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Indonesia Now Using MegaMatcher Biometric Technology in Integrated Passport Issuance System

VILNIUS, Lithuania, July 27 /PRNewswire/ -- Neurotechnology ( http://www.neurotechnology.com ), a biometric identification technologies provider, announced today their inclusion as the core enrollment and identification engine for the Indonesian Integrated Biometric Passport Iss...

Reintroduced Chinese alligators now multiplying in the wild in China

The Wildlife Conservation Society announced today that critically endangered alligators in China have a new chance for survival. The WCS's Bronx Zoo, in partnership with two other North American parks and the Department of Wildlife Conservation and Management of the State Forestry Administration ...

Ultrasound imaging now possible with a smartphone

Computer engineers at Washington University in St. Louis are bringing the minimalist approach to medical care and computing by coupling USB-based ultrasound probe technology with a smartphone, enabling a compact, mobile computational platform and a medical imaging device that fits in the palm of a...

Special issue 'Comparative Cognition in Context' now published

Amsterdam, 02 March 2009 Coinciding with the 200th anniversary of the birth of Charles Darwin on February 12th, 2009, a special issue of Behavioural Processes "Comparative Cognition in Context" was published by Elsevier. Guest edited by Karen Hollis, the special issue features 16 papers ...

Register now for the Society of Interventional Radiology's 34th Annual Scientific Meeting

FAIRFAX, Va.Nearly 5,300 physicians, scientists and allied health professionals are expected to attend the Society of Interventional Radiology's 34th Annual Scientific Meeting March 7-12 at the San Diego Convention Center. Scientific press conferences are scheduled for 9-10:30 a.m. on both Monday,...

HSPD-24 White Paper Now Available From WCC Smart Search & Match

UTRECHT, The Netherlands and RESTON, Virginia, January 15 /PRNewswire/ -- WCC Smart Search & Match, the leading provider of high-performance search and match software, today announced the publication of a white paper on Homeland Security Presidential Directive - 24 (HSPD-24). The re...

Scientists can now differentiate between healthy cells and cancer cells

One of the current handicaps of cancer treatments is the difficulty of aiming these treatments at destroying malignant cells without killing healthy cells in the process. But a new study by McMaster University researchers has provided insight into how scientists might develop therapies and drugs t...

Bangladesh Voter Registration Project Now Using MegaMatcher Biometric Technology to Detect and Prevent Duplicate Registrations

VILNIUS, Lithuania, Dec. 2 /PRNewswire/ -- Neurotechnology ( http://www.neurotechnology.com ), a provider of biometric identification technologies, today announced that the Bangladesh Army selected MegaMatcher SDK multi-biometric technology to identify duplicate registrations in the nation's voter...

Dancing atoms now understood

In developing a model to explain the motion of atoms in a magnetic field, scientists have overcome a decades-old obstacle to understanding a key component of magnetic resonance. The new understanding may eventually lead to better control of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and higher resoluti...

If your first cigarette gave you a buzz and you now smoke, a gene may be to blame

ANN ARBOR, Mich. Anyone who has ever tried smoking probably remembers that first cigarette vividly. For some, it brought a wave of nausea or a nasty coughing fit. For others, those first puffs also came with a rush of pleasure or "buzz." Now, a new study links those first experiences with smok...

Action needed now for Minnesota to reach goals in reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 2015

The state of Minnesota must act now if it wants to reach its Minnesota Next Generation Energy Act goals of reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 15 percent by 2015, according to a team of University of Minnesota transportation and public policy researchers. The research team, which will release ...

VeriFinger 6.0 SDK for Fingerprint Recognition and VeriLook 3.2 SDK for Facial Recognition are Now Available

New Versions Support Development of Web-based Applications, Live Face Detection and Incorporate MegaMatcher Core Algorithms for Reliable Biometric Identification VILNIUS, Lithuania, April 14 /PRNewswire/ -- Neurotechnology (formerly Neurotechnologija), a provider of h...

Evidence now suggests eating soy foods in puberty protects against breast cancer

Washington, D.C. Evidence is growing from animal and human studies that genistein, a potent chemical found in soy, protects against development of breast cancer - but only if consumed during puberty, says a Georgetown University Medical Center researcher in the British Journal of Cancer published...

