Gladstone Institutes rank high in the scientist survey of best places for postdocs
...ining experience, access to research equipment and library resources, and a good mentoring relationship as the key ingredients for a great workplace. Twelve of the 15 top-ranked institutions, including the Gladstone, have a postdoctoral office, association, or advisor to help raise awareness of postdocs' nee...Cogtest and NetMet join forces
...ognitive tests and batteries forming an unequalled library of tests for discovering drug effects and providing assessments optimized for specific compounds and patient groups. The full spectrum of cognitive drug development services provided by the two companies includes trial design and planning clinical d...ESA service makes customised maps available to African aid workers
...here is no detailed map of the Congo in the office library and it is too costly and too long to order a special reproduction of a new map when the team has no idea of the seriousness of the crisis. The need is for something quick and simple. These issues are often faced by relief organisations and the pre...NIAID launches influenza genome sequencing project
...itize, select and obtain strains so we can offer a library of viral sequences that will be critically important to the scientific community."...New tool reveals molecular signature of cancer and HIV
...valent of searching for a single typo in an entire library of books. Preliminary studies in a small number of cell lines and body fluids show the ultra-sensitive test may help detect microscopic cancer and HIV drug resistance. "Other molecular tests make it very difficult to locate a mutation in a particular...Cogtest plc seals deal with Lundbeck: Cogtest battery for use in multinational schizophrenia trial
...l ability. These are domains unique to the Cogtest library of tests. Referring to Cogtest's expert consulting service, Lundbeck's Head of Clinical Psychosis, Dr Raimund Buller said: "Cogtest have been very helpful, responsive to our needs, and have done a great job in refining the study design and protoco...Drug to fight virus in transplant patients moves forward in trials
...ew anticancer drugs. Townsend agreed to peruse his library of anticancer compounds so Drach could test them for potential effectiveness against CMV. Chemotherapy drugs work by killing cells and the scientists hoped that if Townsend's compounds had not been effective in killing cancerous cells, maybe they wou...Gaining health while giving back to the community
... children improve their reading skills, to support library operations and help pick out books and read, to solve problems and play cooperatively. A small stipend of $150 to $200 a month was offered to the volunteers to reimburse for expenses. Volunteers signed up for "generative," not health-related reason...NHGRI launches Social and Behavioral Research Branch
...ertise, visiting scholars and trainees, and common library and meeting space. Third, it gives an identity and high visibility to social and behavioral research within the NIH intramural research program. And finally, it allows for interdisciplinary and cross-institute training and career development for intr...DuPont-led scientists unveil key nanotechnology discovery with use of DNA
...and anion-exchange chromatography. By screening a library of oligonucleotides, the team found that a particular sequence of single stranded DNA self-assembles into a helical structure around individual carbon nanotubes. Since carbon nanotube-DNA hybrids have different electrostatic properties that depend o...ACP publishes 'Medical Meanings,' second edition
...ew of the first edition said, "[I]t belongs in the library of everyone, whether medically oriented or not, who savors the romance of language and the fertile interplay of thought, word, and deed." (JAMA) Dr. Haubrich is a clinical professor of medicine at the University of California at San Diego and senior ...UCSD researchers ID peptides that bind to Alzheimer's plaques
...identify the two peptide sequences from a starting library of 50 million peptide sequences. These peptides were engineered to be exposed on the surface of bacteria by infecting the bacteria with bacteriophage (a bacterial virus). The peptide-expressing bacteria were then used to select for peptide sequences...UC Davis physicians use high-tech virtual system
...cialists throughout the country. Working with this library of real cases, physicians learn to select and use catheters, balloons, stents and other equipment, just as they would in a real catheterization lab. The post-procedure briefing provides the user with an assessment of how he or she performed during th...Chemical turns stem cells into neurons say scientists at Scripps Research Institute
...mall molecules from a combinatorial small molecule library that they synthesized at GNF. Just as a common library is filled with different books, this combinatorial library is filled with different small organic co...Rutgers wins funds to create online index of moving brain images
...ers project is headed by Paul Kantor, professor of library and information studies science at Rutgers' School of Communication, Information and Library Studies (SCILS) in New Brunswick and Stephen Hanson, associate professor of psychology and co-director of the Advanced Imaging Center at Rutgers-Newark. To ...New information scheme reassures patients
...r socio-cultural background. Each PIS comprises a library with booklets, videos and essential information ab...ime, we have shown that it is possible to create a library for information and support for cancer patients in oncology units, managed by an oncology nurse belo...... its curves and creases. The grid is compared to a library of idealized faces and one is chosen. Upon this grid, the wavelet mathematics and differential geometric calculations go to work in measuring the nose, cheeks, eye sockets and calculating the difficulty in making changes as well as the global effect...Temple and Fox Chase developing interactive program to assist prostate cancer patients
... will answer. They'll be able to go to a virtual library and read about things or find Web sites where they can go and get additional information." Butz says right now a patient can access information about prostrate cancer via the Internet, "but it's like a big dump truck coming in and unloading all the i...Nations only National Healthcare Outreach Mapping Center established
...urces andeducation technology, also is director of library and information resources, professor of knowledge ...s throughout Indiana and is a designated resource library in the National Network of Libraries of Medicine. The Polis Center is the leader of the North Ameri......ccess the site, whether from home, office, a local library or an internet caf," said Dr McPherson, medical director of DIPEx. "We believe that DIPEx is a unique resource and the first of its kind in Europe. Our experience so far tells us there is a massive unmet need for this sort of service." The DIPEx te...