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Public Release: 22-Apr-2013
OHSU teams with Intel to decode the root causes of cancer and other complex diseases
Oregon Health and Science University and Intel Corp. are teaming up to develop next-generation computing technologies that advance the field of personalized medicine by dramatically increasing the speed, precision and cost-effectiveness of analyzing a patient's individual genetic profile.

Public Release: 22-Apr-2013
Atlantic cod in for even more stress?
Researchers have known for some years that the Atlantic cod beats the retreat in the direction of the Arctic when the waters in its traditional habitat become too warm. In summer, shoals from the Atlantic Ocean, for example, are now moving up as far as Spitsbergen into the waters the Arctic cod calls its own.

Public Release: 22-Apr-2013
The bee's knees for detecting disease
Monitoring orchards to detect the dangerous plant disease fire blight is very hard. Often, antibiotics are used just in case, even when there is no imminent threat. A new method developed at the Vienna University of Technology uses bees and a specially designed DNA-test to find out whether there is any fire blight bacteria in the region.

Public Release: 22-Apr-2013

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Snail tale: Fossil shells and new geochemical technique provide clues to ancient climate cooling
Using a new laboratory technique to analyze fossil snail shells, scientists have gained insights into an abrupt climate shift that transformed the planet nearly 34 million years ago.

Turner Postdoctoral Fellows Program, University of Michigan

Public Release: 22-Apr-2013
RAFT polymerization technology enabling the biotech industry
CSIRO and Mirus Bio LLC are pleased to announce a new license arrangement that will enable Mirus Bio to utilize the unique characteristics of CSIRO's Reversible Addition-Fragmentation chain Transfer polymerization technology to expand upon its high-end polymer development capabilities for the biotech industry.

Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation

Public Release: 20-Apr-2013

Experimental Biology 2013

Advances in Nutrition
Picking produce by its pigment: Don't forget that white vegetables offer key nutrients, say experts
At the ASN Satellite Symposium: White Vegetables: Addressing the Nutrition Gap, held in conjunction with the American Society for Nutrition's Annual Meeting at Experimental Biology 2013, seven leading food and nutrition scientists highlighted emerging research exploring the nutritional impact of white vegetables, especially the potato, in a healthy, well-balanced diet.

Alliance for Potato Research and Education

Public Release: 19-Apr-2013
Illinois-based OSF HealthCare joins Mayo Clinic Care Network
Mayo Clinic today announced that OSF HealthCare passed Mayo's rigorous review process to become the newest member of the Mayo Clinic Care Network.

Public Release: 19-Apr-2013
Unprecedented licensing agreement to spark economic growth and discovery in health IT
The Regenstrief Institute Inc., an international leader in electronic medical records and health information exchange research, development and operations, is licensing its Indiana Network for Patient Care and DOCS4DOCS clinical results delivery software to a subsidiary of the Indiana Health Information Exchange. This licensing agreement represents the single most significant transfer of discovery out of an academic medical informatics research setting to a commercial enterprise in the history of Indiana's health information technology sector and the national evolution of health information exchange.

Public Release: 19-Apr-2013

National Patient Safety Congress
AIG study shows hospital C-Suite and Risk Managers struggle with maintaining patient safety
A recent AIG study shows that hospital C-Suite and Risk Managers struggle with maintaining patient safety. Maximizing patient safety is the top priority for hospital C-Suite executives and Risk Managers in the United States -- but, "lack of teamwork, negative culture and poor communication" will present barriers to patient safety in the future -- according to a new survey commissioned by American International Group (AIG) in consultation with patient safety expert, Dr. Marty Makary, M.D., M.P.H.

AIG

Public Release: 18-Apr-2013
National consortium to lead North Carolina in big data innovation
A new collaboration called the National Consortium for Data Science aims to make North Carolina a national hub for data-intensive business and data science research, a move that will help develop a national strategy to ensure US leadership in the data-driven global economy.

Public Release: 18-Apr-2013
100+ million mapped (and growing) records of nearly every living US species
Biodiversity Information Serving Our Nation or BISON is the only system of its kind; a unique, web-based Federal resource for finding species in the U. S. and territories. Its size is unprecedented, offering more than 100 million mapped records of nearly every living species nationwide and growing. And the vast majority of the records are specific locations, not just county or state records.

US Geological Survey

Public Release: 18-Apr-2013
University of Huddersfield and University of Pisa team up to find Peruvian mummy secrets
The mummified bodies of Peruvians who died up to 1,000 years ago will yield up their secrets, thanks to a prestigious research project by the University of Huddersfield's Dr Stefano Vanin and two of his students in collaboration with the University of Pisa and the Ancient World Society.

