Dental Convention to Highlight Latest Breakthroughs in Dentistry
SACRAMENTO, Calif., Sept. 8 /PRNewswire/ WHAT: CDA's Fall Scientific Session will include several intriguing product launches. The exhibit hall will be open Friday and Saturday from 9 a.m. - 5 p.m. and Sunday from 9 a.m. - 2 p.m. for reporters and dental profession...Presidential medal for technological breakthroughs earned by 2 chemical engineering professors
Two chemical engineering professors from The University of Texas at Austin have been recognized by President George W. Bush as 2007 National Medal of Technology and Innovation laureates, the nation's highest honor for technological achievement. In a rare recognition of two honorees from the sam...Dental Convention to Highlight Latest Breakthroughs in Oral Health Treatments
Oral Health Mint to enhance brushing and easier oral cancer detection some of featured advancements ANAHEIM, Calif., April 25 /PRNewswire/ -- Approximately 30,000 dentists and dental professionals are expected to attend the 2008 Spring Scientific Session of the California...Physics breakthroughs on tap at New Orleans conference
The March Meeting of American Physical Society will take place March 10-14, 2008 in New Orleans, Louisiana. More than 7,000 scientists are expected to be on hand. The principal topic areas will be condensed matter physics, industrial applications, new materials, chemical and biological physics, ...TIME Magazine Names GeneSearch(TM) One of the Top 10 Medical Breakthroughs in 2007
WARREN, N.J., Dec. 14 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Veridex, LLC, a Johnson & Johnson company, is pleased to announce that TIME magazine has named the GeneSearch(TM) Breast Lymph Node (BLN) Assay one of the top ten medical breakthroughs of 2007. In the December 24th issue of the magazine...A New Home for Medical Breakthroughs
HOUSTON, June 10 /PRNewswire/ -- Medical Headway, LLC (Medical Headway) is pleased to announce its launch of an online medical breakthrough library, MedicalHeadway.com, dedicated to arming the public with news of the latest breakthroughs in the world of medicine. The company offers consumers f...Stand Up To Cancer Awards $73.6 Million for Novel, Groundbreaking Cancer Research
...ential for patients. "For people struggling with this disease, or many of the 1.4 million Americans who will be diagnosed this year, scientific breakthroughs can literally be a matter of life or death," said Laura Ziskin, executive producer of the September 5th, 2008 broadcast, who is a cancer survivor and ...Research Finding Could Revolutionize Asthma Treatment
... awards have resulted in eleven promising breakthroughs, or new 'pathways,' that have led to support from the pharmaceutical industry. Three of these breakthroughs have progressed to clinical trials. Because the time from a 'discovery at the bench' to a new therapy is often measured in decades, we are encouraged...Breakthrough in Prenatal Screening for Down Syndrome
... the work of other investigators whose efforts have focused heretofore in the 2nd trimester," said Lenetix president and CEO Leonard H. Kellner. "Such breakthroughs in improvements of current maternal serum screening for fetal aneuploidy, including fetal Down syndrome, will lead to better quality of screening and ...Winning the War on Cancer: The Critical Role of Radiation Oncology
...irst time ever, that modern therapeutic advances are contributing to make patients less likely to die from cancer. Investments in cancer research and breakthroughs in radiation oncology are a very important part of this equation. With new technologies, radiation oncologists can deliver less radiation to the body ...ASGE and The Pancreatic Cancer Action Network Partner to Raise Awareness About Pancreatic Cancer
... a cure. The organization raises money for direct private funding of research -- and advocates for more aggressive federal research funding of medical breakthroughs in prevention, diagnosis and treatment of pancreatic cancer. The Pancreatic Cancer Action Network fills the void of information and options by giving ...Thomson CenterWatch Pipeline Intelligence
Description:... intelligence and knowledge resources from CenterWatch. This highly valuable resource has 4 components to help you monitor and stay abreast of medical breakthroughs on the frontiers of medicine: Drugs in Clinical Trials, Clinical Trial Results, Newly Approved Drugs, Clinical Trials Listing Service....MARS Motion Artifact Rejection System Pulse Oximeter
Description:... oximetry monitoring from Novametrix. As an addition to our current family of "digital pulse oximeters, MARSpO 2 takes advantage of new technological breakthroughs in signal processing. This provides improved analysis of the pulse signal resulting in superior performance during challenging clinical conditions suc...Key to future medical breakthroughs is systems biology, say leading European scientists
Crucial breakthroughs in the treatment of many common diseases such as diabetes and Parkinson's could be achieved by harnessing a powerful scientific approach called systems biology, according to leading scientists from across Europe. In a Science Policy Briefing released today by the European Sci...Further breakthroughs for breast cancer patients
