At Mt. Wilson, Caltech and elsewhere, astronomy enthusiasts and the curious watch with reverence and resignation as Venus crosses the face of the sun for the last time this century. Across Southern California, sky watchers assembled Tuesday afternoon for a chance to view the last-in-a-lifetime transit of Venus.
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For those of us in the US and Europe, Venus has completed its transit across the sun. If you missed it, too bad: it won't happen again for another 115 years.
The transit has huge historical importance, as in the past it's what enabled us to calculate our distance from the sun. This image, courtesy of NASA, shows the planet completing its transit last night, just before it moved far enough to stop casting a silhouette. Goodbye, Venus!
If you missed it, don't worry too much: thousands of talented photographers around the world have been recording the event, and we'll bring you some of the best images before too long. [NASA]
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The last Venus Transit for 105 years is happening in a few minutes as I write this it goes from roughly 22:00 June 5 to 05:00 June 6 UTC (check your local listings).
Fraser Cain, Nicole Gugliucci, Pamela Gay, and I are hosting a live video chat of the transit with many amateur astronomers across the world! I am embedding it below:
If you want to participate in the chat room, you need to 1) be signed up for Google+, b) circle Fraser Cain, and ) go to the live video chat post.
[UPDATE (21:55 UTC): First view of Venus silhouetted against the Sun's corona are coming in!
This shot is in the far-ultraviolet, where the Sun's thin atmosphere, called the corona, glows. You can see the Sun on the right, and Venus -- which is dark in the UV -- is the dark circle on the left. Amazing. Credit: NASA/SDO]
For more info, you can read my lengthy post with a ton of info, or watch my interview with Cara Santa Maria on the Huffington Post. I also have a nifty video made up of images taken of the 1882 transit, too!
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Venus will cross the face of the sun for the last time until 2117. Here's what it will look like.
Today's historic Venus transit is a marathon event lasting nearly seven hours, but skywatchers who don't have that kind of time can break it down into a handful of key milestones.
Venus treks across the sun's face from Earth's perspective today (June 5; June 6 in much of the Eastern Hemisphere), marking the last suchVenus transituntil 2117. Few people alive today will be around to see the next transit, which makes the rare celestial sight a premier event in the astronomical and skywatching communities.
The Venus-sun show will begin around 6 p.m. EDT (2200 GMT) and end at roughly 12:50 a.m. EDT (0450 GMT) Wednesday, with the exact timing varying by a few minutes from point to point around the globe.
Before you even attempt to observe the transit of Venus, a warning:NEVERstare at the sun through binoculars orsmall telescopesor with the unaided eye without the proper safety equipment. Doing so can result in serious and permanent eye damage, including blindness.
Astronomers use special solar filters on telescopes to view the sun safely, while No. 14 welder's glass and eclipse glasses can be used to observe the sun directly. [How to Safely Photograph the Venus Transit]
With that warning stated, here's a look at the first major stage of thetransit of Venus.
The transit officially commences when the leading edge ofVenusfirst touches the solar disk, an event astronomers call "Contact I" or "ingress exterior." This milestone occurs at 6:03 p.m. EDT (2203 GMT) for observers in eastern North America, while skywatchers on the other side of the continent will see it a few minutes later, at 3:06 p.m. PDT.
Next up is "Contact II," or "ingress interior" the moment when Venus moves fully onto the sun's face. This will happen 18 minutes after Contact I. [Venus Transit of 2004: 51 Amazing Photos]
If you're viewing the transit through a good telescope, you may see a dark teardrop form, briefly joining Venus' trailing edge and the solar disk just before Contact II. This so-called "black-drop effect" bedeviled efforts in 1761 and 1769 tomeasure the Earth-sun distanceby precisely timing Venus transits from many spots around the globe.
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Today's historic Venus transit is a marathon event lasting nearly seven hours, but skywatchers who don't have that kind of time can break it down into a handful of key milestones.
Venus treks across the sun's face from Earth's perspective today (June 5; June 6 in much of the Eastern Hemisphere), marking the last suchVenus transituntil 2117. Few people alive today will be around to see the next transit, which makes the rare celestial sight a premier event in the astronomical and skywatching communities.
The Venus-sun show will begin around 6 p.m. EDT (2200 GMT) and end at roughly 12:50 a.m. EDT (0450 GMT) Wednesday, with the exact timing varying by a few minutes from point to point around the globe.
