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Lee Rannals for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online IBM opened up a research lab in Kenya in the hopes of saving the country billions through the development of technology. The company believes it will be able to use the lab to save Kenya some money as it improves the delivery of public services. IBM vice president Robert Morris said the company would be investing a "significant" amount in the lab. Kenya will be contributing $2 million annually for the next five years, according...

OXFORD, England, August 13, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- An international journal dedicated to exploring the full range of contemporary discourse work Elsevier [http://www.elsevier.com ], a world-leading provider of scientific, technical and medical information products and services, is pleased to announce the launch of a new quarterly journal, Discourse, Context and Media. Discourse, Context and Media provides an innovative...

AMSTERDAM, August 13, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Elsevier [http://www.elsevier.com ], a world-leading provider of scientific, technical and medical information products and services, today announced a substantial number of its medical, scientific and professional reference books are now available on the iBookstore. These titles join the list of hundreds of Elsevier books already available and over the next few months, Elsevier will be bringing additional scientific, technical and...

Researchers at Oregon State University have discovered, for the first time in any animal species, a type of “selfish” mitochondrial DNA that is actually hurting the organism and lessening its chance to survive – and bears a strong similarity to some damage done to human cells as they age. The findings, just published in the journal PLoS One, are a biological oddity previously unknown in animals. But they may also provide an important new tool to study human aging, scientists said....

LONDON, August 8, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Elsevier to continue publishing Biological Psychiatry Elsevier [http://www.elsevier.com ], and the Society of Biological Psychiatry [http://www.sobp.org ] (SOBP) are pleased to announce a renewal of their publishing agreement. Under the agreement, Elsevier will continue to provide publishing services for the society's journal Biological Psychiatry. The SOBP and Elsevier have worked together continuously since 1983. According...

Inflammation and cell stress play important roles in the death of insulin-secreting cells and are major factors in diabetes. Cell stress also plays a role in Wolfram syndrome, a rare, genetic disorder that afflicts children with many symptoms, including juvenile-onset diabetes. Now a molecule has been identified that's key to the cell stress-modulated inflammation that causes insulin cells to die, report scientists at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, the University of...

3D movie at ‘ultraresolution’ shows how cell’s machinery bends membrane inwards Scientists at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) in Heidelberg, Germany, have combined the power of two kinds of microscope to produce a 3-dimensional movie of how cells ‘swallow’ nutrients and other molecules by engulfing them. The study, published today in Cell, is the first to follow changes in the shape of the cell’s membrane and track proteins thought to influence those changes....

AMSTERDAM, July 30, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Elsevier [http://www.elsevier.com ], a world-leading provider of scientific, technical and medical information products and services, announces the launch of Applied and Translational Genomics, an open access journal. The journal is dedicated to publishing articles on applied genomics and translational research. The completion of the human genome project gave way to research that takes the genetic code and applies it to research...

The popular belief that "cancer originates due to DNA mutations” is wrong” according to Samil Ozavar, who is the President of GEMM Research Ltd. Malignant transformation actually takes place due to an excessive build up of ATP in the cell that force a premature and uncontrolled cell division. A structural damage to the mitochondrial membrane channels that regulate the ATP flow to the cytosol are responsible for the excessive energy build that may lead to the formation of a...

Programmed cell death (PCD) is a highly regulated process that occurs in all animals and plants as part of normal development and in response to the environment. New research published in BioMed Central's open access journal BMC Plant Biology is the first to document the physiological events in the lace plant (Aponogeton madagascariensis) which occur via PCD to produce the characteristic holes in its leaves. The aquatic lace plant, endemic to Madagascar, uses PCD to generate holes in its...