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China will open its space station to scientists worldwide after the station is completed around 2022, according to a Chinese space expert.

Wei Chuanfeng, a researcher at the Institute of Manned Space System Engineering under the China Academy of Space Technology, said the China Manned Space Engineering Office has drafted a strategic framework with United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs to offer opportunities on the application of Chinese space station to members of United Nations.

Wei made the remarks on Thursday at the 2017 Global Space Exploration Conference, which was held in Beijing.

Under the framework, China will open its experimental resources on the Chinese space station to serve payloads from other countries. UN members, especially developing countries, could conduct scientific and technological experiment on Chinese space station, Wei said.

China's first astronaut Yang Liwei, who is also deputy director of China Manned Space Engineering Office, said the nation would launch the first core module of the space station in 2019, followed by two experiment modules. The space station will enable astronauts to stay in space for up to six months.

At the conference, the designers behind the Chinese space station proposed possible technical approaches that could help scientists from other countries utilize and perform experiments on the space station. China will also help astronauts and payloads specialists from developing countries to enter into space, Wei said.

The Chinese space station will be composed of three modules, including a core module and two experiment modules. The space station will have three docking sites, enabling the dock and berth of the "Shenzhou" manned spacecraft, the "Tianzhou" cargo spacecraft and other vehicles, according to Wei.

Source: Xinhua News

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CHICAGO (CBS) Gingers ruled this weekend in Highwood, as the north suburb hosted its 3rd annual Redhead Days.

Both days you could see Gingers in hula hoops. There were contests galore, including a contest to determine the reddest dog and another for the best carrot cake.

Music was provided in part by the Redhead Lounge. They decided who had the longest red beard, and hair; and there were symposiums both days with Buzzfeeds Erin LaRosa, who has authored The Big Redhead Book.

Peter Jackson made the trip solo from Wllmington, Delaware, and said being a redhead is somewhat like belonging to an exclusive club.

Were pretty much a rare breed, he said. Were sporadic in a crowd. Its not every day you see a big crowd of redhaeds together in one place.

What do they talk about together?

Our beautiful hair, of course. We talk about how its neat to be different, he said.

Jackson claimed gingers are more sensitive to heat and cold changes; and he claimed it takes 20 percent more anesthetic to knock one out.

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Former Sarasota resident and ‘the voice’ of NASA retires – Sarasota Herald-Tribune

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George Diller, the NASA Public Affairs information specialist who famously called the shuttle program's return to flight in 2005, retired last week.

SARASOTA George Diller, the longest-serving NASA launch commentator and a former Sarasota resident who famously called the space shuttle program's return to flight in 2005, has retired after 37 years.

Diller rotated as the voice of the space shuttle program and served as the launch commentator for NASA Television. He gave commentary for the final space shuttle mission with Atlantis in 2011; the launch of the Hubble Space Telescope in 1990; probes launched to the moon, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Mercury and Pluto; and the Atlas V rocket that carried the Mars Laboratory and Curiosity rover.

The native Floridian grew up in Sarasota, St. Petersburg and Clearwater and holds degrees in communications and business administration from the University of South Florida in Tampa. Prior to working at NASA he spent 11 years in radio broadcasting at stations in Clearwater, Tampa, and Orlando.

In a video tribute to Diller, Kennedy Space Center director Bob Cabana noted that Diller had been doing his job for 33 years with NASA and four years as a contractor, including the last shuttle flight.

"We're really going to miss hearing your golden voice on console during launch," Cabana said.

Diller said it was amazing for him to work with so many different spacecraft and payloads and destinations, some of them interplanetary.

"To be five feet from something that is going to another planet, to me that's really exciting," Diller said.

Diller's expertise wasn't solely spacecraft and launches. He was was the liaison to the NASA-KSC Weather Office, the U.S. Air Force 45th Weather Squadron, and the National Weather Service.

The man known for his smooth and calm delivery would wait out hurricanes as part of NASA's Rideout Team, and was a source for space journalists, according to NASA.

"When you're new to the press site, it's overwhelming," veteran space journalist Jim Banke explained in a NASA feature about Diller. "There's so much to learn, so many people to meet figuring out who to call, who to ask. He knew his stuff. He still knows his stuff."

NASA staff said Diller was headed for a well-deserved vacation a day after his retirement and was unavailable for comment.

Diller joked with Cabana during his last call that he wouldlikely miss the work before too long and tune in to hear the launches wherever his retirement takes him.

"You can take the boy out of the launch, but you can't take the launch out of the boy," Diller said. "That's probably the way I'm going to be after I retire."

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NASA is set to launch a rocket that will create colorful artificial clouds over the U.S. East Coast to study part of the Earths atmosphere. The clouds should be visible from New York down to North Carolina, and as far west as Charlottesville, Virginia.

Live coverage of the mission will start at 8.30 p.m. ET. Viewers can watch the broadcast online below, or via the NASA Wallops Ustream site.

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The Sounding Rocket will create luminescent blue-green and red clouds in the sky via vapor canisters that will be released around five minutes after launchcurrently scheduled to take place from the Wallops Flight Facility, Virginia, between 9:04 and 9:19 p.m. ET.

NASA had initially scheduled the launch for Sunday night, but had to postpone it because of boats being in the launch range hazard area. This is the fifth failed launch attempt for the mission, with previous attempts scrapped due to high winds and clouds as well as boats in the hazard zone.

Artist impression of the clouds, which should be visible from New York down to North Carolina, and as far west as Charlottesville, Virginia. NASA

The mission aims to study the ionosphere and auroraby creating these colorful fake clouds, scientists will be able to visually track the motions of particles in space.

NASA will deploy 10 canisterseach about the size of a soft drink canat altitudes of between 96 and 124 miles to create the clouds. These canisters will eject vapor tracers that form as a result of the interaction of barium, strontium and cupric-oxide.

The clouds pose no risk to people living along the mid-Atlantic coast.

Once the clouds form, scientists will be able work out particle motion over an area far larger than has ever been possible before.

Earths upper atmosphere extends over 620 miles into space and scientists would extend understanding of this region by studying particle motions. The movement of neutral and ionized gases are important to understand as they reveal how mass and energy are transported from one region to another. These movements also respond to changes in the suns activity, the space agency said.

