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Feb 21, 2012

BIOLOGY News, Feb 21, 2012

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PositiveID Corporation to Present M-BAND at ASM Biodefense and Emerging ...
MarketWatch (press release)
DELRAY BEACH, Fla., Feb 21, 2012 (GlobeNewswire via COMTEX) -- PositiveID Corporation's ("PositiveID") (OBB:PSID) subsidiary MicroFluidic Systems ("MFS"), a developer of molecular diagnostic systems, announced today it will present its M-BAND ...
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ArQule, Inc. to Present at RBC Capital Markets and Citi Conferences
MarketWatch (press release)
WOBURN, Mass., Feb 21, 2012 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- ArQule, Inc. (NASDAQ:ARQL) today announced that the Company will present at the 2012 RBC Capital Markets' Global Healthcare Conference on February 28, 2012 at 8:30 am and at the Citi 2012 Global Health ...
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Bionovo Announces Decision to Explore Strategic Options and to Delay ...
MarketWatch (press release)
EMERYVILLE, Calif., Feb. 21, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- Bionovo, Inc. (otc link platform:BNVI.PK), a pharmaceutical company focused on the discovery and development of safe and effective treatments for women's health and cancer, today announced ...
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Nu Skin Concludes Banner Year for Its ageLOC® Anti-Aging Research
MarketWatch (press release)
PROVO, Utah, Feb. 21, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- Nu Skin Enterprises Inc., (NYSE:NUS) today announced the conclusion of another banner year for its ageLOC® research. Nu Skin accelerated its anti-aging research in 2011 with more than 30 scientific ...
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Natalie Merchant Performs at a Very Special Benefit Concert Against Hydrofracking
Sacramento Bee
... Inc. ITHACA, NY, Feb. 21, 2012 -- Natalie Merchant Lends Her Voice In Song To Defend New York's Waters In Support Of A Ban On Shale Gas Hydrofracking In New York State And Beyond. Heinz Award Recipient,Biologist, Author Sandra Steingraber Speaks ...
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Wyndham Vacation Rentals Announces Winner of $28000 Grand Prize Travel Package
MarketWatch (press release)
PARSIPPANY, NJ, Feb 21, 2012 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) -- Wyndham Vacation Rentals, the world's largest professionally managed vacation rental business and part of the Wyndham Worldwide family of brands (NYSE:WYN) , is pleased to announce that, ...
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SpermCheck® Fertility, the Only FDA Approved At-Home Screening Test for Men to...
MarketWatch (press release)
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va., Feb. 21, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- This year, approximately 7 million couples will experience conception issues. A key first step, before the female goes through a battery of tests, is to analyze the male's sperm count, ...
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FasterCures Spotlights Addario Lung Cancer Medical Institute's Innovative ...
MarketWatch (press release)
SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 21, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- The Addario Lung Cancer Medical Institute's research portfolio is the featured innovator in FasterCures online platform for venture philanthropy in medical research. The innovator profile features ...
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Italian Nobel medicine winner Dulbecco dies at 97 By The Associated Press ...
Laramie Boomerang
Dulbecco was a founding fellow of the La Jolla-based Salk Institute forBiological Studies, where he was an emeritus president and distinguished professor. He moved from Italy to California early in his career, working first at Caltech in 1949, ...
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ShangPharma to Present at Cowen's 32nd Annual Health Care Conference
Sacramento Bee
By ShangPharma Corporation SHANGHAI, Feb. 21, 2012 -- /PRNewswire-Asia/ -- ShangPharma Corporation (NYSE: SHP) ("ShangPharma" or the "Company"), a leading China-based pharmaceutical and biotechnology research and development outsourcing company, ...
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Singulex to Host User Meeting for Erenna(R) Immunoassay Technology ...
MarketWatch (press release)
ALAMEDA, Calif., Feb 21, 2012 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Singulex, Inc., the leader in high-definition immunoassay technology, will host a user meeting, timed with Molecular Med Tri-Con 2012, in San Francisco. The Singulex user meeting will cover two days of ...
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DSM Announces Multi-Year Collaboration with UMC Utrecht for Feasibility Study ...
MarketWatch (press release)
BERKELEY, Calif., Feb 21, 2012 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- DSM, a global leader in biomedical materials sciences, and University Medical Center Utrecht, a leading academic hospital with a renowned experimental facility unit for cardiothoracic interventions ...
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Fight Science: UFC 144 Could Serve As A Reminder Of The Effects Of Jet Lag
Bloody Elbow
by David Castillo on Feb 21, 2012 10:00 AM EST in UFC Editorial In his post fight interview at UFC on Fuel, Stefan Struve complained that his performance wasn't the best because of jet lag. To anyone listening, they might have scoffed at the notion.
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Sigma® Life Science Obtains Global License for Kyoto University's iPS Cell ...
