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Thursday, July 24th, 2008
The Wellcome Trust has awarded 4.7 million pounds [5.8 million euros] to EMBL's European Bioinformatics Institute [EMBL-EBI] to support the transfer of a large collection of information on the properties and activities of drugs and a large set of drug-like small molecules from the publicly listed company Galapagos NV ...
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Thursday, July 24th, 2008
MedHelp announced today a collaboration with Johns Hopkins Medicine, where specialists from Johns Hopkins will personally answer questions on a number of health topics on the MedHelp website, starting immediately with two questions a day each on Brain Tumors and Trigeminal Neuralgia. This collaboration brings Johns Hopkins' medical expertise to ...
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Thursday, July 24th, 2008
From understanding climate change to predicting infectious disease outbreaks to engineering solutions to address disability, scientific research is increasingly crossing the boundaries between disciplines.Fostering interdisciplinary research, education and training as a means of developing the next generation of scientists is a key goal of the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Integrative ...
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Thursday, July 24th, 2008
For decades, researchers have dreamed of creating robots with human-like abilities. Now an interdisciplinary team of European researchers has developed a robotic arm and hand that moves and 'senses' like a human, and is controlled by a human-inspired electronic 'brain'. Can a real C-3PO be far behind? "Hollywood did a ...
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Thursday, July 24th, 2008
CLC bio has just released a scientific white paper which confirms, that, in benchmarking tests, CLC bio's new algorithm for assembly of Next Generation Sequencing data is the fastest one available. Not only is CLC bio's algorithm considerably faster, but it also provides a better quality of the results, compared ...
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Thursday, July 24th, 2008
Mohave County Department of Public Health, AZ is the first health provider in the USA to roll-out a world-first second-generation smoking cessation text messaging service, STOMP (STop smoking Over Mobile Phone) from Healthphone Solutions. STOMP sends smokers trying to quit a series of personalized text messages over 26 weeks. ...
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Thursday, July 24th, 2008
Newly developed MIT software will help to allay patients' fears about who has access to their confidential records, facilitating the use of that data for medical research. In the July 24 issue of the journal BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making, a team of MIT researchers describes a computer program ...
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Thursday, July 24th, 2008
Whether a painless, portable device that uses electrical current rather than X-ray to look for breast cancer could be an alternative to traditional mammograms is under study at the Medical College of Georgia.MCG is one of 20 centers internationally and the only place in Georgia studying new technology developed by ...
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Thursday, July 24th, 2008
Cyberspace is buzzing today with news of Medpedia, a global collaboration wikipedia-type project that will offer a massive amount of up to date medical and health information for free to anyone with an internet connection.Medpedia is described as the "world's largest collaborative online encyclopedia of medicine". The information will ...
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Thursday, July 24th, 2008
Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and three collaborating institutions are using a new laboratory model of the membrane surrounding neurons in the brain to study how a protein long suspected of a role in early-stage Alzheimer's disease actually impairs a neuron's structure and function. The ...
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Wednesday, July 23rd, 2008
Masha is a dental patient. Her oral health problems continue to change as she meets new Case Western Reserve University student dentists in Second Life's virtual dental office.The middle-aged avatar is an integral part of a new research project of the Case Western Reserve University School of Dental Medicine and ...
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Wednesday, July 23rd, 2008
Rising fuel prices are causing financial strain for some home health care workers and the industry is considering replacing some services in rural areas with remote monitoring systems, the AP/Chicago Tribune reports. Gasoline prices have increased by more than 80% in the past 18 months, and experts say it is ...
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Wednesday, July 23rd, 2008
The American Society of Breast Disease announces the opening of a career center to link breast healthcare professionals across all specialties with employers and educational opportunities. The new feature at the Society's web site at http://www.asbd.org will provide free listings of fellowships, residencies, as well as international and domestic ...
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Monday, July 21st, 2008
Defendants in child abuse cases are more likely to be convicted if their defense lawyer uses complicated language when interrogating young victims according to new research out of the University of Toronto and the University of Southern California.The National Institute of Health funded research project conducted by Angela Evans, a ...
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Sunday, July 20th, 2008
Medicexchange PLC (subsidiary of MGT Capital Investments Inc, Amex: MGT) announces the launch of a focused Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging online community to allow medical imaging professionals to keep abreast of the developments in this fast evolving arena of imaging. The new community allows medical imaging professionals to ...
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