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Public Release: 1-Nov-2012
Bridging the gap between genomics and education
Today the Nowgen Schools Genomics Programme website launches with a range of free, multimedia resources created with leading researchers in order to update the study of modern genetics in schools and colleges.

Wellcome Trust

Public Release: 1-Nov-2012

Harvard Review of Psychiatry
Wolters Kluwer Health selected as publisher for the Harvard Review of Psychiatry
Wolters Kluwer Health and the Harvard Review of Psychiatry announced today an agreement to publish the journal effective with the January 2013 issue. Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, part of Wolters Kluwer Health, will be the journal's publisher of record.

Public Release: 1-Nov-2012
HJF works with global team to develop equine vaccine against deadly hendra virus
The technology used to develop a new vaccine as an aid in the prevention of clinical disease caused by Hendra virus in horses has been licensed from The Henry M. Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine, Inc. by Pfizer Animal Health, a multinational animal health company with expertise in the discovery, development and manufacturing of innovative vaccines.

NIH/National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, Australian and Queensland Governments, Pfizer Animal Health

Public Release: 1-Nov-2012
TESARO and Virginia G. Piper Cancer Center announce first patient in clinical trial of TSR-011
TESARO Inc. announced today that the first clinical trial of its proprietary anaplastic lymphoma kinase inhibitor, TSR-011, has commenced with the dosing of the first patient at the Virginia G. Piper Cancer Center Clinical Trials at Scottsdale Healthcare, a partnership between Scottsdale Healthcare and the Translational Genomics Research Institute.

Public Release: 1-Nov-2012
IU Business Outlook forecast: 2013 will be generally similar to 2012, marked by slow growth
For the second consecutive year, the United States economy managed to underachieve relative to economists' unambitious expectations. Indiana University Kelley School of Business economists are presenting their annual forecast today, Nov. 1, and unfortunately expect more of the same in 2013.

Public Release: 1-Nov-2012
Malaysia to battle 'nutrition transition' problem emerging worldwide: More income, poorer diet choices
With health problems like obesity and diabetes on the rise due to changing diets in emerging economies, Malaysia announces new linkages with international scientists and institutions in hopes of mitigating the problem. It will also team with world experts to further secure its domestic food supply from anticipated shocks due to climate change and global supply chain disruptions.

Public Release: 31-Oct-2012
New report details Binghamton University's economic impact on Broome, Tioga and NYS
According to a new Economic Impact Report, Binghamton University's overall economic impact is approximately $965 million annually for Broome and Tioga counties alone, and $1.2 billion for New York state.

Public Release: 31-Oct-2012
Opening of DWIH New Delhi: German science and industry join together in India
German science and industry have joined together to promote collaboration with Indian partners and expand existing contacts. On 27 October 2012 the German House for Research and Innovation opened its doors in New Delhi.

Public Release: 31-Oct-2012
The role of stem cells in developing new drugs
DefiniGEN, a new spin-out company from the University of Cambridge, has been formed to supply hIPSC-derived cells to the drug discovery and regenerative medicine sectors. The company is based on the research of Dr. Ludovic Vallier, Dr. Tamir Rashid and Professor Roger Pedersen of the Anne McLaren Laboratory of Regenerative Medicine.

Public Release: 30-Oct-2012
What does our energy future look like?
Is fracking polluting our water? How dangerous is nuclear? Will gasoline prices continue to rise? Can we clean up coal? Can renewables really power our future? A multi-platform campaign to educate the public about these critical energy issues and to stimulate a national dialogue about our energy future is under way with help from The Geological Society of America.

Public Release: 30-Oct-2012
Keep moving and have fun
People are moving less and less these days. Fraunhofer researchers have developed an interactive learning system that is supposed to motivate the user to move more but in a playful way: They have combined a sensor mat with an activity monitor. Children and adults can use the system to stay fit and learn at the same time. The highlight: The system records the intensity of the physical activity and immediately displays it.

Public Release: 30-Oct-2012
Why urban dwellers should care about climate change
Though climate change is often perceived as a phenomenon affecting remote polar territories, urban hot pockets such as Pittsburgh, New York, Philadelphia, and Washington, DC, are also experiencing environmental changes affecting energy, transportation, water, and public health systems. To raise awareness about climate change in cities, a network of educational organizations, including the University of Pittsburgh and Carnegie Museum of Natural History, has created the Climate and Urban Systems Partnership with the help of a $5 million National Science Foundation grant.

