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CIC Named to Independent Research Firm's 'Hot Banking Tech Companies to Watch in 2009' Report

REDWOOD SHORES, Calif., Dec. 29 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ --Communication Intelligence Corporation (" CIC ") (OTC Bulletin Board: CICI), a leading supplier of electronic signature solutions for business process automation in the financial industry and the recognized leader in biometric signature veri...

Ladybugs may be cute, but watch out when they get near wine

Modern man"s earliest known close ancestor was significantly more apelike than previously believed, a New York University College of Dentistry professor has found. A computer-generated reconstruction by Dr. Timothy Bromage, a paleoanthropologist and Adjunct Professor of Biomaterials and of Basi...

Researchers use multiphoton microscopy to watch chromosomes in action

Feverish fruit fly larvae, warmed in a toasty lab chamber, are giving Cornell researchers a way to watch chromosomes in action and actually see how genes are expressed in living tissue. Using multiphoton fluorescence microscopy, a technique pioneered at Cornell by physicist Watt W. Webb, research...

Hopkins researchers develop new tool to watch real-time chemical activity in cells

Attempts to identify potential drugs that interfere with the action of one particular enzyme linked to heart disease and similar health problems led scientists at Johns Hopkins to create a new tool and new experimental approach that allow them to see multiple, real-time chemical reactions in livin...

Argonne to showcase science and technology at community open house

... Walk through an accelerator Glimpse nanoparticles changing colors Battle model cars powered by fuel cells to see which is fastest watch a master scientific glassblower demonstrate his craft Monitor climate change with live data feeds from around the world Ride an energy bike ...

University has grand designs to build a house of straw

...mmer by constructing a "BaleHaus" made of prefabricated straw bale and hemp cladding panels on campus. And people around the world will be able to watch its progress online via "Strawcam" from Monday 20 July at: www.bath.ac.uk/features/balehaus/ - part of a site which will also feature blogs, videos,...

Most older long-term cancer survivors have poor health habits

...r survivors who are interested in diet and exercise actually have poor health habits. The study also reveals that those survivors who do exercise and watch their diet have improved physical health and quality of life. Published in the September 1, 2009 issue of Cancer , a peer-reviewed journal of the Ame...

Chasing tiny vehicles

...s, we have traced magnetic lipoplex nanoparticles and made movies of their transport," reports Anna Sauer, first author of the study. "We were able to watch the particles in real-time and at high temporal and spatial resolution as they made their way into the cells." In doing so, the research team could ev...

Scientists track chemical changes in cells as they endure extreme conditions

...nges in individual cells as they survive extreme conditions. The ability to watch this Herculean adaptation to stress, from such an up-close and real-time va...ying the same individuals as opposed to studying the population. We want to watch the same cells over time and not rely on the assumption that all cells with...

Trio of signals converge to induce liver and pancreas cell development in the embryo

...rstanding how a cell is normally programmed we will eventually be able to directly reprogram other cells," notes Zaret. "An analogy I use here is if a watch is broken and you want to know how to reassemble it, the best thing is to go the factory and see how it is assembled in the first place. That may not ...

NOAA forecast predicts large 'dead zone' for Gulf of Mexico this summer

...y 18. The information is available on the NOAA's Gulf of Mexico Hypoxia watch Web page. The objective of Hypoxia watch is to develop new near-real-time data and map products using shipboard meas...

New supplement may help slow sight loss in elderly

...uit and vegetables, could prevent progression to the more serious late AMD. When the eye disease progresses to late AMD patients are unable to read, watch television or recognise people's faces as they only have peripheral vision, not central vision. Professor Chakravarthy, who is also a Consultant Oph...

Gear bans 'can help save reefs'

...Wildlife Conservation Society. "In areas where fishery closures are impractical, managers don't have many options and haven't been able to do much but watch the reef die and often not recover." "Selective gear restrictions offer reef managers and fishers alike some middle ground, reducing pressure on t...

Help for climate-stressed corals

...Wildlife Conservation Society. "In areas where fishery closures are impractical, managers don't have many options and haven't been able to do much but watch the reef die and often not recover." "Selective gear restrictions offer reef managers and fishers alike some middle ground, reducing pressure on t...

