Research Examines Health Impact of Mining -- Illness, Premature Deaths Cost Appalachia Billions
MORGANTOWN, W.Va., June 26 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The costs of illness and premature deaths in Appalachia related to coal mining far outweigh economic benefits the industry brings to the region, says Michael Hendryx, Ph.D., associate director of the West Virginia University Institute for Hea...Data mining of inpatient records reveals the disease pattern of obstructive sleep apnea
Westchester, Ill. A study in the Dec. 15 issue of the Journal of Clinical Sleep Medicine is the first to show the full clinical picture of comorbid conditions associated with obstructive sleep apnea (OSA), quantify their frequency of occurrence and reveal their possible interrelationships. R...Data mining detects signs of Lou Gehrig's disease in gene carriers long before symptoms appear
WASHINGTON Inspired by the use of microarray chips that look for gene combinations, psychologists are using "pattern array" software to spot movements in rats that might help them predict diseases such as Lou Gehrig's syndrome. A report in the August issue of Behavioral Neuroscience, publish...Study names 5 factors of social ills in energy, mining and logging communities
The troubling link between boom towns and high rates of substance abuse is usually attributed to workers having too much money and too little to do. But a recent study of one Canadian community suggests underlying pressures including loneliness, a lack of healthy social connections and a need to k...A powerful literature and pathway mining system released to the public for free access
Genomatix Software GmbH of Munich, Germany and its US branch Genomatix Software, Inc. in Ann Arbor, MI (USA) announced today the release of LitInspector. LitInspector can be accessed without limits and free of charge by the scientific community world wide. All that is required is registration fo...MIRARCO, Canadian Light Source agreement lights way to greener mining
VANCOUVER Shining synchrotron light on environmental questions facing the mining industry is the goal of a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) signed today at the GLOBE 2008 conference between the Canadian Light Source (CLS) and MIRARCO Mining Innovation. MIRARCO prides itself in building bridge...Deep-sea Mining can Damage Marine Ecosystem
Undersea habitats supporting rare and potentially valuable organisms are at risk from seafloor mining scheduled to begin within this decade , according to a new study by a University of Toronto Mississauga geologist. According to Jochen Halfar, assistant professor of earth sciences at the...Cipla holds talks with mining giant to supply AIDS drugs for South African workers
Indian pharmaceutical giant Cipla is holding talks with London based mining giant, Anglo American for supplying AIDS drugs to South African workers. About 11% of South African population is HIV positive, totaling around 4.7 million people, giving it the dubious distinction of being the country with...MSA Announces Second Quarter Results
...nt quarter. Local currency sales were flat. Lower sales in Latin America, Australia and Africa, primarily due to the effects of the recession on the mining industry, were substantially offset by higher sales in China and the Middle East. Currency translation effects reduced International segment sales, w...GeneGo Awarded NIH Grant to Develop Pharmacogenomics Software Suite
...and networks. GeneGo's flagship product, MetaCore 5.4( TM ), assists pharmaceutical scientists in the areas of target selection and validation, data mining in biology, identification of biomarkers for disease states and toxicology. The second product, MetaDrug 5.4( TM ) is designed for prediction of hum...Addrenex Pharmaceuticals Announces Positive Phase III Clinical Results for Clonicel to Treat ADHD
...sed on treating these and other conditions arising from adrenergic excess, including hypertension, menopausal flushing, pain and sleep disturbance. By mining a library of 400 adrenergic compounds at the University of Nebraska Medical Center, Addrenex scientists have already identified one new drug candidate...Clinical Lab Products Magazine Features Biomoda
...sed to the assay glow red under fluorescent light and can be detected under a microscope. Earlier this year, Biomoda and the New Mexico Institute of mining and Technology announced their partnership with the New Mexico Department of Veterans Services to conduct a two-phase study of the state's veterans. T...FDA Reviewing Biomoda Submission for Cancer Screening Study
...sed to the assay glow red under fluorescent light and can be detected under a microscope. Earlier this year, Biomoda and the New Mexico Institute of mining and Technology announced their partnership with the New Mexico Department of Veterans Services to conduct a two-phase study of the state's veterans. T...Small Business Innovation Research Program Awards Grant to Biomoda
... cancerous cells glow red under fluorescent light and can be detected under a microscope. Earlier this year, Biomoda and the New Mexico Institute of mining and Technology announced their partnership with the New Mexico Department of Veterans Services to conduct a $350,000 clinical study using Biomoda's pr...New Gene Discovery Suggests Which Patients CTI's Brostallicin May Benefit
...s in a laboratory setting. The information learned from preclinical studies helps guide the design of future clinical trials. An integrative knowledge mining strategy was used to identify the genomic and functional consequences of brostallicin response. According to the study abstract, "Gene Set Enrichment ...Cardinal Health Releases New Tool to Combat MRSA Infections in Hospitals
...n errors, Cardinal Health develops market-leading technologies, including Alaris(R) IV pumps, Pyxis(R) automated dispensing systems, MedMined(TM) data mining service and the CareFusion(TM) patient identification system. The company also manufactures medical and surgical products and is one of the largest di...Study warns deep-sea mining may pose serious threat to fragile marine ecosystems