Before you even attempt to observe the transit of Venus, a warning:NEVERstare at the sun through binoculars orsmall telescopesor with the unaided eye without the proper safety equipment. Doing so can result in serious and permanent eye damage, including blindness.
Astronomers use special solar filters on telescopes to view the sun safely, while No. 14 welder's glass and eclipse glasses can be used to observe the sun directly. [How to Safely Photograph the Venus Transit]
With that warning stated, here's a look at the first major stage of thetransit of Venus.
The transit officially commences when the leading edge ofVenusfirst touches the solar disk, an event astronomers call "Contact I" or "ingress exterior." This milestone occurs at 6:03 p.m. EDT (2203 GMT) for observers in eastern North America, while skywatchers on the other side of the continent will see it a few minutes later, at 3:06 p.m. PDT.
Next up is "Contact II," or "ingress interior" the moment when Venus moves fully onto the sun's face. This will happen 18 minutes after Contact I. [Venus Transit of 2004: 51 Amazing Photos]
If you're viewing the transit through a good telescope, you may see a dark teardrop form, briefly joining Venus' trailing edge and the solar disk just before Contact II. This so-called "black-drop effect" bedeviled efforts in 1761 and 1769 tomeasure the Earth-sun distanceby precisely timing Venus transits from many spots around the globe.
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NORMAN The potential impact of sequestration under the Budget Control Act of 2011, which is set to automatically slash billions of dollars from the Department of Defense budget next year, set an ominous tone Tuesday for much of the 2012 Oklahoma Aerospace and Defense Summit & Expo.
Frank Kendall, the acting under secretary of defense for acquisition, technology and logistics speaks during the 2012 Oklahoma Aerospace and Defense Summit & Expo. STEVE SISNEY - THE OKLAHOMAN
Keynote speaker Frank Kendall, the acting undersecretary of defense for acquisition, technology and logistics, said if Congress doesn't do anything to stop the act from going into effect on Jan. 1, jobs will be lost and contracts will have to be renegotiated.
Sequestration has a devastating outcome. We really need to avoid it, he said. The industry hasn't done any planning for sequestration, he said, because it is so unacceptable that they are focusing on rallying against it.
Marion Blakey, president and chief executive officer of the Aerospace Industries Association, called sequestration a time bomb and wore a pin that counts down the minutes until the act goes into effect.
If it blows, we're going to feel the shock wave in all 50 states, including this one, she said.
Kendall talked about ways the Defense Department is cutting costs already, by canceling unaffordable programs and using competition to negotiate the best price on contracts. He said he planned to meet with the CEOs of aerospace companies on Wednesday while in the state.
Monday was expected to be the busiest day for FedEx, which said it...
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Prof. Sir Andrew Huxley, widely regarded as one of Britain's most eminent scientists and great university administrators, the former master of Trinity College, Cambridge, shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1963 with Sir Alan Hodgkin, a lifelong friend and collaborator, and with Australian scientist Sir John Eccles, who was cited for research on synapses. They received the prize for unravelling the biophysical mechanism of nerve impulses which control muscle action.
Huxley and Hodgkin began collaborating on the nature of nerve impulses in August 1939, when Hodgkin invited him down to the Plymouth Marine Laboratory, following his return from America. While there, he had successfully demonstrated the mechanism by which electrical impulses activate the next segment of a nerve fibre, and had begun to work with the recently discovered nerve fibre of the giant squid. At the time, there was controversy about the way in which neural signals were generated and transmitted along fibres and across synapses the connecting junctions where there are gaps between the ends of one fibre and the beginning of the next.
The scientists began experiments on the very large nerve fibres (diameter about 0.5mm) possessed by squids. Their first task was to measure the viscosity of the interior of the fibre by suspending it vertically and dropping droplets of mercury down it. This failed because the mercury droplets stopped as they entered the fibre, showing that its interior was a solid, not a viscous liquid as supposed. Instead, they pushed an electrode down inside, in order to measure directly the potential difference between inside and outside and obtained a direct recording of the voltages across the nerve membrane, the first time that this had been done.
The consensus of the time was that the interior of a fibre at rest was up to one-tenth of a volt negative relative to the external solution, but rose to equality with the external potential at the peak of a nerve impulse. The pair confirmed this as regards the resting state, but the internal potential at the peak of the impulse was substantially positive. They published a short paper in the journal Nature, announcing their achievement of recording action potentials from inside a nerve fibre.