Map showing the projected visibility of the vapor tracers. NASA

The artificial clouds allow NASA to track these changes: Vapor tracer payloads are used to measure atmospheric winds and/or ion drifts in the upper atmosphere and ionosphere. They carry small amounts of gas into space in a canister that are then released along a portion of the rocket trajectory.

The small amount of gas is then visible from the ground. By tracking their motions directly with cameras on the ground (or in an airplane), these tracers make it possible to observe the movements of the upper atmosphere or the ionosphere directly.

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TAMPA He's not allowed to bring his hair dryer, popcorn or his snack of choice: sardines.

But when spending 10 days at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean, trapped inside a facility he likens to a "30-foot RV with an unusually small bathroom," Dominic D'Agostino said it's best that the only sardines aboard are the six members of his crew: astronauts and researchers with NASA and the European Space Agency.

Their assignment, the 22nd NASA Extreme Environment Mission Operations, or NEEMO expedition, will take them 6 miles off the coast of Key Largo and 60 feet below the ocean's surface to an underwater research laboratory called the Aquarius. It's the closest astronauts can get to experiencing the conditions they'll face on the surface of Mars, the moon or a deep-space asteroid without leaving Earth, he said.

D'Agostino, a professor of molecular pharmacology and physiology at the University of South Florida's Hyperbaric Biomedical Research Laboratory, is the only crew member not employed by a space agency program. He's joining the mission to research how astronauts' diets could help them endure the extreme environments they visit on space missions.

"I'm extremely humbled, nervous in some ways, but mainly just excited and amazed to be a part of research that we could see applied to deep space missions that start taking off within the decade," D'Agostino said. "The moon missions sparked the most intense period of science and development the U.S. has ever seen, and I absolutely think we're about to get back to that. It gives me goosebumps."

Starting June 18, the crew will spend 10 days simulating space walks, studying how coral and other organisms survive the harsh conditions, and testing new technologies. Those include a drill that could be used to collect samples from the martian surface and equipment to help evacuate injured crew members during a space walk.

In addition to the NASA work D'Agostino will perform, he will also test whether his nutritional supplement is a good fit for the space program. While the rest of the crew will eat the traditional dehydrated, vacuum-packed "camping food" currently taken on space missions, D'Agostino will drink a powdered formula developed at USF, that fuels the body by burning fat instead of glucose in a metabolic state called "ketosis."

"It's like a super-advanced version of Tang that gives our body ketones, which is a superior source of energy that can enhance our mental function and protection from extreme environments," D'Agostino said.

As in space, all communications to mission control will be delayed by about 10 minutes, and if something goes wrong and the crew is forced to evacuate, the process required to pressurize their bodies will take about 19 hours.

Apart from some "funky skin lesions" a crew developed several years ago, D'Agostino says nothing has ever gone horribly wrong in past missions.

Still, it helps that he'll be in regular contact with his wife, USF cognitive neuroscientist Csilla Ari D'Agostino. In addition to serving as the support diver for the mission, which means brief dives down to Aquarius to deliver supplies to her husband, Csilla Ari D'Agostino's research team also will study the crew's mental and physical reactions to the many stresses they'll encounter, such as carbon dioxide levels as high as 20 times what they experience on earth.

"The gases they breath in, that get absorbed into their blood, can have extreme effects on their physiology and cognitive functions, especially in tight living quarters," she said.

The crew's schedule is designed to be "task loaded" and test the crew's sleep habits as well as changes in sensory processing speed, problem solving and memory. It will be challenging, but will also prevent boredom.

"Free time will be very limited, so it's almost like a day at work," Dominic D'Agostino said. "When we do have some time to breathe, the view from the office should be really incredible, just giant manta rays or barracudas swimming by."

The couple got to meet other crew members for several days of training at NASA facilities in Houston, and D'Agostino said he feels confident they can get along for at least 10 days.

"Dominic doesn't snore, but who knows if any of the others do," Csilla D'Agostino said. "More than anything, I think he'll just have fun. It's like a dream."

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June 12, 2017 Tropical rainfall may increase more than previously thought as the climate warms. Credit: teresaaaa, CC BY-ND 2.0

A new study suggests that most global climate models may underestimate the amount of rain that will fall in Earth's tropical regions as our planet continues to warm. That's because these models underestimate decreases in high clouds over the tropics seen in recent NASA observations, according to research led by scientist Hui Su of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California.

Wait a minute: how can fewer clouds lead to more rainfall? Globally, rainfall isn't related just to the clouds that are available to make rain but also to Earth's "energy budget"incoming energy from the sun compared to outgoing heat energy. High-altitude tropical clouds trap heat in the atmosphere. If there are fewer of these clouds in the future, the tropical atmosphere will cool. Judging from observed changes in clouds over recent decades, it appears that the atmosphere would create fewer high clouds in response to surface warming. It would also increase tropical rainfall, which would warm the air to balance the cooling from the high cloud shrinkage.

Rainfall warming the air also sounds counterintuitivepeople are used to rain cooling the air around them, not warming it. Several miles up in the atmosphere, however, a different process prevails. When water evaporates into water vapor here on Earth's surface and rises into the atmosphere, it carries with it the heat energy that made it evaporate. In the cold upper atmosphere, when the water vapor condenses into liquid droplets or ice particles, it releases its heat and warms the atmosphere.

The new study is published in the journal Nature Communications. It puts the decrease in high tropical cloud cover in context as one result of a planet-wide shift in large-scale air flows that is occurring as Earth's surface temperature warms. These large-scale flows are called the atmospheric general circulation, and they include a wide zone of rising air centered on the equator. Observations over the last 30 to 40 years have shown that this zone is narrowing as the climate warms, causing the decrease in high clouds.

Su and colleagues at JPL and four universities compared climate data from the past few decades with 23 climate model simulations of the same period. Climate modelers use retrospective simulations like these to check how well their numerical models are able to reproduce observations. For data, the team used observations of outgoing thermal radiation from NASA's spaceborne Clouds and the Earth's Radiant Energy System (CERES) and other satellite instruments, as well as ground-level observations.

