Researchers find culture of academic institution may influence health care delivery
(Boston)-Researchers at Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) and Brandeis University have completed a qualitative study on the cultural environment in medical schools and how this may affect medical faculty vitality, professionalism and general productivity ultimately influencing the delive...UCLA signs historic memorandum with pediatric institution in Tokyo
As part of a new initiative to create partnerships with pediatric research institutions around the globe, Mattel Children's Hospital UCLA has signed a memorandum of understanding with the department of pediatrics at Tokyo's Jikei University School of Medicine. The memorandum is the first among...Battelle and YuYu Pharma Create the First Joint Bioequivalence Test Experimentation Institution
Opening Ceremony Launches Effort to Transform Korean Pharmaceutical Industry CHUNCHEON CITY, Korea, Sept. 24 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Civic and business officials gathered in Chuncheon City Sept. 23 to open a worldwide bioequivalence research institute operated by International Scientifi...2008 Gruber Genetics Prize awarded to Allan Spradling of Carnegie Institution
Baltimore, MDAllan C. Spradling, director of the Carnegie Institution's Department of Embryology, has been awarded the 2008 Genetics Prize by the Peter and Patricia Gruber Foundation in recognition of his contributions to fruit fly genomics and for "fundamental discoveries about the earliest stage...SuperArray Bioscience Corporation Licenses RNA Interference Patent From The Carnegie Institution
FREDERICK, Md, Nov. 30 /PRNewswire/ -- SuperArray Bioscience Corporation announced today that it has entered into a RNA Interference (RNAi) license agreement with The Carnegie Institution. Under the agreement, SuperArray Bioscience Corporation will develop, manufacture and distribute worldwide...Chindex International, Inc. Launches World-Class Cancer Treatment Center
...ces. The New Hope Center's oncology program also will utilize established resources, such as medical and surgical cancer treatment from BJU, a leading institution in Beijing's medical community. Chindex intends to host a formal ceremony to celebrate the opening of the New Hope Center later in the year. Ro...Treatment Shows Excellent Results for Providence Tarzana Patients Following Cardiac Arrest
.... Its initial use this month in the Providence Tarzana Emergency Department and intensive care units has been 100 percent successful. "With the institution of the protocol, in the first week-and-a-half, we've had three patients who have had complete recovery of neurologic function after prolonged cardiac ...Correction to Earlier Release From Jewish Hospital and University of Louisville
...ave done and what another institute nationally has done is that we have injected a pure population of stem cells, the c-kit-positive cells. The other institution injected cardiosphere-derived cells, which are a mixture of primitive and partially differentiated cells, complicating the recognition of the actual t...Researchers Create First Targeted Knockout Rats Using Zinc Finger Nuclease Technology
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...ollege of Osteopathic Medicine was named a top 50 medical school in primary care by U.S. News & World Report for the seventh consecutive year. The institution contributes almost $400 million to Tarrant County and Texas economies annually. For more information, visit www.hsc.unt.edu . ...COLLEAGUE Volumetric Infusion Pumps
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...egions for Earth's hum. Title: Dominant source regions of the Earth's "hum" are coastal Authors: Peter D. Bromirski and Peter Gerstoft: Scripps institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California, USA. Source: Geophysical Research Letters (GRL) paper 10.1029/2009GL0...Plankton Power and RTDC announce proposed algae-to-biofuels pilot facility on Cape Cod
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...ellstein says. Researchers at Lombardi/Georgetown University Medical Center have been working on this line of research since the mid 1980s, and the institution holds a patent on the "target" of the novel antibody a region on the ALK receptor. The patent also covers potential therapies. Before Wellstein joined...Sex in the Caribbean: Environmental change drives evolutionary change -- eventually
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... The new research study led by scientists at Scripps institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego suggests that by improving overall ocean health, corals are better able to recover from bleaching events, which occur ...Transposagen Creates a Rat Model of the Human Immune System
.... About the Medical College of Wisconsin: The Medical College of Wisconsin in Milwaukee, www.mcw.edu , is a private, freestanding academic institution dedicated to leadership and excellence in advancing the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of disease and injury through education, discovery, patien...Shanghai ChemPartner and ELARA Pharmaceuticals Expand Drug Discovery Collaboration to a New Level
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