Averica Discovery Services and Worcester Polytechnic Institute Establish Research Collaboration

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WORCESTER, Mass., April 29, 2013 /PRNewswire/ --Averica Discovery Services, a contract research organization (CRO) with specialized expertise in small molecule analysis and purification, today announced that it has established a research collaboration with the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI). The open-ended agreement allows the two organizations to share their expertise on a variety of projects.

"WPI's emphasis on real world applications of advanced research fits well with Averica's focus on providing the highest quality analytical services to early stage drug researchers," noted Jeffrey Kiplinger, PhD, president of Averica. "WPI's expertise in solid state chemistry enhances our strengths as we expand our suite of pre-formulation services, and we intend to develop specific research collaborations that will be fruitful for both organizations. In Massachusetts we are fortunate to be located near many world class academic institutions, and we anticipate establishing additional collaborations going forward."

Averica Discovery Services supplies a wide variety of chromatography and analytical services to pharmaceutical, biotechnology and other life sciences researchers. Averica works with its clients to speed lead optimization and early development timelines and it provides highly pure assay material for programs requiring milligram to kilogram quantities.

"One factor that sets WPI apart is our commitment to engaging faculty and students in interdisciplinary projects addressing real world issues," said Arne Gericke, John C. Metzger Professor and head of the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry. "Collaborations with innovative companies such as Averica are invaluable for ensuring that our science remains on the cutting edge, while also enabling us to contribute to their growing success."

Financial details of the collaboration were not disclosed.

About Averica Discovery Services Founded in 2007, Averica Discovery Services is a contract research organization with specialized expertise in small molecule analysis and purification. Averica works with drug discovery and development teams to speed lead optimization and timelines in early development. Its services include scalable compound supply, chiral resolution, pre-formulation and proprietary services such as Targeted Isolation. Averica is located in the heart of the East Coast life sciences corridor, just west of Boston. For more information, visit: http://www.avericadiscovery.com.

About Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) Founded in 1865 in Worcester, Mass., WPI was one of the nation's first engineering and technology universities. Its 14 academic departments offer more than 50 undergraduate and graduate degree programs in science, engineering, technology, business, the social sciences, and the humanities and arts, leading to bachelor's, master's and doctoral degrees. WPI's talented faculty work with students on interdisciplinary research that seeks solutions to important and socially relevant problems in fields as diverse as the life sciences and bioengineering, energy, information security, materials processing, and robotics. Students also have the opportunity to make a difference to communities and organizations around the world through the university's innovative Global Perspective Program. For more information, visit http://www.wpi.edu.

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Dr. Dov Rand Launches New Programs

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WEST ORANGE, N.J., April 29, 2013 /PRNewswire-iReach/ -- Dr. Dov Rand is proud to announce the introduction of multiple new services focused on improving the lives of his patients. Each new procedure and treatment is focused on transforming the health of women and men with diseases related to the aging process. The new procedures are a direct result of Dr. Dov Rand and his colleagues interest in functional medicine.

"Too often, western medicine focuses on the symptom and the symptom only. With functional medicine, we take a look at the patient as a whole. We want to treat the person and not just the problem they're seeking help for," says Dr. Dov Rand .

"We have launched programs specializing in different areas. Our new programs focus on weight loss, Yolo fat burning, and gut health programs. We also introduced programs for dysbiosis and food allergies," adds Dr. Dov Rand. Those were not the only programs introduced to Dr. Dov Rand 's medical office. Other programs recently introduced include bio-identical hormone replacement, vitamin therapy including IV vitamins, and Botox and fillers for facial rejuvenation.

"In all that we do, we focus on functional medicine. At the forefront of our practice is patient centered care. That is why we practice functional medicine. We've seen repeatedly how satisfied patients are with our practice. That is why I have personally received the Patient Recognition Award four consecutive years," says Dr. Dov Rand.