However, their work was suspended with the outbreak of the Second World War, during which time Huxley was involved in a number of projects. Initially a clinical student in London, due to the Blitz teaching was suspended, and Huxley spent the rest of the war on operational research in gunnery, first for Anti-Aircraft Command and later for the Admiralty, working in a team under Patrick (later Lord) Blackett. Hodgkin worked in radar research with the Air Ministry.
In spite of the war and their involvement in widely separated and often secret activities, the two men remained in touch and even swapped advice on particular problems. One such occasion saw Huxley design and produce, using a lathe, a new type of gun sight during the development of airborne radar.
Soon after the war, in 1946, they returned to neurological research at Cambridge. Their work necessitated the development of specialist equipment which in many cases was not only designed by Huxley, but also built by him. They began discussing how the squid membrane becomes specifically permeable to sodium ions. These are about ten times more concentrated in the external solution than inside the fibre, so they diffuse inwards, carrying their positive charge.
Within six years, Huxley and Hodgkin had laid the detailed foundations of the modern understanding of the transmission of nerve impulses. Their model, which was developed well before the advent of electron microscopes or computer simulations, was able to give scientists a basic understanding of how nerve cells work without having a detailed understanding of how the membrane of a nerve cell looked.
They demonstrated that these travel, not along the core of the fibre, but along the outer membrane as a product of successive cascades of two types of ion. The finding and the detailed mathematical theory that accompanied the work, completed in 1952 in a series of five papers, was groundbreaking and resulted in their share of the Nobel Prize.
Born in Hampstead in 1917, Andrew Fielding Huxley came from a celebrated family. His grandfather was Thomas Huxley, the 19th century biologist and staunch supporter of Charles Darwin; his two half-brothers were Julian Huxley, also a biologist, and Aldous Huxley, author of the novel Brave New World.
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BLUE BELL, Pa.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--
Halfpenny Technologies, Inc.a leading provider of clinical data integration solutions specializing in laboratory, pathology and physician electronic medical record (EMR) system interoperabilitytoday announced it has named Brian Muck executive vice president of sales and marketing.
Brians extensive experience in healthcare, sales and business development will enable us to deepen our customer relationships and strong business foundation, says Tim Kowalski, president and chief executive officer of Halfpenny Technologies. His ability to develop and execute sales strategies will be integral to our growth in the hospital and commercial laboratory markets, as well as into new segments.
With 22 years of business development experiencenine of which are in sales programs and managementMuck brings robust expertise around driving revenue and profit growth in strategic and complex environments to Halfpenny.
We are pleased to be able to draw upon Brians vision and skills to help us achieve our growth goals for our health information exchange (HIE) solutions with existing and prospective customers, says Charles Halfpenny, the companys founder and chief technology officer. Brian has an impressive track record in healthcare, and he understands the complex nature of the challenges facing our industry today.
Before joining Halfpenny, Muck served as vice president of sales in emerging markets for Vitera Healthcare Solutions. Prior to Vitera, Brian held positions in sales and sales management at BrainLab, Varian Medical Systems, Edwards Lifesciences, GE Healthcare and Hewlett-Packard. He has also worked closely with the Office of the National Coordinator (ONC), Beacon Communities, Quality Improvement Organizations (QIOs), and state and regional HIEs. In addition, Muck co-chaired a workgroup within the ONC/HIMSS EHRA collaborationthe EHR Adoption Community of Practice.
About Halfpenny Technologies, Inc.
Halfpenny Technologies is a leading provider of healthcare connectivity and integration solutions for Health Information Exchange. The company utilizes its depth of knowledge and real world clinical experience to meet the increasing demand for connectivity to physician electronic medical record (EMR) systems. Through its proprietary Integration Technology Framework (ITF), Halfpenny Technologies delivers clinical data integration and connectivity solutions that enable hospitals and laboratories to receive, process and respond to physician-initiated requests for ancillary services. Halfpennys targeted solutions cover the full spectrum of health information exchange to provide reliable, secure and efficient exchange of clinical information while also facilitating the flow of patient, financial and administrative data between physician practices, laboratories, hospitals and health plans. The company has established a national reputation for delivering innovative integration and connectivity technology solutions for its clients. For more information, visit http://www.halfpenny.com.
