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LAWRENCEVILLE, N.J., May 1, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Celsion Corporation (NASDAQ: CLSN) announced today that Professor Riccardo Lencioni, MD, FSIR, EBIR, 2013 WCIO Program Chairman and the Director of the Division of Diagnostic Imaging and Intervention at Pisa University School of Medicine in Italy and Lead European Principal Investigator for Celsion's Phase III HEAT Study and Ronnie T.P. Poon, MD, MS, PhD, FRCS(Edin), FACS, Professor of Surgery at the University of Hong Kong and Lead...

Seaweed has been eaten for thousands of years by people all over the world, and it can be considered a tasty and healthy food item. This is the conclusion from professor Ole G. Mouritsen, Department of Physics, Chemistry and Pharmacy at the University of Southern Denmark, who has scientifically studied the species dulse (Palmaria palmata). Dulse has traditionally been eaten by populations along North Atlantic coasts in countries such as Iceland, Ireland, England, Scotland, France, Norway...

WATCH VIDEO: [Moving Toward High Shape Resolution] Michael Harper for redOrbit.com – Your Universe Online When the iPhone was first released in 2007, one of its best features was the ability to run web applications, becoming a pocketable computer with many different uses. This ability was amplified in 2008 with the introduction of the App Store. This wasn’t only a phone; it was also a browser, a GPS, a camera, a networking tool, etc. It’s been nearly six years since this first...

Up to 10 per cent of the population is affected by specific learning disabilities (SLDs), such as dyslexia, dyscalculia and autism, translating to two or three pupils in every classroom, a new study has found. Led by Professor Brian Butterworth, a Professorial Fellow at the University of Melbourne’s School of Psychological Sciences and Emeritus Professor of cognitive neuropsychology at University College London, the study gives insight into the underlying causes of specific learning...

Children who are exposed to negative parenting – including abuse, neglect but also overprotection – are more likely to experience childhood bullying by their peers, according to a meta-analysis of 70 studies of more than 200,000 children. The research, led by the University of Warwick and published in the journal Child Abuse & Neglect, found the effects of poor parenting were stronger for children who are both a victim and perpetrator of bulling (bully-victims) than children who...

Digital Trowel, a global leader in next generation text mining and semantic web technology, is pleased to announce that its co-founder and chief scientist, Professor Ronen Feldman, one of the world’s leading authorities in the field of text-mining, has been selected as one of five finalists to compete for the prestigious 2013 AQR Insight Award. New York, NY (PRWEB) April 25, 2013 The AQR Insight Award recognizes outstanding unpublished papers that provide the most significant and...

Professor J. Thomas McCarthy's treatise has been cited in more than 4,000 judicial decisions, including 10 U.S. Supreme Court opinions EAGAN, Minn., April 25, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- The Intellectual Property (IP) and Science business of Thomson Reuters, the world's leading source of intelligent information for businesses and professionals, today announced that Professor J. Thomas McCarthy, nationally renowned author, attorney and a 2012 IP Hall of Fame inductee, marks 40 years as a...

Precision agriculture promises to make farming more efficient and should have an important impact on the serious issue of food security, according to a new study published in Significance, the magazine of the Royal Statistical Society and the American Statistical Association. In an article about the study in the magazine's May issue, University of Reading Professor Margaret A. Oliver, BSc, PhD, assesses how there is potential to manage land more effectively to improve the farming economy and...

The Silicon Valley Venture Capitalist Confidence Index® for the first quarter of 2013, authored by University of San Francisco Professor Mark Cannice, registered 3.73 on a 5 point scale (with 5 indicating high confidence and 1 indicating low confidence). San Francisco, CA (PRWEB) April 24, 2013 The Silicon Valley Venture Capitalist Confidence Index® for the first quarter of 2013, based on a March 2013 survey of 30 San Francisco Bay Area venture capitalists, registered 3.73 on a...

University of Manchester [ Watch The Video Cancerous B Cell Being Destroyed by Natural Killer Cells ] Scientists from the Manchester Collaborative Centre for Inflammation Research (MCCIR) have discovered why a particular cancer drug is so effective at killing cells. Their findings could be used to aid the design of future cancer treatments. Professor Daniel Davis and his team used high quality video imaging to investigate why the drug rituximab is so effective at killing cancerous B...