Ocean's fiercest predators now vulnerable to extinction

This release is available in French . Sharks are disappearing from the worlds oceans. The numbers of many large shark species have declined by more than half due to increased demand for shark fins and meat, recreational shark fisheries, as well as tuna and swordfish fisheries, where millio...

First datasets for national biomass and carbon dataset now available

Scientists at the Woods Hole Research Center working to produce the National Biomass and Carbon Dataset for the year 2000 (NBCD2000) are releasing data from nine project mapping zones. All NBCD2000 data products are being made available for download on a zone-by-zone basis and free of charge from ...

Humana Press journals now available on SpringerLink

Humana Press, a publisher of medical and scientific books and journals, was acquired by Springer in September 2006. Humana Press content is immediately available on www.springerlink.com along with more than 1,500 peer-reviewed Springer journals and more than 22,000 eBooks. Beginning with the sub...

Cheaper drugs now closer to realization with new DropArray technology

A standard laboratory tool for measuring pharmacological activity of biological substances and performing other related tests may soon be replaced by a new miniaturized bioassay that will be faster, cheaper and more efficient for scientists to use, with new technology developed by Singapores Insti...

Economists: Reduce fish catch now for bigger net profits later

A new and compelling argument for reducing fish harvests the profit motive could persuade world fishers to endure the short-term pain of lower catches for the long-term gain of higher returns for their labor, according to authors of a ground-breaking study on fisheries over-exploitation. They...

Acoustics World Wide press room now open

November 21, 2007 -- Reporters interested in the upcoming Acoustical Society of America (ASA) meeting in New Orleans are invited to visit the associated World Wide pressroom even if they cannot attend in person. On this site are posted dozens of lay language papers selected from among the 600 talk...

Smartcard Finger-Match Add-on for VeriFinger and MegaMatcher is Now Available for the Implementation of Biometric Fingerprint-on-Smartcard Verification Systems

VILNIUS, Lithuania, Oct. 1 /PRNewswire/ -- Neurotechnologija, a provider of high-precision biometric identification technologies, today announced the availability of the Smartcard Finger-Match add-on for the company's VeriFinger and MegaMatcher fingerprint identification engines. Smartcard Fin...

4,000 e-Books now available on ScienceDirect

Amsterdam, 10 September 2007 Elsevier, a leading publisher of scientific, technical and medical (STM) information, today announced the availability of more than 4,000 eBooks on ScienceDirect. eBooks on ScienceDirect comprise high-quality selected titles published from 1995 to the present. These i...

Handbook of small grain insects available now

The Entomological Society of America (ESA), in cooperation with the American Phytopathological Society (APS), announces the publication of Handbook of Small Grain Insects, the latest in ESAs Insect Pest Handbooks series. This comprehensive color guide examines the biology and management of arthrop...

Phthalates now linked to fat, related health risks

Exposure to phthalates, a common chemical found in everything from plastics to soaps, already has been connected to reproductive problems and now, for the first time, is linked to abdominal obesity and insulin resistance in adult males, according to a study by the University of Rochester Medical Ce...

Walking molecule now carries packages

A research team, led by UC Riverside's Ludwig Bartels, was the first to design a molecule that can move in a straight line on a flat surface. Now this team has found a way to attach cargo: two CO2 molecules, making the nano-walker a molecule carrier. The work will be published Thursday, Jan. 18 i...

2,000 influenza virus genomes now completed and publicly accessible

The Influenza Genome Sequencing Project, funded by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), one of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), announced today that it has achieved a major milestone. The entire genetic blueprints of more than 2,000 human and avian influenza vi...

Researchers now able to look deep into heart to view triggers of a heart's beat

Scientists have long known that the social insects in the order Hymenoptera--which includes ants, bees, and wasps--have an unusual mechanism for sex determination: Unfertilized eggs develop into males, while fertilized eggs become females. But the development of an unfertilized egg into an adult (c...

Patients now surviving once-fatal immune disease

Individuals who have a rare genetic immune system disorder that prevents them from making antibodies nevertheless appear to be moderately healthy and lead productive lives, according to results of a study by investigators at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital. A report on this study appears in t...

