iPierian Appoints Dr. Chad Cowan and Dr. Konrad Hochedlinger to Scientific Advisory Board

SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, Calif., Aug. 6 /PRNewswire/ -- iPierian, Inc., a biopharmaceutical company focused on changing the paradigm of drug discovery and development through the application of cellular reprogramming, today announced the appointments of Dr. Chad Cowan and Dr. Konrad Hoc...

Sitting at the Virtual Poker Table: Results From First Ever Epidemiological Study of Actual Internet Poker Gaming Behavior, in Press

...ment AG Borsegasse 11, 1010 Vienna, Austria Tel.: +43(0)50-858-24010 E-mail: press@bwin.org http://www.bwin.org Investors: konrad Sveceny, Investor Relations bwin Interactive Entertainment AG Borsegasse 11, 1010 Vienna, Austria Tel.: +43(0)50 858-20017 E-mail: in...

Intestinal cancer in spite of screening

...whose screening behavior is examined in the current edition of Deutsches rzteblatt International ( Dtsch Arztebl Int 2009; 106[12]: 195�) by konrad Schoppmeyer and his colleagues from Leipzig University Hospital. The authors have performed a retrospective analysis of the data on screening exam...

France-Israel scientific cooperation agreement

...ing for a boycott of Israeli academia." The March 18 France-Israel Symposium in Neuroscience, to follow the agreement signing, will be held at the konrad Adenauer Center at Mishkenot Shaananim starting at 2:15 p.m. and will feature presentations on a range of recent joint French-Israeli studies as well ...

Epilepsy in the elderly

...at epilepsy in old than in young patients. In the new edition of Deutsches rzteblatt International ( Dtsch Arztebl Int 2009; 106[9]: 135󈞖), konrad J. Werhahn of the Epilepsy Center of Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz, Germany, presents the clinical characteristics of the disease and the the...

Researchers Report Stem Cell Advance

... these cells ever be used to generate tissues that were transplanted into human patients, researchers fear they could inadvertently lead to cancer. konrad Hochedlinger, of Massachusetts General Hospital and the Harvard Stem Cell Institute, his postdoctoral fellow Stadtfeld, and their colleagues circumven...

Babies Really Can Light Up Your Life

...ly and care for them. In his paradigm, this increased the chances that one's own genes would endure. And Nobel Prize-winning 20th century zoologist konrad Lorenz suggested that it was facial structure that prompted these nurturing responses in adults. But the biological or neural basis for this phenom...

USHEALTH Group Announces Appointment of Executive Vice President

...LTH), a leading national health insurer providing affordable coverage to small business owners and the self-employed, announced today the promotion of konrad H. Kober to Executive Vice President, Chief Administration Officer. In this expanded role, Kober will oversee USHEALTH's Information Services Division...

Can world prize competitions foster more equitable drug research and development?

...tes, government, UN organizations, NGOs, industry, patent organizations and funding agencies. The workshop was opened by UN Under-Secretary-General konrad Osterwalder, Rector of UNU. William Fisher, Harvard Law School, outlined several benefits of prize-driven competitons and important factors influen...

World's Oldest High-wire Artiste Hums Along at 98

... Kassel (Germany): konrad Thurano, 98, is not too good on his legs, even with the aid of a walking stick, but put him on a tightrope and he seems// years - no, decades - younge...

Konrad in Medical Dictionary

Adenoviruses

...use of many upper respiratory infections in humans. ... The Molecular Repertoire of Adenoviruses I: Virion Structure and Infection : ... ... konrad Hochedlinger, from Harvard Medical School, used adenoviruses to introduce ... Instead, adenoviruses temporarily express high levels of the transcr...

Konrad in Biological News

Indigenous peoples at world summit to share climate change observations, coping techniques

...uals and communities is the humanitarian response," she says. "Climigration means no possibility to return home." Says UN Under-Secretary-General konrad Osterwalder, Rector of UN University: "The fires in Australia last summer that killed 240 people graphically demonstrated the devastating potential of...

Rising sea levels set to have major impacts around the world

...e regional differences depending where the source of ice loss occurs", says konrad Steffen, Director of the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmenta... the lower end of the projections looks to have very serious effects," says konrad Steffen. ...

Biotech scientists team with curators to stem decay of world's art, cultural heritage

...rms of their long-term performance and the excessive functionalism of the buildings, which make new uses difficult. Says UN Under Secretary-General konrad Osterwalder, Rector of UNU: "The items in museum collections have timeless cultural, scientific and aesthetic values that we hold in trust for future ...

'Arid aquaculture' among livelihoods promoted to relieve worsening pressure on world's drylands

...rder to tap into growing markets in nearby urban centers like Beijing and internationally. Policies that Help Says UN Under-Secretary-General konrad Osterwalder, Rector of UNU: "A new breed of interventions, developed in partnership with local communities, that combine traditional and contemporary ...

