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Public Release: 2-Jul-2009
All in sight
A new measurement system for the detection of whales is used for the first time on board of the research vessel Polarstern. Visual sightings of whales by marine mammal observers are usually based on observations of the spout, the condensing and warm breathing cloud. It rises between one meter and ten meters over the water surface and remains visible for only a few seconds. A thermal imaging camera now uses the heat of this spout.

Contact: Dr. Olaf Boebel
Olaf.Boebel@awi.de
49-471-483-11879
Helmholtz Association of German Research Centres

Public Release: 1-Jul-2009
Forest Service designates new experimental forest in Tongass National Forest
The USDA Forest Service established a new experimental forest in Alaska on June 25. The 25,000-acre Héen Latinee Experimental Forest is located inside the Tongass National Forest, and is easily accessible by road from Juneau, Alaska. It is part of the largest temperate rain forest in the world.
USDA Forest Service

Contact: Sherri Richardson Dodge
srichardsondodge@fs.fed.us
503-808-2137
USDA Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station

Public Release: 1-Jul-2009
NIST issues human milk and blood serum SRMs for contaminant measurements
NIST has issued four new Standard Reference Materials to help researchers accurately measure organic contaminants in human body fluids, including milk and blood serum.

Contact: Mark Esser
mark.esser@nist.gov
301-975-8735
National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)

Public Release: 1-Jul-2009
17th Annual International Conference on Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology
New e-science service could accelerate cancer research
The University of Manchester and the European Molecular Biology Laboratory's European Bioinformatics Institute have launched a major new e-science resource for biologists -- which could accelerate research into treatments for H1N1 flu and cancer.
Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council

Contact: Alex Waddington
01-612-758-387
University of Manchester

Public Release: 30-Jun-2009
AIUM announces management agreement with the International Society of Therapeutic Ultrasound
The American Institute of Ultrasound in Medicine has reached a management agreement with the International Society for Therapeutic Ultrasound effective July 1, 2009. The AIUM will support the ISTU's administrative, financial and member service functions in an effort to maximize the ISTU's mission of advancing therapeutic ultrasound applications worldwide.

Contact: Jennifer Hilderbrand
jhilderbrand@aium.org
301-498-4100
American Institute of Ultrasound in Medicine

Public Release: 30-Jun-2009
Researchers unveil whiskered robot rat
A team of scientists have developed an innovative robot rat which can seek out and identify objects using its whiskers. The SCRATCHbot robot will be demonstrated this week at an international workshop looking at how robots can help us examine the workings of the brain.

Contact: Lauren Anderson
l.h.anderson@sheffield.ac.uk
01-142-221-046
University of Sheffield

Public Release: 30-Jun-2009
NASA and NOAA's GOES-O satellite successfully launched
The latest Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite, GOES-O, soared into space June 27 after a successful launch from Space Launch Complex 37 at the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida.
NASA, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

Contact: Cynthia O'Carroll
cynthia.m.ocarroll@nasa.gov
301-286-4647
NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center

Public Release: 30-Jun-2009
Warmer climate can direct flow of tourists northwards
For over half a century, Northern Europeans have been heading south for our holidays. A warmer climate may reverse the flow of tourists, and encourage more Southern Europeans to head north. But how will future changes in climate affect tourism in Gothenburg? This is the subject of a new European research project at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden.

Contact: Krister Svahn
krister.svahn@science.gu.se
46-031-786-4912
University of Gothenburg

Public Release: 30-Jun-2009
NASA debuts the entire 2008 hurricane season in new online video
Imagine watching all of the tropical depressions, storms and hurricanes of 2008 as they formed in the Atlantic Ocean Basin and either faded at sea or made landfall. Thanks to NASA technology and satellite data coupled with data from a National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration operated satellite, you can see the tracks of storms from Arthur to Paloma from birth to death.
NASA

Contact: Rob Gutro
Robert.J.Gutro@nasa.gov
301-286-4044
NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center

Public Release: 30-Jun-2009
Journal of Hepatology
The European Association for the Study of the Liver renews publishing partnership with Elsevier
Elsevier, the leading publisher of scientific, technical and medical information, is pleased to announce its renewed publishing partnership with the European Association for the Study of the Liver, the leading European association in the field of liver research. The agreement calls for Elsevier to publish the society's flagship journal, the Journal of Hepatology, for the next five years.

Contact: Koos Admiraal
k.amiraal@elsevier.com
31-204-853-747
Elsevier

Public Release: 29-Jun-2009
Accelerating personalized mental health care
A powerful new research facility at the heart of King's Health Partners Academic Health Sciences Center is being launched today by Professor Dame Sally C. Davies, director general of research and development and chief scientific adviser, department of health. The Biomedical Research Center Nucleus is a unique center housing key translational initiatives to support the development of novel therapies and treatments for mental health and related disorders.

Contact: Louise Pratt
louise.a.pratt@kcl.ac.uk
44-020-784-85378
King's College London

Public Release: 29-Jun-2009
Assembling the virtual human
It could mean the end of animal testing and eventually even clinical patient drug trials. The Virtual Physiological Human is a 21st century pan-European project that's gaining momentum and takes a major step forward this week at the University of Nottingham.

