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Twenty Additions to Pharmaceutical Substances
Thieme Publishing Group today announced the launch of Pharmaceutical Substances Version 3.3. Compiled by Prof. A. Kleemann, Prof. J. Engel, Prof. B. Kutscher and Dr. D. Reichert, renowned leaders in the field, this comprehensive reference guide to every significant pharmaceutical compound contains... - February 04, 2010 - Thieme Publishers
CRO, Onyx Scientific, Predicts Pharmaceutical Companies Will Strategically Align with Trusted Outsourcing Partners to Reduce Costs, Risks and Time-to-Market
Onyx Scientific Ltd, provides outsourcing chemistry services to the pharmaceutical industry, such as: custom synthesis, process development, lead optimization, GMP synthesis and scale up, automated salt selection, crystallization studies, polymorphism screening and solid state analysis - February 03, 2010 - Onyx Scientific Ltd
Only 1/10 Adults with ADHD Get Treatment
"Adult ADHD: What You Need to Know," a book released today by Health and Life, reports that only around one out of ten adults with ADHD, or attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, received treatment over the last year. Up to 50% of adults with ADHD will suffer from mood problems such... - February 02, 2010 - Health and Life, a medical blog
Biomarker Discovery Grant Deadline Extended
RayBiotech, Inc., today announced that they are extending the deadline for submitting applications for its Biomarker Discovery Pilot Grant program. RayBiotech will now accept applications for the pilot grants through February 22nd, 2010. “The last-minute surge in interest in the grant program has been overwhelming,” said Brett Burkholder, Director of Marketing & Business Development for RayBiotech, Inc. - February 02, 2010 - RayBiotech, Inc
See Further with Science at the British Museum
A series of talks on science starts at the British Museum tomorrow. The talks, on topics varying from Chinese bronze casting to the Lewis Chess Pieces, will run from March through until July and are part of the Capital Science programme in celebration of the Royal Society’s 350th... - February 02, 2010 - Royal Society
HT PARP in Vivo Pharmacodynamic Assay II
Trevigen announces a validated assay, with higher sensitivity and pre-coated antibody plates to measure the effectiveness of PARP inhibitors in cell and tissue lysates for anticancer drug screening. - February 02, 2010 - Trevigen, Inc.
University of Kentucky Researcher, Dr. Kevin Nelson Skeptical of Near-Death Experience Accounts
Near-death experience skeptic, Dr. Kevin Nelson says the burden of proof is on experiencers to show their experiences are real. - January 30, 2010 - Skeptiko
Upcoming Fledermaus Tools and Functionality Featured at AGU
Latest in Mid-Water Visualization and ESRI Integration Demonstrated. IVS 3D seeks insights into user workflows at AGU and gains feedback into Fledermaus' mid-water visualization tools and ESRI Arc integration. - January 30, 2010 - IVS 3D
Study Shows Public Funding Contributes to Family Success
A new study released by the Child Care Resource Center (CCRC) examines the vital importance of child care subsidies for families and their communities. The report, funded by the California Department of Education, illustrates that publicly funded programs allow lower income parents to work and... - January 29, 2010 - child care resource center
Gordon Brown Could Create Britain’s Great Barrier Reef; Reported by ZSL London Zoo
10,000 people already backing coral campaign. One of the world’s largest coral atolls, which belongs to Britain, could soon become the biggest marine protected area on Earth. - January 29, 2010 - ZSL London Zoo
Edfu Books - Important New Title Released - King Jesus, the Warrior King - Revolutionary New Evidence by Ralph Ellis
New research by Ralph Ellis suggests that Jesus Christ (King Jesus) was a wealthy royal of Egyptian heritage, whose revolutionary goal was to become Emperor of Rome. New book published. Ralph Ellis claims to have discovered many references detailing the life of the historical King Jesus, in the established historical texts. Author: Ralph Ellis. Publisher: Edfu Books. - January 28, 2010 - Edfu Books
Native American x H1N1 = 4 Times Higher Risk of Death
Reservations get assistance with H1N1 education from National Relief Charities. - January 27, 2010 - National Relief Charities
PREMIER Biosoft International Releases Beacon Designer 7.7 with Rupport for High Resolution Melting Analysis(HRMA) Primer Design
With the release of version 7.7, Beacon Designer, a comprehensive program for real time PCR, now includes design support for HRMA primers - January 27, 2010 - PREMIER Biosoft International
ALPCO Launches Rat and Mouse Proinsulin ELISA Kits
ALPCO Immunoassays has developed two new low-sample volume ELISAs for the quantitative analysis of total proinsulin (I and II) in rats and mice. - January 26, 2010 - ALPCO
InnovaRadio Teams Up with Unique Broadband Systems Ltd to Bring Green Innovative Adaptive Pre-Correction Solutions to Market
Unique Broadband System Ltd. (UBS), a major developer of COFDM technology and applications has been selected by InnovaRadio to supply its leading universal modulation platform in order to integrate InnovaRadio’s innovative adaptive precorrection solution. UBS designs and manufactures the... - January 26, 2010 - Unique Broadband Systems Ltd.
