Journalists can register now for ECCO 14 -- the European Cancer Conference
...fax, photocopying and free international phone and internet connections will be available. Registration and hotel accommodation - media only ECCO 14 is open to bona fide representatives of print and electronic media and healthcare media. For further details, visit the ECCO 14 section of the FECS websit...Effective new biodiversity data access portal
Paris, 2 July A new internet tool ( http://data.gbif.org ) was launched today by the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF). The launch event took place at an international meeting for scientific and technical advice to the Parties to the Convention on Biological Divers...CSHL awarded Pre-College Science Education Grant by HHMI
...ll have access to a specially developed Lab Center internet site. As one of only 31 pre-college grants awarded by HHMI, CSHLs program will have a major impact on area science education and how research institutions and local schools can work together to increase science education opportunities. The Pre-co...Ocean observing contracts awarded to UC San Diego and University of Washington
...ed engineering specifications to extend high-speed internet throughout the deep oceans. This underwater research facility will be the worlds first robot-sensor network to span a tectonic plate. "Today we are taking an important first step in fulfilling the vision that John Delaney and his many colleagues a...2007 Communicator Award goes to glaciologists from Bremerhaven
...ne researchers also discovered and made use of the internet as a way of reaching a broad audience with their findings and also used DVDs and other new media even in the field of art with their aesthetic and high-tech video installations, which they used to spread the word. The glaciologists have been in grea...Antarctic research within the International Polar Year IPY 2007/08
... A live audio stream of PALAOA can be found on the internet at www.awi.de/acoustics . Diverse life in the ...rnational Polar Year 2007/2008 can be found on the internet at www.polarjahr.de ....Invitrogen features new scientific online resources at ASCB Meeting
...ine scientific efforts are at the forefront of the internet revolution, taking advantage of the most effective medium for promoting best practices in research." Invitrogen also announced the launch of its Premo cameleon calcium sensor, which will provide advantages in imaging applications as well as in compo...18th EORTC -- NCI -- AACR Symposium
... with free computing, fax, international phone and internet facilities Two news briefings [12.30 hrs CET: Wednesday 8 November & Thursday 9 November] Topics at the news briefing or to be press-released include: MEK inhibitor produces stable disease in advanced solid cancers; phase II trials started ...EURYI to showcase the future of European science in Prague
...f EURYI is currently accepting applications. (with internet link ) The list of this year's awardees includes researchers who will be based in 11 countries Denmark (2), Finland (1), France (5), Germany (4), Greece (1), Hungary (1), Italy (2), the Netherlands (5), Spain (1), Sweden (2) and Switzerland (1). A...New tool for biology students teaches biosecurity awareness by example
... the Federation of American Scientists launched an internet based tool to illustrate the experience of scientists who have dealt with "dual use" scientific research. "Scientists don't generally think about terrorists using their work to attack the nation, but as technology and the pace of research advances...Developing countries take the lead in a global program to catalogue human mutations
...ations, making it rapidly available to anyone with internet access. In Delhi, Samir Brahmachari, the director of the Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology, has mobilised his country's richest resourcepeople. "In this respect India and the developing world are resource rich," said Brahmachari. ...Proteins linked to cancer prevention in humans affect aging in worms
...g his screening. "I typed the DNA sequence into an internet database, and up came this gene we had never heard of or ever imagined would be involved in lifespan determination," said Olsen. The scientist identified two other survival-controlling checkpoint proteins which are also included in the study. Olsen's...Webcast: Islam and Bioethics Conference
...n State will be available. Anyone with high-speed internet access may view the conference proceedings and type in questions for presenters. Selected questions will be read out by the moderator of the session. Recordings will be maintained on this Web site for future viewing as well. The conference is attrac...Troubling times for embryo gene tests
...edical" hometesting kits sold to families over the internet (see "Gender tests for sale on the web"). This expansion is being driven both by a rapid growth in the number of genes discovered and advances in the technologies available to detect them. Some genetic responsibility advocacy groups now wonder how wi...Scientist warns of threat to last stronghold of endangered turtle
...hem with satellite trackers the team are using the internet to follow their journeys, which are among the longest in the animal kingdom. Dr Brendan Godley, of the University of Exeter, said: "Pacific leatherbacks have been decimated by incidental capture at sea and overexploitation so it's vital that we prot...MBL scientists to present research at 2006 Ocean Sciences Meeting
...nections between information about microbes on the internet - example of micro*scope Type of Presentation: Poster Time & Location: Monday, February 20, 4:30 pm, Hawaii Convention Center, Hall 3 Topic: Micro*scope ( http://microscope.mbl.edu ) is a communal web environment that has been designed to improve co...... had the idea of evaluating data from a popular US internet game in which participants can register a dollar b...ysicists analysed the data from a US bill-tracking internet game. The idea of the game is simple: a large number of banknotes is marked and brought into circula...The Curitiba Virtual Biodiversity Conference
...rst ever "mega" consultation process that utilizes internet communication technology to seek views and provide a framework for an electronic debate of the civil society prior to a meeting of a Conference of the Parties of the Convention on Biological Diversity. Through the CBD Clearing House as well as elec...Micro-gyroscopes can detect cancer
...formation such as a hospital computer network, the internet or a mobile phone.' Initial research was funded by the LINK Analytical Biotechnology Initiative, sponsored by the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) and the Department of Trade and Industry. The technology could eventually...Grants will give developing world access to scientific research
...s to Research in the Environment (OARE). A digital internet library for developing countries, OARE, will provi...world. Yale will create software for OARE's secure internet portal, organize and update its database of scientific literature, recruit publishers to the consort...