Su's team found that most of the climate models underestimated the rate of increase in precipitation for each degree of surface warming that has occurred in recent decades. The models that came closest to matching observations of clouds in the present-day climate showed a greater precipitation increase for the future than the other models.

Su said that by tracing the underestimation problem back to the models' deficiencies in representing tropical high clouds and the atmospheric general circulation, "This study provides a pathway for improving predictions of future precipitation change."

Explore further: Thin tropical clouds cool the climate

More information: Hui Su et al. Tightening of tropical ascent and high clouds key to precipitation change in a warmer climate, Nature Communications (2017). DOI: 10.1038/ncomms15771

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Even before NASA landed humans on the Moon during the Apollo program, some of its engineers had already begun to consider what to do for an encore. Most agreed that the next logical step was to establish some sort of toehold in low Earth orbit, a kind of space station, in the early 1970s after the Moon landings.

Initially, Wernher von Braun and others at Marshall Space Flight Center pushed the concept of a "wet workshop."The plan, devised in 1966, called for launches of two Saturn IB rockets about one day apart. One would have crew, the other would not. Once in orbit, the astronauts would make the S-IVB upper stage of the first uncrewed rocket habitable by installing life-support equipment in the stage's hydrogen tank to create a working environment.

This concept became known as the "wet workshop," because the upper stage would launch full of hydrogen fuel, which would be expended to help the vehicle reach orbit. Eventually engineers at Johnson Space Center convinced NASA Headquarters that this would prove too challenging and came up with the concept of a "dry workshop," pre-modifying an S-IVB upper stage on the ground and then launching it without fuel. Eventually NASA flew three of these Skylab missions in 1973 and 1974.

Now, a group of three US companies is proposing to revive the "wet workshop" concept. As part of a NASA-led competition to develop a deep space habitat for NASA, Houston-basedNanoRacks is developing a plan to repurpose used second stages of rockets built by United Launch Alliance. Another firm,Space Systems Loral, will provide robotic outfitting capabilities. The group has just formally signed a contract with NASA to formally study the feasibility of the idea.

The founder of NanoRacks, Jeff Manber, provided more information about the partnership in a blog post on Monday morning. "This innovative approach offers a pathway that is more affordable and involves less risk than fabricating modules on the ground and subsequently launching them into orbit," he wrote.

Started as a company to expedite the delivery of scientific research onto the space station, NanoRacks has big dreams. It has evolved into a company that delivers more CubeSats into low Earth orbit than any other company, and it views the development of small, orbital space stations as the next step toward expanding business activity in outer space.

The company already has an agreement for a "handful" of spent Centaur upper stages, which burn liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen and fly on top of Atlas V rockets. Currently the stages are discarded after use. Over the coming months, with funding from NASA likely valued at around $10 million, NanoRacks and its partners will study how best to transform an upper stage into a habitable environment. It seems like a big, big challenge.

A few years ago the NASA engineer who managed the Apollo Applications Program from Johnson Space Center in the 1960s, Robert Thompson, told Ars that the wet workshop "was just about the dumbest idea I've ever heard. And I've heard a lot of dumb ideas." That is the kind of challenge now facing NanoRacks as itseeks to recycle upper stages. But the incredible payoff, essentially "free" space stations in orbit or deep space, seems worth grasping for.

Working in space hasn't gotten any easier, of course, in the last 50 years. But engineers today have some advantages their counterparts didn't when working on wet workshop designs 50 years ago. Perhaps most important, they have decades of experience with working on vehicles such as the International Space Station in orbit that have answered a lot of unknowns about the behavior of vehicles and materials in microgravity.

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"Those interested in nanoindentation will quickly gain a comprehensive understanding of the test method and what it can do," said John Swindeman, CEO at Nanomechanics Inc. "Attendees will achieve theoretical and practical knowledge about contact mechanics."

Jennifer Hay of Nanomechanics Inc. holds a masters' degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Houston and has worked in the field of nano-indentation since 1996, advancing standardization and developing a methodology for new applications. She presently serves as the vice-chair for the MEMS/Nanomechanics technical division of the Society of Experimental Mechanics. In addition to many publications, she has written five invited journal articles on the theory and practice of instrumented indentation.

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A scientist from the Amrita University is designing a bullet-proof jacket for the Indian Army and paramilitary forces, using the ultramodern lightweight thermoplastic technology. Prof Shantanu Bhowmik is the head of Research and Projects at School of Engineering, and Professor at the Department of Aerospace Engineering at School of Engineering, Amrita University, in Tamil Nadus Coimbatore.

A spokesperson of the Amrita University told The Sunday Guardian that the prototype jacket would be ready in the next one year and would be a game-changer. He, however, refused to comment further about the technological part, as the matter is quite sensitive. Bhowmik could not be contacted as he is in Netherlands.

The official said that the jacket would be manufactured using indigenous technology, for which an empowered committee of the Ministry of Defence has given its go-ahead. It will be developed in collaboration with the DRDO (Defence Research and Development Organisation), he said.

The official said that this is for the first time that Indian Army will have a jacket made indigenously. At present, India spends Rs 1.5 lakh on a single jacket, which is imported from the United States. The Indian version will cost Rs 50,000 per jacket, which means India will save Rs 20,000 crore every year. The scientist has dedicated his invention to Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose.

Bhowmik received his PhD in Mechanical Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Roorkee. A part of his PhD thesis was done at Technical University of Berlin, Germany. At present, he is also the Adjunct Professor at the Department of Aerospace Engineering, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands.

Bhowmik has been honoured with a number of international research awards, including the Research Award of Swiss National Science Foundation of the Federal Government of Switzerland last year.

This programme provides outstanding academicians/researches visiting professorships in Swiss universities. He was also given the Marie Curie Research Award by the European Commission in 2014.

An outstanding scientist, Bhowmik has established the International Centre for Nano Technology and Applied Adhesion at Sikkim Manipal University, Sikkim. His research articles have been cited by a number of companies including Lockheed Martin (US), Israel Aerospace Limited, Leoni Studer AG (Switzerland), Dutch Space (The Netherlands) and Ventracor Limited (Australia).

