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Facile synthesis of nanoparticles with multiple functions advanced in Singapore

Nanostructured materials have garnered great interest worldwide due to their unique size-dependent properties for chemical, electronic, structural, medical and consumer applications. Singapore's Institute for Bioengineering and Nanotechnology (IBN) has discovered a new environmentally friendly...

New journal on advanced glass research to debut

WESTERVILLE, OH The American Ceramic Society (ACerS) announced today that it is launching of a major new, peer-reviewed scientific journal dedicated to glass research: The International Journal of Applied Glass Science ( IJAGS ). New generations of glass and glass-related materials are incre...

$10 million Simons Foundation gift supports new initiative with Institute for Advanced Study

The Rockefeller University and the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, N.J., have established a joint initiative in biology supported by a $10 million gift from The Simons Foundation, it was announced today. The initiative, which builds on the complementary strengths of the Institute and th...

U.S. Navy Awards Lockheed Martin Six-year Contract Worth Up to $72 Million for Advanced Display Systems Support

EAGAN, Minn., March 11 /PRNewswire/ -- Lockheed Martin has received a six-year contract from the U.S. Navy to provide performance-based logistics support for the AN/UYQ-70 (Q-70) Advanced Display System. The contract provides Q-70 logistics and supply support at over $13 million a year for the fir...

Developer of advanced computing memory, father of biochemical engineering, and innovative engineering educators win highest engineering honors of 2009

WASHINGTON -- The engineering profession's highest honors for 2009, presented by the National Academy of Engineering (NAE), recognize three achievements that helped the expansion of computing power; led to the widespread production of antibiotics; and developed unique entrepreneurial-themed curric...

TECNALIA investigates advanced biomaterials to make more reliable and hardwearing medical implants

The TECNALIA Technological Corporation is taking part in the Cnit Intelimplant project, the goal of which is to develop advanced biomaterials based on innovative technologies (microtechnologies, nanotechnologies, tissue and surface engineering) for the manufacture of a new generation of implants w...

Sig-Tec(R) and BIO-key(R) Deliver Advanced Biometric Security Solution to Ohio County Law Enforcement Agency

Mahoning County Sheriff's Office Replaces Passwords with Fingerprint Biometrics for Access to IT Systems CHANHASSEN, Minn. and WALL, N.J., Oct. 6 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/-- BIO-key International, Inc. (OTC Bulletin Board: BKYI), a leader in finger-based biometric identificatio...

Taking the next step toward advanced artificial limbs

WORCESTER, Mass. A team of researchers at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) will receive $1 million in federal and state grants to advance the critical development of neuroprostheticsnext-generation artificial limbs that could one day be permanently implanted and perform most of the movements...

Stevens awarded $1M for advanced biofuels research

HOBOKEN, N.J. Stevens Institute of Technology has been awarded $1 million from the US Department of Energy (DOE) to support research and development into biomass conversion technologies. The grant is one of six awarded by the DOE to various higher-education institutions to develop their advanced ...

Combining advanced medical and information technologies offers pathway to lower health care costs

Washington D.C. (September 22, 2008): Integrating sophisticated medical technologies for patient monitoring with advanced information systems and clinical expertise has the potential to significantly improve medical care while lowering treatment costs. This is especially true for patients with chr...

Experimental chemotherapy regimen shows promise in treating advanced lung cancer

PHILADELPHIA A combination of chemotherapy agents that have been tested in other tumor types appears to be a promising alternative to standard treatment for advanced non-small cell lung cancer, according to a report in the August 15 issue of Clinical Cancer Research, a journal of the American A...

Eribulin mesylate demonstrated anti-tumor activity in patients with advanced breast cancer

Woodcliff Lake, N.J., May 15, 2008The investigational chemotherapeutic agent eribulin mesylate (E7389) demonstrated activity in a heavily pretreated population of women with locally advanced or metastatic breast cancer, according to results of a multi-center Phase II clinical trial. The study als...

Research at Argonne's Advanced Photon Source reveals structure and behavior of collagen

ARGONNE, Ill. (February 26, 2008) -- The structure and behavior of one of the most common proteins in our bodies has been resolved at a level of detail never before seen, thanks to new research performed at the Advanced Photon Source (APS) at the U.S. Department of Energys (DOE) Argonne National L...

