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Inaugural Big Expedition for Cancer Research Encounters Mountain As Challenging As Finding a Cure for Cancer

SEATTLE, July 7 /PRNewswire/ -- When Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center challenged a team of elite climbers to scale an unclimbed mountain, the endeavor was intended to mirror the efforts of researchers to eliminate cancer as a cause of human suffering and death. The team of four professio...

Big Expedition Ends Peak 8290 Attempt 500 Feet From the Summit

The metaphor for cancer research is complete. There are more unclimbed mountains to challenge. SEATTLE, June 23 /PRNewswire/ -- Late on Saturday, the team of four mountaineers on the Big Expedition for Cancer Research determined that they had reached the safe limits of ...

Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center's Inaugural Big Expedition for Cancer Research Begins in Alaska

Professional climbers embark upon first-ever climbing event of this national cancer-awareness campaign SEATTLE, June 16 /PRNewswire/ -- Members of Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center's Big Expedition for Cancer Research left Saturday on a quest to scale an unclimbed, unn...

General Dynamics Itronix Donates Computers to Humanitarian Expedition Fighting Malaria in Africa

Leading Maker of Rugged Computers Donates GoBook(R) XR-1 Notebooks to Support Zambezi Expedition 2008 SPOKANE VALLEY, Wash., April 2, 2008 /PRNewswire/ -- General Dynamics Itronix, an industry leading maker of rugged notebook computers, has donated several rugged GoBook XR-...

Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center's Big Expedition for Cancer Research Team Returns From Reconnaissance Flight Over Alaska's Glacier Bay Park

Team finalizes choice of mountain and route for June expedition SEATTLE, March 14 /PRNewswire/ -- Members from Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center's Big Expedition for Cancer Research got their first aerial look at the peak they will climb this summer. The group returned today from a ph...

Hutchinson Center Announces First Unclimbed Mountain to be Tackled by Big Expedition for Cancer Research

Unnamed peak in Alaska's Glacier Bay Park to be the focus of this inaugural climbing quest SEATTLE, Jan. 30 /PRNewswire/ -- An unclimbed mountain near Mount Abbe in the northern reaches of Alaska's Glacier Bay National Park will be the focus of the inaugural Big Exped...

Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center Announces the First-Ever Expedition to an Unclimbed Mountain in the Name of Cancer Research

The inaugural Climb to Conquer Cancer will follow four professional U.S. mountaineers' quest to tackle a never-before-climbed mountain in Alaska NEW YORK, Sept. 27 /PRNewswire/ -- Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center today announced the launch of a unique expedition to an unclimbed mountai...

White House Launches 'Fishy' Expedition

'Is the White House looking to intimidate and silence opponents?' asks FRC's Tony Perkins WASHINGTON,Aug. 6 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- In a web video released today, Family Research Council ( FRC ) President Tony Perkins denounced the White House's appeal for individuals t...

Forward Expeditions to Promote CaringBridge(R) on Historic Victorinox North Pole '09 Expedition

EAGAN, Minn., Nov. 20 /PRNewswire/ -- Forward Expeditions LLC, Ely, Minn., announced today that they will use their upcoming historic Victorinox North Pole expedition to raise awareness and funds for CaringBridge(R), a Minnesota-based nonprofit organization offering free personalized Web sites to ...

Japanese Expedition Clears Half Ton of Garbage from Mt. Everest

A team of climbers have collected half a tonne of junk littered on the world's highest peak Mt Everest, expedition members said Monday . The garbage was mostly left behind by mountaineers attempting to climb the Everest as hundreds of kilos of essential items are hauled up the mountain in p...

Expedition in Medical Technology

Lilly Advances Second Alzheimer's Disease Treatment Candidate Into Late-Stage Testing by Launching Two Global Trials

...moderate Alzheimer's disease. The trials, called expedition and expedition 2 , will each include a treatment period that las...s interested in learning how to enroll in either expedition trial or the IDENTITY trials should visit ...

J. Craig Venter, Ph.D. Receives Double Helix Medal from Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory

...l the impact of genetics upon human health. Dr. Venter and his teams have published the sequences of more than 50 genomes, and through the Sorcerer II expedition have more added more than 20 million new genes to the public databases. Dr. Watson is Chancellor Emeritus of Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory and won a...

Aspirin Named 8th World Wonder by Majority of Americans

...the Apollo 11 space capsule as the astronauts took their famous "giant leap for mankind." Aspirin was also close at hand during the 1993 Mount Everest expedition with climbers depending upon aspirin to provide relief from headaches at high altitudes. Aspirin was initially developed in 1897 as a relief for arth...

Expedition in Biological News

Polarstern expedition 'LOHAFEX' can be conducted

Bremerhaven, 26 January 2009. The Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research in the Helmholtz Association can conduct the ongoing Polarstern expedition LOHAFEX". Independent scientific and legal reviews sought by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research and the Federal Ministry f...

Research expedition on corals and global warming: Aug. 17-26 in Puerto Rico

For just one late-summer night each year, the shallow waters off the coast of Puerto Rico fill with the pale-pink spawn of elkhorn corals -- the tiny, round packets of the adult corals' eggs and sperm. This year, Iliana Baums, assistant professor of biology at Penn State, was there to collect the...

Scripps expedition provides new baseline for coral reef conservation

An ambitious expedition led by scientists at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego to a chain of little-known islands in the central Pacific Ocean has yielded an unprecedented wealth of information about coral reefs and threats from human activities. The exploration of four atolls...