Bhowmik has published over 135 research articles in polymeric composite, nano composite adhesive bonding and surface engineering related to aviation, space and nuclear applications in international journals and international conferences; three book chapters; he has filed five patents and seven invention disclosures.

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HIVE comes at a time when the microsystems technology community is facing an array of long-anticipated obstacles to its relentless and storied decades-long march of progress.

For nearly seventy years, the United States has enjoyed the economic and security advantages that have come from national leadership in electronics innovation, said Bill Chappell, director of DARPA*s Microsystems Technology Office (MTO), which will lead the new effort. If we want to remain out front, we need to foment an electronics revolution that does not depend on traditional methods of achieving progress. Thats the point of this new initiative to embrace progress through circuit specialization and to wrangle the complexity of the next phase of advances, which will have broad implications on both commercial and national defense interests.

There always has been a finish line on the horizon. The saga of electronics miniaturisation that has yielded ever more computing power at ever-lower unit costsrepresented by the famed Moores Law (named after Intels co-founder Gordon Moore)has always been destined to encounter the limitations of both physics and economics. As this inflection point nears, continued progress in microelectronics will require a new phase of innovation to keep the modern miracle of electronics innovation moving forward.

DARPAs Microsystems Technology Office created the Hierarchical Identify Verify & Exploit (HIVE) program to develop new technologies to realize 1'000x performance-per-watt gains in the ability to handle graph analytics. Intels Data Center Group (DCG), Platform Engineering Group (PEG) and Intel Labs will work as one of the hardware architecture research performers for DARPA HIVE, with a joint research program between Intel and DARPA valued at more than USD 100 million during a 4-year effort.

By mid-2021, the goal of HIVE is to provide a 16-node demonstration platform showcasing 1,000x performance-per-watt improvement over todays best-in-class hardware and software for graph analytics workloads, said Dhiraj Mallick, vice president of the Data Center Group and general manager of the Innovation Pathfinding and Architecture Group at Intel. Intels interest and focus in the area may lead to earlier commercial products featuring components of this pathfinding technology much sooner. -----

Image Caption: The patchwork of microelectronic dies represents work performed by a multitude of university groups that participated in previous DARPA-industry-academe collaborations. DARPAs new electronics initiative is pushing for a new era of microsystem structures and capabilities. Click on the image for a high-resolution version.

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GE Chairman and CEO Jeff Immelt announced today the appointment of Kieran Murphy as president and CEO of GE Healthcare, effective immediately. Murphy is currently president and CEO of GE Healthcare Life Sciences. Murphy succeeds John Flannery who has been appointed CEO and chairman elect of GE.

Murphy, 54, was appointed CEO of GE Healthcare Life Sciences in September 2011. Since then, he has overseen significant revenue growth and geographic expansion of the molecular medicine business, which now accounts for more than $4 billion in annual sales with 11,000 employees in more than 100 countries. GE Healthcare Life Sciences provides a broad range of industry-leading technologies and services for drug discovery, pre-clinical and clinical development and biopharmaceutical manufacturing, as well as molecular tools for diagnostics, therapy selection and treatment monitoring in patient care. The business is a leader in organic growth, margins and cash generation.

Immelt said: In his career at GE, Kieran has demonstrated the right combination of talent and drive to step into this key leadership role at the company. Having led the strategic combination of GEs Life Sciences and Medical Diagnostics units, Kieran is universally respected across GE and has distinguished himself as a strong customer advocate with great commercial instincts. Alongside the outstanding team at GE Healthcare, we anticipate that the business will experience continued global growth under Kierans leadership.

Kieran has proven to be a natural leader and has been instrumental in the tremendous growth weve seen across GE Healthcare Life Sciences, said Flannery. I am confident that under his leadership the GE Healthcare team will continue to innovate and execute, introducing new products and driving cost productivity.

GE Healthcare, a $20 billion business, is the worlds leading manufacturer of medical imaging devices; life sciences tools to enable the next generation of biotherapeutics; medical diagnostic agents that enable personalized medicine; and healthcare IT and software tools to digitize and industrialize the healthcare industry. Healthcare is a key GE business now and in the future.

Murphy joined GE Healthcare in 2008 from Whatman plc, a global supplier of filters and membranes for laboratory research, life sciences and medical diagnostic applications. He has over 20 years experience in the global life sciences and biotechnology industry, beginning his career with Janssen Pharmaceutical, a division of Johnson and Johnson, followed by leadership roles with Mallinckrodt, veterinary medicines provider Vericore, Novartis, Adprotech, ML Laboratories and Innovata plc. Having earned his bachelors degree in 1984 from University College, Dublin, he subsequently graduated from the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology with a masters degree in Marketing.

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SelectScience Interview: Streamlining the Molecular Diagnostics Laboratory for Faster Detection of Childhood Cancers – SelectScience

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The technology helping to save young lives by enabling quick testing of patient samples

Scientists are using new technology to enable efficient sample processing for white blood cell analysis. Image: Sebastian Kaulitzki 123RF.com

Kassa Beimnet, MLT, MSc, is a Senior GeneticsTechnologist in the Clinical Molecular Diagnostics Laboratory of the Department of Paediatric Laboratory Medicine at the Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids) in Toronto, Canada.

Every day, clinicians at the Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids) in Toronto, Canada, rely on the molecular analysis of patient samples to diagnose and monitor childhood leukemia and other diseases. The efficiency of this step is important to ensure patients requiring treatment receive the appropriate therapy as soon as possible.

Scientists in the Clinical Molecular Diagnostics Laboratory of the Department of Paediatric Laboratory Medicine at SickKids analyze RNA and DNA from patient samples to identify genetic abnormalities that have implications on the clinical course of childhood leukemia. SelectScience spoke to Senior Genetics Technologist, Kassa Beimnet, to learn how the technology he uses is helping to streamline sample processing, to provide clinicians with these critical results, faster.

SS: Tell us a little about your role

KB: The primary focus of my lab is performing molecular tests in hematology-oncology. We test bone marrow aspirates, peripheral blood, body fluids and tissues to assist in the diagnosis and treatment of childhood leukemias and other blood disorders.

