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Springer launches SpringerImages

Springer Science+Business Media has launched SpringerImages ( www.SpringerImages.com ), a growing collection that now includes over 1.5 million scientific images, tables, charts and graphs, spanning all scientific subject areas. The new database will be officially launched at this week's America...

ESHRE launches international study of polar body screening

Amsterdam, The Netherlands: The efficacy of preimplantation genetic screening (PGS) has been one of the most hotly disputed subjects in assisted reproduction over the past few years. None of the trials carried out so far has shown conclusively whether it works or not. Now the European Society of H...

Nutricia launches Nutra Neocate, weaning product designed for cows’ milk protein allergy

First and only weaning product based on 100% non-allergenic amino-acids specifically designed for children with Cows' Milk Protein Allergy and Multiple Food Protein Intolerance Nutricia launches Neocate Nutra at the European Society for Paediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition (ESP...

Swiss Initiative in Systems Biology launches new projects

In the second call for proposals, projects focus on either the development of new technologies or on the interface between biomedical research and genomics. The Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) approved six RTD-projects today. They will engage a total of 47 research groups from both Swiss ...

Springer launches StemCellGateway.net

StemCellGateway focuses specifically on stem cell content for the research community, including seasoned researchers and students. Visitors to the website can obtain news, gain access to research and educational tools designed to assist in exploring stem cell research possibilities, as well as pe...

Springer launches SpringerExemplar.com

Springer Science+Business Media has launched the Web site www.SpringerExemplar.com , a free linguistic tool designed to support the publishing process for authors, editors and the scientific community in general. The online service Exemplar allows researchers to quickly see how a particular t...

UC Davis launches 'One Health' care for wild mountain gorillas and human neighbors

The University of California, Davis, today launched a new "One Health" program to conserve the world's remaining 740 mountain gorillas by caring for not only the gorillas but also the people and the other animals that share their home in the forests of central Africa. With $750,000 in funding f...

Futronic Launches FS90 USB2.0 Mini Fingerprint Scanner

HONG KONG, April 9 /PRNewswire-Asia/ -- Futronic Technology Company Limited, a global provider of fingerprint recognition software and hardware products, announces the commercial release of FS90 USB2.0 Mini Fingerprint Scanner. FS90 uses a specially designed optic system to deliver high...

Futronic Launches FS90 USB2.0 Mini Fingerprint Scanner

HONG KONG, April 9 /PRNewswire-Asia/ -- Futronic Technology Company Limited, a global provider of fingerprint recognition software and hardware products, announces the commercial release of FS90 USB2.0 Mini Fingerprint Scanner. FS90 uses a specially designed optic system to deliver high...

Iowa State chemist synthesizes carbohydrates, launches startup company

AMES, Iowa Carbohydrates are part of our daily vocabulary. We all know they're part of a healthy diet. We know they're in breads and pastas. We know they have something to do with starches and sugars. But, even though carbohydrates are so familiar, there's still a lot for science to learn about t...

LabRoots Launches Social Networking Site for Scientists & Engineers

Yorba Linda, CA - March 23, 2009 / b3c newswire / -  LabRoots Inc. announced today the official launch of its website, a social networking site for the scientific community. Beginning today, scientists and engineers from around the world can go to LabRoots.com to begin building relation...

Stanford launches $100 million initiative to tackle energy issues

Recognizing that energy is at the heart of many of the world's tribulationseconomic, environmental and politicalStanford is establishing a $100 million research institute to focus intently on energy issues, President John Hennessy announced today. The $100 million in new funds will enable the hiri...

From sheet metal elements to host cells: DFG launches 10 new collaborative research centers

On 1 January 2009 the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) will launch ten new Collaborative Research Centres. They will be initially funded for the next four years with a total of approximately 90 million euros. Among other things, the new Collaborative Research Centr...

Springer launches Food Security

Hardly a day passes without the challenge of global food security featuring prominently in the media. The recent impact of the topic is such that the term "food security" has now become part of everyday discussion. In this challenging context, Springer is launching the scientific journal Food Sec...