CSIC and UAB will build the most advanced superconductor cable for electricity network

This release is available in Spanish . The SUPERCABLE project, jointly presented by the Institute of Material Science of Barcelona (ICMAB-CSIC), at the UAB Research Park, the UAB Department of Physics and the company Nexans, received the NOVARE Prize in Energy Efficiency from the Span...

$1.1 million NSF grant to fund research in advanced light microscopy at UCLA

The National Science Foundation has awarded a $1.1 million Major Research Instrumentation grant for the Advanced Light Microscopy core laboratory at the California NanoSystems Institute at UCLA. The award will facilitate the acquisition of the first commercially available super-resolution stimulat...

Embryonic stem cell strategy advanced with UCSF finding

UCSF scientists are reporting what they say is a significant improvement in the technique for genetically reprogramming mouse cells to their embryonic state, a process that transforms the cells, in essence, into embryonic stem cells. The finding, published on-line as an immediate early publicat...

Selexis Announces Advanced Approach to Maximize Power of Genetic Elements for Rapid Development of High Performance Cell Lines

Publication in September issue of Nature Methods Shows Application of Bioinformatics tools to Identify The Most Powerful Matrix Attachment Regions Applied to Boost Transgene Expression. GENEVA, Switzerland, Aug. 21 /PRNewswire/ -- Researchers at Selexis SA and The University of L...

Heavy multivitamin use may be linked to advanced prostate cancer

While regular multivitamin use is not linked with early or localized prostate cancer, taking too many multivitamins may be associated with an increased risk for advanced or fatal prostate cancers, according to a study in the May 16 issue of the Journal of the National Cancer Institute . Millions...

Molecular differences between early and advanced melanomas could provide new drug targets

The cell-signaling molecule Akt is a primary trigger that leads malignant melanomas on the skin's surface to begin growing vertically beneath the skin and turn into deadly invasive cancers, scientists have found. Understanding this key molecular difference between radial melanomas that spread on t...

An advanced genetic diagnostic method for multiple myeloma

A researcher at the University of Navarra, Borja Sáez Ochoa, has proposed a new genetic diagnostic method for multiple myeloma (MM), a type of bone marrow cancer, which permits the detection of this disease in earlier stages. The dissertation of this biologist, produced in the Department of Genet...

Combination therapy shows promising results in patients with advanced lung cancer

An early phase study pairing an experimental targeted therapy with a common anti-inflammatory produced promising results in patients with advanced lung cancer, researchers at UCLA's Jonsson Cancer Center reported. Pairing the targeted therapy Tarceva with the anti-inflammatory drug Celebrex incr...

Agilent Technologies introduces advanced zebrafish, mouse microarrays for stem cell and developmental biology research

Which is more likely to happen - you being in a car wreck or being bitten by a shark? Those who answered that cars are greater killers win a free trip to the beach. It's really no contest, says a Texas A&M University professor. Your chances of being in a wreck are far greater than being a sh...

Researchers test new therapy for advanced melanoma

Melanoma is a particularly deadly form of skin cancer very resistant to treatment. Researchers at H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center & Research Institute and the University of South Florida are testing a promising new therapy that prompts the immune system to aid in the fight against melanoma tumors....

Bevacizumab Combined With Chemotherapy Improves Progression-Free Survival for Patients With Advanced Breast Cancer

Preliminary results from a large, randomized clinical trial for patients with previously untreated recurrent or metastatic breast cancer ?cancer that has spread from the breast to other parts of the body ?show that those patients who received bevacizumab (Avastin? in combination with standard chemo...

Applied Biosystems Introduces Advanced Gene Expression Service Provider Program

Applied Biosystems (NYSE:ABI), an Applera Corporation business, today announced the introduction of the Applied Biosystems Advanced Gene Expression Service Provider Program, a new program for service providers who are interested in accessing Applied Biosystems comprehensive solution for gene expres...

Advances in lung cancer research announced at conference

...ials are both evaluating the safety and effectiveness of TH-302, a drug activated in the absence of oxygen. Both clinical trials involve patients with advanced solid tumors. In one, they are treated with TH-302 in combination with other chemotherapy agents. In the other, they are treated only with TH-302, whi...

Navigating in the ocean of molecules

...r data themselves," he adds. The researchers have made Scaffold Hunter available free of charge on the Internet. The source code can also be obtained: advanced users can thus adapt the program to their requirements and embark on more targeted explorations of the chemical space. ...

