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The science of living better, longer

By Guest PostNovember 16, 2013Healthaging process, better health, disease modifying therapy, quality of life, risk of falling, science of living

Did you ever wonder what science is doing to help us age more comfortably, in better health, doing the things we care about, for a longer span of time? (more…)

Apple is ahead of the rest

By Guest PostNovember 16, 2013Technologyapple, innovation from apple, model of iphone, world of technologies

The world of technologies doesn’t cease to surprise. This time we have an innovation from Apple. It should seem, there only was a fuss about the new iPhone 5, and now we have the news about the brand-new iPhone 5S. Is there a big difference between these two models and how many people are going to buy the latest one?
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Experimental drug shows encouraging results in treating most common form of lung cancer

By Guest PostNovember 15, 2013Healthamerican cancer society, australia, common form, drug related, edward garon, experimental drug, immunotherapy drug, kill cancer cell, lung cancer, merck, mk 3475, new drug, phase 1b study, protein pd1, side effects, sydney, treating, ucla, world conference

An experimental cancer drug that has shown promise in the treatment of melanoma has also shown early potential as an effective treatment for patients with non-small cell lung cancer, the leading cause of cancer death among men and women worldwide.

Dr. Edward Garon, director of thoracic oncology at UCLA’s Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center, presented the preliminary results of a Phase 1B study of the new drug, called MK-3475, on Oct. 29 at the World Conference on Lung Cancer in Sydney, Australia. (more…)

Russland: Greenpeace-Aktivisten sollen länger in Untersuchungshaft bleiben: Behörden fordern drei Monate mehr Zeit für Ermittlungen

By Guest PostNovember 15, 2013Environmentarctic 30, gericht, Greenpeace, greenpeace aktivisten, joerg feddern, kalininsky bezirksgericht, oel expert, russland

Hamburg/St. Petersburg, 15. 11. 2013 – Die russischen Ermittlungsbehörden haben heute angekündigt, einen Antrag auf Verlängerung der Untersuchungshaft für die in Russland inhaftierten 28 Greenpeace-Aktivisten und zwei Journalisten zu stellen. Die sogenannten Arctic 30 sollen drei weitere Monate in Untersuchungshaft bleiben. Die Anträge sollen in der kommenden Woche vor Gericht verhandelt werden.

Bislang sind beim zuständigen Kalininsky Bezirksgericht sechs Anträge auf Verlängerung eingegangen. Greenpeace erwartet, dass heute und am Montag weitere Anträge folgen.

Den Anwälten der Greenpeace-Aktivisten wurde mitgeteilt, dass die Ermittlungsbehörde die Haft um drei Monate verlängern will, um weitere Untersuchungen durchzuführen. Sollte das Gericht dieses abweisen, müssen die Inhaftierten freigelassen werden. (more…)

Learning from the land

By Guest PostNovember 15, 2013Sciencefarmers markets, farming experience, fresh organic food, organic farm, summer in minnesota, urban agriculture

It’s late May in the freshly tilled soil of a three-plus-acre organic farm on the U of M St. Paul campus. Horticulture student Lindsay Mayer kneels, wearing purple gloves and an orange bandanna to keep the sweat out of her eyes as she plants shallot after shallot. (more…)

NASA Helps Melt Secrets of Great Lakes Ice

By Guest PostNovember 15, 2013Environmentcanadian economy, ers 2, european, george leshkevich, great lakes ice, icebreaker, icebreaking ship, lake superior, major ice type, melt secrets, NASA, noaa, remote sensing satellite, satellite observation, son nghiem, US, us coast guard

Two scientists from NASA and NOAA have developed a new space-based technique for monitoring the ice cover of the Great Lakes that is so accurate it can identify a narrow channel of open water cut through the ice by an icebreaker — even at night.

“In the dark, it’s difficult to read a map that’s right in front of you,” said Son Nghiem of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., one of the developers of the new technique. “Yet we now have a way to use satellite radars almost 500 miles [800 kilometers] out in space to see through clouds and darkness and map ice across the Great Lakes.” (more…)

IBM Helps Bridge the Cyber Security Skills Gap by Partnering with More Than 200 Global Universities

By Guest PostNovember 15, 2013Technologycloud computing, cyber security, cyber security skills, ibm security, skills taxonomy, threat intelligence research, traditional computing

Lack of cyber security skills a major inhibitor to adoption of emerging technologies like cloud, mobile, cognitive and social networks

ARMONK, N.Y – 15 Nov 2013: IBM today announced that it is adding eleven additional schools to its more than 200 partnerships with universities around the globe, focusing on collaborating to bring cyber security skills into the classroom. According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics employment in the cyber security field is expected to grow rapidly, increasing 22 percent by 2020. As organizations transmit and store more sensitive information electronically, the need for employees with experience in cyber security will be imperative in order to protect data in the cloud, mobile devices and traditional computing. (more…)

Marrow microenvironment

By Guest PostNovember 14, 2013Healthanimal bone, arun kumar, blood cell, blood vessels, bone marrow, bone marrow vessels, bone vascular physiology, christiana care, ft ir spectra, hardening, hostile microenvironment, lymphatic system, marrow microenvironment, microct analysis, microvascular dead space, morphology, old cortical bone, ossification, rhonda prisby, spongy tissue, staining pattern, vascular dysfunction, young cortical bone

Research provides new insights into bone biology

Bone marrow, the spongy tissue inside long bones, produces new blood cells and helps the lymphatic system work properly. But it may also turn out to be a progressively hostile microenvironment that induces vascular dysfunction and ossification, or hardening, of blood vessels.

Rhonda Prisby, who is using a rat model to study bone vascular physiology and morphology, was recently surprised when she used light microscopy to look at bone marrow vessels. (more…)

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