Contact: Dr. Bindi Brook
bindi.brook@nottingham.ac.uk
University of Nottingham

Public Release: 29-Jun-2009
Vietnamese drug authority teams with United States standards-setting organization
As Vietnam's industrial capabilities have developed rapidly in recent decades, government officials have recognized the importance of helping to secure the nation's supply of medicines. In an important milestone addressing this need, the Vietnamese Pharmacopoeia Commission has signed a memorandum of understanding with the US Pharmacopeial Convention.

Contact: Francine Pierson
fp@usp.org
301-816-8588
US Pharmacopeia

Public Release: 29-Jun-2009
Diabetologia
Statement from IDF on studies suggesting possible link between insulin glargine and cancer
The International Diabetes Federation today called for urgent assessment and responses from regulatory authorities into a possible link between the use of insulin glargine (an insulin analogue) and increased risk of cancer based on findings published on June 26, 2009, in Diabetelogia, the journal of the European Association for the Study of Diabetes.

Contact: Kerrita McClaughlyn
media@idf.org
322-543-1639
International Diabetes Federation

Public Release: 29-Jun-2009
Fraunhofer know-how for the ecological model city Masdar
The city of the future is currently being constructed on the outskirts of Abu Dhabi. Masdar City shall be supplied exclusively with renewable energy, and produce neither carbon dioxide nor waste. Fraunhofer researchers are involved in the development of new technologies for planning and realizing the ecological model city.

Contact: Hans-Martin Henning
hans-martin.henning@ise.fraunhofer.de
49-761-458-85134
Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft

Public Release: 29-Jun-2009
Elsevier announces 2008 journal impact factor highlights
Elsevier, the leading publisher of scientific, technical and medical information products and services, today announced the highlights of its journal impact factor performance in 2008. Elsevier overall saw 75 percent of its journal impact factors increase from 2007 to 2008.

Contact: Shira Tabachnikoff
s.tabachnikoff@elsevier.com
31-204-852-736
Elsevier

Public Release: 29-Jun-2009
First impact factor of Journal of the American Medical Directors Association
The new impact factor of the official journal of the American Medical Directors Association is 3.467.

Contact: Rachael Zaleski
rachael.zaleski@elsevier.com
215-239-3658
Elsevier

Public Release: 29-Jun-2009
First riser-drilling research operations undertaken
IODP drilling vessel CHIKYU has resumed operations in the Nankai Trough Seismogenic Zone off the Kii Peninsula of Japan using riser technology successfully for the first time in scientific ocean research.
National Science Foundation, Japan Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology

Contact: Nancy Light
nlight@iodp.org
301-275-1203
Integrated Ocean Drilling Program Management International

Public Release: 28-Jun-2009
ESHRE 2009
ESHRE launches international study of polar body screening
The ESHRE Task Force on PGS will attempt to settle the question "does pre-implantation genetic screening really work?" by carrying out a clinical trial of a new technique for screening polar bodies, tiny cells that are a by-product of egg development. The first phase will begin in September.

Contact: Mary Rice
mary@mrcommunication.org
European Society for Human Reproduction and Embryology

Public Release: 26-Jun-2009
A new plan for Panama's Coiba National Park and World Heritage site
New management plan for Panama's Coiba National Park will ensure that endemic wildlife and Pacific marine corridor will be conserved.
UNESCO, United Nations Foundation, Conservation International

Contact: Beth King
kingb@si.edu
703-487-3770 x8216
Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute

Public Release: 26-Jun-2009
MSU researchers link carbon markets and tree-planting to fight poverty, protect the Earth
Michigan State University scientists are combining sustainable forest production with emerging carbon markets in a unique effort to help some of the world's poorest people grow trees that will boost their standards of living and slow climate change.
United Nations, NASA, World Wildlife Fund, Asia-Pacific Forum for Environment and Development

Contact: Andy Henion
henion@msu.edu
517-355-3294
Michigan State University

Public Release: 26-Jun-2009
University of Kansas becomes first US public university to pass an open access policy
Scholarly articles -- the method by which a professor presents original research results -- normally are published in peer-reviewed journals and available only through paid subscriptions.

Contact: Rebecca Smith
rasmith@ku.edu
785-864-1761
University of Kansas

Public Release: 25-Jun-2009
St. Joseph's selected as only site to provide new genetic test for deadly type of brain cancer
St. Joseph's Hospital and Medical Center in Phoenix has partnered with Castle Biosciences, Inc. to provide the nation's first genomics-based test for patients suffering from glioblastoma multiforme, the most deadly form of primary brain cancer This new test is used to help doctors and patients consider various treatment options.

Contact: Lynne Reaves
lreaves@chw.edu
602-818-5179
St. Joseph's Hospital and Medical Center

Public Release: 25-Jun-2009
Internists support broad goals of House 'tri-committee' proposed health-reform legislation
Agreeing with the broad goals and most of the underlying policies contained in a comprehensive draft bill on health care reform legislation, the American College of Physicians today praised the House "tri-committee." Made up of the House Ways and Means, Energy and Commerce, and Education and Labor Committees, the "tri-committee" unveiled its proposed legislation on June 19.

Contact: David Kinsman
dkinsman@acponline.org
202-261-4554
American College of Physicians

Public Release: 25-Jun-2009
NCAR teams with Inter-American Development Bank to help Latin America prepare for climate change
NCAR is teaming up with the Inter-American Development Bank to launch a far-reaching program to help Latin American and Caribbean nations prepare for the impacts of global warming.
Inter-American Development Bank

Contact: David Hosansky
hosansky@ucar.edu
303-497-8611
National Center for Atmospheric Research/University Corporation for Atmospheric Research

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