SS: Can you describe an average day

KB: Every day we receive samples collected from our hospital clinics, as well external casesreferred to us from the greater Toronto area. We may receive between 50-100 samples in a day. Most of the tests are urgent, so we are on the go straight away. The clinicians depend on our tests and results to diagnose, treat and manage the patients promptly. In some cases, our results are critical for newly diagnosed patients who may need to be given chemotherapy straight away. We also perform monitoring and follow-up testing of patients samples to detect and assist in confirmations of remissions, or to confirm and monitor the extent of any relapses. These follow-up tests are useful to verify whether the patients have responded to therapy or not.

SS: How do you process patient samples?

KB: All our tests are DNA or RNA based. For every sample that we receive, we have to isolate and purify DNA or RNA, depending on the type of tests that need to be performed. Therefore, to preserve the integrity of the specimen, we have to centrifuge our blood and bone marrow aspirate samples right away and collect the buffy coat the white blood cell layer from which the DNA or RNA are extracted. We have several centrifuges that are constantly being used to spin the samples to collect the white blood cell layer. The DNA or RNA extraction process also involves multiple centrifugation of these samples.

SS: How does the technology you use help you process samples?

KB: At times, some of our tests are very urgent and we may need to centrifuge samples that may not necessarily be of precisely equal amount. We have both refrigerated and non-refrigerated models of the NuWind centrifuge and, so long as the sample volume is within a certain ballpark, we find them to be very stable. They rarely reject unbalanced samples, and for that reason there is no interruption to our workflow. Technical support from NuAire was spot on when we needed assistance, they were more than forthcoming to resolve our issues.

SS: What would your top tip be for other scientists working in a similar laboratory?

KB: We always say that its always advisable to work with fresh samples. At times, there may be situations where samples need to be processed in batches to help with workflow. I have noticed that by handling and processing fresh samples at the earliest convenience, despite obvious logistical issues, we can obtain RNA and DNA extracts of superior yield and purity, which is very important especially when dealing with precious small samples from pediatric patients.

SS: What do you like most about working for SickKids?

KB: You see the positive outcome and effectiveness of medical intervention right in front of your eyes. Theres nothing more gratifying than the realization that you have contributed to the treatment, management and, in some cases, cure of children facing these conditions.

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A Track-by-Track of Paramore’s ‘Riot!’ Read Through Emo Teen Memories – Noisey

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Where were you in 2007? Maybe you were rendered grief-stricken by the end of The OC. Maybe you lived in a velour tracksuit and Uggs, because Paris Hilton taught you. You may well have been skipping through the good primary school years. Or maybe, like a load of people (and me), you split your time between lying on the sofa at your mate's house, watching System of a Down videos and going on MySpace on your family's desktop, posting passive aggressive bulletins to get your crush's attention when signing out and back into MSN didn't work.

If your life revolved around the latter, you may have identified somewhat as "Emo <3". And though there are loads of cultural markers of "emo" as it a decade ago probably, your hobbies included taking photos of yourself where it looked like you were trying to get your mouth as far off the side of your face as possible it was really centred on music. Mainstream emo (as opposed to everything that came before it; your Embraces, your Jawbreakers, your American Footballs) is characterised now, in our collective cultural memory, by a few landmark albums. 2005 had Fall Out Boy's From Under the Cork Tree, while 2006 belonged to My Chemical Romance's Welcome to the Black Parade. And then, in 2007, came Riot! by Paramore.

From its scrawled cover art which could well have passed as a page of a high school art sketchbook, to the power chord-heavy breakdowns over which powerhouse frontwoman Hayley Williams wailed fatalistic lyrics, Riot! captured that mainstream emo zeitgeist perfectly. For many of us, listening to it now is like an exercise in going back in time it was so intrinsic to UK emo culture at the time that it's hard to separate the songs from the experiences you had to them (probably while wearing a studded belt). To celebrate Riot! turning ten, we asked some of our friends to tell us about their memories of the tracks on the record. There is nail polish, there are tears, there is rain and, of course, there is a lot of being underage and cheap cider-drunk in public parks. Thank you, Paramore.

Is there a more fire emoji album opener than this in the whole of emo? To this day, when it all kicks in I feel like I could mosh through a brick wall, and those fills throughout are air-drum gold. Even the title is perfect MSN screen name fodder a sort of deep, meaningful statement on emotions and, like, stuff, which in reality means sweet fuck-all. Glorious. TOM CONNICK

Remember when a Saturday afternoon used to involve little more than loitering outside a prominent high street shop, playing with your fringe and sneering at adults? That's the entirety of the "That What You Get" video. It's literally just a bunch of people stood around awkwardly for an entire day, poking their Nokias and sending 'XD' faces to each other, and yet I still want to be in their gang. TOM CONNICK

When I lived in halls (or what all of you outside the UK know as on-campus housing/where all your teen posters hopefully go to die), all the sad boy stoners boys had just discovered Jeff Buckley, despite him being dead a decade. There were so many "just listen to this bit" 4AM moments in hazy rooms I lost count. No, put that guitar down and just listen to Hayley Williams belt everything into how hard she's going to try to make her teen love last forever, go away. I still remain that this is the superior Hallelujah, FIGHT ME. KIRBY PARTINGTON

In 2007 I worked at the local ~alt club~. Fridays were both indie night and hell for all of us moshers who worked there. When this song blew up, it managed to penetrate even the indie nights and singing along to that iconic middle 8 was a welcome reprieve from The Pigeon Detectives or whatever crepey, dry-as-woodchips-in-your-mouth act was big, while pouring WKD into plastic cups. On reflection, wow, how gross is this song lyrically? In fairness though, 17-year-old Hayley's internalised misogny is on a level with 30-year-old Drake's now so I guess I'll allow her. KIRBY PARTINGTON

As a teen I had a propensity to take things fairly literally, and as a specifically emo-leaning teen I had a moral responsibility towards feeling #misunderstood. So of course I have a very distinct memory of walking around my local area, alone, in the rain, listening to "When It Rains," my dodgy side-fringe stuck to my face by the wet. I usually reserved Bright Eyes, the sad girl's premium choice, as my music for feeling sorry for myself when it was pissing it down, but this more downbeat Riot! cut also did the job nicely. I learned about being a drama queen early thank you Paramore. LAUREN O'NEILL

