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CyberGlove Systems Hosts Worldwide Contest for New Motion Capture Technology Applications

...Current industry applications include: motion capture, industrial engineering, and academic research; however, there remain several niche applications unexplored within these broad categories as well as new applications in medical, telerobotics, and military applications not yet considered. Applicants shoul...

Health Robotics Announces i.v.STATION(TM) Contract With Grifols in Spain, Portugal and South America

...xis MedStation technologies in their core markets. I hope this is just the beginning of a long-term partnership expanding into manufacturing and other unexplored fields in Robotics pharmacy automation such as total parenteral nutrition," stated Werner Rainer, Health Robotics' CEO. About Health Robotics: ...

Parents key in new measure to evaluate language in children with autism

...re than 3,500 parents from across Canada completed the questionnaire describing their child's language ability. "This study will help us understand unexplored ways of identifying language skills in children with autism," says Dr. Michael Kramer, Scientific Director at the Canadian Institutes of Health Resear...

Stem cell transplant in mouse embryo yields heart protection in adulthood

...p further. "In this way, prenatal transplantation of embryonic stem cells expands the scope of traditional retrospective therapy to the previously unexplored prospective protection," the authors note. They conclude that beyond reconstructive surgery, stem cell transplantation in prenatal development could o...

$5.5 million from Gates Foundation funds major study of childhood malnutrition

... "It is a great privilege for us to conduct this research at a time when the revolution in genome sciences is allowing us to delve into the largely unexplored world of microbes that envelop our bodies," Gordon says. "We are looking forward to participating in this global effort to understand and treat a deva...

Spiders, frogs and gecko among exciting discoveries found in Papua New Guinea

...evolutionary tree will help us understand how this unique group of jumping spiders has evolved." Much of Papua New Guinea's vast wilderness remains unexplored for scientific documentation. CI's RAP program is planning three more expeditions to the country in 2009 with the first beginning in early April. ...

Researchers identify potential therapeutic target in osteosarcoma

... HOUSTON-A receptor known to be active in bone metastases, but previously unexplored in primary bone tumors, is a potential therapeutic target in osteosarcoma, investigators from The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center rep...

Gene Therapy Holds Promise for HIV

...she said. "Gene therapy will probably represent an exciting new frontier that will receive increasing attention in the coming years. There are so many unexplored avenues to pursue with the real potential to provide a lasting solution for HIV/AIDS." More information To learn more about gene therapy, visi...

Fishing for Opportunities in the Omega-3 Ingredients Market

...3 fatty acids such as cognitive health, joint health and immune health will experience substantial growth in the next five years. There is plethora of unexplored opportunities in the health and wellness sector which offers viable global business propositions." To participate, please email Stephanie Ocho...

Largest study of fertility patients shows concerns about embryo disposition

...gest and only multi-site study to shed important light on the state of the nation's 500,000 frozen embryos currently in storage. It reveals previously unexplored concerns that patients have about their embryos, and it comes at a time when several states and even the federal government are attempting to enact le...

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Depolarization-induced suppression of inhibition

...nandamide actions at this receptor may potentially contribute to DSE (Cristino et al. 2006, Hajos et al. 2002). However DSE is currently a largely unexplored phenomenon and more research is needed to draw any firm conclusions. References Bodor AL, Katona I, Nyiri G, Mackie K, Ledent C, Hajos N...

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New bird discovered on unexplored Columbian mountain

A new bird to science was recently discovered on an unexplored mountain range in northern Colombia by a team supported by the BP Conservation Programme. It was named "Yariguies Brush-Finch," with the scientific name Atlapetes latinuchus yariguierum. The new brush-finch was described by an Anglo-...

Better living through chemistry

...about five percent of the world's oceans have been explored. (By contrast, the dark side of the moon has been throughly mapped.) Of all the world's unexplored marine environments, why did the Joye team choose to conduct their microbe study at the mud volcano and the brine pool? Because both environments are ...

Researchers explore new driver of transplant rejection: Platelets

...he immune system, so it's time for the transplant world at large to have platelets on its radar." A self-described "platelet guy" transfixed by the unexplored biology of these circulating bodies, Morrell collaborated with clinicians in the fields of transplant to write a comprehensive review of platelets and...

