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Today DataChambers announces that it plans to expand into the Charlotte market with a new data center to be built on the research campus—providing businesses across the region with hosted and cloud-based infrastructure solutions, network management, data backup and business continuity solutions. Kannapolis, N.C. (PRWEB) June 12, 2013 DataChambers, a North State Communications company that specializes in information technology services, is joining the North Carolina Research Campus(NCRC)...

Brett Smith for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online Surgeons at Duke University have announced the successful implantation of a bioengineered blood vessel in the United States. “This is a pioneering event in medicine,” said Dr. Jeffrey H. Lawson, a vascular surgeon and vascular biologist at Duke Medicine who helped develop the technology. “It’s exciting to see something you’ve worked on for so long become a reality.” “We talk about translational technology –...

Duke University Southern California beaches with storm drain diversion systems attract millions more people annually, a new study in the journal Marine Pollution Bulletin shows. The study looked at whether improving the environmental quality of coastal areas through policy intervention had an effect on the way people use coastal areas. Researchers found a direct correlation between increased attendance and the installation of storm drain diversions at 26 beaches in Santa Monica Bay and...

Duke University Using a novel genetic 'editing' technique, Duke University biomedical engineers have been able to repair a defect responsible for one of the most common inherited disorders, Duchenne muscular dystrophy, in cell samples from Duchenne patients. Instead of the common gene therapy approach of adding new genetic material to "override" the faulty gene, the Duke scientists have developed a way to change the existing mutated gene responsible for the disorder into a normally...

Duke University Commencement, Edenton NC 300th Celebration among groundbreaking photos hosted on gigapan.com. (PRWEB) June 03, 2013 Aqueti, a new company commercializing digital gigapixel photographic technology, today released a new set of interactive photographs for public access. The set includes the 2013 Duke University Commencement, including commencement speaker Melinda Gates, and the 300th Anniversary Celebration for the City of Edenton, North Carolina. The press and public are...

Duke University "For songbirds, singing a lot of songs indicates a bird is smart, but that signal is not necessarily indicative of intelligence for everything," said Duke biologist Steve Nowicki. In a series of problem-solving tests with the birds, he and his colleagues found that the male song sparrows that sang the most songs learned to solve food-finding puzzles more slowly than the birds singing fewer songs. The results are the first to show that a larger song repertoire links to...

Duke University Duke University engineers have developed a novel method for producing clean hydrogen, which could prove essential to weaning society off of fossil fuels and their environmental implications. While hydrogen is ubiquitous in the environment, producing and collecting molecular hydrogen for transportation and industrial uses is expensive and complicated. Just as importantly, a byproduct of most current methods of producing hydrogen is carbon monoxide, which is toxic to...

FAIRFAX, Va., May 7, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Two second year MBA candidates from The Fuqua School of Business at Duke took first place in The Executive Leadership Foundation's (ELF) 2013 Business Case Competition, which focused on developing workforce talent with skills in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) disciplines. Duke was one of three finalist teams competing for $70,000 in scholarships. Sponsored again this year by Exxon Mobil Corporation, ELF's annual...

Diabetes testing supply company demonstrates quality assurance through comparative research study CHARLOTTE, N.C., May 7, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Prodigy Diabetes Care (Prodigy) announced today that a recent study conducted by the Duke University revealed that the Prodigy AutoCode(®) blood glucose meter and test strip system is better than, or equivalent to, the leading brands in accuracy and reliability. The comparative clinical study examined the accuracy and reliability of blood...

Lee Rannals for redOrbit.com – Your Universe Online Duke University engineers are developing a way for you to create your own visibility cloak with a 3D printer. Three-dimensional printing is growing in popularity, and the cost for a MakerBot Replicator 2 is now just $2,199. Scientists are also working harder and harder to turn Harry Potter's invisibility cloak into a reality. A group wrote in the New Journal of Physics in March about how they developed a new cloak that is able to...