Some people would suggest that "Let the Flames Begin" is filler, coming as it does during Riot!'s admittedly slightly saggy middle. Thirteen-year-old me, however, would have had to respectfully and loudly disagree. "Let the Flames Begin" has some of the most emo lyrics on the whole of this gloriously extra record, and that's what real #heads care about. It begins, "What a shame we all became such fragile broken things / a memory remains, just a tiny spark," and I'm fairly sure I had a school exercise book with those very words scrawled across the front, bookended by '<3's. LAUREN O'NEILL

This, lads, is what you call a flawlessly constructed emo/pop punk crossover belter. It is having your heart broken in the middle of the summer, thrashing around with a hairbrush in your bedroom and then writing a really good poem about it with a pen and paper and then taking a picture of it next to some sentimental items and then uploading it to emopoetsociety.livejournal.com. It's exactly the sort of tune that would cause me to smash a half-full can on the floor and flip a table over before the vocals even kick in.

At the time, Paramore were usually compared to lighter mall punk bands like All Time Low, You Me At Six or, such was the state of rock criticism, Avril Lavigne, but when you break the arrangements down, Riot! and "Miracle" in particular belongs more toward the darker, fuller side of the spectrum alongside Taking Back Sunday's Where You Want To Be or Bayside circa Bayside. There. I said it. Fight me, purists. Tenuous connections aside though, the greatest thing about Paramore is the fact that they simply don't sound like anybody else (at least they didn't before they released an album that is extremely *listens to Carly Rae Jepsen's EMOTIONonce*). Have the emotions of longing, frustration, hope and determination ever culminated in a more satisfying song (that you can fully pit to) than "Miracle"? The answer is, passionately, no. EMMA GARLAND

"Crushcrushcrush" may be about the dark side to having a crush but emo lyrics are essentially formulated to be applicable to anything utterly miserable tbh. I remember the power in angrily singing the mantra crushcrushcrush; to destroy boys I fancied, parents who only had bile in their throats for each other, the sexual power I suddenly had over older men who I was both enamoured with and disgusted by, enemies real and imagined, my body running on next to no sustenance, and my mind, already regulated by antidepressants. Listening to that song, I could crush it all. Especially for someone who spent all their time alone as a teenager, the lines "we're all alone now, give me something to sing about" and "nothing compares to a quiet evening alone" soared. This was one last defiant monologue on the album, before the catharsis of admitting that we're all broken. "Crushcrushcrush" doesn't mean all that now but it's still the best Paramore to do pissed karaoke to. HANNAH EWENS

I was lost like, alone in a crowd, quirky-teen lost when I heard this. I was searching for myself. Or God? Either way it was clich. This song snagged on customary teen snark. Lyrics that usually rolled over me locked into me when it played. I cried when I first heard it, like I was in an angsty CW show. It's a hymn. It's praise, it's faith. It's anger and it's a reminder, comfort and catharsis. I wasn't alone, clearly. BOLU BABALOLA

This brings it all back tbh: flailing braids, remote as a mic, a mirror being a teen who didn't relate to what she was meant to. Essentially, a precocious art hoe. WIth my attitude flagrant, this song was assurance. I didn't need people to get me. I got me. You don't need to let them in if you don't want them in, or to be seen as someone you're not to fit in if you see yourself. Art hoe vindication. I was insufferable and empowered. BOLU BABALOLA

One of the best things about Paramore and this album both being so objectively great is that Hayley Williams is a woman. Emo as it existed back in 2007 was dominated by men, and as a young girl who loved it, it meant a lot to me to hear Hayley smashing seven shades of shit out of a song better than any guy I could (and can) think of. "Born For This" is an excellent example of how important she was, not least because even when I hear it now, I think the exact same thought as I did when I first got hold of it ten years ago. When the chorus hits, I have this fantasy where I am Hayley, on stage head-banging my orange hair, one foot on an amp, mic cord round my neck, singing to a crowd. On Riot!, which saw Paramore arguably at the height of their powers, Hayley made emo girls realise that they could be rock stars too that they could be "Born For This" too and that alone is an enviable legacy. LAUREN O'NEILL

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Regenerative Medicine Can Help Make America Great – Morning Consult

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When President Donald Trump urged the biopharmaceutical industry to reduce the price of new medicines and to increase its manufacturing in the United States, many took it as a threat.

We believe its a call to action. Americas ingenuity in biomedical research is unsurpassed. However, our country is losing out to other nations in the fastest growing biotechnology sector, called regenerative medicine: harnessing the capacity of our cells to repair and restore health and sustain well-being.

Second place is not an option. The regenerative medicine market is growing about 21 percent a year and is expected to be worth over $350 billion by 2050. Today, the U.S. regenerative medicine sector is generating $3.6 billion in revenues and has produced 14,000 jobs. By 2050, the industry could create nearly a million new jobs nationwide.

Regenerative medicine will also reduce the cost of disease. Such therapies will replace drugs, devices, and surgery, saving lives, increasing productivity, and reducing the cost of care. This transformation will add trillions in value to our economy.

Finally, regenerative medicine will also make America more secure. Our nation still lacks the ability to quickly and cheaply mass produce vaccines, antidotes, and cell therapies to counter pandemics and bioterrorism. Our fighting forces need reliable sources of these countermeasures and deserve immediate access to treatments that give them back their lives. We shouldnt outsource the safety and well-being of our nation and our Armed Forces to other countries.

To regain leadership in regenerative medicine, U.S. firms dont need government loans, tax credits or massive de-regulation. Instead, it needs the opportunity to invest in reducing the time and cost of manufacturing cellular therapies. To the extent that regenerative medicine is curative it must be made available at vaccine like prices. At present, only a handful of people can afford such treatments.

China and Japan are now in forefront of reducing the cost of producing stem cells, tissue, and other products with restorative biological properties. As a result, they are attracting more capital and forming more new companies than the U.S.

In 2014 Japan became the first country in the world to adopt an expedited approval system specifically for regenerative medical products and to allow outsourced cell culturing. Two products were approved under the new system within a year of its adoption.