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NEW YORK, June 5, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Reportlinker.com announces that a new market research report is available in its catalogue:
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This report analyzes the worldwide markets for Anxiety Disorders in US$ Million. The report provides separate comprehensive analytics for the US, Europe, Asia-Pacific, and Rest of World. Annual estimates and forecasts are provided for the period 2009 through 2017. Also, a six-year historic analysis is provided for these markets. The report profiles 63 companies including many key and niche players such as AstraZeneca Plc, Boehringer Ingelheim GmbH, Bristol-Myers Squibb Company, Eli Lilly and Company, F. Hoffmann-La Roche Ltd., Forest Laboratories, Inc., GlaxoSmithKline Plc, H. Lundbeck A/S, Mylan, Inc., Neurocrine Biosciences, Inc., Pfizer, Inc., Ratiopharm, Sanofi, UCB SA, Valeant Pharmaceuticals International, and Watson Laboratories, Inc. Market data and analytics are derived from primary and secondary research. Company profiles are primarily based upon search engine sources in the public domain.
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Disney's highly-touted junk food ad ban was guided in large part by consultations with the CU Center for Human Nutrition at Anschutz, which calls the move a "game-changer" for kid health.
The University of Colorado center has one of the longest-running national studies of people who lose weight and keep it off, and director James Hill has been a key paid consultant to Disney on its health efforts.
"It's a game-changer," said Hill, who worked with Disney on 2007 nutrition guidelines for its theme park meals and branded grocery store foods. "In the long run it will help consumers change much more than anything the government can do. Disney speaks directly to the consumer."
Hill and independent groups believe the Disney move will spread, putting pressure on both media conglomerates and food producers to do better with nutrition.
"We hope this demonstrates to other media companies they can make similar moves," said Eileen Espejo, director of the media and health project at Children Now in California, an organization that has worked with Congress and the federal government on ad and food guidelines.
Popular, heavily-marketed foods mentioned in the ad ban include Lunchables, Capri Sun drinks and many cereals. Cap'N Crunch, for example, has 11.8 grams of sugar in a 27-gram serving; the Disney guidelines call for less than 10 grams, Hill said.
"It certainly puts them many steps ahead of Nickelodeon and Cartoon Network, who should now be feeling a lot of pressure," said Margo Wootan director of nutrition policy at the Center for Science in the Public Interest.
Disney won't run food ads for kids if they don't meet nutrition standards. The company will also further ratchet down salt and sugar in its theme park foods and branded groceries.
The company is also breaking ground by basing all of its food on total calorie intake for the meal and for the day, Hill said, helping families to shape a healthier meal habit.
Strict nutritionists will say Disney didn't go far enough, Hill acknowledged. The salt guidelines aim for 2,300 milligrams in a child's daily diet. The current actual intake is about 3,500 milligrams, Hill said.
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ANKARA, Turkey--(BUSINESS WIRE)--
At the 7th National Molecular and Diagnostic Microbiology Congress in Ankara, Bruker announces an exclusive framework agreement with Dzen (www.duzen.com.tr) in the area of molecular microbial identification based on MALDI-TOF mass spectrometry. Dzen is one of the leading private diagnostic laboratory groups in Turkey, and Bruker is the leading provider of mass spectrometry-based microorganism identification solutions worldwide. Dzen Laboratories, a highly regarded clinical diagnostics company for 38 years, is the pioneer in its field in introducing new technologies into routine clinical use in Turkey. In addition, Dzen also supports government and university funded health programs, and is the contract service provider of several embassies for visa applications.
During an extensive evaluation study of the commercially available MALDI-TOF based microorganism identification systems, Brukers MALDI Biotyper solution repeatedly outperformed other systems in both its analytical performance and easy to use workflow. On this basis, Dzen decided to enter into an exclusive long-term agreement with Bruker to equip its laboratories with the market leading MALDI Biotyper system.
We decided that the MALDI Biotyper is the most suitable system based on its smart and intelligent workflows and IT embedding features, and coupled with Brukers service and support network significantly reduced the challenges of implementing a new technology like MALDI-TOF into our daily routine workflow, commented Dr. Grkem Yaman, Microbiology Specialist at Dzen.