National Science Foundation

Public Release: 30-Oct-2012
Brazil joins global initiative for biodiversity data access
Brazil has become the latest country to join the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF), dedicated to promoting free and open access to biodiversity data. With this move, a large number of digital records documenting the country's exceptional variety of plants, animals and other organisms can be published through GBIF from Brazilian research institutions, museums, herbaria and observational networks.

Public Release: 30-Oct-2012
NCH partners with Silicon Valley to market high-end diagnostic and medical research software
Nationwide Children's Hospital in Columbus, Ohio, and Transformatix Technologies, Inc., in Davis, California, have partnered to create BioLinQ, a new biomedical informatics company designed to supply advanced software solutions for disease diagnosis and medical research.

Public Release: 30-Oct-2012
Recyclable electronics: Just add hot water
The National Physical Laboratory, along with partners In2Tec Ltd and Gwent Electronic Materials Ltd, have developed a printed circuit board whose components can be easily separated by immersion in hot water. The work was part of the ReUSE project, funded by the UK government's Technology Strategy Board.

Public Release: 29-Oct-2012
New procedure helps patients with severe asthma breathe easier
For a small group with severe persistent asthma, frequent hospital visits tend to be the norm and taking medications and lifestyle changes don't do the trick. Northwestern Memorial Hospital is now using a new procedure called bronchial thermoplasty, the first non-drug therapy approved by the Federal Drug Administration, for patients with severe asthma.

Public Release: 29-Oct-2012
Nanotechnology developed at Louisiana Tech University leads to breakthrough in fuel conversion
Recognizing a national need to eliminate U.S. dependency on foreign oil and reverse large trade deficits driven by oil imports, Jupiter Fuels -- a privately owned startup development company focused on proving the economics of breakthrough natural gas-to-liquid fuel conversion technology -- is capitalizing on nanotechnology energy research taking place at Louisiana Tech University.

Public Release: 29-Oct-2012
Nanoparticles provide reinforcement for invisible brackets in orthodontics
Researchers at Universidad Carlos III de Madrid are collaborating with the company, CEOSA-Euroortodoncia, to develop a new generation of clear plastic brackets with nanoparticles to increase resistance and improve the material's properties.

Public Release: 29-Oct-2012
British Library leads the way for sharing data as major institutions sign up to DataCite
British Library leads the way for sharing research data in the UK as five major institutions sign up to DataCite.

Public Release: 26-Oct-2012
Research on nanocrystals to move from lab to market
UC Riverside has granted an exclusive license to The Idea Zoo, Inc., to commercialize nanotechnology research developed in the lab of a chemist at the university. The Idea Zoo, a leading developer and licensor of advanced materials and technologies headquartered in Santa Clara, Calif., was granted exclusive rights to seven patents that cover various aspects of advanced superparamagnetic colloidal nanocrystals. Specifically, the patents focus on magnetically tunable photonic crystals and the ability to commercialize them.

Public Release: 26-Oct-2012
Trial of HIV test for babies in Africa could make a big difference
Today, mothers in Africa sometimes walk more than 10 miles to a clinic only to learn that conventional HIV test results for their babies are not available yet. Soon residents in Maputo, Mozambique, will participate in the first clinical trial of a new HIV test developed at Northwestern University that will deliver a diagnosis in less than an hour. The test could dramatically improve the rates in which infected infants are diagnosed and treated.

Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

Public Release: 26-Oct-2012
What authors want from open access publishing
John Wiley & Sons, Inc., today announced the results of an author survey on open access, with over ten thousand respondents from across Wiley's journal portfolio. The research explored the factors that authors assess when deciding where to publish, and whether to publish open access. Among the top factors considered by authors were the relevance and scope of the journal, the journal's impact factor and the international reach of the journal.

Public Release: 26-Oct-2012
SAGE to publish the Journal of International Medical Research
SAGE has today announced the purchase of the Journal of International Medical Research from Field House Publishing LLP.

Public Release: 26-Oct-2012
British Ecological Society partners with Wiley open access journal Ecology and Evolution
John Wiley & Sons, Inc., has announced a new partnership between the British Ecological Society and the Wiley Open Access journal Ecology and Evolution. This latest partnership brings the number of high profile journals supporting the open access title to 16. 11 of these partner titles are ranked in the top 20 ecology journals by the Institute for Scientific Information.

Public Release: 26-Oct-2012
Smart cities: Bridging physical and digital
One of the challenges we face is how to best design and change cities into smart intelligent and sustainable environments. Researchers will explain how new technology can make our cities more habitable, and help the people who live in them understand them better.

Economic and Social Research Council


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