Argonne to showcase science and technology at community open house

... research to better understand the world we live in, develops and evaluates advanced energy sources, promotes environmental stewardship and helps protect our na...environmental projects with interactive 3-D maps Tours will include the advanced Photon Source, the Western Hemisphere's most brilliant source of X-rays for...

Obama administration announces more than $327 million in Recovery Act funding for science research

...e DOE Bioenergy Research Centers, the world's most advanced centers for fundamental research on biofuels; ...sity light sources--today's cutting edge tools for advanced research in energy, materials science, and a host ...ch; $8.8 million for equipment improvements at the advanced Light Source; $4 million for new instrumentation a...

DNA computation gets logical at the Weizmann Institute of Science

...form millions of calculations in parallel. Now, Shapiro and his team, in a paper published online today in Nature Nanotechnology , have devised an advanced program for biomolecular computers that enables them to 'think' logically. The train of deduction used by this futuristic device is remarkably familia...

Protecting cells from their neighbors

...nism fails, the embryo dies. Made in the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster , this finding could be universal. This research is published today in the advanced online edition of EMBO Reports . In the first hours of embryonic life, the egg cells show intense gene transcription activity to initiate developm...

Nanoparticle-delivered 'suicide' genes slowed ovarian tumor growth

...y followed by chemotherapy, there are currently no effective treatments for advanced ovarian cancer that has recurred after surgery and primary chemotherapy. Th... a reason to hope. We now have a potential new therapy for the treatment of advanced ovarian cancer that has promise for targeting tumor cells and leaving healt...

Jet-propelled imaging for an ultrafast light source

... Spence, a physicist at Arizona State University, is a longtime user of the advanced Light Source at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, where he has contrib...including Berkeley Lab's David Shapiro, successfully tested the GDVN on the advanced Light Source beamline 9.0.1, managed by Berkeley Lab's Stefano Marchesini. ...

Nottinghamshire Police First Law Enforcement Agency to Deploy ForensicSoft in United Kingdom

...gations, are rapidly gaining popularity among digital forensic and security professionals worldwide. "Nottinghamshire Police has one of England's most advanced computer forensics law enforcement programs and we are proud to have them select ForensicSoft for use within their cyber crime program," said John DiP...

Fujitsu Expands Support for Ethernet Networks With New Additions to XG Switch Product Line

... networks," said Jim Preasmyer, director of sales and business development, advanced Technology Group, Fujitsu Computer Products of America, Inc. "The Fujitsu 2...ices experts with highly reliable computing and communications products and advanced microelectronics to deliver added value to customers. Headquartered in Toky...

Results of national assessment of first responder location systems to be announced Aug. 3

... Institute of Justice, the Department of Homeland Security, and the U.S. Army, the WPI PPL team has developed a location and tracking system that uses advanced radio and radar technology in tandem with inertial navigation. Developed in close collaboration with the Worcester Fire Department and other members o...

DOE-funded research projects win 46 R&D 100 Awards for 2009

...ch will help facilitate meeting the stringent U.S. advanced Battery Consortium requirements for powering 40mil... fusion energy burn. Spectral Sentry - is an advanced technology developed to protect critical laser sys...buildings. (Jointly with Microtek Laboratories and advanced Fiber Technology) Mass-Independent Kinetic-En...

Early detection and quick response are key to defense against anthrax attack

... and medicine at Weill Cornell Medical College. "Crucial to rapidly implementing a treatment program is early detection, including thorough use of advanced biosurveillance technologies and live, person-to-person communication," continues Dr. Hupert, who is also director of the new Preparedness Modeling Un...

Frost & Sullivan Recognizes MIRTEC With the 2009 Award for Automated Optical Inspection Product Innovation of the Year

...g evolution toward higher density PCB's and the industry wide acceptance of advanced packaging is pushing AOI systems to the limits of their capabilities," says...ectronics manufacturing industry. The company manufactures technologically advanced AOI, SPI and X-Ray systems designed to provide unprecedented performance, q...

PRS And EmSense Partner To Integrate Bio-Sensory Measures In Packaging Research Studies

...inking EmSense technology with PRS' expertise," shared Keith Winter, CEO and President of EmSense. "We are excited to work with PRS, offering the most advanced neuromarketing solution for packaging research available." To learn more about this new bio-sensory packaging research offering, contact Jeni...