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Showing releases 1-25 out of 138.
Public Release: 23-May-2013
 FrontiersFrontiers launches new open-access journal in Bioengineering and Biotechnology Frontiers, one of the world's largest and fastest growing open-access publishers, today announces the launch of a new journal, Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology. Contact: Gozde Zorlu
Public Release: 22-May-2013
Chemical Safety Improvement Act of 2013: PETA International Science Consortium Reform of chemical safety legislation will succeed only if it also modernizes toxicity testing. Contact: Tasgola Bruner
Public Release: 22-May-2013
CU-Boulder helps tap crowds to digitize museum records of bugs and plants A new online project, brought to life with the help of a team from the University of Colorado Boulder, is using citizen scientists to help transcribe museum records. Contact: Robert Guralnick
Public Release: 22-May-2013
Help wanted: Public needed to uncover clues in bug collections UC Berkeley's Essig Museum of Entomology is opening up its collections to citizen scientists. The project, Calbug, crowd-sources the digitization of a million hand-written field notes that accompany insect specimens, many of which were collected more than a century ago. 
Sloan Foundation
Contact: Sarah Yang
Public Release: 22-May-2013
AERA to launch open access research journal The American Educational Research Association (AERA) announced today that it will launch "AERA Open," an online, peer-reviewed journal that will be freely available to all readers on the web. With the launch of "AERA Open," in early 2014, AERA will be one of the first societies in the social sciences to introduce an open access journal. Contact: Tony Pals
Public Release: 22-May-2013
Acne treatment: Natural substance-based formula is more effective than artificial compounds The principle ingredient in the new formula -- patented through the Office for the Transfer of Research Results -- is a circular-structured, 70 amino acid protein known as AS-48. Contact: Mercedes Maqueda Abreu
Public Release: 22-May-2013
World Health AssemblyGovernments hold long-overdue meeting on reducing early death from rheumatic heart disease Today, at the World Health Assembly, top health officials from New Zealand, South Africa, Australia, Fiji and Rwanda met to discuss the vital need for countries to integrate rheumatic fever and rheumatic heart disease prevention and control into national action plans. Contact: Charanjit Jagait
Public Release: 22-May-2013
GW launches center to address health disparities in the Latino immigrant community Today the George Washington University School of Public Health and Health Services (SPHHS) announced the launch of the Avance Center for the Advancement of Immigrant/Refugee Health, a collaboration between SPHHS, the Maryland Multicultural Youth Centers, the Rivera Group, and other community partners. This university-community partnership aims to address public health problems that disproportionately affect Latino communities through research, mutual capacity building and prevention efforts. Contact: Kathy Fackelmann
Public Release: 21-May-2013
Patented system bolsters security of information stored on electronic devices An ASU computer scientist has patented a system to provide stronger security for personal information stored digitally -- including on mobile devices. Gail-Joon Ahn is also at work on a "mobile wallet" that can protect individuals' "digital presence" and other personal information stored a mobile digital devices. Contact: Joe Kullman
Public Release: 21-May-2013
Leuven Centre for Global Governance studies leads FP7 project on EU human rights policy The Leuven Centre for Global Governance Studies at KU Leuven is coordinating a major, four-year, FP7-funded project on the European Union's internal and external human rights policies. The consortium comprises more than 100 researchers from 17 countries. It will study the factors, actors and policies involved in the EU's human rights promotion efforts and ultimately seek to formulate practical recommendations and tools to enhance the coherence and effectiveness of EU human rights policy. Contact: Jan Wouters
Public Release: 21-May-2013
£1 million project to produce safer oxygen A University of Huddersfield professor is to collaborate in a £1 million project which aims to unlock the potential of oxygen. The Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council has provided funding, with the aim that UK manufacturers will benefit from research findings.
The Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council
Contact: Megan Beech
Public Release: 21-May-2013
New search engine finds rare diagnoses Doctors are trained to think "common disease" when they meet patients in their practices, and as they rarely or never meet a rare disease, it often takes many years to reach the right diagnosis. A new search tool called FindZebra developed at the Technical University of Denmark can dramatically reduce this time in many cases. Contact: Ole Winther
Public Release: 21-May-2013
Army Ground Combat Systems adopts Sandia tool for choosing future warfighting vehicles Sandia National Laboratories, working closely with the Army and other contractors, has developed key components of a software tool to help the Program Executive Office Ground Combat Systems analyze countless what-if scenarios that can be manipulated as technology advances and the global environment, the federal budget or other factors change. Sandia calls this advanced combination of modeling, simulation and optimization decision support software the Capability Portfolio Analysis Tool.
