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SLC2A9 Is A High-Capacity Urate Transporter In Humans, Discovered By Researchers
Published October 7, 2008, 12:08 pm, Medical News Today
An international team of researchers led by Professors Mark Caulfield and Patricia Munroe, from the William Harvey Research Institute at Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry with Chris Cheeseman at the University of Alberta in Canada and Kelle Moley at the University of Washington in
AMPAKINE Compound, CX717, Achieves Primary Endpoints In Second Phase IIa Respiratory Depression Study In Germany
Published October 7, 2008, 12:07 pm, Medical News Today
Cortex Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NYSE Alternext US (COR)) reported that top-line data from its second Phase IIa study in opioid-induced respiratory depression (RD) demonstrated that a single oral dose of 1500mg of the AMPAKINE® compound CX717 achieved statistical significance (p = 0.
Update: The Lilly TB Drug Discovery Initiative Begins Work on New Compounds to Fill Early-Stage TB Drug Pipeline
Published October 7, 2008, 9:50 am, PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance
The Lilly TB Drug Discovery Initiative today announced its first acquisition of compounds for further development into tuberculosis drug candidates. Agreements were reached with Summit plc of Oxfordshire, UK, and the Microbial Chemistry Research Foundation of Tokyo for two compounds that have shown potential in initial testing.
Litigation and Arbitration
Published October 7, 2008, 9:33 am, Mondaq
Global warming has been called "the Ultimate Public Nuisance" (see Environmental Law Institute's Creative Common Law Strategies for Protecting the Environment, Chapter 5, 107), and the plaintiffs' bar has described climate change litigation as "the next big tobacco" in terms of the litigation model it may use to pursue claims against those allegedly responsible.
Air Pollution May Increase Risk Of Appendicitis
Published October 7, 2008, 9:28 am, PollutionOnline
Could there be a link between high levels of air pollution and the risk of appendicitis? New research presented at the 73rd Annual Scientific Meeting of the American College of Gastroenterology in Orlando, suggests a novel connection.
Discovery Education and 3M Announce America's Top Young Scientist and Top Science Teacher
Published October 7, 2008, 8:27 am, PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance
Discovery Education and 3M today announced "America's Top Young Scientist" and "America's Top Science Teacher" -- winners of the 2008 Discovery Education 3M Young Scientist Challenge .
Biovest Announces BiovaxID(R) Anti-Cancer Vaccine Prolongs Cancer-Free Survival by 44%
Published October 7, 2008, 8:15 am, Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance
TAMPA, Fla.----Biovest International, Inc. , a majority-owned subsidiary of Accentia Biopharmaceuticals, Inc. , today provided an update on its personalized, anti-cancer vaccine, BiovaxID®, including reporting clinically and statistically significant data from its randomized controlled pivotal Phase 3 Fast-Tracked clinical trial for the treatment of indolent follicular non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, ...
Air Pollution May Increase Risk Of Appendicitis
Published October 7, 2008, 7:09 am, Medical News Today
Researchers offer provocative new theory for common cause of surgery Could there be a link between high levels of air pollution and the risk of appendicitis? New research presented at the 73rd Annual Scientific Meeting of the American College of Gastroenterology in Orlando, suggests a novel connection.
Particle Physicists Share the Physics Nobel
Published October 7, 2008, 6:57 am, Slashdot
somegeekynick writes "The 2008 Nobel Prize in Physics has been jointly awarded to Yoichiro Nambu of the University of Chicago 'for the discovery of the mechanism of spontaneous broken symmetry in subatomic physics,' and Makoto Kobayashi of the KEK lab and Toshihide Maskawa of the Yukawa Institute for Theoretical Physics, both in Japan, 'for the discovery of the origin of the broken symmetry ...
Nigeria: How to Attain Vision 2020 Goal, By Rights Advocates
Published October 7, 2008, 5:11 am, AllAfrica.com
President Umar Yar'Adua's vision for a better Nigeria is encapsulated in his seven-point agenda.
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- Oil Gas Market Price Analyser: ?When economy is bad, should reduce interest rates,; but ...? The correspondence of the policy authorities when economy worsened has two ways of following methods. ? ?A rose sprinkles money and stimulates direct economy ? ?I can give you incentive to spend money by I reduce interest rates, and lowering the value of the money "A fiscal policy", the latter are called "financia l policy" in the former, and, as for the former, "a central bank" takes the role on the latter "the government&quo t;.
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Sat Oct 4
- The Leptin Mechanism Explained: In 1994, scientists discovered communication between fat cells and your brain. A messaging hormone called leptin that is manufactured by every fat cell in your body and tells your brain when you have had enough to eat. It also serves as a sort of ?on off switch? for fat cells - a switch that determines whether cells will store fat or burn fat.
- Unpacking Social Mechanisms: subtitle - Comparing Social Constructivism and Organization Theory Perspectives. author - Jarle Trondal. ARENA Working papers
- Peter Hedström, Sociology that really matters (to me): online discussion with hedstrom 29/06/2007
Fri Oct 3
- Online auction "game" exploits cognitive blindspots to make you overspend - Boing Boing: Scarily, I actually have friends whom I couldn't talk out of the "subtle complexity&quo t; inherent in this form of auction. Here's a fascinating analysis of the mechanics of Swoop, an online auction game (they call it "entertai nment shopping" ) (!) that's designed to be a Skinner box for separating you from your money while confounding your judgement.
Thu Oct 2
- YouTube - Simulation CGI of Theo Jansen 's Mechanism
- Mechanical engineering articles about Machinery & mechanisms
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