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BALTIMORE, June 12, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Remedi SeniorCare(®) is pleased to announce that Carol Slas, RPh, has joined their expanding team as the General Manager of the Marshall, Michigan pharmacy. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20130425/PH02001LOGO ) Ms. Slas will oversee all areas of operation at the Marshall location including their transition to the Paxit® automated medication dispensing system later this year. "Carol brings extensive experience in the oversight...
redOrbit Staff & Wire Reports - Your Universe Online Scientists at the European Organization for Nuclear Research, known by its French acronym CERN, are working hard to uncover the world’s first Web page, but are struggling due to the nature of how data is shared. Tim Berners-Lee invented the Web in 1990 while working on an unsanctioned project at CERN. He used a NeXT computer that Apple co-founder Steve Jobs designed during the 1980s. Dan Noyes, who oversees CERN's website, is...
InsightsOne discusses how predictive intelligence is improving member satisfaction in the healthcare industry SANTA CLARA, Calif. and LAS VEGAS, June 12, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- InsightsOne, a pioneer in consumer predictive intelligence solutions, today announced that VP of Marketing and Product Management, Bob Dutcher, will present at America's Health Insurance Plans (AHIP) Institute 2013. He will be co-presenting with Ravi Chawla, Director of Informatics at Independence Blue Cross...
SAN DIEGO, June 12, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- VOIS, INC. (OTCQB: VOIS) announces that it has received the first tranche of funding needed to complete the Company's patented EEG headset. The Company has completed a working prototype of a micro EEG headset, which operates as a brain-computer-interface device for mobile applications. The device has been successfully tested on several Android and Samsung tablets and smart phones to interact directly through the power of your mind. The...
MANCHESTER, England, June 12, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Three of Synexus' South African dedicated clinical research centres Stanza, Watermeyer and Nyeleti have been identified by Pfizer as meeting the exacting standards that the company demands to join a worldwide network of INSPIRE sites which must be both highly productive and effective. INSPIRE, which stands for Investigator Networks, Site Partnerships and Infrastructure for Research Excellence, means that these sites...
SAN DIEGO, June 12, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Sequenom, Inc. (NASDAQ: SQNM), a life sciences company providing innovative genetic analysis solutions, today announced that its wholly owned subsidiary, the Sequenom Center for Molecular Medicine (Sequenom CMM), has completed the build-out and validation of an additional laboratory location in Raleigh-Durham, NC, and is now processing patient samples commercially. This new laboratory location adds capacity and redundancy to the existing...
Princeton, New Jersey on May 30th RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C., June 12, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Marken announced today the successful launch of a new workshop series addressing Quality Agreements between pharmaceutical companies and their supply chain providers. Quality Agreements are increasingly being scrutinized by regulatory authorities during routine audits with a new focus on the supply chain. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20110930/NY78064LOGO ) As clinical trials...
Lee Rannals for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online A new Kickstarter project wants to allow you to own and control your own cyborg cockroach. The RoboRoach is the world's first commercially available "Insect Cyborg" that involves neuroscience and engineering. Researchers from "Backyard Brains" created a device that allows you to install a pack to the antenna of a cockroach and control the insect using an app available on the iPhone. "Our RoboRoach is an innovative marriage of...
Collaborative research organization TNO program will leverage the advantages of Tornado’s patented High Throughput Virtual Slit (HTVS) for the benefit of medical research. Eindhoven, Netherlands and Toronto, Canada (PRWEB) June 11, 2013 Tornado Spectral Systems (TSS) has become a partner in TNO’s Van ‘t Hoff research program, which will benefit from the use of Tornado’s high-performance spectrometer and hyper-spectral imaging products. The Van ‘t Hoff program is a collaborative...
Expanding use of new technology for ocean science Chicago, IL (PRWEB) June 11, 2013 Global Oceans and Liquid Robotics today announced they have established a strategic agreement to jointly develop and promote new opportunities for ocean scientists to utilize Wave Glider® robotic technologies for scientific research on expeditions hosted by Global Oceans. One of the key goals of the Alliance is to accelerate researchers’ access to ocean data. Today, scheduling time on most research...
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Image Caption: NGC 4414, a typical spiral galaxy in the constellation Coma Berenices, is about 56,000 light-years in diameter and approximately 60 million light-years distant. Credit: NASA/ESA/Wikipedia What is Astrophysics? For much of the modern age the term Astrophysics has been used synonymously with Astronomy. This interchange is so common that many textbooks even offer the two as having the same meaning. However, from a strictly historical perspective there are differences...
Mae Jemison is an American physician, NASA astronaut, and was the first black woman to travel to space. She was born Mae Carol Jemison on October 17, 1956 in Decatur, Alabama. Her family moved to Chicago, Illinois when she was younger, and she assumed that spaceflight would become a common travel for civilians by the time she was an adult. She was inspired by Martin Luther King Jr. and Nichelle Nichols. She graduated from Morgan Park High School in 1973 at age sixteen. She immediately entered...
Environmental Chemistry is a peer-reviewed scientific journal published online bi-monthly by CSIRO Publishing. The journal publishes original research and review articles on all aspects of environmental chemistry, including those addressing the chemistry of air, water, soil, sediments, space and biota. Topics include atmospheric chemistry, geochemistry, climate change, marine chemistry, water chemistry, polar chemistry, fire chemistry, astrochemistry, earth and geochemistry, soil and sediment...
The International Journal of Quantum Chemistry is a peer-reviewed scientific journal established in 1967 by Per-Olov Lowdin. The journal moved to an in-house editorial office model in 2011, enlisting a permanent team of professional editors. It publishes original, primary research and review articles on all aspects of quantum chemistry, including an expanded scope focusing on aspects of materials science, biochemistry, biophysics, quantum physics, and quantum information theory. Image...
The International Journal of Plant Sciences is a scientific botanical journal published by the University of Chicago Press. It was known as the Botanical Bulletin from 1875-1876 and as the Botanical Gazette from 1876-1991. This journal covers botanical research including genetics and genomics, developmental cell biology, biochemistry and physiology, morphology structure, systematics, plant-microbial interactions, paleo-botany, evolution, and ecology. This journal also publishes important...