Dr. Yaman commented further: After successfully introducing a revolutionary species identification workflow, Brukers team of microbiologists are continuing to expand the horizons of MALDI-TOF microbial applications, providing us with initial ideas on how to detect particular resistance mechanisms with the MALDI Biotyper. This means that MALDI-TOF based detection of -lactamases and carbapenemases activity is possible in less than three hours, for some enzymes even within one hour. This approach also can be applied to the analysis of positive blood cultures using Brukers MALDI Sepsityper kit, obtaining information both on the species and its possible resistance mechanisms within a couple of hours. This may have a significant impact on the clinical management of patients in Turkey.
When considering potential partners it is important for us to identify not only the most reliable partner but one that fully understands our needs and requirements. Brukers Open Microbiology Concept permits us to use and connect different technologies of our choice; this flexible approach compliments our own strategy and concepts perfectly. The philosophies of both companies fit nicely together and I am looking forward to expanding the cooperation into other regions in the future, concluded Dr. Elvan Laleli-Sahin, Member of the Board of Directors, Dzen.
Dr. Guido Mix, Director of Microbiology at Bruker Daltonics, added: We are very pleased that after leading the MALDI-TOF-based revolution for microbial identification, Bruker is now also leading the integration of this new molecular method into the overall microbiological workflow. Our efforts toward developing smart and straightforward workflows for the daily microbiological routine of labs are especially valued by our customers. Being able to offer very robust mass spectrometer hardware and software, and proven hands-on standard operating protocols, all backed-up by our dedicated microbiology support specialists, makes Bruker a reliable long-term partner.
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Living to very old age may be "in the genes" as the saying goes, and a recent study published in the journal Aging suggests that certain personality traits make up a major part of the mix of longevity genes.
Researchers found that having a positive attitude and a sense of humor could play a role in living a longer, healthier life. They developed a questionnaire designed to identify certain genetically-based personality traits and used it to assess 243 Ashkenazi Jewish adults between 95 and 107 years of age. The investigators chose this population because their genetic similarity would make it easier to account for genetic differences in personality.
"The results indicated they had two things -- a positive attitude for life, meaning they are optimistic, easygoing, extraverted, laughed more and expressed emotions rather than bottling them up," said Dr. Nil Barzilai, a study co-author and director of the Albert Einstein College of Medicine's Institute for Aging Research.
The study participants also were less neurotic and more conscientious than a representative sample of other Americans.
Based on census data, centenarians make up about .2 percent of the U.S. population, but the number has been rapidly increasing, the authors wrote.
Previous research has suggested that the oldest adults may be genetically predisposed to living longer and healthier both physiologically and psychologically and that personality can affect a person's physical health.
"There's an interaction between personality and physiology," said Dr. Gary Small, director of the UCLA Center on Aging. Small was not involved in Barzilai's study, but has done research in this area. "It makes sense that being more positive causes less stress and seems to get people on the right track to live better."
The genes, it turns out, play a less important role in determining longevity.
"Several studies have found that genetics accounts for only about one-third of how long and well we live," said Small, who is also co-author of "The Alzheimer's Prevention Program."
Barzilai added that it's still not known precisely how personality influences longevity.
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We've long known that exercising and eating fruits and veggies can, over the long-term, help improve both the quality and quantity of our years. But the effect of healthy behaviors on longevity among those who have already reached senior citizen status may also be strong. That's especially true when a produce-heavy diet and exercise routine have been combined, according to new research.
A study in this month's Journal of the American Geriatrics Society finds that women in their 70s who live in senior citizen communities may still be able to improve the length of their years with an exercise and healthy eating plan. The researchers studied the exercise and eating habits of 713 women, aged 70 to 79, as part of the Women's Health and Aging Studies.
They found that women with both the highest level of physical fitness, as measured by survey responses, and the highest consumption of fruits and vegetables (measured via a blood test) were eight times less likely to die than the women who performed the worst in both of these categories.
Each category, individually, was also effective. All told, women who were in the most active group at the start of the study were 71 percent less likely to die over the five-year period of study than the least active group. And among those who survived, their average serum carotenoid levels -- the compound researchers looked for in the blood tests to gauge high-produce diet -- was 12 percent higher than in the group who died.
So what's the takeaway? It's never too late to up the veggie, fruit and exercise quotients in your life -- and to great effect. This study proves that the returns to women in their 70s are significant, and that could be a good impetus for improved programming at senior facilities and among geriatric doctors.
