division of Biological Sciences, Dean Mark Thiemens of the Division of Physical Sciences, Dean Peter Cowhey of the School of International Relations and Pacific Studies and Associate Vice Chancellor of Research George Tynan ...
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Shrinking piece of the pie chart – Australian science and the world
The Conversation
The dairy industry is Australia's third largest rural industry and the impact of scientific research on its profitability is considerable. Every increase in yield of 0.5% as a result of our microscopy studies could result in an additional 750 tonnes of ...
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The Conversation
Qatar specifically targets knowledge-based conventions
Meetpie (press release)
Tonight (November 22) it hosts a prestigious awards dinner recognising major achievements in the fields of biomedical, energy, computing, environmental, arts, socialscience, humanities and Islamic studies research. General manager, Adam Mather-Brown ...
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Equities.com Interview with Dr. Rolf Hoffmann, Chief Medical Officer, RepliCel ...
Equities.com
For biotech company RepliCel Life Sciences, Inc. (REPCF), promising researcharound the regenerative properties of dermal sheath cup cells could prove to be the break-through that millions of hair-loss suffers have been waiting for. For over a decade,...
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Penn Nursing's Four New Term Chairs
UPENN Almanac
Dr. Bowles leads a research program in the use of informationtechnology to improve healthcare for elders and support healthcare providers' decision-making regarding hospital discharge referrals for elders. Her research also investigates tele-health ...
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UPENN Almanac
OncoSec Medical bolsters scientific advisory board with 3 appointments
Proactive Investors USA & Canada
The scientific advisory board will meet twice a year to review the company's progress with research and clinical development. Reno, Nevada-based OncoSec develops electro-oncology therapies, which combine its electroporation delivery technology, ...
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Proactive Investors USA & Canada
Citizenship requirement for DoD research funding a barrier, says Gansler
Fierce Government
Requirements by the departments of Defense and Energy that federally-fundedresearch be conducted by US citizens creates an unnecessary barrier to development, said Jacques Gansler, a former undersecretary of defense for acquisition, technologyand ...
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In Focus: University expands diversity efforts schoolwide
Daily Northwestern
For ten years, the group looked specifically to hire more women in science,technology, engineering and mathematics, and more African-Americans and Hispanic Americans across the board. The University granted the committee $1 million to fund its...
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Gingrich assembles foreign policy team in time for Republican debate
Washington Post (blog)
Schneider served as under secretary of state for security assistance, science, andtechnology (1982-86) under President Reagan, following service as associate director for national security and international affairs at the Office of Management and ...
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EMD Millipore Launches Industry's First Multiplex Assays for Cellular ...
SelectScience.net (press release)
EMD Millipore, the Life Science division of Merck KGaA of Darmstadt, Germany, today launched three MILLIPLEX® MAP kits for cellular metabolism, the first commercially available multiplexed biomarker assays for this important research area. ...
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Deeper Learning: Engaging Students Across the Humanities
Huffington Post (blog)
The first product combines short videos of a smart college level dialog about a classic or modern text or work of fiction or nonfiction, a primary source document, or texts of history, social studies, or science situated within a social learning ...
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Delaware Sea Grant sponsored papers on journal's top 10 list
University of Delaware
The first of the three papers, ranked third and viewed 800 times, discusses his use of remote sensing technology to track oil slicks and predict their trajectories. The paper uses the Sea Princess and Deepwater Horizon oil spills as case studies. ...
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University of Delaware
This house believes that climate-control policies cannot rely on carbon ...
The Economist
Two years ago, Harvard's Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs published a major study, "Realistic Costs of Carbon Capture". The paper concludes that first-of-a-kind (FOAK) carbon capture and storage plants are going to be much more ...
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J&J drug protocols cost taxpayers millions, lawsuit claims
Dailyrecord.com
But three of the 21 board members that decide which research will receive grants work in the health care industry, including Johnson & Johnson's chief science andtechnology officer in medical devices and diagnostics. “I find it totally shocking that ...
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People's power vs. nuclear power: Myths and realities
Daily Star Online
Bidwai notes that scientific studies covering 136 nuclear sites in seven countries showed some effects. The reference is to a paper by Baker and Hoel in the European Journal of Cancer Care (2007). It offered some evidence of elevated leukemia rates ...
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Tufts professors receive Presidential Award for mentoring achievement
Tufts Daily
As a result of the program, many of the student interns have continued their studiesafter receiving their undergraduate degrees by going to graduate school or getting jobs in science−related fields, Cebe noted. Some have also co−written publications ...
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Does Religion Make Your Brain Happy?
Science & Religion Today
David DiSalvo, who writes about science, technology, and culture forScientific American, Forbes, and Psychology Today, has a new book coming out entitled What Makes Your Brain Happy and Why You Should Do the Opposite. ...
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Science & Religion Today
Congress considers anti-piracy bills that could cripple Internet industries
O'Reilly Radar
The best case technology for finally protecting asserts on the Internet is significantly impacted" by these provisions, he said. That assessment is backed up by components of the US government's own research community. Sandia Labs told CNET that SOPA...
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Girl who loves the sea
Sowetan
These research bases provide permanent year-round facilities forscientists involved in physical science, oceanography and biologyresearch. Recent projects at these bases have also focused on sources of renewable energy such as solar and wind power. ...
