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Universal Detection Technology to commence marketing of passive zone security sensor

Universal Detection Technology, a developer of early-warning monitoring technologies to protect people from bioterrorism and other infectious health threats and provider of counter-terrorism consulting and training services, reported today test results for its passive zone security sensor, developed through its partnership with Precision Sensors Instrumentation (PSI), a leading developer of security sensors.

19 Feb 2010

Kinesin protein motor shuttles cargo within cells and helps cells divide by rocking like a seesaw

Life's smallest motor, a protein that shuttles cargo within cells and helps cells divide, does so by rocking up and down like a seesaw, according to research conducted by scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and Brandeis University.

19 Feb 2010

GenVec announces new contract with DHS to develop adenovector-based vaccines against FMD

Today GenVec, Inc. announced a new contract with the Department of Homeland Security to continue the development of adenovector-based vaccines against foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) based on research and development done in collaboration with USDA-ARS and DHS S&T scientists at the Plum Island Animal Disease Center.

19 Feb 2010

Traditional gauges of economic activity overstate standard of living, say researchers

Traditional gauges of economic activity severely overstate the standard of living as experienced on 'Main Street,' say University of Maryland researchers, who have worked with their state officials to apply a more accurate and greener index.

19 Feb 2010

Rib-X Pharmaceuticals co-founder discovers new ribosomal structures of antibiotics

Rib-X Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a development-stage antibiotics company with a broad product pipeline based on its innovative discovery platform, and Yale University today announced the discovery by Thomas Steitz, Ph.D., co-founder of Rib-X and Yale University professor, of important new ribosomal structures of antibiotics, enabling the potential creation of novel treatments for drug resistant infections, including resistant tuberculosis (TB).

19 Feb 2010

Major challenge facing today's toxicologists: Developing test systems to predict toxicity of compounds

Attagene Inc., a leader in developing innovative technologies for analyzing gene regulatory pathways, announced today the online publication of a paper in Chemical Research in Toxicology, a journal of the American Chemical Society, that highlights results of their collaborative work with the Environmental Protection Agency's National Center for Computational Toxicology (NCCT).

19 Feb 2010

Low-cost lab-on-a-chip diagnostic tests become attractive area of research

Scientists in Australia are reporting the first use of ordinary cotton thread and sewing needles to literally stitch together a microfluidic analytical device - microscopic technology that can transport fluids for medical tests and other purposes in a lab-on-a-chip.

19 Feb 2010

Dicom Systems to unveil latest addition to DCMSYS product family at 2010 HIMSS Conference & Exhibition

Dicom Systems have revealed that they will be unveiling the latest addition to the DCMSYS product family at the upcoming 2010 Annual HIMSS (Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society) Conference & Exhibition. This industry-driven conference is being held at the Georgia World Congress Center in Atlanta, GA, between March 1-4.

19 Feb 2010

Micro Imaging Technology becomes Micro Identification Technologies

Micro Imaging Technology, Inc. today announced that it has changed is company name to Micro Identification Technologies to better reflect the extensive capabilities of its ID technology software.

19 Feb 2010

Embrella Embolic Deflector device highlighted during JIM 2010 meeting in Rome

Embrella Cardiovascular™, Inc., a privately held company announced that the Embrella Embolic Deflector™ device was highlighted during a live case transmission last week at the Joint Interventional Meeting (JIM) in Rome, Italy.

19 Feb 2010

SSHS selects Eclipsys’ Sunrise Enterprise suite of solutions for integrating EHR across multiple care venues

Eclipsys Corporation®, The Outcomes Company®, today announced that Sound Shore Health System (SSHS) will undergo an accelerated activation of Eclipsys’ Sunrise Enterprise™ integrated suite of solutions at both its Sound Shore Medical Center of Westchester (New Rochelle, NY) and Mount Vernon Hospital (Mount Vernon, NY) facilities.

19 Feb 2010

Most genetic abnormalities shared across multiple cancers

An international team of researchers has created a genome-scale map of 26 different cancers, revealing more than 100 genomic sites where DNA from tumors is either missing or abnormally duplicated compared to normal tissues. The study, the largest of its kind, finds that most of these genetic abnormalities are not unique to one form of cancer, but are shared across multiple cancers. The work appears in the February 18 issue of the journal Nature.