Programs and policies to promote longevity should include interventions to improve nutrition and physical activity in older adults, lead author Dr. Emily J Nicklett, from the University of Michigan School of Social Work said in a statement.
Inspired? Check out this list of exercises that have been found to increase longevity.
In 2008, a small Swiss study found that sedentary people who switched from taking escalators and elevators to taking the stairs cut their risk of dying prematurely by 15 percent.
"This suggests that stair climbing can have major public health implications," lead researcher Dr. Philippe Meyer, told the BBC.
An earlier look at data from the Harvard Alumni Health Study also found that climbing 35 or more flights of stairs a week significantly increased longevity when compared to people who climbed fewer than 10 stories a week.
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Biking to work is a great way to squeeze exercise into your day, spend some time outside and even save on gas money. But a leisurely ride, while it might leave you less sweaty upon arrival at the office, won't do as much for your lifespan as if you really ride it out.
A study of Copenhagen cyclists found that men who pedaled the fastest lived more than five years longer than slower cycling men, and the fastest women cyclists lived almost four years longer.
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A 2009 analysis of data from the Aerobics Center Longitudinal Study found that men who swam regularly had about a 50 percent smaller risk of dying than sedentary men -- but swimmers also had a lower mortality rate than men who walked and ran for their exercise.
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NEW YORK, NY--(Marketwire -06/05/12)- TriMarkPublications.com cites in its newly published "DNA Sequencing and PCR Markets" report that the next-generation DNA sequencing platforms market will more than double, reaching $3.2 billion by 2017. For more information, visit: http://www.trimarkpublications.com/products/DNA-Sequencing-and-PCR-Markets.html.
DNA sequencing has a number of applications, including: full-genome resequencing, targeted discovery of mutations or polymorphisms, mapping of structural rearrangements, large-scale analysis of DNA methylation, RNA-Seq and ChIP-Seq. The U.S. and Europe exhibit the highest market penetration for DNA sequencing, but other parts of the world are projected to see higher compound annual growth rates (CAGRs) of up to 13%. As DNA sequencing platforms become increasingly affordable, the cost of sequencing a human genome will soon fall below the $1,000 price point.
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The "DNA Sequencing and PCR Markets" report examines companies manufacturing DNA sequencing and PCR equipment and supplies in the world. Companies covered include: Abbott, Affymetrix, Agilent, AgriGen, Avesthagen Gengraine, BD, BGI Life, bioMerieux, Bioneer, Bio-Rad, BioServe, Caliper LifeSciences, Cepheid, Cogenics, CombiMatrix, Commonwealthnologies, Complete, Comprehensive Biomarker, CuraGen, Cytocell, DiaDexus, DNA LandMarks, DNAVision, DNASTAR, ELITech, Enigma, Enzo Biochem, Eppendorf, Eurofins Medigenomix, Exiqon, FASMAC, GE Healthcare, GeneticTechnologies, GeneWorks, Genia, Genisphere, Genovoxx, Gen-Probeorporated, Genset, GnuBIOorporated, GVK, Helicos, High Throughput, Hokkaido, Hy, Illumina, Inqabanical Industries, IntegenX, Integrated DNA, Intelligent Biosystems, Kreatech, LaserGen, LI-COR, Life, Lucigen, Luminex, Meridian, Microsynth, MilleGen SA, MWG, NanoString, NobleGen, Orchid Cellmark, Oxford Nanopore, Pacific, PamGene, PPD, PrimmBiotech, Promega, QIAGEN, RainDance, Research Biolabs, Roche, Rubicon, Saturn, SeeGene, Sequenom, Sequetech, SeqWright, Shanghai Sangon, Shimadzu, Siemens, SolGent, Stratos, TATAA Biocenter, Thermo Fisher, Third Wave, Wellcome Trust Sanger, ZS Genetics and ZyGEM.
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LEAMINGTON SPA, England, June 5, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- DNA Dynamics, Inc. (OTC Pink: DNAD), a global developer and publisher of mobile video games and applications, today announced that theStockRadio.com has posted an audio interview recently conducted withCOO David Lovatt at the Wall Street 1-2-1 Spring 2012 event, held in Orlando, Florida on May 8-11, 2012.