Undersea habitats supporting rare and potentially valuable organisms are at risk from seafloor mining scheduled to begin within this decade, says a new study led by a University of Toronto Mississauga geologist. Mining of massive sulphide deposits near "black smokers"—undersea hydrothermal vent ...Mayo Clinic collaboration mining of ancient herbal text leads to potential new anti-bacterial drug
A unique Mayo Clinic collaboration has revived the healing wisdom of Pacific Island cultures by testing a therapeutic plant extract described in a 17th century Dutch herbal text for its anti-bacterial properties. Early results show that extracts from the Atun tree effectively control bacteria that ...CoPub Mapper: mining MEDLINE based on search term co-publication
High throughput microarray analyses result in many differentially expressed genes that are potentially responsible for the biological process of interest. In order to identify biological similarities between genes, publications from MEDLINE were identified in which pairs of gene names and combinati...New e-science service could accelerate cancer research
...g , Web Services are annotated by expert curators, service providers and by the wider Community using tags, rating, comments and ontologies. Automated mining and monitoring tools are also used. The project has been led by Prof Carole Goble at The University of Manchester and Rodrigo Lopez at EMBL EBI. ...Study shows transfer of heavy metals from water to fish in Huelva estuary
...ation", says Galindo. The Huelva estuary and the Tinto and Odiel rivers which flow into it are all affected by discharges from industries and historic mining activities locally. The area, in which fishing is forbidden, is globally significant in terms of its levels of heavy metal contamination. For thi...American Chemical Society's Weekly PressPac -- June 3, 2009
...cial incentives to encourage people to recycle. Other possibilities include mining new sources of metals, such as those found in metal sulfide deposits near d...nts or manganese nodules found in deep-sea sediments. While such innovative mining approaches are expensive and not practical today, new technology may enable...New early detection studies of lung cancer in non-smokers launched today
...eomic Analysis of Plasmas from Subjects with Lung Cancer Arising in Current, and Never Smokers (Principal Investigator (PI): Hanash) Genome analysis: mining the Genome and Transcriptome in Lung Cancer from Never Smokers (PI: Gazdar) Cellular alterations: Mitochondrial Mutations in Lung Cancer from Never S...Harnessing cloud computing for data-intensive research on oceans, galaxies
...workshops. "The challenge is to use modern cloud computing resources, such as Amazon Web Services, and modern computer science advances, such as data mining and machine learning, to explore these massive volumes of data. This new computational science will be pervasive and will have enormous impact. UW is...Landfill mining reduces environmental impact of growing waste
Retrieving material for composting from open dumps across the developing world could reduce the environmental impact of growing mountains of waste, according to researchers in India, writing today in the Inderscience publication, International Journal of Environmental Technology and Management. ...Landfill mining reduces environmental impact of growing waste
Retrieving material for composting from open dumps across the developing world could reduce the environmental impact of growing mountains of waste, according to researchers in India, writing today in the Inderscience publication, International Journal of Environmental Technology and Management. ...GeneGo Donates Proprietary Cytokine Pathway Maps to ISICR
...usiness Development. "GeneGo has nearly 800 pathway maps available for data mining and experimental analysis in MetaCore." About GeneGo, Inc. G...ceutical scientists in the areas of target selection and validation, data mining in biology, identification of biomarkers for disease states and toxicolog...New statistical technique improves precision of nanotechnology data
...al new findings. "What may have seemed like noise could actually be an important signal," he said. "This technique provides a truly new tool for data mining and analysis in nanotechnology." ...New and Expanded Free Tutorials on UCSC Genome Browser Now Available
...elix today announced the free availability of tutorial suites on the UCSC Genome Browser , a powerful and popular freely available web-based tool for mining genomic data. The three tutorial suites now available include a general introduction to the genome browser, an introduction to the Table Browser and ...Cardiff University Becomes a GeneGo Center of Excellence
...nd networks. GeneGo's flagship product, MetaCore 5.3 (TM) , assists pharmaceutical scientists in the areas of target selection and validation, data mining in biology, identification of biomarkers for disease states and toxicology. The second product, MetaDrug 5.3 (TM) is designed for prediction of hu...Managing Conflict of Interest Disclosures Simplified for Healthcare Organizations
...on response. COI-SMART provides organizations with the tools for automated assignment of reviewers, the development of COI management plans, and data mining tools for auditing, tracking and reporting on potential conflicts of interest. The COI-SMART system expands HCCS' product line of online multimed...Shimadzu Phoretix Pro upgrade from Shimadzu Biotech
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Description:...l database system for management and tracking of data from Ciphergens ProteinChip System. Flexible application modules provide powerful, advanced data mining and analysis capabilities for rapid, automated analysis of multiple experiments over multiple conditions to identify potential biomarkers. CiphergenEx...MetaMine from Agilent Technologies
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