Researchers at the Tenovus Centre for Cancer Research at Cardiff University have made a breakthrough in breast cancer treatment that could help save the lives of women who become resistant to breast cancer drugs such as tamoxifen. While drugs such as tamoxifen have been a huge success in treati...Male contraception breakthroughs to be presented, Seattle Sept. 27-28
Seattle will be the place to be on September 27 and 28, when male contraception researchers from the U.S. and overseas gather to present their news. The second Future of Male Contraception conference sponsored by the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, CONRAD, the World Hea...Recent breakthroughs in common adult leukemia highlighted in New England Journal of Medicine
When the most common adult leukemia in the United States was last reviewed by the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) in 1995, it was seen through the eyes of theories that dated back to the 1960s. As such, the journal recently invited three of the world's foremost experts on chronic lymphocytic...New computer simulation helps explain folding in important cellular protein
...ses. Scientists have for the past three decades tried to understand what makes proteins fold into functional units and why it happens, and several breakthroughs have occurred through computer modelinga field that dramatically increases analytical speed. Now, scientists at the University of Georgia have cre...A genetic basis for schizophrenia
...chizophrenia is a severely debilitating psychiatric disease that is thought to have its roots in the development of the nervous system; however, major breakthroughs linking its genetics to diagnosis, prognosis and treatment are still unrealized. Jill Morris, PhD assistant professor of Pediatrics at Northwestern Un...PNNL scientist garners early career presidential award
...the best in our country," President Obama said. "With their talent, creativity, and dedication, I am confident that they will lead their fields in new breakthroughs and discoveries and help us use science and technology to lift up our nation and our world." Alexandre Tartakovsky earned this award for his work t...22nd Congress of the European College of Neuropsychopharmacology, Sept. 12-16, 2009, Turkey
...ances in brain imaging, the mapping of the brains biochemical circuitry and breakthroughs in molecular genetics have significantly enhanced the possibilities of the ...n in animal studies has elucidated mechanisms involved in mental disorders. breakthroughs in molecular genetics shed light on hereditary diseases, i.e. Huntingtons d...Healing wounds with lasers, vehicles that drive themselves, other cutting-edge optics
... WASHINGTON, May 26--Researchers from around the world will present the latest breakthroughs in electro-optics, lasers and the application of light waves at the 2009 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics/International Quantum Electronics Con...Genencor Shows How Industrial Biotech Breakthroughs Contribute to the New Green Economy
Event showcases sustainable solutions for biofuels, biochemicals and textile processing PALO ALTO, Calif., March 20 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Yesterday, Genencor, a division of Danisco A/S, hosted a private tour of its Bay Area Research and Development headquarters to a group of industr...Genetic Breakthroughs Honored With New Scientific Award
LOS ANGELES, May 22 /PRNewswire/ -- A new prize has been announced in an emerging scientific field called "epigenetics," the study of how influences from outside the cell can activate genes. Called the Epigenetic Medicine Award, it honors a researcher or physician who has used the principles o...DOE awards $377 million in funding for 46 energy frontier research centers
...DC In a major effort to accelerate the scientific breakthroughs needed to build a new 21st-century energy economy,...ur nation's scientific workforce in pursuit of the breakthroughs that are essential to expand the use of clean and ... to develop the enabling science needed to realize breakthroughs in the efficient conversion of sunlight into elect...Charging ahead: University of Houston team revealing secrets of electricity-producing materials
...enty of waste energy that can be harnessed into useful energy to make ours a "self-powered autonomous society." "Recent technological advances and breakthroughs play an important role toward achieving that goal, but we need to be patient," he says. "Quantum mechanics, the basis of modern electronics, was 'disc...Prof. Mario Tredici Shared Views on Algae Projects with Algae Business Players at Algae World!
...nergy and biofuels projects now face critical challenge of cutting costs. According to Top Phycologist Dr. Mario Tredici, technological and biological breakthroughs can offer Algae Biofuels innovative solutions. In his presentation at Algae World, Prof. Tredici shared his innovative research on Algae projects with...New geothermal heat extraction process to deliver clean power generation
...novel research on nanomaterials used to capture carbon dioxide from burning fossil fuels actually led us to this discovery," said McGrail. "Scientific breakthroughs can come from some very unintuitive connections." ...