Canadian synchrotron conference sheds light on new biomedical research

...technology. Highlights include: Presentations by CLS users on using the synchrotron to study esophageal tumours, prion diseases such as BSE, watch nerves regenerate and treat tuberculosis Applications of synchrotron techniques to agricultural research, developing bioproducts and bioremediation ...

Advance in understanding cellulose synthesis

... Arabidopsis , Ehrhardt and team used groundbreaking imaging techniques to watch the molecules that create this array of shapes. It provided the first direc...se synthase complexes and microtubules begins. The scientists were able to watch individual cellulose synthase complexes as they were delivered to the plasm...

Protein that triggers plant cell division revealed by researchers

...em. Bergmann, Dong, and MacAlister tracked BASL by adding a fluorescent tag that could be monitored under the microscope. This way, they could watch BASL as cells divided. They found that BASL behaved in some ways like proteins involved in asymmetric animal cell division--that is, they observed BAS...

Striata and CIC Launch Integrated eSignature, eDelivery, and eBilling for the Financial Services Industry

... please visit our website at http://www.cic.com *In December 2008, CIC was named to Forrester Research 's "Hot Banking Tech Companies To watch in 2009" Report . **In October 2007, CIC was awarded the 2007 Global Frost & Sullivan Award for Market Leadership in the dynamic signatu...

Getting to the root of science in a nutty way

... are planted bare root, that is with not much root system," Lombardini said. "The camera turns to capture a panoramic-type view. So we will be able to watch as these roots grow and see how they respond to various conditions over time." A pecan tree spends its first five or six years growing into a matur...

Computer model predicts brain tumor growth and evolution

...bsequent repetitive testing against real tumors, they have also linked their computerized tumors to real-world brain tumors, or "gliomas," and can now watch tumor growth on a computer screen. Creating such a model is significant because it could help design specific, targeted treatments for individualiz...

Striata and CIC Launch Integrated eSignature, eDelivery, and eBilling for the Financial Services Industry

... please visit our website at http://www.cic.com *In December 2008, CIC was named to Forrester Research 's "Hot Banking Tech Companies To watch in 2009" Report . **In October 2007, CIC was awarded the 2007 Global Frost & Sullivan Award for Market Leadership in the dynamic signatu...

Agent Orange exposure increases veterans' risk of aggressive recurrence of prostate cancer

...state cancer cells left behind continue to make PSA, a red flag of recurrence, Dr. Terris says. The PSA often "percolates along" so physicians tend to watch it for a while to determine if additional therapy is needed. However in patients with Agent Orange exposure, radiation or hormone therapy to kill rema...

K-State using Second Life island to help high school students learn earth science

...erent geologic time period. They may see flying pterodactyls. They can click on different organisms and bring up more information about them. They can watch videos from the Chicago Field Museum, the Discovery Channel or National Geographic." Totten and Davies are working with Stacey Fox, a visiting assi...

Alzheimer cell death in Zebrafish: Demise of neurons observed live for the first time

...r dye to the water to specifically stain dying cells, you can even directly watch the neurons as they die. That way, it should also be possible to watch and test directly whether potential drugs actually do have a protective act...

Caltech researchers train computers to analyze fruit-fly behavior

...and copulating--or even to determine the way the flies orient their bodies or set their wings when they encounter another fly, requires the student to watch the same bit of video repeatedly, each time looking at the behavior of a single pair of flies. "In order to screen for mutations affecting aggressive ...

NOAA report calls flame retardants concern to US coastal ecosystems

...ited number of sites around the nation. Based on data from NOAA's Mussel watch Program which has been monitoring coastal water contaminants for 24 years, ...of most PBDE mixtures has been voluntarily discontinued. The NOAA Mussel watch survey found that the highest concentrations of PBDEs in the U.S. coastal z...

Distinguishing single cells with nothing but light

... its state following an encounter with an invader. The next step will be to use IRAM to gather data continuously so that scientists can effectively watch single cells undergo activation and react to stimuli in real-time. The ability to know not only about the aggregate responses of cells, but also be a...