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About DNA Dynamics, Inc.Headquartered in Leamington Spa in the United Kingdom, DNA Dynamics is a worldwide developer and publisher of graphically rich, highly experiential interactive entertainment currently delivered on iOS, Android, Nintendo DS and Sony PSP platforms. Through its operating subsidiaries, DNA Studios and DNA Interactive, the Company has created, acquired or licensed a portfolio of highly recognizable or emerging brands that broadly appeal to its consumer demographics, ranging from children to adults and casual gamers to serious enthusiasts. For more information, please go to http://www.dnadynamics.net.You can also follow the Company on Facebook and Twitter.
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(Phys.org) -- For hundreds of years, paleontologists have added fossils to museums around the world, amassing meticulous records of ancient biology, such as the invertebrate paleontology collection at the University of Kansas Natural History Museum and Biodiversity Institute.
There, thousands of drawers hold a record of ancient life that could be especially useful today in predicting how climate change could alter our planets biodiversity and distribution of species.
Alas, for years, such collections have come to be known as dark data information that can prove difficult for far-flung researchers and non-academics to access and use.
When I was in graduate school, if you wanted to track down material at an institution, well, maybe you got lucky and found it, said Bruce Lieberman, KU professor of ecology and evolutionary biology and senior curator with the division of invertebrate paleontology at the museum. But to get access to the data, youd have to contact the collections manager there, and if you wanted to gather data, it would require that a researcher there gather it for you or youd have to secure funds to travel yourself sometimes. So when data is hidden like that, its like theres no data at all.
Now, Lieberman is heading a $600,000 effort funded by the National Science Foundations Advancing Digitization of Biological Collections program to digitize thousands of fossils collected over hundreds of years and housed at the KU institute.
Soon, valuable information about fossils temporal and geographic distribution in deep time will be available to anyone on the Internet, accessible with a few keystrokes.
Lieberman said that partnerships with other institutions under the NSF grant would allow scientists to complete a fossil record that will more accurately show how climate change could impact species on Earth going forward.
We know there are certain issues facing the biosphere today and we can sort of measure in ecological time whats going to happen to the flora and fauna today, he said. But if we want a deeper time scale perspective, these fossil data will allow us to look at analogous time periods and analogous climate changes so that we can predict with more accuracy what may happen to life on the planet.
The digitization process, which will employ undergraduate and graduate students, postdoctoral researchers and a biodiversity informatics developer, will focus on three important time periods the Ordovician, Pennsylvanian and Neogene from three major paleobiogeographic regions: the Cincinnati region, American mid-continent and Gulf/Atlantic Coastal Plains.
Im focused on invertebrate fossils, Lieberman said. Those are species that dont have a backbone, like snails, clams and their relatives. We have very strong holdings in the Carboniferous period, the time about 290 million years ago. Much of the rock youd see around this part of Kansas comes from that period. Our deposits are centered on the entire American mid-continent. We have so much information about where those species were found and their distribution through time.
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Today, the American Society for Gravitational and Space Biology (ASGSB) announced a name change to the American Society for Gravitational and Space Research (ASGSR) to reflect a broadening of the societyis scope to include physical sciences. A general vote was taken by the membership and ninety percent of the votes were in favor of the name change and charter expansion. The predecessor society, ASGSB, was established in 1984, as a U.S. non-profit 501(C)(6) scientific society. The name change represents an expansion in the purpose of the society, which is to promote research, education, training, and development in the areas of gravitational space biological and physical processes and to apply the knowledge gained to a better understanding of gravity and other space environmental factors.
ASGSR president, Dr. Howard G. Levine says "We are very pleased to announce the expansion of the American Society for Gravitational and Space Biology (ASGSB) to include our fellow researchers in the Physical Sciences. ASGSB will henceforth be the American Society for Gravitational and Space Research (ASGSR), and we fully expect that this expansion of our original charter will lead to many fruitful collaborations between these two closely associated groups." The society sees the future of space exploration changing, with access to space now becoming available from commercial companies, and increased emphasis on the translational value of space research with regard to terrestrial applications. The society believes it is essential that, as an integrated group, they can provide a forum for high quality exploration, enabling research, technology, scientific discovery and training of the next generation of scientists.
