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| Moffitt Cancer Center signs licensing agreement with Proteacel, LLC Thu, 18 Mar 2010 00:00:00 EDT |
(H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center & Research Institute) Moffitt Cancer Center and Proteacel LLC announced today that they have entered a licensing agreement under which Proteacel has acquired the exclusive rights to the PORE technology for delivery of genes into cells. |
| Carnegie Mellon's Granger Morgan to testify Geoengineeringing issues before Congressional Science Committee Wed, 17 Mar 2010 00:00:00 EDT |
(Carnegie Mellon University) In testimony to the US House Science Committee, Carnegie Mellon's M. Granger Morgan will discuss urgent need to begin research on solar radiation management. |
| Beyond the genome Wed, 17 Mar 2010 00:00:00 EDT |
(BioMed Central) Internationally renowned researchers will deliver cutting-edge presentations including Elaine Mardis, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis and Steven Salzberg, University of Maryland. |
| Securities analysts' reports slow adoption of new technology, warns INFORMS journal study Wed, 17 Mar 2010 00:00:00 EDT |
(Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences) The reluctance of securities analysts to recommend investment in veteran companies using new techniques to grapple with radical technological change may be harming these companies as they struggle to compete, according to a new study in the current issue of Organization Science, a journal of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences. |
| LSUHSC research increases understanding of drug metabolism Wed, 17 Mar 2010 00:00:00 EDT |
(Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center) Research led by Wayne L. Backes, Ph.D., Professor of Pharmacology and Associate Dean for Research at LSU Health Sciences Center New Orleans School of Medicine, has found that drug metabolism depends not only upon which enzymes are present in an individual, but also how they interact, and that can be the difference in whether a drug is safely eliminated from the body or is converted into a toxic or carcinogenic byproduct. |
| Study: Low levels of vitamin D linked to higher rates of asthma in African-American kids Wed, 17 Mar 2010 00:00:00 EDT |
(Children's National Medical Center) Researchers at Children's National Medical Center have discovered that African American children with asthma in metropolitan Washington, DC, are significantly more likely to have low levels of vitamin D than healthy African-American children. This study supports recent research that suggests vitamin D plays a greater role in the body than just keeping bones healthy. Vitamin D deficiency has been recently linked to a variety of non-bone related diseases including depression, autoimmune disorders, and now asthma. |
| Behind a child with aggressive behavior there is a negative family environment Wed, 17 Mar 2010 00:00:00 EDT |
(Elhuyar Fundazioa) Children who use violence usually come from conflict-ridden families; as has been shown by a number of research studies. The psychologist, Arantzazu Bellido, has reaffirmed this phenomenon for the Autonomous Community of the Basque Country. |
| A unique approach to corporate strategy Wed, 17 Mar 2010 00:00:00 EDT |
(Springer) In today's challenging economic environment, finding ways to differentiate and grow a business is more important than ever. In a new book, "The Delta Model," MIT Sloan School of Management Professor Arnoldo Hax presents a fundamentally new approach to strategy focused on the customer rather than competitors. |
| Profiting on the Internet Wed, 17 Mar 2010 00:00:00 EDT |
(Inderscience Publishers) An expert in e-commerce reports in the International Journal of Technology Marketing that while unique use of the technology is not enough to generate competitive value, there are approaches that allow companies to improve their performance and so their bottom line. |
| New analysis points to ivory enforcement failures in parts of Africa, Asia Wed, 17 Mar 2010 00:00:00 EDT |
(World Wildlife Fund) Urgent law enforcement action by governments in Central and West Africa and Southeast Asia is crucial to addressing the illicit ivory trade, according to a new analysis of elephant trade data released today.Detailed regional summaries of the data held in the Elephant Trade Information System, the world's largest database on ivory seizures, highlight the failure of law enforcement in key elephant range states. |
| USC Information Sciences Institute to be recognized for key role in Internet development Wed, 17 Mar 2010 00:00:00 EDT |
(University of Southern California) More than 50 pioneers and leaders key to the Internet's ongoing development over the past 40 years will gather Friday, March 19, to recognize the role of the University of Southern California Information Sciences Institute in the Internet's success. |
| UH inks Memorandum of Understanding with prestigious engineering institute in India Wed, 17 Mar 2010 00:00:00 EDT |
(University of Houston) The University of Houston and the Institute of Technology, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India, have signed a Memorandum of Understanding that will allow the two universities to explore new methods of cooperation in instruction and academic exchange. This new working relationship will include joint education programs at the graduate level, exchange visits of scholars and faculty collaboration in research and technology. |
