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ACT Global Sports Completes Natural Grass Study at Texas A&M University
Research by leading synthetic turf manufacturer and Labosport benchmarks sport performance of natural turf. - January 07, 2010 - Act Global
PMI Announces Dates for First 2010 Short Course
Porous Materials, Inc. (PMI) is happy to announce the dates for it's first Short Course for the new year. The course, titled "Advanced Techniques for Pore Structure Characterization; Theory & Practice," will be held during the week of May 11-13, 2010. The PMI Short Course brings... - December 25, 2009 - Porous Materials, Inc.
Nationwide Trade Show Series at Universities Focuses on Photonics
Biotechnology Calendar, Inc. announces the addition of Physics and Photonics-specific shows to their popular series of tabletop expositions at top research universities across the country. - December 19, 2009 - Biotechnology Calendar, Inc.
Genescient Receives Additional Angel Funding
Genescient Corporation receives an additional $500,000 in angel funding. - December 17, 2009 - Genescient Corporation
'Lifting the Lid on Academic Lab Auto Research 2' Final Program, the 2nd Annual Conference on Laboratory Automation in Universities Run by PAA Ltd.
At Hinxton Hall, Cambridge on 12th January 2010. With Free attendance for delegates, 23 exhibitors (some you may not have met before), delegates signed up from all over the world and a great confirmed speakers program, the 2010 conference is looking to be as great success as 2009. - December 16, 2009 - PAA Ltd.
Unbound Medicine and Wiley-Blackwell Announce Partnership with Launch of Evidence Central™
Unbound Medicine, a leader in knowledge management solutions for healthcare, today announced the launch of Evidence Central™, an integrated, evidence-based solution, with content from its partner, Wiley-Blackwell, the scientific, technical, medical, and scholarly publishing business of John... - December 15, 2009 - Unbound Medicine
Insights with Host Hugh Downs Welcomes US Green Building Council Represented by the Florida Gulf Coast Chapter as Content Advisor
Story collaboration with the Florida Gulf Coast Chapter of the US Green Building Council as Content Advisor for Educational Awareness - December 12, 2009 - InsightsSeries
University of California, San Francisco, Researcher Receives ASBMB-Merck Award
James A. Wells, professor and chairman of the department pharmaceutical chemistry at the University of California, San Francisco, and director of UCSF's small molecule discovery center, has been named the winner of the 2010 American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology-Merck Award for his... - December 12, 2009 - American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Insights with Host Hugh Downs Collaborates with the National Rural Education Association
Story collaboration with the NREA as Content Advisor on Educational Issues for Consumer and Expert Awareness - December 10, 2009 - InsightsSeries
Gleedo and The Thomas A. Edison Papers at Rutgers University Enliven Research for Academics, Inventors and Edison Fans
Gleedo™ and the Thomas A. Edison Papers at Rutgers University today announced a joint program that will leverage Gleedo to facilitate live collaboration with those seeking to explore Edison’s body of work. Founded in 1978, the mission of the Thomas A. Edison Papers is to make available... - December 09, 2009 - Gleedo
Legacy of Giving Continues-the Malina Girls Help Students with Autism in Their Community
The Malina daughters raise funds for The Victory Center for Autism and Behavioral Challenges, a not-for-profit school for children with Autism and Behavioral Challenges in North Miami, FL - December 09, 2009 - The Victory Center for Autism & Behavioral Challenges
ALPCO Diagnostics and BioPorto Diagnostics Enter Into Distribution Partnership
ALPCO Diagnostics has taken on the responsibility to promote and sell BioPorto Diagnostics’ immunoassays on the US and Canadian markets. The primary product focus is BioPorto’s unrivalled portfolio of human and animal immunoassays for measuring NGAL – the breakthrough kidney... - December 08, 2009 - ALPCO
PREMIER Biosoft International Releases Primer Premier 6.00 with New Primer Search Algorithm for Standard PCR Assays and a Completely New User Interface
PREMIER Biosoft International releases Primer Premier 6.00 with support for automatic sequence retrieval, homology and template structure avoidance, compatible primer search and multiplex design. - December 06, 2009 - PREMIER Biosoft International
Scientific Community Unfair to Dr. Rupert Sheldrake, Imperial College London Dissertation Asserts
Phillip Stevens of Imperial College London examines how normal scientific protocols are violated when controversial researchers publish their results. - December 03, 2009 - Skeptiko
European Project for Integration of UAS: Unmanned Aircraft to Conquer the Skies
The European project INOUI for the integration of unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) into non-segregated airspace – airspace where all air traffic is authorised to fly according to established procedures – will present its research results at a forum in Cologne, Germany, on 1 and 2 December. - November 28, 2009 - DFS Deutsche Flugsicherung GmbH
IVS 3D Expands EMEA Sales Support for Fledermaus
Christian Relling Hired as EMEA Regional Manager to the IVS Sales Team - November 27, 2009 - IVS 3D
NASA Names Thermablok® to Its Top 49 Product Spin-off List for 2009
NASA's new aerogel technology, the highest R-value ever developed, now set to change the world. - November 24, 2009 - Acoustiblok, Inc.
