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Public Release: 19-Nov-2009
World's first album of Twitter music available now For the first time, you can now download an album of digital music written exclusively for Twitter. Entitled sc140, this unique collection has been curated by Dan Stowell, a composer and computer scientist at Queen Mary, University of London. Contact: Simon Levey
Public Release: 19-Nov-2009
A mobile phone or an MP3 player tells if you're sleeping soundly Researchers from Tampere University of Technology and the University of Helsinki have created a service that enables at-home screening of sleep disorders. Compared to the existing methods the new method is both affordable and easy to use. The service was recently released on the Internet. 
Tekes
Contact: Adjunct Professor Tapani Salmi
Public Release: 18-Nov-2009
TGen Drug Development establishes European footprint TGen Drug Development and the Institut Paoli-Calmettes have forged a strategic alliance that will enable both to maximize their worldwide contributions in the treatment of cancer patients. Contact: Steve Yozwiak
Public Release: 18-Nov-2009
Pew Health Group statement on Senate mark up of the FDA Food Safety Modernization Act (S. 510) Sandra Eskin, director of the Pew Health Group's Food Safety Campaign, today issued the following statement regarding the markup of the FDA Food Safety Modernization Act by the Senate Health, Education, Labor, & Pensions Committee: "The Pew Health Group applauds the members of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, & Pensions Committee for approving the FDA Food Safety Modernization Act (S. 510) today." Contact: Colin Finan
Public Release: 18-Nov-2009
ORNL, partners helping scientists deal with data deluge Vast amounts of information that could hold the key to breakthroughs in environmental research will be made readily available through a network created by Oak Ridge National Laboratory and partners. Contact: Ron Walli
Public Release: 18-Nov-2009
SC 09Georgia Tech launches experimental Green IT Initiative The Green IT Initiative looks at power consumption from the microchip to the data center. It will use a recycled HPC system to develop sustainable power consumption. Contact: Stefany Wilson
Public Release: 18-Nov-2009
BioMed Central partners with Quertle BioMed Central, the world's largest open-access publisher with over 200 peer-reviewed journals has teamed up with Quertle LLC to add over 60,000 published articles into the latest version of their innovative online biomedical search tool. Contact: Charlotte Webber
Public Release: 18-Nov-2009
NanoString Technologies announces research collaboration with the Broad Institute NanoString Technologies Inc., a privately held life sciences company marketing a molecular barcoding detection system, today announced that it is collaborating with the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard to investigate molecular networks involved in immune response and other important biological processes. The three-year collaboration is also designed to explore ways to expand how NanoString's next-generation digital gene expression technology can be applied to improve basic and clinical research. Contact: Nicole Litchfield
Public Release: 17-Nov-2009
Members of Congress, university leaders, scientists launch ScienceWorksForUS Representatives of the nation's leading public and private research universities, joined by Speaker Nancy Pelosi and other Members of Congress, today announced the launch of ScienceWorksForUS, an initiative that will highlight the scientific research and related activities that have been made possible by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, also known as the stimulus. Contact: Ashley Prime
Public Release: 17-Nov-2009
Development of office furniture accessible to all CIDEMCO-Tecnalia has designed the first series of office furniture for accessible work environments in offices. The first universal office furniture system valid for all people, with and without functional diversity, has been presented. Contact: Irati Kortabitarte
Public Release: 17-Nov-2009
NTU ramps up international research -- inks deals with 4 leading Turkish universities Nanyang Technological University -- Singapore's leading science and technology university -- is ramping up its efforts in promoting international collaboration in top-level research and in student and faculty/staff exchanges with new tie-ups with four top universities in Turkey. This first-ever partnership between NTU and Turkish universities will also see collaboration in joint research activities, including organizing joint workshops, the supervision of Ph.D. students and the exchange of information, including research publications and library materials. Contact: Hisham Hambari
Public Release: 17-Nov-2009
Engaging established leaders to strengthen Singapore-China ties Four senior officials from China have been awarded the prestigious Lien Ying Chow Legacy Fellowship, a joint initiative by the Nanyang Technological University and the Lien Foundation to groom established and emerging leaders in Singapore and China. They are the second batch of Lien Fellows from China since the launch of the program in 2007. Drawing on their insights into Singapore's economic and social policies and governance, they will formulate policy recommendations to address issues and concerns and foster positive change in China. Contact: Phoebia Tang
Public Release: 17-Nov-2009
The challenge for biostatistics is in measuring the quality of life as regards health The biostatistics research team at the Department of Applied Mathematics, Statistics and Operational Research of the University of the Basque Country is working on applied statistics based on health sciences and experimental sciences under the leadership of Inma Arostegui. Contact: Irati Kortabitarte
Public Release: 16-Nov-2009
 IEEE Transactions on Wireless CommunicationsK-State patents enabling technology for spread-spectrum systems A pair of engineers at Kansas State University developed and patented an algorithm that enables next generation smart adaptive radios and makes radars more effective by customizing the coding used in transmitting their signals. Contact: Bala Natarajan
Public Release: 16-Nov-2009
Record-breaking radio astronomy project to measure sky with extreme precision Thirty-five radio telescopes on seven continents, a new record, will work together to strengthen the basic measuring grid for celestial positions. The improved reference frame will benefit both astronomy and geophysics.