| Efforts to steer patients to lower-cost physicians may be based on misleading rankings, study finds Wed, 17 Mar 2010 00:00:00 EDT |
(RAND Corporation) Insurance practices that encourage patients to receive care from physicians who keep medical costs low are based on unreliable estimates of doctor performance and may not achieve the intended savings, according to a new study. |
| Apollo Solar Energy funds new $1.5 million CdTe solar research center at NJIT Tue, 16 Mar 2010 00:00:00 EDT |
(New Jersey Institute of Technology) NJIT received today from Apollo Solar Energy Inc. a three-year, $1.5 million grant to establish a solar research center. The company, based in Chengdu, the People's Republic of China, mines and refines tellurium (Te) and high-purity tellurium-based metals for specific segments of the global electronic materials market. |
| Potentially risky loans helped ease recession, new research shows Tue, 16 Mar 2010 00:00:00 EDT |
(University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) Questionable lending helped sink the US economy, but also provided a lifeline that kept countless firms afloat and averted an even deeper recession, according to research by a University of Illinois finance expert. |
| Scientists urge treaty panel to reject ivory sale by Tanzania, Zambia Tue, 16 Mar 2010 00:00:00 EDT |
(Princeton University) The fate of many African elephants hinges on a decision to be made this week in Qatar. Countries are meeting as part of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species to decide whether to grant requests to Tanzania and Zambia to lower the protection status of their elephants, allowing them to conduct one-time sales of stockpiled ivory. Such sales, however, according to an international team of 27 scientists and conservationists, could lead to the increased slaughter of elephants. |
| Carnegie Mellon to host workshop about basics of technology entrepreneurship Tue, 16 Mar 2010 00:00:00 EDT |
(Carnegie Mellon University) Carnegie Mellon University will host "Invention to Venture,'' a one-day workshop about the basics of technology entrepreneurship for students interested in learning about what it takes to launch a start-up venture. |
| Stevens' CSR provides vital maritime information to local, state and national agencies Tue, 16 Mar 2010 00:00:00 EDT |
(Stevens Institute of Technology) Stevens Institute of Technology was in 2008 named by the US Department of Homeland Security as one of five national Centers of Excellence and was selected to lead a national research effort to address Port Security. Stevens was one of 11 universities to partner with the DHS in its efforts. The department's partners serve as important team members for conducting multidisciplinary research and creating innovative learning environments for critical homeland security missions. |
| 5th Annual Szent-Györgyi Prize for Progress in Cancer Research awarded Tue, 16 Mar 2010 00:00:00 EDT |
(National Foundation for Cancer Research) The National Foundation for Cancer Research announced today that renowned scientist Peter K. Vogt, Ph.D., professor in the department of molecular and experimental medicine at the Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, Calif., is the recipient of the 5th Annual Szent-Györgyi Prize for Progress in Cancer Research. |
| Media, small businesses invited to ACS Webinar on small and medium businesses Tue, 16 Mar 2010 00:00:00 EDT |
(American Chemical Society) News media, scientists and others interested in finance, entrepreneurship and the chemical sciences are invited to join an American Chemical Society Small & Medium Business Webinar on employee ownership. |
| Porous China-Myanmar border allowing illegal wildlife trade Tue, 16 Mar 2010 00:00:00 EDT |
(World Wildlife Fund) Porous borders are allowing vendors in Myanmar to offer a door-to-door delivery service for illegal wildlife products such as tiger bone wine to buyers in China, according to TRAFFIC's latest snapshot into wildlife trade in China. The State of Wildlife Trade in China 2008, released this week, is the third in an annual series on emerging trends in China's wildlife trade. |
| STOP Obesity Alliance surveys show doctors, patients share role in weight loss, but ask, now what? Tue, 16 Mar 2010 00:00:00 EDT |
(Chandler Chicco Agency) Primary care physicians agree they have a role in addressing obesity, but say they do not have the right weight management resources. Obese or heavier adults take responsibility for weight loss, but adults who need to lose weight may lack information about effective weight loss methods and strategies. These findings and others come from new research commissioned and released today by the Strategies to Overcome and Prevent (STOP) Obesity Alliance. |
| University of Toronto historian wins prestigious international prize Tue, 16 Mar 2010 00:00:00 EDT |
(University of Toronto) Natalie Zemon Davis, professor emerita from Princeton University and now a University of Toronto history scholar whose books have reached a wide audience, has won one of the world's top academic prizes. |
| New teaching tools aid visually impaired students in learning math Mon, 15 Mar 2010 00:00:00 EDT |
(University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) Mastering mathematics can be daunting for many children, but researchers have found that children with visual impairments face disproportionate challenges learning math, and by the time they reach the college level, they are significantly under-represented in science, technology, mathematics and engineering disciplines. |
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