Real “Psychic Spy” Reveals Truth Behind, “The Men Who Stare at Goats”
Major (retired) Paul H. Smith, PhD. Discusses his seven year involvement in the U.S. Army’s remote viewing program and how actual events differ from those depicted in the movie. - November 22, 2009 - Skeptiko
News at MEDICA: ALPCO Announces the Launch of Several New Products in 2009
ALPCO will return to MEDICA, showcasing these new immunoassay kits, which cement the company's perennial committment to serving the demands of the pre-clinical research market. This will be ALPCO's fourth year at MEDICA as part of the “Best of New England” consortium of companies, located in the US pavilion in Halle 3, D15-4. - November 16, 2009 - ALPCO
Five Ghanaian Tribes Submit DNA for Ancestoral Clues
Sankofa Project collects DNA samples from five Ghanaian tribes connected to the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade. - November 15, 2009 - CAAGRI
CuraBase to be Presented at the AACR-NCI-EORTC Molecular Targets and Cancer Therpeutics Conference in Boston
Targeted Therapeutics Consulting, Inc. announced today that its lead product, the cancer drug development database CuraBase®, will be introduced to the scientific community at the AACR-NCI-EORTC Molecular Targets and Cancer Therpeutics Conference in Boston on Monday, November 16. Dr. W. Michael... - November 14, 2009 - Targeted Therapeutics Consulting, Inc.
Nobel Laureate Claims the 2010 Herbert Tabor Lectureship
Phillip A. Sharp, a world leader of research in molecular biology and biochemistry and an institute professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, has been named winner of the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Herbert Tabor/Journal of Biological Chemistry... - November 14, 2009 - American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
UCSD Researcher Recognized for Her Outstanding Career Achievements in Biological Science
Susan S. Taylor, professor of chemistry and biochemistry, professor of pharmacology and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator at the University of California, San Diego, has been named the recipient of the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology 2010 Excellence in Science... - November 13, 2009 - American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
San Francisco Requests Bids for an Alternative to PG&E: Local Power-Assisted RFP Seeks New 51% Green Power Supply for Residents & Businesses, 360 MW of Local Green Power
A Major Local Power Inc. Milestone: Following Marin, SF Releases Long-Awaited Request For Proposals (RFP) to Solicit Bids from a New Power Service Supplier to Provide Residents and Businesses Dramatically Greener Power, Build 360 MW of Local Green Power Facilities Starting in 2010. - November 09, 2009 - Local Power LLC
Dr. Ann A. Kiessling, Director of the Bedford Stem Cell Research Foundation Honored with the Jacob Heskel Gabbay Award for Biotechnology and Medicine
101 healthy babies have been born from SPAR, the Special Program of Assisted Reproduction, which allows HIV positive men to safely father children. Dr. Kiessling’s recent work is bridging the gap between assisted reproduction and stem cell science. - November 09, 2009 - Bedford Stem Cell Research Foundation
Skeptiko: 'the Men Who Stare at Goats' Author, Jon Ronson Off-Target on Remote Viewing
Interview with the filmmaker and author Jon Ronson examines whether remote viewing portrayed in the new hit movie really exists. - November 09, 2009 - Skeptiko
Lankenau Institute Investigators Discover a Potential New Antibody Therapy to Treat Alzheimer’s Disease and Other Amyloid Illnesses
Alzheimer’s disease (AD), which afflicts over 5.3 million people in the United States alone, is the most common of over 25 incurable protein misfolding diseases termed amyloidoses. In a paper published in The Journal of Biological Chemistry, Sharad P. Adekar, MD, Scientist at the Lankenau Institute for Medical Research (LIMR) and Scott Dessain, M.D., Ph.D. Associate Professor at LIMR, have discovered a potential new antibody therapy that can be used to treat individuals suffering with AD. - November 09, 2009 - Lankenau Institute for Medical Research
Dr. Rupert Sheldrake Skeptiko Interview Reveals Difficulties Collaborating with Skeptics
Telepathy experiments by Dr. Rupert Sheldrake and Dr. Chris French demonstrate why skeptics and scientists often disagree. - November 07, 2009 - Skeptiko
Bio-Synthesis Gears Up for Virtual Conference for the Life Sciences
Bio-Synthesis has teamed up with BioConference Live for a revolutionary event. BioConference Live is a free, online-only conference for the life sciences and laboratory science community. The event will take place Tuesday, November 17, to Thursday, November 19. Attendees will be able to see and... - November 06, 2009 - Bio-Synthesis Inc.