MarketWatch (press release)
LOUIS, Mo., Feb. 21, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- Sigma-Aldrich Corporation (NASDAQ:SIAL) today announced that Sigma Life Science, its innovative biological products and services research business, has furthered its commitment to stem cell research, ...
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Cytokinetics Announces Initiation of Phase I Clinical Trial of Oral ...
MarketWatch (press release)
SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, CA, Feb 21, 2012 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) -- Cytokinetics, Incorporated (NASDAQ:CYTK) announced today the initiation of a Phase I study designed to assess the safety, tolerability and pharmacokinetics of multiple oral formulations ...
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Uni Core Holdings Corporation Appoints George D. Capps as Vice President of ...
MarketWatch (press release)
SHENZHEN, China, Feb. 21, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- Uni Core Holdings Corporation (OBB:UCHC) , a Hong Kong based holding company, today announced it has appointed George D. Capps as Vice President of Marketing. Mr. Capps, as UCHC's Vice President ...
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Omeros Awarded $1 Million NIDA Grant for NMUR2 Drug Development Program
MarketWatch (press release)
SEATTLE, February 21, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- Omeros Corporation (NASDAQ:OMER) today announced that it has been awarded a grant of $1.04 million from the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) to fund further drug development against ...
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Jubilant and Mnemosyne Pharmaceuticals Announce Drug Discovery Collaboration
MarketWatch (press release)
BANGALORE, India, February 21, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- Jubilant Biosys Limited, Bangalore announced today that they have entered into drug discovery collaboration with Mnemosyne Pharmaceutical Inc, Providence, Rhode Island that will seek to ...
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Despite Overbought Conditions, Stock Market Trudging Higher
Minyanville.com
By Jeff Saut Feb 21, 2012 9:40 am For the past few weeks, the rise has felt unnatural, though not bearish -- a time for caution. I got a call today I didn't wanna hear but I knew that it would come... Said phone call was from one of our financial ...
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MarketsandMarkets: Global Life Science and Chemical Instrumentation Market ...
MarketWatch (press release)
DALLAS, February 21, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- The "Life Science and Chemical Instrumentation Market (2011 - 2016) (Spectroscopy, Chromatography, DNA Sequencer & Amplifier, Lab Automation, Array, Flow Cytometer, Electrophoresis, Immuno Assay ...
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New Study Shows Minority Toddlers with Autism are More Delayed than Affected ...
MarketWatch (press release)
BALTIMORE, Feb. 21, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- Increased Awareness Among Clinicians and Parents Could Lead to Earlier Diagnosis and Intervention for Minority Children with ASD The first prospective study of ethnic differences in the symptoms of ...
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Senior basketball player on track for straight-A education
Purdue Exponent
6. Posted: Tuesday, February 21, 2012 10:00 am | Updated: 9:44 am, TueFeb 21, 2012. Women's basketball player and biology major Chelsea Jones has what her teammates call “nerd swag.” Since kindergarten, Jones has been a straight-A student, ...
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EurekaMag com Publishes New Reviews of Roquefort, Australopithecus and ...
eYugoslavia.com
Jeremic on Feb 21, 2012 in Featured, General News The Online Natural Sciences Magazine EurekaMag.com publishes reviews of subjects in all areas of natural sciences including biology, agriculture, horticulture, forestry, geography, environment and ...
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VirtualScopics Reports Fourth-Quarter and Full-Year 2011 Results; 2011 ...
Sacramento Bee
By VirtualScopics, Inc. ROCHESTER, NY, Feb. 21, 2012 -- /PRNewswire/ -- VirtualScopics, Inc. (NASDAQ: VSCP), a leading provider of quantitative imaging for clinical trials, today announced revenues of $14281603 for the year ended December 31, ...
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Bidding Farewell to the Law of Human Nature
The League of Ordinary Gentlemen
by Kyle Cupp on February 21, 2012 The day before his papacy began, Joseph Ratzinger delivered a homily in which he made the oft-quoted observation: “We are building a dictatorship of relativism that does not recognize anything as definitive and whose ...
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Does depression contribute to the aging process?
EurekAlert (press release)
Philadelphia, PA, February 21, 2012 – Stress has numerous detrimental effects on the human body. Many of these effects are acutely felt by the sufferer, but many more go 'unseen', one of which is shortening of telomere length.
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For Your Lurid Gross-Out Entertainment
The League of Ordinary Gentlemen
by Burt Likko on February 21, 2012 I have a hole in my shoulder. Not a big one; about one-eighth of an inch in diameter. This has been diagnosed in the past as a sebaceous cyst. It presents on the posterior, above the scapula.
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Precision BioSciences Files Two New Infringement Lawsuits against Cellectis ...
MarketWatch (press release)
RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, NC, Feb 21, 2012 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Precision BioSciences, Inc., a leader in the field of genome engineering, today announced that it has filed two patent infringement lawsuits against Cellectis SA and a number of its affiliates ...