Futronic Launches FS22 Fingerprint Access Control Device

HONG KONG, Nov. 21 /PRNewswire/ -- Futronic Technology Company Limited, a global provider of biometric software and hardware products, announces the commercial release of FS22, a high performance fingerprint access and attendance control device with Mifare. Together with its previously launched FS...

OSA's ISP launches with research on breathing disorders and congenital heart defects

WASHINGTON, Oct. 30 -- Two groups of researchers, one in the United States and one in Australia, are announcing the development of new optical techniques for visualizing the invisible processes at work in several human diseases. The published results are the first to showcase the Optical Society's...

North American environmental commission launches trinational vaquita conservation plan

Mexicali, Mexico, 28 October 2008 In response to the urgent need to save the vaquita porpoise, the governments of Canada, Mexico and the United States asked the Commission for Environmental Cooperation (CEC) to formulate a strategy to support Mexico's efforts to recover the world's most-endangere...

ICSU launches new program to understand the human impact on Earth's life-support systems

This release is available in French . Maputo, MozambiqueThe global scientific community has approved a new international research programme designed to understand the relationship between humans and the ecosystems that provide essential life-supporting services. The decision was made today...

International Council for Science launches major research program on natural disasters

Maputo, Mozambiquein response to the urgent need to reduce the impacts of natural disasters, the International Council for Science (ICSU) has launched a new, 10-year, international research programme designed to address the gaps in the knowledge and methods that are preventing the effective applic...

TheVisualMD.com launches new animated 3-D views of human body in action

People around the world will soon have access to a powerful new type of medical informationa 3-D visual exploration of the cardiovascular system created from the seamless integration of state-of-the-art medical imaging and computer-generate animations. TheVisualMD.com , the latest effort from Ale...

LIAI launches new division to look at novel approaches to heart disease and inflammation

SAN DIEGO (September 30, 2008) While cholesterol-lowering drugs and new technologies have significantly advanced the nation's battle against heart disease, it continues to rank as the No. 1 killer of U.S. men and women. But if researchers at the La Jolla Institute for Allergy & Immunology (LIAI)...

The Rett Syndrome Research Trust launches operations

The Rett Syndrome Research Trust, a newly established nonprofit organization, is pleased to announce the launch of our operations and website (www.rsrt.org). In the wake of last year's dramatic pre-clinical reversal of Rett symptoms, the Trust has been formed to pursue the next steps toward treat...

Corporate Safe Specialists Launches International Sales Efforts

POSEN, Ill., Sept. 5 /PRNewswire/ -- Corporate Safe Specialists (CSS) announces an addition to its Sales organization. The Company has hired Thomas P. Hartmann as Senior Director Global Safe Solutions. (Photo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20080905/AQF028 ) (Logo: http://www.newsco...

UC San Diego launches Institute of Engineering in Medicine to accelerate health care tech

The world's top engineers, physicians and scientists are joining forces to conceptualize, develop and bring to reality the future tools and treatments of 21st century health care through UC San Diego's new Institute of Engineering in Medicine. Nanoparticle bombs to kill cancer, molecular-sized bri...

NCI grant launches clinical trials for colon cancer screening

EVANSTON, Ill. --- A Northwestern University biomedical engineer who has developed optical technology shown to be effective for the early detection of colon cancer has received a $7.5 million grant over five years from the National Cancer Institute to further study an instrument that potentially c...

Queen's University launches UK's first Center of Excellence for Public Health

The UK's first Centre of Excellence for Public Health Research will be launched at Queen's University Belfast today, with a focus on nutrition and lifestyle. With a research portfolio that spans molecules to populations, the 5m centre is part of a 20 million investment programme under the umbr...

Elsevier launches Bioscience Hypotheses

London, UK, 9 June 2008 Elsevier, a world-leading publisher of scientific, technical and medical information products and services, is pleased to announce the publication of Bioscience Hypotheses ( http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/17562392 ), a new journal for radical hypotheses on to...

