BIOLOGY News, Jun 05, 2012

BIOLOGY

Physicist and Entrepreneur Dr. Stephen Quake Honored with $500000 Lemelson-MIT ... MarketWatch (press release) CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Jun 05, 2012 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Dr. Stephen Quake, one of the world's most prolific inventors, was announced today as recipient of the 2012 $500000 Lemelson-MIT Prize. An adventurer at heart, Quake relishes in the adrenaline that ... See all stories on this topic »

Fluxion Biosciences and Rubicon Genomics to Collaborate on Circulating Tumor ... MarketWatch (press release) SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, Calif., Jun 05, 2012 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Fluxion Biosciences, Inc. today announced an initial agreement to partner with Rubicon Genomics in a reagent supply and collaboration program. The collaboration will integrate enrichment ... See all stories on this topic »

American Diabetes Association Announces Award Winners MarketWatch (press release) ALEXANDRIA, VA, Jun 05, 2012 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) -- The American Diabetes Association, the nation's leading voluntary health organization in the fight to Stop Diabetes(R), is proud to announce this year's recipients of the National Scientific ... See all stories on this topic »

KYTHERA Biopharmaceuticals Receives $33.3M in Payments from Bayer MarketWatch (press release) LOS ANGELES, Jun 05, 2012 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- KYTHERA Biopharmaceuticals, Inc. (KYTHERA) today announced that it has received a $15.8 million payment from Bayer Consumer Care AG (Bayer) under the terms of their August 2010 collaboration arrangement to ... See all stories on this topic »

YarcData Announces $100000 Big Data Graph Analytics Challenge MarketWatch (press release) PLEASANTON, CA and SAN FRANCISCO, CA, Jun 05, 2012(MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) -- At the 2012 Semantic Technology & Business Conference in San Francisco, YarcData Inc., a Cray company (NASDAQ:CRAY) , today announced the planned launch of a "Big Data" ... See all stories on this topic »

Alliance for Regenerative Medicine Announces Agenda for Clinical Outlooks for ... MarketWatch (press release) WASHINGTON, DC, Jun 05, 2012 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) -- The Alliance for Regenerative Medicine (ARM), the international organization representing the interests of the regenerative medicine community, today announced the full agenda for the Clinical ... See all stories on this topic »

OtterCares & OtterBox Award 2012 Entrepreneurial Scholarships MarketWatch (press release) FORT COLLINS, Colo., Jun 05, 2012 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- As another school year comes to a close, the OtterCares(R) Foundation is proud to award the annual OtterBox(R) Entrepreneurial Scholarship to five worthy students. Created in 2007 to recognize and ... See all stories on this topic »

ICA Appoints Harry R. Jacobson Chairman of its Board of Directors MarketWatch (press release) NASHVILLE, Tenn., Jun 05, 2012 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- ICA ( www.icainformatics.com ), a leading provider of interoperability technology that enables care management and health information exchange (HIE), announced today it has appointed Harry R. Jacobson, ... See all stories on this topic »

biomedical engineering symposium focuses on collaboration University of Delaware 9:55 am, June 4, 2012--Biomedical engineering is a cross-disciplinary field that blurs the boundaries between engineering and medicine to improve human health. It involves analyzing and solving emerging, complex biological and medical problems as well ... See all stories on this topic » University of Delaware

Sleazy 'Piranha 3DD' is sub-par sequel East Valley Tribune Posted: Monday, June 4, 2012 2:00 pm | Updated: 2:48 pm, Mon Jun 4, 2012. Although a sequel to 2010's "Piranha 3D" seems entirely superfluous, don't tell that to the target demo of gorehounds and softcore-deprived teens (if they still exist) who may ... See all stories on this topic »

Modoc sucker may be reclassified under ESA Herald and News Posted: Tuesday, June 5, 2012 12:00 am | Updated: 11:16 pm, Mon Jun 4,2012. The Modoc sucker, a small fish found in areas of Modoc and Lake counties, may be reclassified under the Endangered Species Act. Currently listed as endangered, a status review ... See all stories on this topic »

Natural “exercise” hormone transforms fat cells Harvard Health Publications (blog) “Irisin travels throughout the body in the blood and alters fat cells,” explains Dr. Anthony Komaroff, editor in chief of the Harvard Health Letter, in the June 2012 issue. “If your goal is to lose weight, you want to increase the number of brown fat ... See all stories on this topic »

Why do some people blame themselves for everything? Mother Nature Network By Stephanie Pappas, LiveScienceMon, Jun 04 2012 at 4:18 PM EST People prone to depression may struggle to organize information about guilt and blame in the brain, new neuroimaging research suggests. Crushing guilt is a common symptom of depression, ... See all stories on this topic » Mother Nature Network

Hannah Anthony receives awards at Gettysburg College Spring Honors Day Community Advocate Hannah Anthony, of Northborough, received the Betty M. Barnes Memorial Award in Biology, the Earl Kresge Stock Writing Prizes –Sciences, and the Henry WA Hanson Award at the College's Spring Honors Day ceremonies. Gettysburg College is a highly ... See all stories on this topic »

Science gets a rap – Tom McFadden Scoop.co.nz (press release) By Peter Kerr for sticK (sticK – 5 June 2012 ) Getting kids interested in science is a bit of a challenge around New Zealand, but transplanted American Tom McFadden's doing his best to up the excitement. The Californian, a Stanford biology lecturer in ... See all stories on this topic »

Portsmouth High names its top 10 students Seacoastonline.com PORTSMOUTH — Portsmouth High School has announced the top 10 students for the Class of 2012. They are: 1. Josh Pfosi, son of Leigh and Frank Pfosi, of Rye, was accepted at Tufts, BU, WPI, Northeastern and the University of New Hampshire and plans to ... See all stories on this topic »

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