By contrast, the Food and Drug Administration regulates any use of manufactured stem cells as equally risky without regard to prior use, health benefit, or therapeutic potential. Indeed, many of the most common stem cell therapies including bone marrow transplants and blood transfusions would require 10 years of FDA review if they were brought to market today.

The problem isnt over-regulation. Its outdated regulation. Safety checks and benchmarks for cell manufacturing should be based on real world evidence of past applications. Regulation should focus on the specific potential side effects for each specific potential use. In this regard, we agree with incoming FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb, who has noted, Expediting the development of these novel and transformative technologies like gene- and cell-based therapies doesnt necessarily mean lowering the standard for approval, as I believe other countries have done. But it does mean having a framework thats crafted to deal with the unique hypothetical risks that these products pose.

In fact, the United States has the best regenerative medicine manufacturing technology in the world. But it is literally sitting unused in warehouses.

For example, under the Accelerated Manufacture of Pharmaceuticals program, private companies partnered with the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency to develop mobile cell and tissue manufacturing plants that can be set up almost anywhere. The facilities can produce cells and tissues at a fraction of the current cost. These mobile factories make real-time production of vaccines and biologics for potential bioterrorist threats and pandemics possible. They are also low-cost, high-tech platforms for experimental evaluation of any type of regenerative medicine.

AMPs are operating in Indonesia, Singapore, China, and Japan where cell products including vaccines are being mass produced. Not a single AMP is being used in the United States because of outdated regulations.

To remove this regulatory obstacle, the Trump administration should establish a separate regenerative medicine pathway. This pathway, which could be developed by DARPA, FDA, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, would develop regulatory standards for the safe manufacturing and testing of development of regenerative products to treat battlefield related traumas such as traumatic brain injury, life-threatening limb damage, and drug-resistant pathogens.

The focus on the conditions and circumstances unique to war or counter-terrorism is both appropriate and strategic. After World War II, Franklin Roosevelt directed that the scientific and entrepreneurial talents used to achieve ramp up war-time production of penicillin and blood plasma be used in the days of peace ahead for the improvement of the national health, the creation of new enterprises bringing new jobs, and the betterment of the national standard of living.

What was created exceeded that vision. The cooperative efforts to achieve mass production of penicillin and blood plasma inspired and supported the creation of industries that employ millions of people today.

Similarly,developing an affordable source of cell therapies to heal our fighting forces and protect the homeland will yield a wide array of affordable technologies and cures that will produce, in FDRs words, a fuller and more fruitful employment and a fuller and more fruitful life. Simply put, by making the manufacture of regenerative medicine affordable can help make America great.

Robert Hariri is CEO of Celularity. Robert Goldberg is vice president of Center for Medicine in the Public Interest.

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Using Herbs as Medicine – Albany Times Union (blog)

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As a practitioner of Chinese Medicine both Acupuncture and Chinese Herbal Medicine I am invested in herbal medicine and its use and application. As such, I am going to write a series of articles on the subject of herbal medicine, which is truly the oldest form of medicine on the planet.

Having good health and wellness practices in your life are so basic to living a vital life full of energy, zest, purpose and fulfillment.

And good health and wellness practices are basic to living a Low Density Lifestyle the better you feel, the more you feel less dense and in the flow.

And achieving good health and healthy living are not that complicated to do, although it seems to be something out of the reach of most people.

A whole foods-oriented diet, movement, attitude, stress management, energy practices such as acupuncture, reiki, yoga and tai chi and feeling a sense of fulfillment are key ingredients to healthy living and living a Low Density Lifestyle.

Yet when people dont feel well, what do they do? Instead of going to a holistic-oriented health provider, most people rely on drugs.

Drug therapy has only been around in recent times. On the contrary, Herbal Medicine, which is natures medicine cabinet, is the oldest form of medicine.

Many drugs are made from herbs. For instance, inulin comes from the roots of dahlias, quinine from the cinchona, morphine and codeine from the poppy, digoxin from the foxglove, and aspirin from meadowsweet (aspirin also owes a big thanks to willow bark, which contains salicin, which is converted in the body into salicylic acid).

The word aspirin comes from an abbreviation of meadowsweets Latin genus Spiraea, with an additional A at the beginning to acknowledge acetylation, and in was added at the end for easier pronunciation.

The word drug itself comes from the Dutch word druug (via the French word Drogue), which means dried plant.

The use of herbs as medicine has been around as long as humans have walked the earth, but for many people, they have lost track of their roots (no pun intended). Herbal Medicine has been used by most cultures in every continent on earth as part of their traditional healing practices.

From the Sumerians and Traditional Egyptian Medicine, to Ayurvedic and Chinese Medicine, to the ancient Greeks and Romans, to Hippocrates and European Medicine, and to indigenous people all over the world, herbs have always been seen as an essential aid in helping a person heal.

The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that 80 percent of the worlds population presently uses herbal medicine for some aspect of primary health care.

A German apothecary with a medical herbalist

To this day, herbal remedies are very common in Europe. In Germany, herbal medications are dispensed by apothecaries. Prescription drugs are sold alongside essential oils, herbal extracts, or herbal teas.

In the United Kingdom, the training of medical herbalists is done by state funded Universities. For example, Bachelor of Science degrees in herbal medicine are offered at Universities such as University of East London, Middlesex University, University of Central Lancashire, University of Westminster, University of Lincoln and Napier University in Edinburgh.

So what has happened? Why are herbs the forgotten orphan of medicine and healing?

Because we have come to deify the modern medical approach of drugs and surgery for all health issues, whereas in actuality modern medicine is at its best in emergency situations thats when the use of a drug makes more sense than the use of an herb.

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But for chronic health problems, a different approach is needed. One that stresses natural remedies.

And when natural remedies are used, herbal medicine must always be part of the approach.

I have a new free six-day email course that I am offering, entitled Enlightened Living: 6 Ways to Build an Authentic, Serene and Healthy Life. Read more about it here: The Enlightened Living Course.

