CU-Boulder helps tap crowds to digitize museum records of bugs and plants
| 5/23/2013 | Inside the natural history museums of the world are billions of animal and plant specimens from birds, fish and beetles to flowers, mushrooms and grasses, all stacked, stored and preserved in jars and collection drawers. The rich and diverse collections could be critical to understanding how the Earth's biodiversity is changing in the face of a growing human footprint if only the informat... [Comments] |
Frontiers launches new open-access journal in Bioengineering and Biotechnology
| 5/23/2013 | Frontiers, one of the world's largest and fastest growing open-access publishers, announces the launch of a new journal, Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology . A broad scope journal covering all specialties, Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology will provide a single open-access platform for diverse and emerging bioengineering and biotechnology research to be dissemina... [Comments] |
Pay attention: How we focus and concentrate
| 5/23/2013 | Publishing in Neuron , the team reveal the interplay of brain chemicals which help us pay attention in work funded by the Wellcome Trust and BBSRC. By changing the way neurons respond to external stimuli we improve our perceptual abilities. While these changes can affect the strength of a neuronal response, they can also affect the fidelity of that response. Lead author Alex Thiele... [Comments] |
University of Wisconsin chemists find new compounds to curb staph infection
| 5/23/2013 | MADISON, Wis. In an age when microbial pathogens are growing increasingly resistant to the conventional antibiotics used to tamp down infection, a team of Wisconsin scientists has synthesized a potent new class of compounds capable of curbing the bacteria that cause staph infections. Writing online in the Journal of the American Chemical Society , a group led by University of Wisconsin... [Comments] |
'Landscapes of Resilience' to study how people use nature as a source of recovery
| 5/22/2013 | NEW YORK CITY, May 22, 2013 U.S. Forest Service scientists are part of "Landscapes of Resilience", a multi-disciplinary team that, with funding from the TKF Foundation, will examine how collaborative planning and stewardship of open spaces help communities and individuals recover from tragedy. The TKF Foundation announced today that Landscapes of Resilience is one of six projects selected... [Comments] |
NLST: CT detects twice as many lung cancers as X-ray at initial screening exam
| 5/22/2013 | National Lung Screening Trial (NLST) investigators also conclude that the 20 percent reduction in lung cancer mortality with low-dose computed tomography (LDCT) versus chest X-ray (CXR) screening previously reported in the NLST primary paper is achievable at experienced screening centers in the United States. Philadelphia, PAPhysicians have more information to share with their patients a... [Comments] |
Tests lead to doubling of fuel cell life
| 5/22/2013 | Researchers working to improve durability in fuel cell powered buses, including a team from Simon Fraser University, have discovered links between electrode degradation processes and bus membrane durability. The team is quantifying the effects of electrode degradation stressors in the operating cycle of the bus on the membrane lifetime. The findings of the study, led by SFU graduate st... [Comments] |
| 5/22/2013 | Harvard physicists have developed a novel technique that can detect molecular variants in chemical mixtures greatly simplifying a process that is one of the most important, though time-consuming, processes in analytical chemistry. As described in a paper in Nature , post-doctoral researcher David Patterson, Professor of Physics John Doyle and Dr. Melanie Schnell of the Center for Free-E... [Comments] |
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Description:HOXC11 Antibody...| 5/23/2013 | MENLO PARK, Calif. , May 23, 2013 Virobay, Inc. today announced that their development of an oral treatment for pain has reached an important milestone, as Virobay has now initiated a Phase 1 clinical trial of VBY-036 - a selective cathepsin S inhibitor. The first Phase 1 trial of VBY-036 is a double-blind, randomized, placebo-controlled study designed to evaluate the... [Comments] |
| 5/23/2013 | EXTON, Pa. , May 23, 2013 BioTrends Research Group, one of the world's leading research and advisory firms for specialized biopharmaceutical issues, finds that, unaided, one in five surveyed gastroenterologists, hepatologists, and infectious disease specialists reported that in the past six months, they have begun warehousing patients (e.g., intentionally delaying treatment) i... [Comments] |
Acne Cream, Probiotic Action Shares News on How Some Food may Breed Acne Causing Bacteria
| 5/23/2013 | Miami, FL (PRWEB) May 23, 2013 On April 19th the Center for Disease Control made trips to supermarkets to search for the growing antibiotic resistant bacteria that may be lurking in grocery store aisles. Results from a year long study were released late last month showing higher antibiotic resistant bacteria level in foods, specifically meats, over previous years. For those suffering from... [Comments] |
Z Trim's Chef Erin Ryan sits on Expert Panel at NRA Show
| 5/23/2013 | MUNDELEIN, Ill. , May 23, 2013 Z Trim Holdings, Inc. (OTC Markets: ZTHO), a bio-technology company providing value-added ingredients to a variety of industries, announced that Chef Erin Ryan participated in a panel discussion at this year's National Restaurant Association ("NRA") NRA Show, which was held on May 20-21, 2013, on behalf of the Research Chefs Association. ... [Comments] |
| 5/23/2013 | BETHESDA, Md. , May 23, 2013 Northwest Biotherapeutics (NASDAQ: NWBO ) (NW Bio), a biotechnology company developing DCVax ® personalized immune therapies for solid tumor cancers, announced today that it will use its exhibit at this year's American Society Of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) meeting in Chicago to highlight its leadership role in immune therapy. (Log... [Comments] |