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New Silex SX-560 Enables Enterprise 802.11 Wireless Connectivity for Battery Operated Devices

5/14/2008
Intelligent Wireless Module Combines Linux, Security, and Low Power Consumption TUSTIN, Calif., May 14 /- Silex Technology today announcedthe SX-560, an intelligent high-performance module designed for connectingdevices that require low power consumption to 802.11a/b/g wireless localarea networks (WLANs). It is ideal for mobile OEM applications... [Comments]

Warming climate is changing life on global scale, says new study

5/14/2008
A vast array of physical and biological systems across the earth are being affected by warming temperatures caused by humans, says a new analysis of information not previously assembled all in one spot. The effects on living things include earlier leafing of trees and plants over many reg... [Comments]Warming climate is changing life on global scale, says new study

Restoring fish populations leads to tough choice for Great Lakes Gulls

5/14/2008
You might think that stocking the Great Lakes with things like trout and salmon would be good for the herring gull. The birds often eat from the water, so it would be natural to assume that more fish would mean better dining. But a new report published in the April journal of Ecology by the Ecological Society of America says that the addition of species such as exotic salmon and trout to the... [Comments]

Compound has potential for new class of AIDS drugs

5/14/2008
ANN ARBOR, Mich.---Researchers have developed what they believe is the first new mechanism in nearly 20 years for inhibiting a common target used to treat all HIV patients, which could eventually lead to a new class of AIDS drugs. Researchers at the University of Michigan used computer models to develop the inhibiting compound, and then confirmed in the lab that the compound does indeed in... [Comments]

Biology Technology

Nanowires may boost solar cell efficiency, UC San Diego engineers say

5/14/2008
University of California, San Diego electrical engineers have created experimental solar cells spiked with nanowires that could lead to highly efficient thin-film solar cells of the future. Indium phosphide (InP) nanowires can serve as electron superhighways that carry electrons kicked loo... [Comments]Nanowires may boost solar cell efficiency, UC San Diego engineers say

Golden nanocrown

5/14/2008
This release is available in German . Chinese researchers have recently made a golden crown with a diameter of only a few nanometers. It is a large ring-shaped molecule containing 36 gold atoms. The lords of the ring, a team of researchers from the Universities of Beijing, Hong K... [Comments]Golden nanocrown

Commencement 2008: Student innovation could improve data storage, magnetic sensors

5/14/2008
Troy, N.Y. Paul Morrow, who will graduate from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute on May 17, has come a long way from his days as an elementary school student, pulling apart his mothers cassette player. The talented young physicist has developed two innovations that could vastly improve magnetic data storage and sense extremely low level magnetic fields in everything from ink on counterfeit cu... [Comments]

Micro and Nano Scale Characterization of Fibers

5/14/2008
Fibres present massive challenges and opportunities for micro and nano technologies. These challenges are not in the manufacturing of the fibres but in the control and understanding of their behaviour. This one-day workshop will focus on the many challenges of fibre analysis at the micro and nano-scale using state-of-the art surface chemical analysis, including SIMS, XPS and SPM techniques... [Comments]

Medicine News

Thomson Reuters Honors Temple University Health System for Initiative That Cut Costs $64 Million and Grew Clinical Service Lines

5/14/2008
2008 Insight Awards Recognize Excellence at 13 U.S. Hospitals ANN ARBOR, Mich., May 14 /- The healthcarebusiness of Thomson Reuters today honored 13 hospitals for excellence inperformance improvement at the fourth annual presentation of the InsightAwards. Winners of the 2008 awards were announced during the ThomsonReuters Healthcare Advantage Conference at the... [Comments]

Myanmar: Half a Million Children Affected by Cyclone, Aid Agency Warns

5/14/2008
- World Vision opens 37 'Child-Friendly Spaces' to help children cope with disaster - Children have witnessed 'unimaginable horrors,' face 'risk of psychological trauma' - Child-Friendly Spaces also helping children in China quake zone YANGON, Myanmar, May 14 /- World Vision is addressing theemotional and physical needs... [Comments]

Research shows HPV testing offers women protection for twice as long as smear testing

5/14/2008
The long term findings of a study carried out at Hammersmith hospital reveal that testing for Human Papilloma Virus (HPV) can be twice as effective at protecting women from developing cervical abnormalities as smear testing. Results of the research led by Professor Jack Cuzick of Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry - are published today (Thursday, 15 May 2008) in the Intern... [Comments]

Ralphs Expands Discounted Generic Drug Program

5/14/2008
Supermarket Company Offers 90-day Prescriptions for $10 and Increases the Number of Women's Health Medications Offered at a Discount LOS ANGELES, May 14 /- Starting today, Ralphs in-storepharmacies will expand its generic drug program -- offering customers lowerprices and additional drug choices to meet their health needs. The retaileris offering 90-day prescriptions for... [Comments]

Medicine Technology

Progen Resumes Phase 1 Development of Anti-Cancer Agent, PG-11047

5/14/2008
BRISBANE, Australia, May 14 /- ProgenPharmaceuticals Limited (ASX:PGL; Nasdaq: PGLA) today announced that theCompany has resumed patient enrolment in the phase 1 dose-escalation studyof its recently acquired polyamine analogue, PG-11047 (formerly CGC-11047)for patients with advanced cancer. Progen has commenced development of PG-11047 - the lead clinicalcompound... [Comments]

Biopure Announces Publication of Phase II Proof-of-Concept Coronary Trial

5/14/2008
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., May 14 /- Biopure Corporation(Nasdaq: BPUR ) today announced that the results from its Phase II coronaryrevascularization trial have been published in the peer-reviewedEuroIntervention Journal. The paper is entitled "Proof-of-concept trial toevaluate haemoglobin based oxygen therapeutics in elective percutaneouscoronary revascularization. Ration... [Comments]

PacificGMP Completes GMP Product Fill for Trius Therapeutics

5/14/2008
SAN DIEGO, May 14 /- PacificGMP, the leader in utilizingsingle-use bioprocessing for development and manufacturing for its clientpartners, announced today that it has completed a product fill under GMP(good manufacturing practices) standards for a Trius Therapeutics Phase Iclinical trial. "We are pleased to have worked closely with Trius on this GMP fillproject, an effort... [Comments]

CERVARIX(R) Shown to Provide Longest Duration of Sustained Neutralizing Antibodies to Date

5/14/2008
Believed by experts to be important for cervical cancer prevention GRAZ, Austria, May 14 /- New data from anextended follow-up study show that GlaxoSmithKline (NYSE: GSK ) cervicalcancer candidate vaccine, CERVARIX(R) generates sustained high levels ofneutralizing antibodies against the two most common cervical cancer-causinghuman papillomavirus types for up to... [Comments]

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...s that the parasite that is responsible for sleepi...y. Sleeping sickness is caused by Trypanosoma bruc... Shulamit Michaeli and colleagues describe a path...ed SLS (SL-RNA silencing). Triggering this pathway...
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