US Army
Contact: Heather Clark
Public Release: 21-May-2013
New multi-million dollar research center aims to solve the mystery of premature birth The March of Dimes and its partners will launch a multi-million dollar research effort in Ohio to find the causes of premature birth. Investigators from diverse disciplines will work to find new approaches for prevention. Contact: Elizabeth Lynch
Public Release: 20-May-2013
UC Davis startup changes listening experience Fifteen years of research at UC Davis is being turned into commercial products by Dysonics, a startup company based in San Francisco that aims to reproduce a natural sound experience with sound delivered through headphones. Contact: Andy Fell
Public Release: 20-May-2013
Korean Society of Occupational and Environmental Medicine partners with BioMed Central BioMed Central, the open access publisher, is pleased to announce that Annals of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, the official academic journal of The Korean Society of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, has moved to BioMed Central's open access publishing platform. Contact: Rebecca Fairbairn
Public Release: 17-May-2013
New logistics services that will cut energy consumption and CO2 emissions The iCargo project (Intelligent Cargo in Efficient and Sustainable Global Logistics Operations) is aiming to cut CO2 emissions, thanks to an improvement in the efficiency of intermodal loading systems and the boosting of intelligent systems that assist decision making. It comprises 29 European organisations with experience in the logistics sector and in supply chain management. Contact: Irati Kortabitarte
Public Release: 16-May-2013
A*STAR and Cytos bring Singapore's first influenza vaccine to clinical testing Singapore's Agency for Science, Technology and Research and Switzerland's Cytos Biotechnology AG today announced that the first healthy volunteer has been dosed in a Phase 1 clinical trial with their H1N1 influenza vaccine candidate based on Cytos' proprietary bacteriophage Qbeta virus-like particle technology. In this first Phase 1 clinical trial, the safety and immunogenicity of this novel vaccine candidate and its potential to protect against H1N1 influenza infection will be evaluated.
Agency for Science, Technology and Research
Contact: Dr. Sarah Chang
Public Release: 16-May-2013
Columbia licenses novel 3-D organ and tumor segmentation software to Varian Medical Systems Columbia University has signed a licensing agreement with Varian Medical Systems for novel imaging software that facilitates 3-D segmentation, the process by which anatomical structures in medical images are distinguished from one another -- an important step in the precise planning of cancer surgery and radiation treatments. Contact: Columbia University Medical Center Office of Communications
Public Release: 16-May-2013
New FASEB analysis documents impact of budget cuts on biomedical research The Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology released a new analysis of National Institutes of Health funding trends highlighting the devastating impact of sequestration on the nation's capacity to support critical research. Contact: Lawrence Green
Public Release: 16-May-2013
FASEB speaks out in support of peer review and basic research in letter to House Science Committee Yesterday, the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology (FASEB) President Judith Bond, Ph.D., sent a letter to House Science Committee Chairman Lamar Smith and Ranking Member Eddie Bernice Johnson expressing FASEB's strong opposition to the proposed "High Quality Research Act." Contact: Lawrence Green
Public Release: 16-May-2013
DZNE and Charite work together: With joined forces against neurodegenerative diseases The German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases and Charité -- Universitätsmedizin Berlin are internationally leading institutions for research in the field of neurodegenerative diseases. Contact: Sonja Jülich-Abbas
Public Release: 16-May-2013
Novel quality control system Tecnalia is co-ordinating the MUPROD project, which is part of the European Commission's 7th Framework Programme. This initiative involves developing an innovative Quality Control system which is set to drastically change the current concept of End-of-Line quality control and go beyond the established methodologies like Six-sigma and SPC. Contact: Irati Kortabitarte
Public Release: 15-May-2013
Physical Review LettersA new laser paradigm: An electrically injected polariton laser Engineering researchers at the University of Michigan have demonstrated a paradigm-shifting "polariton" laser that's fueled not by light, but by electricity. Contact: Nicole Casal Moore
Public Release: 15-May-2013
University of Chicago launches Bionimbus Protected Data Cloud to analyze cancer data The University of Chicago launched the first secure cloud-based computing system that enables researchers to access and analyze human genomic cancer information without the costly and cumbersome infrastructure normally needed to download and store massive amounts of data. Contact: Lisa-Joy Zgorski
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