Patients seem to appreciate Dr. Dov Rand 's ability to restore balance to their lives and bodies. Many people notice differences about themselves as they age, and not all those differences are external. Dr. Dov Rand introduced all the new procedures to deal with imbalances or changes both internal and external. "Our treatments do work. I've treated several hundred patients and the results of treatment have been absolutely amazing," says Dr. Dov Rand .

Patients appreciate Dr. Dov Rand's ability to improve how they look and feel. If they want to restore a youthful appearance, they can choose Botox or another facial rejuvenation procedure. If they want to feel better, Dr. Dov Rand can help them determine what treatment they need.

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Transhuman Shoots New Music Video – Metal Underground.com

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Transhuman has checked in with the following update about working on a new album and music video:

"It's been a bit quiet here on the Tranny page recently so this is a quick update with what's happening.

"Yesterday we shot our first music video for one of our brand new tracks 'Our Last Days,' the raw un-edited footage looks great and we're all buzzing about showing you all the final result in a few weeks time.

"Our album is nearing completion, and sounding heavy as hell. The previous releases 'the fall of man' and '[re]creation' have been incorporated into this project and re-mixed/mastered and also re-recorded for the most part, so we will be chucking you a full length album with 16 ball smashing tracks in total as opposed to the 3rd part in the triptych alone.

"Artwork for this is looking amazing so far, we have a tasty new logo to boot and you will be able to buy the album in July as pretty epic looking digipak.

"There is an album launch party being planned as I write this where we'll be debuting some new un-heard tracks. Basically, everything right now in Tranny land is exciting as hell and we can't wait to show you."

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Clarifying the effect of stem cell therapy on cancer

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Apr. 28, 2013 Injection of human stem cells into mice with tumors slowed down tumor growth, finds research published in BioMed Central's open access journal Stem Cell Research & Therapy. Human mesenchymal stem cells (MSC), isolated from bone marrow, caused changes in blood vessels supplying the tumor, and it is this modification of blood supply which seems to impact tumor growth.

The use of stem cells in treating cancer has been controversial, with some studies finding that stem cells force tumors to enter programmed cell death. However other studies find that stem cells actually promote tumor growth by inducing infiltration of new blood vessels. In attempting to sort out this puzzle researchers from INSERM groups at Universit Joseph Fourier in collaboration with CHU de Grenoble investigated the impact of MSC on already established subcutaneous or lung metastasis in mice.

For both the subcutaneous and lung tumors, injection of MSC reduced cell division, consequently slowing the rate of tumor growth. Part of the mode of action of stem cells therefore appears to be due to with angiogenesis, but the mechanism behind this is still unclear.

Claire Rome who led this study explained, "We found that MSC altered vasculature inside the tumor -- although new blood vessels were generated, overall they were longer and fewer than in untreated tumors. This could be restricting the oxygen and nutrients to the tumor, limiting cell division." She continued, "Our study confirms others which propose that stem cells, in particular MSC, might be one way forwards in treating cancer."

Commenting on this study Celia Gomes, from the University of Coimbra, said, "One of the interesting questions this study raises is when MSC promote tumor growth and when they restrict it. The answer seems to be timing -- this study looks at already established tumors, while others, which find that MSC increase growth, tend to be investigating new tumors. This is a first step in the path to identifying exactly which patients might benefit from stem cell therapy and who will not."

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Boston suspect's mother found deeper spirituality

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Boston:In photos of her as a younger woman, Zubeidat Tsarnaeva wears a low-cut blouse and has her hair teased like a 1980s rock star. After she arrived in the US from Russia in 2002, she went to beauty school and did facials at a suburban day spa.

But in recent years, people noticed a change. She began wearing a hijab and cited conspiracy theories about 9/11 being a plot against Muslims.

Now known as the angry and grieving mother of the Boston Marathon bombing suspects, Tsarnaeva is drawing increased attention after federal officials say Russian authorities intercepted her phone calls, including one in which she vaguely discussed jihad with her elder son. In another, she was recorded talking to someone in southern Russia who is under FBI investigation in an unrelated case, US officials said.