Michael Wayne, Ph.D., L.Ac., is a practitioner of Acupuncture, Chinese Medicine and Integrative Medicine, with offices in Saratoga Springs and Clifton Park. He is also the author of three books, the founder of the Saratoga Integrative Medicine Education Network or SIMEN, the producer/host of the online video interview series Interviews with the Leading Edge at http://www.LeadingEdgeInterviews.com, and Director of the Center for Quantum Revolution at http://www.QuantumRevolution.net. His new book is The Quantum Revolution: The Power to Transform. He can be reached at (518) 210-1557, his email is mwayne2@mac.com and his website is http://www.DrMichaelWayne.com.

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A health scare sparked her interest in sports medicine field – The Daily Herald

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Abby Culver, 18, has been a student trainer for sports teams at Edmonds-Woodway High School. After being treated for a brain tumor, she decided to pursue an interest in sports medicine. She will begin classes at Washington State University in August.

Question: Whats your role with the sports teams?

Answer: Student trainer. Football for three years, basketball for the last two years.

I did boys soccer my sophomore and junior years. And I went to state with boys soccer last year and girls basketball last year. This year, I went to playoffs with boys basketball.

Q: What got you interested in sports training?

A: Sports medicine is something Ive done for the last three years. I loved the atmosphere of football games, knowing I can make a difference, seeing players who are injured, watching them rehabilitate, and seeing them able to play again and be successful.

Q: Was there some specific thing that drew you to sports training?

A: When I was a freshman in March of 2014 I found out I had a brain tumor the size of a golf ball or plum growing in my brain. That was pretty scary and random. I had a lot of headaches, small seizures and migraines closer to the diagnosis. I got a MRI and they told me to go to the emergency room immediately.

Q: Did you have to have an operation?

A: Yes. I had operation and they removed it. It hasnt come back. They said I was born with it and it grew really slowly for years and years. That experience made me a lot more interested in medicine. It gave me an appreciation for health care and health care professionals.

Q: Did that influence the classes you took?

A: The next year I took sports medicine. I wanted to be one of those people who helped people like my doctors and nurses helped me.

Q: Whats your GPA?

A: 3.99. Ive always really liked school and getting good grades and learning has been really important to me.

Q: What Running Start classes have you taken at Edmonds Community College?

A: English, psychology, medical terminology, art appreciation, personal finance, African-American History and Pacific Northwest History.

Q: Can you tell me about the award you recently won at the school districts Scholar-Athlete Banquet?

A: It was a $3,000 scholarship.

Q: How did you become interested in attending Washington State University?

A: Well its kind of a funny story. Im totally a planner. So two to three years ago, I started making lists of colleges. WSU was not on any of them. Then I actually started looking at the schools. Most didnt have the programs that I want. Im going to study kinesiology or sports science.

My mom finally convinced me to go visit WSU. I visited last April and really liked It. Its a beautiful campus. The sense of community there really drew me in and their athletic facilities for what I would be doing, sports medicine. They have great athletic training rooms.

Q: You said youre a planner. WSU starts in mid-August. Are you already packed?

A: No, but Ive got a list. Ive begun planning a little bit and making a list of things Ill need in my dorm.

Q: Will you need a masters degree to pursue your future job goals?

A: I know the field. Im not sure of the career. I want to do something in medicine, more specifically sports medicine. I dont have a specific job.

With kinesiology I can do a strength and conditioning minor to still work with athletes. I can keep my options open that way and explore some different interests I have in sports medicine.

I have four years to figure it out.

Sharon Salyer: 425-339-3486; salyer@heraldnet.com.

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WVU Medicine On Call at Greenbrier athletic events, training camps – The Exponent Telegram (press release) (registration)

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GREENBRIER WVU Medicines sports medicine physicians will provide specialized care at The Greenbriers professional athletic events and training camps under a partnership and clinical affiliation.

A doctor will be on-site during all athletic events, including The Greenbrier Classic and any training camps at The Greenbrier. According to a news release from the health system, WVU Medicine will be the official medical provider for professional sports events The Greenbrier continues to add. A Greenbrier spokesman did not answer messages inquiring if new sports or events are in the works.

Anyone requiring specialty care will be transported to WVU Medicines J.W. Ruby Memorial Hospital in Morgantown.

We are excited to partner with WVU Medicine as The Greenbriers official sports medicine provider, said David Darden, administrator of the Greenbrier Clinic. Two great organizations are combining resources to ensure the professional athletes involved in sporting events at The Greenbrier have access to excellent medical services.

The 104-year-old luxury resort in White Sulphur Springs will host the eighth annual Greenbrier Classic golf tournament, a PGA Tour FedEx Cup Event, from July 3-9. Brenden Balcik, M.D., a WVU Medicine emergency medicine and sports medicine physician, will serve as medical director for the tournament, providing care to the golf pros, their families and their caddies.

The resorts Sports Performance Complex is home to the Houston Texans NFL football training camp and formerly hosted the New Orleans Saints.

WVU Medicine providers will handle needs that cant be served locally.

We certainly realize The Greenbrier is a world-class organization, said Darin Rogers, vice president and chief ambulatory operations officer at WVU Medicine. They provide very comprehensive care down there. At times, services are not available at The Greenbrier, and those patients have to go out.

He said the Greenbrier Clinic offers specialty and primary care, as well as an extensive Executive Health Program.

They dont have inpatient beds, but again, they have a nice variety of services, so for the needs they cant supply, we thought this would be great for those patients, Rogers said. We feel this is a great opportunity for two world-class organizations to work together and collaborate; were looking forward to developing and blossoming this relationship.

Greenbrier Valley Medical Center, a 122-bed teaching hospital in Ronceverte, also serves Greenbrier County, where the resort is located.

Greenbrier Valley Medical Center has provided and will continue to provide diagnostic testing and emergency services to The Greenbrier resort for its athletic events and training camps since their inception, reads a statement from GVMCs Director of Marketing Kim Estep. We are supportive of the resorts agreement with WVU Medicine to offer access to round-the-clock orthopedic and sports medicine services for the elite athletes who visit our region. We look forward to continuing to serve visitors and residents of the Greenbrier Valley and welcome WVU Medicine.

Albert Wright, president and CEO of the WVU Medicine-West Virginia University Health System, said it was fitting that two of West Virginias most recognized brands WVU Medicine and The Greenbrier would collaborate.

When people visit The Greenbrier, they expect the best, and the same is true of those who seek out WVU Medicine for their medical care.

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