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Public Release: 26-Oct-2012
The International Council for Science pledges support for scientists in the L'Aquila case The International Council for Science, as representative of the global scientific community, expresses its strong concern regarding the case of the six scientists who have been found guilty of manslaughter and sentenced to six year prison terms because of their role in providing scientific advice prior to the earthquake in L'Aquila, Italy, in 2009. Contact: Denise Young
Public Release: 25-Oct-2012
First FDA approved subcutaneous implantable defibrillator available for patients On Sept. 28th, 2012, the FDA approved the world's first totally subcutaneous implantable defibrillator. Northwestern's Bluhm Cardiovascular Institute is one of the first 20 institutions in the country to have access to this technology. Since FDA approval, the Bluhm Cardiovascular Institute is one of the first ten places to implant in the US. Contact: Todd Medland
Public Release: 25-Oct-2012
 Plastic and Reconstructive SurgeryPlastic and Reconstructive Surgery Journal announces global expansion initiatives Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery (PRS), official journal of the American Society of Plastic Surgeons, announced today two publishing initiatives that will expand the reach of PRS to the international plastic surgery community. Contact: Connie Hughes
Public Release: 25-Oct-2012
NY-Presbyterian Hospital announces participation in trial for hard-to-treat hypertension Patients with hypertension whose blood pressure cannot be brought down to safe levels despite taking three or more medications may have some relief coming their way. An innovative, first-of-its-kind clinical trial for a device representing a dramatic shift in treatment approaches for the toughest-to-treat patients is currently being conducted at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital. Contact: Douglas Feingold
Public Release: 25-Oct-2012
Autism Speaks creates Delivering Scientific Innovation for Autism LLC Autism Speaks announced the formation of Delivering Scientific Innovation for Autism LLC an independent not-for-profit affiliate of Autism Speaks that will work directly with for-profit sector partners to more rapidly and effectively stimulate the conversion of breakthroughs from scientific research in the lab into products including medicines, treatments, diagnostic tools, therapeutic technologies and devices needed by both the autism and medical communities. 
Autism Speaks
Contact: Jane E. Rubinstein
Public Release: 24-Oct-2012
Office of Naval Research 2012 Science and Technology Partnership Conference and ASNE ExpoLeaner Navy looking at future technology, fleet size and sequestration Adm. Mark Ferguson, vice chief of naval operations, headlined the opening of the ONR (Office of Naval Research) Naval S&T (science and technology) Partnership Conference and ASNE Expo on Oct. 22, and highlighted the importance of innovative S&T programs being developed by the Navy. He also offered a revealing look at the potential future for the Navy if sequestration, or automatic defense cuts, goes into effect in January. Contact: Peter Vietti
Public Release: 24-Oct-2012
Office of Naval Research 2012 Science and Technology Partnership Conference and ASNE ExpoDARPA director: 'Revolutionary weapons require strong S&T partnerships' Touting a joint project to create a next-generation cruise missile with the Office of Naval Research on Oct. 22, the new director of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency stressed the need to find radical ways to shape the future battlefield. Contact: Peter Vietti
Public Release: 24-Oct-2012
Office of Naval Research 2012 Science and Technology Partnership Conference and ASNE ExpoIn an uncertain world, Navy needs science and technology collaboration, chief says Rear Adm. Matthew Klunder, the chief of naval research, told a packed house at the Office of Naval Research science and technology (S&T) conference this week that he intends to bring officials from the Navy, Marine Corps, industry and academia together on a quarterly basis, starting in 2013, to accelerate S&T efforts for the warfighter. Contact: Peter Vietti
Public Release: 24-Oct-2012
CellCell Press and the ISSCR enter an exciting new publishing partnership Cell Press is delighted to announce that it has been chosen by the International Society for Stem Cell Research, ISSCR, to publish its new Open Access journal Stem Cell Reports. Contact: Elisabeth (Lisa) Lyons
Public Release: 24-Oct-2012
Optimizing the care of very preterm infants: A collective European initiative "Effective Perinatal Intensive Care in Europe: translating knowledge into evidence-based practice", is the theme that will bring together the 12 institutions taking part in the EPICE project - Effective Perinatal Intensive Care in Europe – a European project funded by the EU 7th Framework Program "Health", coordinated by Inserm. Contact: presse
Public Release: 24-Oct-2012
Wood completely broken down into its component parts Crude oil is getting scarce. This is why researchers are seeking to substitute petroleum-based products – like plastics – with sustainable raw materials. Waste wood, divided into lignin and cellulose, could serve as a raw material. A pilot plant has been set up to handle this division on a larger scale. The pilot plant opened on Oct. 2 as part of the new building constructed for the Fraunhofer Center for Chemical-Biotechnological Processes CBP in Leuna. Contact: Moritz Leschinsky
Public Release: 24-Oct-2012
Tate & Lyle launches SODA-LO™ Salt Microspheres globally Tate & Lyle, the global ingredients and food solutions provider, announces the global launch of a ground breaking, new salt reduction ingredient, SODA-LO Salt Microspheres, that tastes, labels and functions like salt because it is salt. With SODA-LO, food manufacturers can reduce salt levels by 25 to 50 percent in various applications without sacrificing taste. Contact: Allison Parker
Public Release: 24-Oct-2012