Tsarnaeva insists there is no mystery. She's no terrorist, just someone who found a deeper spirituality. She insists her sons - Tamerlan, who was killed in a gunfight with police, and Dzhokhar, who was wounded and captured - are innocent.

"It's all lies and hypocrisy," she told The Associated Press in Dagestan. "I'm sick and tired of all this nonsense that they make up about me and my children. People know me as a regular person, and I've never been mixed up in any criminal intentions, especially any linked to terrorism."

Amid the scrutiny, Tsarnaeva and her ex-husband, Anzor Tsarnaev, say they have put off the idea of any trip to the US to reclaim their elder son's body or try to visit Dzhokhar in jail. Tsarnaev told the AP on Sunday he was too ill to travel to the US Tsarnaeva faces a 2012 shoplifting charge in a Boston suburb, though it was unclear whether that was a deterrent.

At a news conference in Dagestan with Anzor last week, Tsarnaeva appeared overwhelmed with grief one moment, defiant the next. "They already are talking about that we are terrorists, I am terrorist," she said. "They already want me, him and all of us to look (like) terrorists."

Tsarnaeva arrived in the US in 2002, settling in a working-class section of Cambridge, Mass. With four children, Anzor and Zubeidat qualified for food stamps and were on and off public assistance benefits for years. The large family squeezed itself into a third-floor apartment.

Zubeidat took classes at the Catherine Hinds Institute of Esthetics, before becoming a state-licensed aesthetician. Anzor, who had studied law, fixed cars.

By some accounts, the family was tolerant.

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Mother of Bomb Suspects Found Deeper Spirituality

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In photos of her as a younger woman, Zubeidat Tsarnaeva wears a low-cut blouse and has her hair teased like a 1980s rock star. After she arrived in the U.S. from Russia in 2002, she went to beauty school and did facials at a suburban day spa.

But in recent years, people noticed a change. She began wearing a hijab and cited conspiracy theories about 9/11 being a plot against Muslims.

Now known as the angry and grieving mother of the Boston Marathon bombing suspects, Tsarnaeva is drawing increased attention after federal officials say Russian authorities intercepted her phone calls, including one in which she vaguely discussed jihad with her elder son. In another, she was recorded talking to someone in southern Russia who is under FBI investigation in an unrelated case, U.S. officials said.

Tsarnaeva insists there is no mystery. She's no terrorist, just someone who found a deeper spirituality. She insists her sons Tamerlan, who was killed in a gunfight with police, and Dzhokhar, who was wounded and captured are innocent.

"It's all lies and hypocrisy," she told The Associated Press in Dagestan. "I'm sick and tired of all this nonsense that they make up about me and my children. People know me as a regular person, and I've never been mixed up in any criminal intentions, especially any linked to terrorism."

Amid the scrutiny, Tsarnaeva and her ex-husband, Anzor Tsarnaev, say they have put off the idea of any trip to the U.S. to reclaim their elder son's body or try to visit Dzhokhar in jail. Tsarnaev told the AP on Sunday he was too ill to travel to the U.S. Tsarnaeva faces a 2012 shoplifting charge in a Boston suburb, though it was unclear whether that was a deterrent.

At a news conference in Dagestan with Anzor last week, Tsarnaeva appeared overwhelmed with grief one moment, defiant the next. "They already are talking about that we are terrorists, I am terrorist," she said. "They already want me, him and all of us to look (like) terrorists."

Tsarnaeva arrived in the U.S. in 2002, settling in a working-class section of Cambridge, Mass. With four children, Anzor and Zubeidat qualified for food stamps and were on and off public assistance benefits for years. The large family squeezed itself into a third-floor apartment.

Zubeidat took classes at the Catherine Hinds Institute of Esthetics, before becoming a state-licensed aesthetician. Anzor, who had studied law, fixed cars.

