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JACKSON, Wyo., Jan. 2, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Trust for Public Land, working with a broad coalition of environmental organizations, concerned citizens, and more than 1,000 donors, announced today it has completed a transaction to purchase oil and gas leases on 58,000 acres of sensitive land in Wyoming's Hoback Basin. The acquisition means that affected land inside the Bridger-Teton National Forest near Grand Teton National Park will be forever saved from oil and gas...

SAN DIEGO, March 17, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- BioMed Realty Trust, Inc. (NYSE: BMR) announced today the signing of a new ten-year lease at the Center for Life Science | Boston with Harvard University, providing new expansion space for the Hansjorg Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University. The Wyss Institute will occupy the second floor, comprising approximately 31,500 square feet of laboratory and office space, in addition to its current site that fills the...

Stacks of filter paper provide a realistic, easy-to-use medium for growing cellsAn insight from the labs of Harvard chemist George Whitesides and cell biologist Don Ingber is likely to make a fundamental shift in how biologists grow and study cells "“ and it's as cheap and simple as reaching for a paper towel.Ratmir Derda, a postdoctoral student co-mentored by Whitesides and Ingber at Harvard's new Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering, has realized that by growing cells on...