Interactive 3-D atlas of mouse brain now available on web

Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory have just launched a web-based 3-D digital atlas browser and database of the brain of a popular laboratory mouse (see http://www.bnl.gov/CTN/mouse/ ). "Neuroscientists around the world can now download these extremely...

Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld are now species of slime-mold beetles -- but strictly in homage

Drinking water during a long-distance race may do serious harm rather than keep you safe from injury if you're drinking too much, according to a cardiologist at UT Southwestern Medical Center. Runners or any long-distance athletes who drink too much water during a race could put themselves at jeo...

The hepatitis healing power of blueberry leaves

...reshold, and similar chemicals are found in many edible plants, suggesting it should be safe as a dietary supplement. In the meantime, the researchers now hope to explore the detailed mechanisms of how this chemical stops HCV replication. ...

EMBO pioneers pension plan for internationally mobile postdoctoral researchers

...continue in the plan as they move from country to country," said Jan Taplick, EMBO Deputy Director and manager of EMBO Fellowships. "We are pleased to now offer a solution to the long-time problem facing EMBO Fellows who wish to plan for financial security while they are actively mobile early in their re...

Highest ever winter water temperatures recorded

...waters. As part of the Integrated Marine Observing System (IMOS), a National Reference Station mooring has been deployed at the same site, and data is now available online every 10 minutes. Monthly samples are taken by boat to measure nutrients, phytoplankton, and zooplankton (biomass and species composi...

Marine microbes creating green waves in industry

...ymes then undergo systematic testing to evaluate their activity, which enables us to pinpoint candidates that exhibit the best performance." We are now identifying microbes with a type of enzyme called an amine oxidase. This could be key to cheaper, more efficient and sustainable process in the synthe...

Navigating in the ocean of molecules

...ked down new inhibitors for 2-lipoxygenase and the oestrogen receptor alpha," says Steffen Renner, a former researcher at the Max Planck Institute and now an employee of the Novartis pharmaceutical concern. 5-lipoxygenase is a target protein in the treatment of inflammation and bladder cancer, while the ...

Carnegie donates landmark clones to biology

...erface with neighboring cells and within the cell. now with National Science Foundation funding, research...e fields from medicine to farming. These genes are now used to unravel the interaction of the membrane pr... toxicity. "The newly donated 2010 clones will now be used to see how common such regulation by neigh...

AGU journal highlights -- Aug. 6, 2009

...ience, Korea Polar Research Institute, Incheon, Korea; A. J. Kettle: Biogeochemistry Department, Max Plank Institute for Chemistry, Mainz, Germany; now at Department of Earth Sciences, State University of New York at Oswego, Oswego, New York, USA; M. O. Andreae: Biogeochemistry Department, Max Pla...

New cancer drug delivery system is effective and reversible

...mes to bind to cancer cells can be inconsistent. Some small molecules, such folate, a vitamin, also work as cancer cell targeting agents, but those now in use are not as good as antibodies at binding to cancer cells. To solve the cell-targeting problem, the U. of I. team turned its attention to sma...

Mary had a lot of lambs: Researchers identify way to accelerate sheep breeding

...ue Mike Thonney and former Cornell postdoctoral researcher Raluca Mateescu, now at Oklahoma State University co-authored the paper with Andrea Lunsford, a ...ne, but it's definitely a tool that farmers can use," said Mateescu, who is now focusing on placing markers across the sheep's entire genome to more accura...

First human gets new antibody aimed at hepatitis C virus

...own as MBL-HCV1 on July 28, 2009, and the study is now proceeding and will eventually involve 30 healthy ...r this year. "We are pleased that this program has now entered the clinical trial phase," said Donna Ambr...tream during surgery. The powerful antiviral drugs now used to attack HCV prior to end-stage liver failur...

Protein handlers should be effective treatment target for cancer and Alzheimer's

... tumor formation in the liver and probably the breast. Researchers are also now examining brain tumors as well as pancreatic and prostate cancer. They a... factor 1, or Hsf1, a major activator of molecular chaperones. They are now focusing on developing mice that lack molecular chaperones or heat shock fa...