Scientists from Around the World Connect on Global Marketplace for Laboratory Equipment
Helping researchers locate laboratory equipment they could not find otherwise, business-to-business marketplace LabX.com is the conduit of choice for many international scientists and engineers. - January 26, 2010 - LabX
UNC Researcher to Speak on Life in Earth's Most Extreme Environments
The Chapel Hill Astronomical and Observing Society will be hosting Zena Cardman for a presentation on her work in researching life in some of Earth's most extreme environments. Cardman has traveled to the Arctic and Antarctica and is part of the Pavilion Lake Research Project deploying submarines... - January 24, 2010 - Chapel Hill Astronomical and Observational Society
Famous London Eel is Vanishing from the Thames | ZSL Conservation
Eel populations in the River Thames have crashed to alarmingly low levels, conservationists have revealed. Over the last five years scientists from the Zoological Society of London (ZSL) have recorded a 98 per cent drop in the number of European eels within the river. - January 23, 2010 - ZSL London Zoo
New Family of Surface Plate Accessories for Zebraoptical OptoProfiler for Bow, Warp for Large Crystalline Solar Cells, MEMs Substrates, and Other Devices
SOLLC: Sunrise Optical LLC provides now surface plates accessories for bow, warp for large crystalline solar cells, MEMs substrates and other devices. Sunrise Optical LLC has added line of surface plate accessories for Zebraoptical OptoProfiler for bow, warp for large crystalline solar cells, MEMs... - January 23, 2010 - Sunrise Optical LLC
Reluctant Hero : Cleaner Fish Show It Pays to be Selfless: ZSL London Zoo
Researchers from the Zoological Society of London, University of Queensland and the University of Neuchâtel have discovered that male cleaner wrasse are quick to play the hero when their dinner is at stake. - January 21, 2010 - ZSL London Zoo
Sarah Greene to Head Up The Scientist
Sarah Greene, publishing and new media entrepreneur, is to become Editor-in-Chief of The Scientist magazine. Sarah’s new role will include strengthening The Scientist’s online presence and overseeing closer ties with Faculty of 1000, the popular and respected international post-publication peer review service. - January 20, 2010 - Faculty of 1000
Echo E-Business Delivers It’s Predictions for Online Business in 2010
E-Business Strategist Deborah Collier has revealed her predictions for EBusiness in 2010. Deborah's predictions last year, which featured in her white paper ' E-Business Evolution 2009', with comments from John Lewis, Cancer Research UK, PriceWaterhouseCoopers and Linden Labs are becoming reality. This year Deborah discusses how social media, popular culture, new technologies and the economy will enable us in the forthcoming and following years. - January 19, 2010 - Echo E-Business
Proteome Solutions Announces ProteinID Finder Version 1.8.0
ProteinID Finder is a proteomics analyzation software capable of extracting information from the online universal protein resource database UniProt. The release of v1.8 adds new powerful graphing capabilities to Proteome Solutions ProteinID Finder. - January 13, 2010 - Proteome Solutions
North American Seminars Inc. Release 2010 Dates for A Master Clinicians Approach to Advanced Concepts in Examination and Treatment of the Shoulder Complex
North American Seminars Inc release 2010 for the physical therapy continuing education course, A Master Clinicians Approach to Advanced Concepts in Examination and Treatment of the Shoulder Complex. This course will be present to physical therapists and occupational therapists in Pennsylvannia, Nevada, Illinois, Colorado, Maryland, Oregon, North Carolina and Florida. - January 09, 2010 - North American Seminars
Near Death Experience Researcher, Dr. Penny Sartori, Finds More Than Hallucinations in NDE Accounts
NDE Research examines memories of resuscitation by patients suffering cardiac arrest. - January 09, 2010 - Skeptiko
2009 Nobel Laureate in Chemistry to Lecture at University of Houston
Professor Ada Yonath, the 2009 Laureate in Chemistry, will discuss "The Amazing Ribosome" in a lecture at noon, Jan. 15 in the Rockwell Pavilion of the M.D. Anderson Library on the University of Houston (UH) campus. The event is sponsored by the Texas Learning and Computation Center at... - January 09, 2010 - University of Houston
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