Chemical & Engineering NewsNew treatments may allow allergic people to safely eat eggs, peanuts and other foods New treatments are offering the prospect of eating without fear for the 15 million people in the United States with food allergies, according to the cover story in the current issue of Chemical & Engineering News. C&EN is the weekly newsmagazine of the American Chemical Society, the world's largest scientific society. Contact: Michael Bernstein
Public Release: 24-Oct-2012
Multi-talented enzyme - produced on large-scale Enzymes remove spots from our laundry, whiten paper and help with brewing beer. To wit: They facilitate many industrial processes. In many cases, enzymes are obtained from fruits. However, if the harvest is poor, this might lead to shortfalls. Researchers therefore designed a process to produce enzymes microbiologically. A multifunctional facility now opening in Leuna should help with adapting these new processes to an industrial scale. Contact: Katja Patzsch
Public Release: 24-Oct-2012
Industrialized constructive system made of timber for collective residential buildings Tecnalia is developing a new constructive system for multi-storey collective dwelling buildings through cross-laminated timber panel CLT structures, together with the company EGOIN, specialized in timber industrialized construction. Contact: Aitziber Lasa
Public Release: 24-Oct-2012
The University of Gothenburg intensifies cooperation on European issues The Centre for European Studies is boosting the University of Gothenburg's engagement in European issues by recruiting experts from the business world, the public sector and politics, including EU Commissioner Cecilia Malmström, to a recently started research council. Contact: Urban Strandberg
Public Release: 24-Oct-2012
SAGE's open access medicine and engineering journals: Now open for submissions SAGE today announced that all three of their latest open access journals are now open for submissions – SAGE Open Medicine, SAGE Open Medical Case Reports and SAGE Open Engineering. Contact: Katie Baker
Public Release: 24-Oct-2012
Cooperation for excellent engineering education CLUSTER, an association of 12 leading scientific-technical universities in Europe, and 18 leading Chinese universities have agreed on a closer cooperation in engineering education: The "Harbin Roadmap", among other things, plans to offer a Chinese-European doctoral school for sustainability engineering, a double master degrees program, and postgraduate summer and winter schools. Contact: Monika Landgraf
Public Release: 24-Oct-2012
First web-based prostate cancer database launches The National Proactive Surveillance Network, the world's first online medical database designed to help men track the progression of their prostate cancer while avoiding complications from overtreatment, launches today. A project of the Prostate Cancer Foundation, the Cedars-Sinai Samuel Oschin Comprehensive Cancer Institute and Johns Hopkins, the National Proactive Surveillance Network will allow men diagnosed with slow-growing forms of the disease to track their disease in a secure, interactive web-based patient portal. Contact: Sally Stewart
Public Release: 23-Oct-2012
World's most advanced mirror for giant telescope completed Scientists at the University of Arizona and in California have completed the most challenging large astronomical mirror ever made. The mirror will be part of the 25-meter Giant Magellan Telescope, which will explore planets around other stars and the formation of stars, galaxies and black holes in the early universe. Contact: Daniel Stolte
Public Release: 23-Oct-2012
Big DataNew Big Data journal launched at Strata + Hadoop World, NY To address the complicated questions surrounding the powerful and growing field of data discovery, Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers has released an exclusive preview issue of Big Data at the Strata + Hadoop World conference in New York City. Contact: Sophie Mohin
Public Release: 23-Oct-2012
New SpaceNew Space: A groundbreaking journal Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers announces the launch of New Space, the only international peer-reviewed journal dedicated to space innovation. This groundbreaking publication facilitates the emerging multidisciplinary opportunities for space-based collaborations of industry, academia, and government agencies. Contact: Bill Schappert
Public Release: 23-Oct-2012
UH professor to lead international drilling expedition From finding the first deep-water hydrocarbons in the Gulf of Mexico to locating the meteorite impact that doomed the dinosaurs, ocean drilling has unlocked major mysteries. Geoscientists hope to uncover more secrets on an expedition to recover the first-ever drill core from the lower crust of the Pacific Ocean. University of Houston geologist Jonathan Snow will co-lead 28 scientists aboard the JOIDES Resolution research vessel on a voyage supported by the Integrated Ocean Drilling Program.
Integrated Ocean Drilling Program
Contact: Lisa Merkl
Public Release: 23-Oct-2012
Taking the risk out of lending to low income groups People on low incomes who find it impossible to secure affordable loans can now access finance more readily following a successful Knowledge Transfer Partnership project jointly funded by Economic and Social Research Council and the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council.
Economic and Social Research Council
Contact: Pressoffice
Public Release: 23-Oct-2012
BMC Research NotesOpen data partnership leads to release of data from Nobel Prize-winning laboratory for public use LabArchives, a provider of online lab notebook software, and BioMed Central's open access journal BMC Research Notes has published Mutagenetix, an online open access repository of ENU-generated data. The data is linked permanently to a 'Data Note', describing results from the ENU mutagenesis program, operated by the Beutler laboratory at the Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla, CA and which won them the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2011. Contact: Rebecca Fairbairn
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