By some accounts, the family was tolerant.

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Mother of Boston bombing suspects found spirituality five years ago

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BOSTONIn photos of her as a younger woman, Zubeidat Tsarnaeva wears a low-cut blouse and has her hair teased like a 1980s rock star. After she arrived in the U.S. from Russia in 2002, she went to beauty school and did facials at a day spa.

But in recent years, people noticed a change. She began wearing a hijab and cited conspiracy theories about 9/11 being a plot against Muslims.

Now known as the angry and grieving mother of the Boston bombing suspects, Tsarnaeva is drawing increased attention after federal officials say Russian authorities intercepted her phone calls, including one in which she vaguely discussed jihad with her elder son. In another, she was recorded talking to someone in Russia who is under

Tsarnaeva insists there is no mystery. She's no terrorist, just someone who found a deeper spirituality. She insists her sons Tamerlan, who was killed in a gunfight with police, and Dzhokhar, who was wounded and captured are innocent.

"It's all lies and hypocrisy," she said in Dagestan. "I'm sick and tired of all this nonsense that they make up about me and my children. People know me as a regular person, and I've never been mixed up in any criminal intentions, especially any linked to terrorism."

Amid the scrutiny, Tsarnaeva and her ex-husband, Anzor Tsarnaev, say they have put off the idea of any trip to the U.S. to reclaim their elder son's body or try to visit Dzhokhar in jail. Tsarnaev told the AP on Sunday he was too ill to travel to the U.S. Tsarnaeva faces a 2012 shoplifting charge in a Boston suburb, though it was unclear whether that was a deterrent.

Tsarnaeva arrived in the U.S. in 2002, settling in a working-class section of Cambridge, Mass. With four children, Anzor and Zubeidat qualified for food stamps and were on and off public assistance benefits for years.

Zubeidat took classes at the Catherine Hinds Institute of Esthetics before becoming a state-licensed aesthetician. Anzor, who had studied law, fixed cars. By some accounts, the family was tolerant.

Bethany Smith, a New Yorker who befriended Zubeidat's two daughters, said in an interview with Newsday that when she stayed with the family for a month in 2008 while she looked at colleges, she was welcomed even though she was Christian.

"I had nothing but love over there. They accepted me for who I was," Smith told the newspaper. "Their mother, Zubeidat, she considered me to be a part of the family."

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Damaged cargo ship docks with space station

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A damaged Russian cargo ship successfully docked with the International Space Station today, delivering 3.1 tons of food, fuel and equipment.

Soon after the crew-less ISS Progress 51 cargo craft launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on Wednesday, one of two antennas needed for navigation and docking failed to deploy. Despite the glitch, the spacecraft was able to maneuver close enough to the space station so a robotic system could grab it and attach it to the side.

The spacecraft was grabbed at 8:25 a.m. EDT and hard docked at 8:34 a.m..

NASA reported that after conducting leak checks at the docking site, the Expedition 35 crew members working aboard the space station opened the hatches to the spacecraft at 11:39 a.m. and began the process of inventorying and unloading its cargo.

The craft ferried 1,764 pounds of propellant, 48 pounds of oxygen, 57 pounds of air, 926 pounds of water and 3,483 pounds of spare parts, experiment hardware and other supplies for the space station.

NASA has been depending largely on the Russian space agency to ferry cargo and astronauts to the International Space Station since the U.S. space agency retired its shuttle fleet in 2011.

NASA has also turned to partnerships with commercial space enterprises to bring supplies to the space station.

Last month, for instance, the SpaceX Dragon capsule made its second successful resupply mission to the space station. The private space transport company has contracts for a total of 12 resupply missions.

Another commercial space flight company is also working to undertake resupply missions.

Orbital Science Corp. successfully launched its Antares rocket in a maiden test flight. Carrying the equivalent mass of a spacecraft, the rocket delivered its payload into Earth orbit.

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