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...ology User Center. The new instrument, which is on loan for two years, allows nano-scratch testing, surface feature imaging and dynamic elastic modulus mapping. Sub-micron-scale information gained from tests performed in Blau's lab at the High Temperature Materials Laboratory is critical to developers of ...'Hobbit' fossil likely represents new branch on human family tree
...cientists scanned brain cases in several skulls on loan from the Cleveland Museum of Natural History and the American Museum of Natural History. As they did with the Hobbit data, scientists then used the scanning results to produce virtual endocasts--three dimensional computerized representations of likel...NIH offers $35,000 in annual student loan repayment
...y (federal, state, or local), and have educational loan debt equal to or exceeding 20 percent of their ins...benefited from more than $225 million disbursed in loan repayment support. Through these programs, the NIH has opened doors for many young scientists to la......f the acquisition and provided Ossur with a bridge loan facility. An equity offering is planned to take pl...ring the first half of 2007 to take out the bridge loan facility and to finance future acquisitions. Update on Ossur operational outlook 2006 Overall sa...