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Sowetan
Bluefin Mines Social Media To Improve TV Analytics
Fast Company
The National Science Foundation was impressed with the work. "One of the managers from the NSF's Small Business Innovation Researchprogram called me up,'" Roy recalls. "I said, 'You've got the wrong guy--I don't have a small business. ...
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Fast Company
Being positive about developing an HIV vaccine
The Canberra Times (blog)
The daughter of a Sri Lankan maths teacher who wanted her to become a doctor, Ranasinghe's curiosity for science emerged when she was 10 and led her into molecular biology and microbiology. Her studies took her to France, then back to Sri Lanka into ...
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New home movies resurrect endangered Native American language
Mother Nature Network
With support from the National Science Foundation (NSF), Hermes is combining the skills of native speakers with video technology to help others, young and old, learn the language in the most natural way. She's doing it by videotaping short movies of ...
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Cricketer Ian Bell gets honorary Coventry University degree
Coventry Observer
Classic FM founder Ralph Bernard CBE - Honorary Doctor of Technology (DTech) in recognition of his contribution to the radio industry and to broadcasting. Multi award-winning academic Professor Christopher Price – Honorary Doctor of Science (DSc) in...
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Breakthrough Technology to Freeze Away Body Fat Finally Available
PR Newswire (press release)
Based on science developed by the Wellman Center for Photomedicine at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, MA, this breakthrough is based on a vast body of research that demonstrates that fat cells are more susceptible to cold and are selectively, ...
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West Lafayette native Mohit Agrawal awarded prestigious Rhodes Scholarship
WLFI.com
According to a news release from Princeton University, Tim Leonard, a researchscholar in the Council of the Humanities, said Agrawal is a "natural for the study of advanced economics at Oxford and beyond, precisely because his intellectual breadth in ...
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SA produces far too few PhDs – report
The New Age Online
I only secured funding in the middle of my first year of PhD studies. I applied for 20 bursaries and only received one response from the Andrew Mellon Foundation, and was fortunate to secure a bursary from the National Research Foundation (NRF) for the ...
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Dr Abdus Salam remembered?
The News International
The government be courageous in acknowledging his work and, possibly, to teach his philosophy of science and to implement his brilliant ideas for the promotion of scienceand technology with the hope to hunt talent and produce scientists of high ...
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Civilizations beyond Earth: Extraterrestrial Life and Society
Space Daily
A. The book explores the cultural, social and psychological aspects of SETI, thescientific search for extraterrestrial intelligence. SETI began the transition fromscience fiction to science circa 1960 when calculations showed that microwave radio...
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Our Medicine: What does hypertension really tell us?
Acupuncture Today
This situation of practicing "data as medicine" where the problems of using so-calledscientific research that has been directed and funded by drug companies with the patently obvious influence of these financial incentives on outcomes, ...
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Zakaria: Why all of South Korea went silent
CNN (blog)
No, he means Science Technology Engineering Mathematics (STEM). sigh... STEM refers to science, technology, engineering and mathematics, not stem cells. And Joe is somewhat right. Students studying humanities generally don't realize that they're ...
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New study finds that even the cleanest wastewater contributes to ...
Get science news via ... The study also suggests that standard wastewater treatmenttechnologies ... levels of bacteria are normally much higher than in the water studiedin this research. ... The study is published in the most recent issue of EnvironmentalScience and Technology, a journal of the American Chemical Society. ...
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Department of Computer Science
Computer Science, University of Victoria ... Why Study Computer Science at Uvic ?... and identify new and emerging technology issues for academic research ...
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Blood type may affect stroke risk, study finds - Bioscience Technology
Blood type may affect stroke odds, study finds; those with AB, women with B may have... Daily news and top headlines for life science research professionals ...
www.biosciencetechnology.com/.../blood-type-may-affect-stro...
Students advance in science competition and publish theoretical ...
PHYSorg Science News Wire : Students advance in science competition and publish theoretical physics study -- a press release is provided ... The nation's leading originalresearch competition in math, science and technology for high school ...
www.physorg.com/.../students-advance-in-science-competition...
Rising Air Pollution Worsens Drought ... - Science News SciGuru.com
Home » Rising Air Pollution Worsens Drought, Flooding UMD-Led Study Shows ... the United States and around the world, say the researchers and other scientists. ....Science Foundation and the Chinese Ministry of Science and Technology. ...
www.sciguru.com/.../Rising-Air-Pollution-Worsens-Drought-F...
Top pathologist looks at future of technology for breast cancer ...
Story URL: http://news.medill.northwestern.edu/chicago/news.aspx?id=195404 ...Science of attraction: Northwestern researcher studies what makes ...
news.medill.northwestern.edu/chicago/news.aspx?id=195404
Sexual Seniors Are Happiest ... - Science and Technology News
News, articles & educational resources on history, technology & science issues ...said study researcher Adrienne Jackson, a professor at Florida Agricultural ...
techsciencenews.com/.../sexual-seniors-are-happiest-survey-fin...
Use of Technology-Rich Learning Environment Reveals Improved ...
Applied Science & Technology ... Health Sciences & Technology ... They were part of a study to determine how use of educational technology might enhance learning, ...Researchers at Rochester Institute of Technology have found that use of a ... In thenew technology-rich environment, students viewed multimedia lectures ...
www.rit.edu/news/story.php?id=48699

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