Yale Environment 360 magazine launches online

New Haven, Conn.Yale Environment 360, a new online magazine dedicated to covering the global environment, is launching today at http://e360.yale.edu . Edited by Roger Cohn, the former editor of Mother Jones and Audubon magazines, Yale Environment 360 aims to become one of the leading Web sites fo...

Pyramid Launches TimeTrax Bio Generation II

MERIDEN, Conn., May 6 /PRNewswire/ -- Pyramid Technologies ( http://www.ptitime.com ), an established leader in manufacturing Time and Attendance products, is launching the Pyramid TimeTrax Bio Generation II, an innovative biometric system that features a new and improved sensor for fingerprin...

SAGE launches new journal -- ICAN: Infant, Child, & Adolescent Nutrition

Los Angeles, London, New Delhi, and Singapore (April 28, 2008) Obesity and corresponding diseases such as diabetes are more and more common. Weight and eating disorders have become especially problematic among young people, creating a need for more information about how to deal with pediatric nu...

Vobile Launches VideoDNA Live; Enables Real-Time Digital Content Protection for Live Broadcast Events

Major deployment for 2008 Beijing Olympics LAS VEGAS, April 16 /PRNewswire/ -- (National Association of Broadcasters Show 2008) -- Vobile, a leading provider of video content identification and management products and services, today announced the release of VideoDNA(TM) Live, a...

Lincoln Park Zoo launches first-of-its-kind wildlife reintroduction database

On April 15, during the first International Wildlife Reintroduction Conference in Chicago, Lincoln Park Zoo announced the launch of a scientific resource called the Avian Reintroduction & Translocation Database (ARTD). The first of its kind, this comprehensive, standardized directory will serve as...

NASA launches airborne study of arctic atmosphere, air pollution

This month, NASA begins the most extensive field campaign ever to investigate the chemistry of the Arctic's lower atmosphere. The mission is poised to help scientists identify how air pollution contributes to climate changes in the Arctic. The recent decline of sea ice is one indication the Arc...

U. of I. librarian launches comprehensive Web database of field guides

Journeying to Johannesburg to survey bat colonies? To Kenya to count monkeys? To Tasmania to track devils Down Under? What about Roman ruins in Britain? Snowflakes in North America? No worries, theres a field guide for you, in fact, an entire digital database of weird and wacky but mostly prac...

University of Chicago launches research program in catastrophic deformation

The University of Chicago has received a $1.8 million grant from the W.M. Keck Foundation to launch a new research program on the sudden and dramatic transformations that occur in processes where small-scale structural rearrangements result in rapid and far-reaching outcomes. These include the bre...

Springer launches Tropical Plant Biology

Springer is launching Tropical Plant Biology, a journal which will report on significant advances in all aspects of tropical plant biology as well as applications towards genetic diversity and crop improvement. Tropical Plant Biology joins the growing number of new plant science journals in Sprin...

NXG Strategies Launches Nation's First Website Dedicated to Red Flag Compliance

Financial Institutions and Creditors are Subject to Identity Theft Red Flag Legislation January 1, 2008 with a Mandatory Deadline of November 1, 2008 BRENTWOOD, Tenn., Jan. 2 /PRNewswire/ -- With only ten months to be in compliance with Section 114 of FACTA (Fair and Accurate Transactions Act),...

Elsevier launches new journal: Journal of Natural Gas Science and Engineering

Amsterdam, 03 January 2008 Elsevier announced today that it is launching a new journal, the Journal of Natural Gas Science and Engineering. The journal will be published bimonthly, and will focus on the advances in the rapidly expanding area of natural gas science and engineering. The first issue...

NIH launches Human Microbiome Project

The human body contains trillions of microorganisms, living together with human cells, usually in harmony. Because of their small size, however, microorganisms make up only about one to two percent of the bodys mass. Many microbes maintain our health, while others cause illness. Yet, surprisingly ...

Forest Service launches Web-based forest threats viewing tool

The Forest Services Eastern Forest Environmental Threat Assessment Center (EFETAC) recently launched its forest threats summary viewer, a tool that will provide images, threat distribution maps, additional forestry contact information, and brief descriptions about forest threats throughout the eas...