19 Feb 2010

Study analyzes genome and exome sequence data from hunter-gatherer participants of South Africa

In a study published online today in Nature, a team of researchers from Penn State University and the University New South Wales present the complete genome sequences of an indigenous hunter-gatherer from the Kalahari Desert and a Bantu from southern Africa, along with three additional whole exome sequences of Kalahari hunter-gatherers.

19 Feb 2010

PharmaTelevision launches major new services to meet growing demands of pharmaceutical industry

PharmaTelevision Ltd announced today the launch of major new services to meet the growing demand for the production and dissemination of rich media content in the pharmaceutical and biotechnology sector. The company, a subsidiary of PharmaVentures, already provides the only online television channel dedicated to the bio-pharma industry, offering daily television news, analysis and feature interviews.

19 Feb 2010

Landmark collaboration to launch largest study of breast cancer in Latin American women

The largest study ever of breast cancer in Latin American women is being launched this year in a unique multi-country, public/private partnership with $1 million in additional funding from the world’s largest breast cancer organization, Susan G. Komen for the Cure®.

19 Feb 2010

MetLife Mature Market Institute provides history of generations born since early 1900s

A series of publications from the MetLife Mature Market Institute provide a history of the generations born since the early 1900s. There are almost as many members of Gen Y (born 1977-1994) in the U.S. in comparison to the largest group, the Baby Boomers.

19 Feb 2010

DSM Pharmaceutical Products wins Profiles in Sustainability award

DSM Pharmaceutical Products, based in Parsippany, NJ, today announced that it has received a Profiles in Sustainability award from United Business Media and ICIS Chemical Business. United Business Media Limited is a leading global business media company and parent of InformexUSA, where the award was announced today in San Francisco.

19 Feb 2010

Researchers develop new technique to automatically control anaesthesia during surgical operations

A team of researchers from the Canary Islands has developed a technique for automatically controlling anaesthesia during surgical operations. The new system detects the hypnotic state of the patient at all times and supplies the most appropriate dose of anaesthetic.

19 Feb 2010

USPTO grants SPO Medical innovative baby heart rate monitoring patent

SPO Medical Inc., a leading developer of biosensor and microprocessor technologies for use in portable monitoring devices, today announced it has been granted a new and innovative baby monitoring patent relating to a non-invasive device or system for monitoring and measuring the heart rate of a baby to activate an alarm when the level falls outside a predetermined range.

19 Feb 2010

AGNITY Healthcare launched to improve mobile healthcare solutions

AGNITY, Inc., a leading provider of applications, solutions and services to mobile and fixed line service providers and enterprises, announced today that the company has launched AGNITY Healthcare, a new division focused on applications and services that harness the power of mobility and the Internet to improve access to and enhance the quality of healthcare.

19 Feb 2010

Technology News and Research

Universal Detection Technology to commence marketing of passive zone security sensor

Kinesin protein motor shuttles cargo within cells and helps cells divide by rocking like a seesaw

GenVec announces new contract with DHS to develop adenovector-based vaccines against FMD

Traditional gauges of economic activity overstate standard of living, say researchers

Rib-X Pharmaceuticals co-founder discovers new ribosomal structures of antibiotics

Major challenge facing today's toxicologists: Developing test systems to predict toxicity of compounds

Low-cost lab-on-a-chip diagnostic tests become attractive area of research

Dicom Systems to unveil latest addition to DCMSYS product family at 2010 HIMSS Conference & Exhibition

Micro Imaging Technology becomes Micro Identification Technologies

Embrella Embolic Deflector device highlighted during JIM 2010 meeting in Rome

SSHS selects Eclipsys’ Sunrise Enterprise suite of solutions for integrating EHR across multiple care venues

Most genetic abnormalities shared across multiple cancers

Study analyzes genome and exome sequence data from hunter-gatherer participants of South Africa

PharmaTelevision launches major new services to meet growing demands of pharmaceutical industry

Landmark collaboration to launch largest study of breast cancer in Latin American women

MetLife Mature Market Institute provides history of generations born since early 1900s

DSM Pharmaceutical Products wins Profiles in Sustainability award

Researchers develop new technique to automatically control anaesthesia during surgical operations

USPTO grants SPO Medical innovative baby heart rate monitoring patent

AGNITY Healthcare launched to improve mobile healthcare solutions

Evaluating new approaches for rare disease genomics

Expanding access to NMR with the Fourier 80 Duo

Advancing Intracellular Delivery with LumiPore®

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