According to Dr. D. Marshall Porterfield, director of the NASA Life and Physical Sciences division, "the recent announcement of the expansion of the American Society for Gravitational and Space Biology charter, and name change to include affiliated fundamental sciences is most welcome from the perspective of the Life and Physical Sciences Division at NASA Headquarters. The resulting fusion of these broad but strongly interdisciplinary groups, life and physical sciences, is in direct alignment with recent reorganization of these research programs at NASA. The new American Society for Gravitational and Space Research will be better aligned to represent the stakeholders of the critical sciences needed by NASA to advance future human space exploration. We welcome future growth and advancement of the organization as it supports the Life and Physical Sciences Division in the Human Exploration Mission Directorate."
Over the next few months, the society will be implementing these changes. The first inaugural conference that includes the broadened society will be held November 28 n December 2, 2012 at the Westin Canal Place in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA. Dr. Porterfield adds "Laissez les bons temps rouler." Information on the society and upcoming meeting can be found at http://www.ASGSR.org.
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June 5, 2012
Stover honored with MERIT award for folate research
For his long-running research on the molecular genetics and biochemistry of the vitamins folate and vitamin B-12, and their link to colon cancer, cardiovascular disease and human birth defects, Patrick Stover, professor of nutritional biochemistry and director of Cornell's Division of Nutritional Sciences, has received a prestigious MERIT (Method to Extend Research in Time) award from the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK).
In the award letter from NIDDK, part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), Stover is cited for his "consistent and excellence contributions to scientific knowledge" on the subject. Among his breakthrough findings: the identification of a gene that increases the risk for colon cancer in laboratory mice when their diets lack folate; the genetic underpinnings of mitochondrial depletion syndrome in humans; and, in mice, the discovery of a gene that causes neural tube defects.
MERIT awards provide recipients with stable, long-term research funding, freeing them from the administrative burden of submitting their work for regular renewals and reviews. With the award, Stover will receive 10 years of uninterrupted support for his research on folate (vitamin B-9) and vitamin B-12.
"I am grateful to NIH-NIDDK for their continuous support of my research program since I arrived at Cornell as an assistant professor in 1994, and for giving me the security and opportunity to undertake high-risk/high-reward fundamental research through this MERIT award," Stover said. "I value my continuing relationship with this important NIH institute, which has played such a pivotal role in advancing our understanding of fundamental metabolism and nutrition and the molecular basis of human chronic disease."
Stover had previously received the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers and the E.L.R. Stokstad Award in Nutritional Biochemistry from the American Society for Nutrition.
Ted Boscia is assistant director of communications for the College of Human Ecology.
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Edward Maurer
His recent book,Thinking, Fast and Slow, was a 2011 bestseller. It summarizes his lifetime of work on how the mind works, covering many topics familiar to those who follow behavioral economics and finance: prospect theory, overconfidence, loss aversion, anchoring, separate mental accounting, the representativeness bias and the availability bias.
Kahneman, who, at 82, is still teaching at Princeton, recently discussed these and other discoveries at the 2012 CFA Institute Annual Conference, which took place in Chicago on May 6-9.
Ill look at how Kahnemans research can be applied in the context of investing, but first lets examine the central subject of his book: our two ways of thinking.
Think fast! Or think slowly?
Try this experiment: Just before making a left turn in a busy intersection, begin to multiply 17 by 24. Im kidding; please dont. Youll either quickly abandon the arithmetic problem or wreck your car. But Ill bet you can add two plus two while making a left turn without any problem whatsoever.
What is the difference between the two tasks?
Most people would say that one of the tasks is easy and the other is hard. But Kahneman, who won the 2002 Nobel Prize in economics for work relating economic decision-making to psychology, says that theres more to it a substantive difference, not merely one of degree.
Adding two and two is done using what Kahneman calls System 1 thinking, the kind of fast thinking that feels like it is done on autopilot. The product of 17 and 24 is arrived at using System 2 thinking slow, deliberate thinking that involves an entirely different physiological process, one that (for example) interferes with driving a car.
When you engage in intense System 2 thinking, Kahneman says, something happens to your body. Your pupils dilate. Your heart rate increases. Your blood glucose level drops. You become irritable if someone or something interrupts your focus. You become partially deaf and partially blind to stimuli that ordinarily command your attention. Kahneman writes that intense focusing on a task can make people effectively blind.
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NOBEL PRIZE WINNER: This Is The Difference Between Thinking Fast And Slow