National Science Foundation
Contact: Dave Finley
Public Release: 16-Nov-2009
USPSTF mammography recommendations will result in countless unnecessary breast cancer deaths each year If cost-cutting US Preventive Services Task Force mammography recommendations are adopted as policy, two decades of decline in breast cancer mortality could be reversed and countless American women may die needlessly from breast cancer each year. Contact: Shawn Farley
Public Release: 16-Nov-2009
American Heart Association Scientific Sessions 2009Resuscitation and survival rates from out-of-hospital cardiac arrest nearly double Virginia Commonwealth University Medical Center and the Richmond Ambulance Authority have improved resuscitation and survival rates dramatically for cardiac arrest patients by training and equipping paramedics to begin lowering a patient's body temperature in the field during resuscitation and following up at the hospital with a host of high-tech strategies to improve the odds of survival. Contact: Joe Kuttenkuler
Public Release: 16-Nov-2009
German-French research camaraderie Eleven German-French research teams headed for the starting line on Oct. 27, 2007, in Paris. Their goal: to build bilateral collaborations and to develop technologies over the next three years that can be realized as industrial products. These efforts are intended to supercharge the competitive engine of both France and Germany. Contact: Volker Tippmann
Public Release: 16-Nov-2009
Elsevier selected as new publisher of Annals of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology Elsevier is pleased to announce that beginning with Volume 104 it will assume publication of the Annals of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology, the official journal of the American College of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology. Contact: Andrew Berin
Public Release: 16-Nov-2009
Powerful new world alliance of global health researchers announce landmark pact on priorities A powerful new alliance of institutions, collectively managing an estimated 80 percent of all public health research funding worldwide, announce a landmark agreement on the three targets of their first concerted work in the fight against "chronic noncommunicable diseases," a group of preventable illnesses, often associated with lifestyle, that cause humanity's greatest number of deaths. The alliance includes the foremost national health research institutions of the UK, US, China, India, Africa, Canada and Australia, among others. Contact: Terry Collins
Public Release: 13-Nov-2009
Surgeon who uses 'Kryptonite' in Orlando this week An innovative method is being used to repair the breastbone after it is intentionally broken to provide access to the heart during open-heart surgery. The technique uses a US-developed adhesive called Kryptonite that rapidly bonds to bone and accelerates the recovery process. Currently surgeons still close the chest using sternal wires, the same method that has been used for over 50 years. Contact: Marta Cyperling
Public Release: 13-Nov-2009
Rapacious Rasberry ants march north The invasion of this new species of ants has scientists intrigued, businesses concerned and fire ants running for the hills, said Jerry Cook, an entomologist at Sam Houston State University. Cook and other scientists are at a loss to explain the fast and furious spread of the rapacious ant, which is named after exterminator Tom Rasberry, who discovered the ant in 2002. Contact: Dr. Jerry Cook
Public Release: 13-Nov-2009
Small, beautiful and additive-free The National Research Council Canada recently helped Olympus, a world leader in advanced optical microscopy and medical imaging, to design and commercialize a coherent anti-stokes raman scattering (CARS) microscope. Contact: Roxanne DeAbreu-Breen
Public Release: 13-Nov-2009
Elsevier pilots new research tool 'Reflect' in its premier life science journal Cell Elsevier, the leading publisher of scientific, technical and medical information products and services, today announced that the innovative research tool "Reflect," winner of Elsevier's Grand Challenge 2009, will be piloted on the research articles in the Nov. 12 issue of Cell. The "Reflect" tool identifies the proteins, genes and small molecules mentioned in the Cell articles, and generates pop-up windows containing relevant contextual information, with additional links, about those entities. Contact: Cathleen Genova
Public Release: 13-Nov-2009
US politicians warned geo-engineering is not a magic bullet for climate change Cut carbon emissions or our only hope to cool the planet will be relying on unproven geo-engineering ideas. This was the warning delivered to US House of Representatives by Professor John Shepherd of the National Oceanography Centre, Southampton, UK. Contact: Kim Marshall-Brown
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