Experts meet on need for new rules to govern world's fragile polar regions

...tform by holding this conference in international law and policy in the polar regions in cooperation with UN institutions and other partners." Says konrad Ostrerwalder, UN Under Secretary-General and Rector of UNU: "As the ecosystems of the Arctic are affected by climate change, so too will the inhabita...

Great potential to improve collection, recycling of Europe's electronic waste, says UN report

...for both simplification and environmental reasons; Electronic products have a great positive impact on our lives, says UN Under-Secretary-General konrad Osterwalder, Rector of UNU. However, their increasing availability and affordability means that they also present a growing environmental problem, on...

Human clones: New U.N. analysis lays out world's choices

...esearch cloning (also called therapeutic cloning). "Human reproductive cloning could profoundly impact humanity," says UN Under-Secretary-General konrad Osterwalder, Rector of UNU. "This report offers a plain language analysis of the opportunities, challenges and options before us a firm and thoughtf...

Improving science, technology in Africa is aim as G-8, African, UN experts convene in Berlin

...om science and education investment to economic and social improvement has been proven in both Asia and Latin America, says UN Under-Secretary-General konrad Osterwalder, Rector of UNU. Sadly, most of Africa is not in a position to harness science and technology to tackle its endemic problems of poverty, di...

Climate -- no smoking gun for Neanderthals

... years; and the chronological imprecision of the ancient climate record. "Our novel method circumvents the last two problems" adds palaeoclimatologist konrad Hughen. "We were therefore able to provide a much more accurate picture of the climatic background at the time of the Neanderthal disappearance". "Mor...

Zebra finch males prefer females with exaggerated maternal traits

...arents as a model for what their later sexual partner should look like. This is the process of sexual imprinting, made famous by the Nobel prizewinner konrad Lorenz. Nonetheless, most birds prefer mates in which specific traits are exaggerated compared with those of their parents. Because learning about a s...

Konrad in Biological Technology

DFG establishes 14 new research training groups

...Berlin to generally strengthen instruction and research in this area in Germany. (Host university: Free University Berlin; spokesperson: Professor Dr. konrad Seppelt) At the Technical University of Berlin, the Research Training Group "Nonequilibrium Collective Dynamics in Condensed Matter and Biological ...

Bio-Matrix Scientific Group, Inc. Gets Updated Stock Recommendation By KonLin Investment Letter

... Cryogenic Storage contract with NeoCells, Inc. and AdultCells, Inc. as the primary reason for the updated stock buy recommendation. According to konrad Kuhn, editor and publisher of the KonLin Letter, the recent BMSN contracts have, "the potential to generate substantial first year as well as ongoing ...

bwin and Harvard Medical School Faculty Sign 5-Year Research Cooperation Agreement

...ent AG Borsegasse 11, 1010 Vienna, Austria Tel.: +43(0)50-858-24010 E-mail: press@bwin.org http://www.bwin.ag Investors: konrad Sveceny, Investor Relations bwin Interactive Entertainment AG Borsegasse 11, 1010 Vienna, Austria Tel.: +43(0)50-858-20017 E-mail: in...

First tunable, 'noiseless' amplifier may boost quantum computing, communications

...on of Nature Physics ,* offers better performance and is the first to be tunable, operating between 4 and 8 gigahertz, according to JILA group leader konrad Lehnert. It is also the first amplifier of any type ever to boost signals sufficiently to overcome noise generated by the next amplifier in a series a...

Connecticut's Universities Team Up to Host 2009 Stem Cell Symposium

...c, emerging technologies and bioethics. StemCONN 09 will include: -- A scientific session featuring presentations by Kevin Eggan Ph.D. and konrad Hochedlinger Ph.D., both of Harvard University; Craig T. Jordan Ph.D., University of Rochester; Thomas A. Rando M.D., Ph.D., of Stanford Uni...

Konrad in Biological Definition

Homunculus

...liar with the lives and works of alchemists like Paracelsus and others, and their theories on the creation of the homunculus. Florescu also notes that konrad Dippel , an alchemist whom he believes may have been the inspiration for Dr. Frankenstein, was a student of Dr. David Christianus. German horror wri...

Konrad Lorenz

... konrad Z. Lorenz being followed by his imprinted geese konrad Zacharias Lorenz ( November 7 , 1903 – F...ely read and appreciated to-day. There are three konrad Lorenz Institutes in Austria; one is housed in his...

Zoology

...lanktology ) Libbie Hyman (invertebrate zoology ) William Kirby (father of entomology ) Carolus Linnaeus (father of systematics ) konrad Lorenz ( ethology ) David W. Macdonald ( wild mammals ) Ernst Mayr (1905-2005), influential evolutionary biologist , father of the "modern...

Konrad in Biological Dictionary

Coding sequence

...ble in the Flexi® Vectors for expression ... the HaloTag® coding sequence and the ... Models of coding sequence evolution. Wayne Delport, konrad Scheffler and Cathal Seoighe ... Phylogenetic Models of Coding Sequence Evolution with Dependence ... ...