SecureRF Co-Founder Named Fellow of The American Academy of Arts & Sciences
Dr. Dorian Goldfeld Inducted in 2009 Class of The American Academy of Arts & Sciences - November 02, 2009 - SecureRF Corporation
North American Seminars Inc. Presents "Unlocking the Mystery of Effective Rehabilitation for Multiple Sclerosis"
Multiple sclerosis can affect any area of the central nervous system resulting in a multitude of symptoms. This course, offered in limited engagement in 2010, will address the most current evidence based treatments available for Multiple Sclerosis. North American Seminars, Inc. presents this physical therapy continuing education course in Sacramento, CA and Las Vegas, NV in 2010 - October 31, 2009 - North American Seminars
Engineered Software Announces New Flow of Fluids Website with Online Calculators
Flow of Fluids, an Engineered Software Business, has released a completely new website with free online engineering calculator tools. The www.flowoffluids.com website has been revamped to coincide with the upcoming release of a new edition of the Crane Technical Paper No. 410 (TP410). In all, seven... - October 30, 2009 - Engineered Software, Inc.
IGNIS Innovation Demonstrates Breakthroughs in AMOLED Backplane Technology at FPD International 2009
AdMo(TM) & MaxLife(TM) platforms will grow the AMOLED market & reduce costs. - October 28, 2009 - IGNIS Innovation Inc.
Brazen Baboons | Flighty Females Disrupt Group Harmony
Female baboons on the look-out for love cause havoc in baboon groups by distracting males and breaking down group cohesion, reports a new study in Animal Behaviour. - October 28, 2009 - ZSL London Zoo
UBS DVB-SH Technology Driving Innovation in Germany
Unique Broadband System Ltd. (UBS), a major developer of COFDM technology and applications, is proud to bring its solid expertise in the DVB-SH technology by participating in the roll-out and launch of the first DVB-SH network in Germany. This project is driven by Fraunhofer-Institute for... - October 22, 2009 - Unique Broadband Systems Ltd.
Artificial Intelligence Lives Among and Interacts with Real People in Online Virtual World
Zabaware is the maker of the award winning Ultra Hal software, artificial intelligence technology that won the “most human” computer of the year in the 17th annual Loebner Prize Competition for Artificial Intelligence (AI). Zabaware’s Ultra Hal has joined the Second Life metaverse as a permanent resident and interacts with real people in this huge online virtual world. - October 22, 2009 - Zabaware, Inc.
"Haunted People" Potentially Explained: New Book Proposes a Mind-Body Basis for Anomalous Perceptions
People seeing ghosts? There may be a genuine mind-body foundation for such anomalous perceptions, according to two researchers, Michael Jawer and Marc Micozzi, MD, PhD. Their book, The Spiritual Anatomy of Emotion, suggests that sensing a presence, seeing an apparition, or feeling energy around a... - October 22, 2009 - Michael Jawer
Faculty of 1000: Redefining Obesity's Health Risks
The body mass index (BMI) has long been the yardstick in deciding who is at risk because of their weight. BMI is essentially a measure of density, identifying 'under-' and 'over-weight' risk groups. Recent studies however point towards a more sophisticated approach to the issue. - October 22, 2009 - Faculty of 1000
Hologic Finishes Testing of AUC1, NumberCrunch LTD's Advanced AI Algorithm
NumberCrunch LTD today announced the conclusion of the testing phase for NumberCrunch LTD's AUC1 advanced artificial intelligence algorithm in Hologic, Inc. (NASDAQ: HOLX) ImageChecker CAD (computer aided detection) mammography system. The patent-pending AUC1 algorithm, which has been optimized for... - October 22, 2009 - NumberCrunch LTD
Lifting the Lid on Academic Automation 2010, Scientific Conference 12th January 2010 is a Not for Profit Scientific Conference Run by PAAA for European Academics
This conference follows last years successful meeting and introduces many new and exciting developments in European academia and seeks to address the constantly changing needs of industry. paa runs this conference for european academics to present their work to otehr academics as well as other laboratory automation professionals from pharmaceutical, biotechnology and instrument companies. - October 19, 2009 - PAA Ltd.