Decisive action needed as warming predictions worsen, says expert

...r electric power generation by burning more coal. Economies in the developing world are becoming more, not less carbon-intensive. We are definitely in unexplored terrain with the trajectory of climate change, in the region with forcing, and very likely impacts, much worse than predicted in the fourth assessment...

Census of Marine Life and ocean in Google Earth bring ocean information to life

...f the Marine Geospatial Ecology Lab, Nicholas School of the Environment at Duke University in Durham, NC. "In eight years of expeditions to remote and unexplored places in the ocean, Census of Marine Life scientists have found new life on nearly every expedition. In the Census layer of this new feature of ...

Microscopic morphology adds to the scorpion family tree

...heir raw data as an illustrated atlas of the book lungs of all major lineages of scorpions. "The richness of morphology is a vast and still largely unexplored source of data for understanding the evolutionary relationships among organisms," says Prendini, Associate Curator in the Division of Invertebrate Zoo...

Over 1,000 species discovered in the Greater Mekong in past decade

...ity in modern science. While most species were discovered in the largely unexplored jungles and wetlands, some were first found in the most surprising places. ...mas Ziegler, Curator at the Cologne Zoo. "It is a great feeling being in an unexplored area and to document its biodiversity for the first time both enigmatic and...

Expeditions reveal gulf of California's deep sea secrets, as well as human imprints

... of California, including documentations of new species and marine animals previously never seen alive. Yet the expeditions, which included surveys at unexplored depths, have revealed disturbing declines in sea-life populations and evidence that human impacts have stretched down deeply in the gulf. In one ex...

Nanoparticles in the home: More and smaller than previously detected

...ogy used in these experiments allowed researchers to measure down to 2 nm particlesapproximately 10 times the size of a large atom. This previously unexplored range of 2 to 10 nm contributed more than 90 percent of all the particles produced by the electric and gas stovetop burners/coils. The gas and electri...

Scientists identify novel inhibitor of human microRNA

... clear. While the human genome is thought to contain 800 to 1,000 miRNAs, only a few hundred have been described. Thus, miRNAs represent a largely unexplored class of targets for the development of therapeutics and diagnostics, says Huang, an assistant professor in Wistar's Molecular and Cellular Oncogenesi...

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aTyr Pharma to Present at ChinaBio(R) Investor Forum in Hong Kong

...xtracellular activities distinct from their intracellular roles in protein synthesis. With a wide variety of cell signaling activities, this class of unexplored peptides provides a reservoir of proteins with the potential to become blockbuster biotherapeutics ("Biologics"). Dr. Cai noted that "The ChinaB...

Dr. James Cai Joins aTyr Pharma to Drive Clinical Development in Asia

...xtracellular activities distinct from their intracellular roles in protein synthesis. With a wide variety of cell signaling activities, this class of unexplored peptides provides a reservoir of proteins with the potential to become blockbuster biotherapeutics ("Biologics"). "We are developing an entire n...

Stanford researchers hear the sound of quantum drums

...rom the opposite direction. "My research asks, what if you start at the bottom of the ladder? We assemble structures one atom at a time," he said. The unexplored gap between bottom-up research and the industry's shrink-down effort "is where the excitement is," he said. The work has a natural connection to th...

Pearl Therapeutics Raises $15.5 Million in Private Financing

...f corporate development, pulmonary. He drove strategy and planning for Nektar's pulmonary business and championed efforts to apply its technologies to unexplored opportunities. Sarvajna Dwivedi, Ph.D., executive vice president of R&D at Pearl, was most recently director of product development at Nektar. He brin...

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Cryptozoology

...the group had previously been presumed to have been extinct for 300 million years. Cryptozoologists point these out to demonstrate that there are many unexplored regions of the world left, and that remote exotic locations or specialized ecosystems relatively untouched by man may contain unexpected life. ...

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Chordates

...on website to THE SHAPE OF LIFE, an eight-part series that takes viewers to unexplored places and answers fundamental questions about the origins of life ... A...on website to THE SHAPE OF LIFE, an eight-part series that takes viewers to unexplored places and answers ... indeed, all chordates , from the ... chordate ...