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Takara Bio Europe Offers Real-Time PCR Training Webinars in Collaboration with ...
MarketWatch (press release)
PARIS, Feb 21, 2012 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Takara Bio Europe today announced that it has joined forces with leading qPCR training provider TATAA Biocenter to offer free educational webinars in real-time PCR (qPCR) for academic and industrial researchers ...
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Four short links: 21 February 2012
O'Reilly Radar
by Nat Torkington | @gnat | Comment | 21 February 2012 Stop Paying Your jQuery Tax (Sam Saffron) -- performance advice for front-end developers. The faster your site responds, the more customers will use it. George Dyson Interviewed (Wired) -- a ...
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Top Earners Under Review by NIH
Scientist
By Cristina Luiggi | February 21, 2012 In an attempt to improve an all-time low grant success rate, the National Institutes of Health is considering submitting researchers earning top money to an extra step of the grant review process.
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Scientist
Calif. sea otters face a growing threat: shark attacks
The Seattle Times
(February 21, 2012, by ImagineThat) MORE No surprise here. I've heard they taste like chicken. (February 21, 2012, by Travelin Man) MORE SAN JOSE, Calif. — California's sea otters have struggled for years with diseases, parasites and even the ...
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Conservation Conversation in Clay
Scientific American (blog)
By Kalliopi Monoyios | February 21, 2012 | One of the most fascinating aspects of art is that two artists can use the same exact materials and create vastly different works. Last week, I posted an interview with Heather Knight, an artist who creates ...
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Scientific American (blog)
Squid Can Fly to Save Energy
Scientific American
By Jessica Marshall and Nature magazine | February 21, 2012Squid can save energy by flying rather than swimming, according to calculations based on high-speed photography. Squid of many species have been seen to 'fly' using the same jet-propulsion ...
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Scientific American
Australian PM hosts dinner for lesbians and gays
Newsday
Nation Newsday > News > Nation Australian PM hosts dinner for lesbians and gays Originally published: February 21, 2012 1:12 AM Updated:February 21, 2012 3:05 AM By The Associated Press ROD McGUIRK (Associated Press) CANBERRA, Australia - (AP) ...
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Biodefense Stock News: PositiveID (OTCBB:PSID) to Present M-BAND at ASM ...
InvestorIdeas.com (press release)
DELRAY BEACH, Fla., February 21, 2012 - (Investorideas.com Newswire) PositiveID Corporation's (OTCBB: PSID) subsidiary MicroFluidic Systems (“MFS”), a developer of molecular diagnostic systems, announced today it will present its M-BAND ...
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The News Matrix: Tuesday 21 February 2012
The Independent
AP Whales and dolphins should be a given protection with a universal bill of rights, marine biologists and philosophers have said, due to research revealing that the sea mammals have developed highly-evolved behaviour. The findings suggest the animals ...
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Nature's winners and losers
Regina Leader-Post
By Emma Graney, Leader-Post February 21, 2012 4:14 AM If you have noticed a lot more snowy owls than usual around Regina, don't worry - you haven't suddenly wandered into a Harry Potter novel. The lack of snow on the ground this year means the birds ...
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Investing in girls' education just makes sense
The Chronicle
By dPS (WISER) | February 21, 2012 “That's how my Kenyan friend Eddie responded when I asked him if all the stores I had heard were true,” related Dr. Sherryl Broverman, Duke professor of biology and co-founder of the Women's Institute of Secondary ...
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Students take aim at feral swine problem
Charleston Gazette (blog)
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Nobel-winning tumour researcher dies at 97
TheChronicleHerald.ca
February 21, 2012 - 4:31am By NICOLE WINFIELD AP ROME — Renato Dulbecco, who shared the 1975 Nobel Prize in medicine for his seminal research on the interaction between tumours and cells, has died in California. He was 97. Dulbecco, an early proponent ...
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Scientists Urge Reform for a Broken Global System
Inter Press Service
By Stephen Leahy VANCOUVER, Feb 21, 2012 (IPS) - Unless governments work actively to build a brighter future for humanity, climate change, poverty and loss of biodiversity will worsen and continue to exacerbate existing global problems, top scientists ...
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How did human brains get to be so big?
Scientific American (blog)
By Robin Anne Smith | February 21, 2012 | New research points to an ancient energy tradeoff that meant more fuel for brains, and less fuel for muscles. Recently while visiting the National Museum of Natural History in Washington, DC, I found myself ...
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Scientific American (blog)
Israeli Startup Develops European Tsunami Alert System ...
By Merav Turel, NoCamels
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Brain Region Linked to Social Conformity | Psych Central News
By Rick Nauert PhD
By Rick Nauert PhD Senior News Editor Reviewed by John M. Grohol, Psy.D. on February 212012. Brain Region Linked to Social Conformity Are you a rebel or a conformist? A new research study attempts to discover an answer as to why ...
Psych Central News
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