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Updated Design Evokes Global Health Mission ROCKVILLE, Md., April 15, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Celebrating nearly two centuries of dedication to science, standards and health, the U.S. Pharmacopeial Convention (USP) has unveiled a new logo and tagline that convey the organization's key role in helping to ensure the quality of medicines and foods around the world. USP's new look is a visual expression of the principles embodied in the organization's strategic plan, which...

PALO ALTO, Calif., Jan. 15, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- The United States Pharmacopeial Convention (USP), an internationally recognized standards-setting organization, has chosen MetricStream to monitor and enhance the quality of its operating procedures and processes, which are used to validate public quality standards for drugs, food, and dietary supplements. The MetricStream solution will streamline and integrate various audits carried out across USP facilities, laboratories, and...

redOrbit Staff & Wire Reports - Your Universe Online Finding may suggest new treatments for sleep disorders Understanding sleep disorders including REM sleep behavior disorder, narcolepsy and grinding of the teeth could be linked to two strong brain chemicals and a system network that works together to stop rapid eye movement and muscle movement during sleep. New research in the July 18 issue of  The Journal of Neuroscience may help scientists better understand and treat sleep...

Amino acid consumption associated with how fast cancer cells divide For almost a century, researchers have known that cancer cells have peculiar appetites, devouring glucose in ways that normal cells do not. But glucose uptake may tell only part of cancer's metabolic story. Researchers from the Broad Institute and Massachusetts General Hospital looked across 60 well-studied cancer cell lines, analyzing which of more than 200 metabolites were consumed or released by the fastest dividing...

The emergence of weeds resistant to the most widely used herbicide is fostering a new arms race in the war against these menaces, which cost society billions of dollars annually in control measures and lost agricultural production. That's the topic of a story in the current edition of Chemical & Engineering News (C&EN), the weekly magazine of the American Chemical Society (ACS), the world's largest scientific society. In the story, Melody M. Bomgardner, C&EN senior business...

The boundary between electronics and biology is blurring with the first detection by researchers at Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory of ferroelectric properties in an amino acid called glycine. A multi-institutional research team led by Andrei Kholkin of the University of Aveiro, Portugal, used a combination of experiments and modeling to identify and explain the presence of ferroelectricity, a property where materials switch their polarization when an electric field is...

WASHINGTON, March 19, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- The U.S. Department of Commerce today found in favor of LG Electronics and will not issue a countervailing duty order against imports of refrigerators from Korea. In a countervailing duty investigation brought by Whirlpool Corporation, the Commerce Department issued a "negative final determination" based on its finding that LG refrigerators are not illegally subsidized. In the antidumping investigations, also brought by Whirlpool, LG...

WASHINGTON, Oct. 27, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- LG Electronics and its affiliates will aggressively contest the dumping allegations and the methodologies used by the U.S. Department of Commerce in its preliminary determinations in the ongoing antidumping duty investigations of bottom mount refrigerator-freezers imported from Korea and Mexico. In those determinations, the Commerce Department preliminarily found that LG Electronics USA, Inc. (LGEUS) and its affiliates LG Electronics, Inc. (LGE)...

Representatives from Government, Academia and Manufacturers to Help Steer Direction of USP Quality Specifications, Analyze Detection Approaches for Global Standards (PRWEB) October 04, 2011 To meet modern-day tastes and demands of consumers, the food and dietary supplement industries are accelerating global sourcing and manufacturing while utilizing increasingly innovative, functional and natural ingredients. As the complexity of supply chains grows with more distant sourcing of...

FORT LEE, N.J., May 31, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Ajinomoto Food Ingredients announced that Ajinomoto Co., Inc., a leader in the development of pharmaceutical-quality amino acids and safe, effective nutraceutical solutions, will showcase Glysom(TM) (www.glysom.com) during Sleep 2011, the 25th Annual Meeting of the Associated Professional Sleep Societies to be held in Minneapolis, June 11-15, 2011. Glysom(TM) is the latest breakthrough in amino acid and sleep research. Made from glycine, an...