Antarctic expedition provides new insights into the role of the Southern Ocean for global climate

In the Southern Ocean, large quantities of surface-drifting plankton algae are able to significantly reduce the carbon dioxide content of the surface waters, which can affect the global carbon dioxide cycle. This is one of the results from an Antarctic expedition which has just drawn to a close in...

Scientist-evangelical Alaska expedition

Portage Glacier, AK The historic collaboration between leading scientists and Evangelicals to protect the environment, spearheaded by the Center for Health and the Global Environment at Harvard Medical School (HMS) and the National Association of Evangelicals (NAE) continues this week with a t...

Arctic expedition will investigate alien-like glacier

A scientific expedition to a remote glacier field in Canada's High Arctic may help researchers unlock the secrets about the beginning of life and provide insights for future exploration of our solar system. A team assembled by the University of Calgary's Arctic Institute of North America plans to...

Arctic coring expedition continues to yield new clues

For the second time in as many months, the IODP Arctic Coring Expedition (ACEX) is making news with new analysis of ocean-floor sediments. In the Aug. 10 issue of Nature, an article by several of the expedition scientists summarizes their findings: more evidence that the Arctic was extremely warm, ...

Biologists rediscover endangered frog population

... from the San Diego Natural History Museum retracing a 1908 natural history expedition both rediscovered the rare mountain yellow-legged frog in the San Jacinto W...their find June 25. The museum scientists were retracing the path of a 1908 expedition by the Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, University of California, Berkeley. Du...

Early initiation of Arctic sea-ice formation

...n Polar Insitute (Troms) analysed oceanic sediment cores collected from the Lomonosov ridge in the central Arctic by Integrated Ocean Drilling Program expedition 302 ('ACEX'). Previous analyses of cores drilled in this region revealed ice-rafted debris dating back to the middle Eocene epoch, prompting suggestio...

New monkey discovered in Brazil

...several species of monkeys known for their distinctively marked backs. The newly described distinct subspecies was first seen by scientists on a 2007 expedition into the state of Amazonas in northwestern Brazil. The discovery was published in the June online edition of the International Journal of Primatolo...

Expedition in Biological Technology

Venter Institute Launches the J. Robert Beyster and Life Technologies 2009-2010 Research Voyage of the Sorcerer II Expedition

Team will sail to Baltic, Black and Mediterranean Seas, sampling water and cataloguing microbial diversity Expedition funded by local San Diego supporters Beyster Family Foundation Fund and matching grants from Life Technologies and others SAN DIEGO, March 18, /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ --...

American Geographical Society awards honor Henson, Smith on April 15 at UD

...who accompanied Commander Robert Peary on the 1909 expedition to the North Pole. Born in Charles County, Md.,... who offered him a job as his valet on a surveying expedition in Nicaragua. Peary was so impressed by Henson's s...over the next two decades, culminating in the 1909 expedition to the North Pole. Peary repeatedly acknowledge...

The sea ice is getting thinner

... Marine Research in the Helmholtz Association lead expedition to the North Polar Sea. 50 scientists have been ...they will contribute valuable data, also after the expedition is finished, to the study of the environmental cha...northern Siberia. In addition, the members of the expedition will be able to measure trace elements from Siberi...

Houston – er, Cumberland – we have contact.

...isconsin and Minnesota students will get a one-of-a-kind experience today when they make a very big conference call to the International Space Station expedition 10 crew. The event will be held from 10:40 to 11 a.m. EST today at Crossroads Elementary School, St. Paul, Minn. The event includes a video downlin...

John Bergman, co-founder of Guild Software

...ergman The marine-centered childhood provided Bergman with three or four memorable experiences with sharks, including one snorkeling-and-spearfishing expedition when he and his father were chased out of the water by a 10-foot bull shark. "You inevitably get some blood in the water when you spear fish," Berman ...

CIO Leadership Series: Ed Meachen, University of Wisconsin System

...ical innovation For Meachen, innovation is not necessarily something he fosters, but actively participates in through his own expeditionary force. expedition is the term he uses for long-term projects with an identifiable outcome. As part of the PK-16 Initiative, a collaboration of the four sectors in Wisco...

Expedition in Biological Definition

Carolus Linnaeus

... and he wrote a short work on the subject that earned him the position of adjunct professor. In 1732 the Academy of Sciences at Uppsala financed his expedition to explore Lapland , then virtually unknown. The result of this was the Flora Laponica published in 1737 . Thereafter Linnaeus moved to the cont...

Charles Darwin

...le which was departing in December on a two-year expedition to chart the coastline of South America and woul...to agree to Charles going and to pay for his son's expedition which eventually stretched to five years. Jo...the Beagle Darwin's work during the Beagle expedition let him study at first hand geology, fossils an...

Expedition in Biological Dictionary

Venter

... games. Watch Venter videos from all over the internet ... Riz Khan -Human Genome DNA Venter - 10 Sept 07 ... Craig Venter on the Sorcerer II expedition ... Information about venter in the free online English dictionary and encyclopedia. ... venter - a speaker who expresses or gives vent to a pe...

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...arches billions of web pages to find the most relevant information on... expedition Exchange Incorporated, retail sales of vehicular expedition gear and equipment, forum for exchange of adventure and technical topics. ...