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NASA has selected seven academic and research teams as initial members of the agency's Lunar Science Institute.The institute supports scientific research to supplement and extend existing NASA lunar science programs in coordination with U.S. space exploration policy. The selection of the members encompasses academic institutions, non-profit research institutes, private companies, NASA centers and other government laboratories. Selections were based on a competitive evaluation process that...
GRONINGEN, The Netherlands, Dec. 31 /PRNewswire/ -- Results from a landmark trial published today in the New England Journal of Medicine, show that in transplanted kidneys preserved and transported in a specially designed machine (LifePort Kidney Transporter) the odds for experiencing a delay in recovery of kidney function are 43% lower, and that these kidneys are 48% less likely to fail within a year compared to those stored in the traditional box of ice (cold storage).(1) The study was...
A Unique Way to Measure Dark Energy With Galaxies and QuasarsThe Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) uses a 2.5-meter telescope with a wider field of view than any other large telescope, located on a mountaintop in New Mexico called Apache Point and devoted solely to mapping the universe. We now know that some three-quarters of the universe consists of dark energy, whose very existence was unsuspected when telescope construction began in 1994 and still controversial when the first Sloan survey...
SCOTTSDALE, Ariz., Sept. 8 /PRNewswire/ -- Two Scottsdale businesses Saturday (September 13) inaugurate what they believe to be the first public wellness workshop series to allow people to explore the intersection between personal genomics and individual health. "DNA and Your Health" is a half-day seminar at New Vision Spiritual Growth Center taught by two experts in their respective fields. They are Dr. Anne Marie Fine, a naturopathic primary care physician, and Dr. Donald N. Yates,...
Delcath Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: DCTH) announced today that the National Cancer Institute (NCI) has named Dr. Marybeth S. Hughes, MD as the Principal Investigator for the current Phase III and Phase II clinical trials of the Company's Percutaneous Hepatic Perfusion (PHP) System. These trials are being conducted under a Cooperative Research and Development Agreement (CRADA) between the NCI and Delcath. This announcement comes as Dr. James F. Pingpank, Jr., who was Principal Investigator of the...
A new analysis indicates that birds don't fly alone when migrating at night. Some birds, at least, keep together on their migratory journeys, flying in tandem even when they are 200 meters or more apart.The study, from researchers at the University of Illinois and the Illinois Natural History Survey, appears this month in Integrative and Comparative Biology. It is the first to confirm with statistical data what many ornithologists and observers had long suspected: Birds fly together in loose...
MONTVALE, N.J., June 30, 2008 (PRIME NEWSWIRE) -- Ivivi Technologies, Inc. (Nasdaq:IVVI), a leader in non-invasive, electroceutical(r) therapy systems designed to enhance the body's natural anti-inflammatory response, today announced that the Cleveland Clinic, in Westin, Florida, has released the results of its double-blind, randomized, placebo-controlled and prospective clinical trial (EFFECT trial) utilizing the Company's proprietary targeted pulsed electromagnetic field (tPEMF(tm))...
Answers may be hidden in the tropopause, 32,000 to 56,000 feet highScientists are deploying an advanced research aircraft to study a region of the atmosphere that influences climate change by affecting the amount of solar heat that reaches Earth's surface.Findings from the project, based at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) in Boulder, Colo., will be used by researchers worldwide to improve computer models of global climate in preparation for the next report by the...
NASA will return to Mercury for the first time in almost 33 years on January 14, 2008, when the MESSENGER spacecraft makes its first flyby of the Sun's closest neighbor, capturing images of large portions of the planet never before seen. The probe will make its closest approach to Mercury at 2:04 p.m. EST that day, skimming 200 kilometers (124 miles) above its surface. This encounter will provide a critical gravity assist needed to keep the spacecraft on track for its 2011 orbit insertion...
NASA's New Horizons spacecraft has provided new data on the Jupiter system, stunning scientists with never-before-seen perspectives of the giant planet's atmosphere, rings, moons and magnetosphere.These new views include the closest look yet at the Earth-sized "Little Red Spot" storm churning materials through Jupiter's cloud tops; detailed images of small satellites herding dust and boulders through Jupiter's faint rings; and of volcanic eruptions and circular grooves on the...