Khush Announces Its Reverse Karaoke iPhone Application LaDiDa Has Been Approved by Apple
Khush Inc. announced today that Apple Inc. (AAPL) has approved its reverse karaoke iPhone application after two months in review. LaDiDa uses artificial intelligence to analyze sung vocal tracks in real-time and automatically compose matching music. Users can sing into the iPhone, and LaDiDa will analyze the pitch and structure of the melody in order to generate a unique accompaniment. The patent-pending reverse karaoke technology was developed by NSF-funded scientist Dr. Parag Chordia. - October 16, 2009 - Khush Inc.
LCH Clinical Research, LLC to Host Wine and Cheese Networking Event
LCH Clinical Research, LLC, an Atlanta-based research company announces its networking event Lynn Harding, CEO of LCH Clinical Research has over 15 years of experience in clinical research. She is a key leader in a movement to make LCH Clinical Research the premiere destination for clinical... - October 16, 2009 - LCH Clinical Research, LLC
A*STAR’s Institute of Chemical and Engineering Sciences Opens South East Asia’s First Kilo Laboratory Facility
The Institute of Chemical and Engineering Sciences’ (ICES) Kilo Laboratory (Kilo Lab) facility was officially opened by Mr Lim Chuan Poh, Chairman of the Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR), at its premises in Jurong Island today. The Kilo Lab, the first of its kind in... - October 16, 2009 - Institute of Chemical and Engineering Sciences
Sustainable Now Technologies, Inc. Files Energy Conversion Machine Patent
Sustainable Now Technologies today announced the filing of their first patent describing their Energy Conversion Machine (ECM) technologies. - October 16, 2009 - Sustainable Now Technologies
Brain Power Goes Green
Our brains, it turns out, are eco-friendly. A study published in Science and reviewed by F1000 Biology members Venkatesh Murthy and Jakob Sorensen reveals that our brains have the amazing ability to be energy efficient. Brain cells generate and propagate nerve impulses, or action potentials, by... - October 16, 2009 - Faculty of 1000
ALPCO Introduces Immundiagnostik Bone Sialoprotein (BSP) ELISA to North America
ALPCO Diagnostics introduces Immundiagnostik's Bone Sialoprotein ELISA to North America. The BSP ELISA exhibits outstanding sensitivity and specificity for the underglycosylated or carbohydrate deficient Bone Sialoprotein. - October 15, 2009 - ALPCO
Celestron Applauds the White House and President Barack Obama for Their Support of Astronomy and Science Education
Celestron® the world’s leading telescope maker and global sponsor of the International Year of Astronomy 2009, applauds the White House and President Barack Obama for their support of astronomy and science education. On Wednesday, October 8, 2009, President Barack Obama and the first lady... - October 14, 2009 - Celestron
Chemir's Definitive Deformulation Unlocks Product Information
Chemir Analytical Services introduces Definitive Deformulation, a service that helps companies develop new products and solve difficult problems. Unlike other laboratories, Chemir’s unique Definitive Deformulation process discovers the raw materials used in a formula, with absolute concentrations of each ingredient. The information gained may be used to improve a formula, understand a competitor’s product or resolve manufacturing problems. - October 11, 2009 - Chemir Analytical Services
Will Giving Coffee to Babies Keep Them Awake as Adults?
An F1000 evaluation looks at a Canadian study on how giving caffeine to newborn rats has a long-lasting and detrimental effect on sleep and breathing in adulthood Breathing problems are the leading causes of hospitalisation and death in premature babies. These babies are therefore often given... - October 10, 2009 - Faculty of 1000
No Place Like Home | Africa’s Big Cats Show Postcode Preference
Scientists from the Zoological Society of London (ZSL), the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) and the Tanzania Wildlife Research Institute (TAWIRI) carried out the largest survey of Tanzania’s carnivores, using a novel approach making use of over 400 camera trap locations. - October 10, 2009 - ZSL London Zoo