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CyberKnife Treatment for Prostate Cancer

[NEWS]   September is Prostate Cancer Awareness Month MIAMI, Sept. 3 /PRNewswire/ — CyberKnife radiosurgery treatment for prostate cancer is rapid, effective and has no side effects, with the added benefit of being non-invasive. Since 2003, the CyberKnife Center of Miami and the CyberKnife Center of Palm Beach have been providing this high tec…

 

US neurologists agree on protocols for treatment of infantile spasms

[NEWS] Contact: Dawn Peters healthnews@wiley.com 781-388-8408 Wiley-Blackwell Guidelines aid pediatricians with early diagnosis to improve long-term prognosis Researchers from across the U.S., as part of the Infantile Spasms Working Group (ISWG), established guidelines for the diagnosis and treatment of infant…

 

New Research Demonstrates Safety of Cord-blood-derived Stem Cell Treatments

[NEWS] Beike Biotechnology and Medistem, Inc. Report on 114 Patients Treated With Novel Cord Blood Stem Cell Protocol; New Approach Opens Door to Expanded Uses of Cord Blood Stem Cells SHENZHEN, China, Sept. 2 /PRNewswire-Asia/ — In a new peer-reviewed article published by the Journal of Translational Medicine, scientists from Beike Biotechnology ( <a href=”http://www.beikebiotech.com/” target=”_blank” onc…

 

Science's policy clout diminished, but oil risk looms large

[NEWS] Contact: Jayne Fairley jayne.fairley@sagepub.co.uk 44-207-324-8719 SAGE Publications UK London, UK (September 3, 2010) - More people are likely to believe scientific studies claiming that oil drilling is riskier, not safer, than was previously thought, according to a new study of attitudes in California. What's more the findi…

 

Iowa State chemists discover method to create high-value chemicals from biomass

[NEWS] Contact: Walter Trahanovsky wtrahan@iastate.edu 515-294-2886 Iowa State University AMES, Iowa - Iowa State University researchers have found a way to produce high-value chemicals such as ethylene glycol and propylene glycol from biomass rather than petroleum sources. Walter Trahanovsky, an Iowa State professor of chemistry who likes …

 

Live imaging puts new light on stem cell division

[NEWS] Contact: Jim Barlow jebarlow@uoregon.edu 541-346-3481 University of Oregon University of Oregon team finds, in fruit flies, that the mitotic spindle does not act alone to divide a cell A long-held assumption about asymmetrical division of stem cells has cracked. Researchers at the University of Oregon report that the…

 

A model system for group behavior of nanomachines

[NEWS] Contact: Andreas Battenberg battenberg@zv.tum.de 49-892-891-0510 Technische Universitaet Muenchen Probing for principles underlying flock patterns For the casual observer it is fascinating to watch the orderly and seemingly choreographed motion of hundreds or even thousands of fish, birds or insects. However, the formatio…

 

NIH-sponsored research yields promising malaria drug candidate

[NEWS] Contact: Anne Oplinger aoplinger@niaid.nih.gov 301-402-1663 NIH/National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases In mice, compound cleared malaria parasites quickly A chemical that rid mice of malaria-causing parasites after a single oral dose may eventually become a new malaria drug if further tests in ani…

 

New material may reveal inner workings of hi-temp superconductors

[NEWS] Contact: Chad Boutin boutin@nist.gov 301-975-4261 National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Measurements taken* at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) may help physicists develop a clearer understanding of high-temperature superconductors, whose behavior remains in many ways mysterious decades after their discovery….

 

Hubble observations of supernova reveal composition of 'star guts' pouring out

[NEWS] Contact: Kevin France Kevin.France@colorado.edu 303-492-1429 University of Colorado at Boulder Observations made with NASA's newly refurbished Hubble Space Telescope of a nearby supernova are allowing astronomers to measure the velocity and composition of “star guts” being ejected into space following the explosion, …

 

Computational Chemistry and Biology Opportunities at D. E. Shaw Research

[JOB] D. E. Shaw Research, New York, NY, United States Computational chemists, biologists, and other computational scientists are sought to join a New York?based research group that is pursuing an ambitious, long-term strategy aimed in part at fundamentally transforming the process of drug discovery.

 

Early Career Scientists and Engineers: Computational Biochemistry Research Group

[JOB] D. E. Shaw Research, New York, NY, United States Extraordinarily gifted early career scientists and engineers are sought to join a New York?based interdisciplinary research group pursuing an ambitious, long-term project aimed in part at fundamentally transforming the process of drug discovery.

 

Mind and Heart: Psychogenic Cardiovascular Disease

[EVENT] September 1 - 4, 2010 in Prato, Tuscany, Italy

 

Compassionate Conservation: Animal Welfare in Conservation Practice

[EVENT] September 1 - 3, 2010 in Oxford, United Kingdom

 

Climate Change: Health and Ecology

[EVENT] September 1 - 3, 2010 in Uppsala, Sweden

 

Climate Change: Health and Ecology

[EVENT] September 1 - 3, 2010 in Uppsala, Sweden

 

'Genetics and Biology of DISC1' 1st International Meeting

[EVENT] September 3 - 6, 2010 in Edinburgh, United Kingdom