Two Hutchinson Center researchers named HHMI Early Career Scientists

...ng "arms race" between hosts and viruses. Taniguchi, as a physician in Tokyo, treated many lymphoma patients with DNA-damaging chemotherapy, only to watch the drugs lose their power as the tumors developed resistance. He then became a researcher in cancer genetics to find ways to save more patients. At ...

New species of spiders discovered by UBC scientist in Papua New Guinea

...spiders' eight eyes have evolved to be large with high-resolution vision to spot prey. Female jumping spiders also use this heightened visual sense to watch males, who show off their colourful bodies during courtship dances. Maddison collected more than 500 individual spiders during an expedition with ...

The Prestige oil spill caused changes in the cell structure of mussels

...aitz Garmendia Altuna, who entitled her work, Monitoring of the biological effects of the Prestige oil spill, based on the biomarker approach: mussel watch from Galicia to the Basque coast . The director of the thesis was Mr Ionan Marigmez Allende from the Department of Zoology and Animal Cell Biology at ...

Communication Intelligence Corporation Reports Fourth Quarter and Fiscal 2008 Results

...ast. CIC was recently named to Forrester Research's "Hot Companies to watch in 2009" Report. CIC is pleased to be recognized for its contribution to au...2008, CIC was named to Forrester Research's "Hot Banking Tech Companies To watch in 2009" Report . **In October 2007, CIC was awarded the 2007 Global ...

Stanford researchers develop biodegradable substitutes for wood, plastic bottles and other materials

...d with biocomposites, and now we're doing bioplastics and thinking about things that affect global warming," Criddle said. "It's really exciting to watch how the research has branched out into so many areas, from biocomposites to new bioplastics, green glues and foam," Billington added. "The opportunity...

Dancing 'adatoms' help chemists understand how water molecules split

... titanium dioxide as a way to split water into its hydrogen and oxygen pieces, researchers can use a technique called scanning tunneling microscopy to watch the chemical reaction. The surface of a slab of titanium dioxide is like a corn field: rows of oxygen atoms rise from a patch of titanium atoms. The a...

Musicians have biological advantage in identifying emotion in sound

...were grouped using two criteria -- years of musical experience and onset age of training (before or after age 7). Study participants were asked to watch a subtitled nature film to keep them entertained while they were hearing, through earphones, a 250-millisecond fragment of a distressed baby's cry. Se...

Study finds life-saving trend among seagulls

...ed across the animal kingdom. New research from Universit de Montral published in Biology Letters , shows that Herring and Ring-billed gulls not only watch their neighbours they mimic their behaviour to assure their survival. Contrary to previous beliefs, this study suggests that animals don't necessaril...

Scientists find black gold amidst overlooked data

...arine chemist at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in Massachusetts. "Scientists might be able to use this to forensically study old spills, to watch how new ones evolve in real time, and to rule out a spill when there is none. Ultimately, this could lead to a better use of our public resources." ...

U of Minnesota research finds most road salt is making it into the state's lakes and rivers

...h indicates that better training of snow plow drivers and more judicious use of road salt could help lessen the impact and save the state money. To watch a video with research team leader Heinz Stefan, go to http://www1.umn.edu/urelate/newsservice/Multimedia_Videos/road_salt.htm The researchers stu...

Holy guacamole: invasive beetle threatens Florida's avocados

...e what to do," Koch says. "Some are trying to figure out if they can protect avocado trees with fungicides. Others wonder if it is possible to closely watch the avocado orchards and isolate and remove any infected trees as soon as they begin to show signs of wilting. Researchers are trying to determine the...

In India: A search for more effective tuberculosis drugs

...ugs and become even more difficult to treat. To reduce that risk, many countries require that patients go to a clinic so a healthcare professional can watch them take the medication and ensure they are complying with their drug-treatment regimen. This is both expensive and time consuming. Gokhale said that...

Human DNA repair process recorded in action

...d by a gene linked to increased risk of breast cancer, BRCA2, it is also thought to play a role in suppression of that disease. With the ability to watch the assembly of individual filaments of Rad51 in real time, Kowalczykowski's team made a number of discoveries. Among those are that, in contrast to t...