Public Release: 18-Apr-2013
GAIN Index moves to Notre Dame
The Global Adaptation Index (GAIN) -- the world's leading Index showing which countries are best prepared to deal with the droughts, super-storms and other natural disasters that climate change can cause -- is moving to the University of Notre Dame.

Public Release: 17-Apr-2013
APS commends President Obama's plan for 'regional centers' to train STEM teachers
The American Physical Society commends the inclusion of regional centers within the STEM Innovation Network in President Obama's Fiscal Year 2014 budget to develop highly trained STEM teachers who will prepare students to meet the demands of an increasingly technical workforce.

Public Release: 17-Apr-2013
UC Berkeley selected to build NASA's next space weather satellite
NASA has awarded UC Berkeley's Space Sciences Laboratory up to $200 million to build a satellite to determine how Earth's weather affects weather at the edge of space in order to improve forecasts of extreme "space weather" that can disrupt global positioning satellites and radio communications. Scheduled for launch in 2017, the ICON satellite will carry instruments to image winds in the upper atmosphere and connect those with storms in the ionosphere.

NASA

Public Release: 17-Apr-2013
Vighter Medical Group and MCG team up to support FBI
A small Minnesota-based medical direction and support-company and Georgia's public medical school have teamed up to provide supplemental medical support to the Federal Bureau of Investigation's field operations.

Public Release: 17-Apr-2013
FDA approves Phase II of stem cell trial for ALS led by U-M's Dr. Eva Feldman
For nearly two years, University of Michigan neurologist Eva Feldman, M.D., Ph.D. has led the nation's first clinical trial of stem cell injections in patients with the deadly degenerative disease known as amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, often called ALS or Lou Gehrig's disease. Now, a new approval from the US Food and Drug Administration paves the way for U-M to become the second site in the trial, pending approval of the U-M Institutional Review Board.

Public Release: 16-Apr-2013
Wild parent spawns super salt-tolerant rice
Farmers are set to reclaim salt-ravaged land thanks to a single rice plant born of two unlikely parents that is spawning a new generation of rice that has double the salinity tolerance of other rice.

Public Release: 16-Apr-2013
Research uses mirrors to make solar energy cost competitive
Concentrating solar power technologies use mirrors to reflect and concentrate sunlight to produce heat, which can then be used to produce electricity, according to Ranga Pitchumani, Virginia Tech professor of mechanical engineering and director of the Concentrating Solar Power program. These technologies present a distinct advantage over photovoltaic cells in their ability to store the sun's energy as thermal energy.

Public Release: 16-Apr-2013
Polymer platform technology innovates drug delivery
A University of Alberta pharmacy researcher has patented a nano-scale polymer that improves drug absorption, targets delivery and reduces side-effects.

Public Release: 16-Apr-2013
A trial to find out the effectiveness of biocides against Vespa velutina
The Monitoring Committee for the Asian hornet, the Vespa velutina, in which the Government of the Basque Autonomous Community (region), the Charter Provincial Councils, the Beekeeping sector and Neiker-Tecnalia are working together, will be taking steps aimed at controlling the Vespa velutina populations and minimizing their impact.

Public Release: 16-Apr-2013
System patented for building inflatable hydraulic dams, easy to assemble and disassemble
University of Granada researchers have designed a technique for assembling and dismantling a hydraulic dam in a few hours, with no specialized machinery and minimizing environmental harm.

Public Release: 16-Apr-2013
CIC nanoGUNE launches Simune, an atomic-scale simulations service for companies
CIC nanoGUNE launches a new service called Simune with the aim of supporting a large variety of companies and institutions in their R+D processes. This service will perform computer simulations in order to study the behavior of matter at the atomic scale. In this way, Simune will help to solve specific technological problems with a lower investment.

Public Release: 15-Apr-2013
BGI Health forms partnership with ACIBADEM hospital on genetic disease testing
BGI Health and ACIBADEM Healthcare Group Genetic Diagnostic Center in cooperation with Genoks Company Molecular Biology, signed a Memorandum of Understanding for jointly introducing the advanced genetic testing technologies to Turkey and improving Turkish reproductive healthcare.

Public Release: 15-Apr-2013
ORNL leading study focused on afterlife of electric vehicle batteries
Once they've finished powering electric vehicles for hundreds of thousands of miles, it may not be the end of the road for automotive batteries, which researchers believe can provide continued benefits for consumers, automakers and the environment.


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