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GenomeWeb News - Fri Nov 27, 4:30 pm ET
Best Paper Winner was awarded to the folks at D.E. Shaw Research , for their work entitled " Millisecond-Scale Molecular Dynamics Simulation on Anton ." The much-touted Anton is a recently completed, specially designed supercomputer for molecular dynamics simulations that uses a huge number of interconnected ASICs . Anton allows researchers, for the first time, to simulate biological molecules ...
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redOrbit - Fri Nov 27, 4:08 pm ET
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The Providence Journal - Fri Nov 27, 2:47 pm ET
WASHINGTON - Rep. Patrick J. Kennedy's recent dispute with Providence Bishop Thomas J. Tobin may have made headlines around the world, but neither man is likely to play a major role in settling the big public policy issue at the root of their feud.
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GenomeWeb News - Fri Nov 27, 12:00 pm ET
Nagendra Ningaraj, a former cancer researcher at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, is accused of tampering with data and images that appeared poster presentations and grant applications, says The Scientist . The Office of Research Integrity says that Ningarai swapped pictures of control and treated brain tumors and recycled old data as new data.
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GenomeWeb News - Fri Nov 27, 12:00 pm ET
As an MD/PhD, Buckanovich is using his expertise in chemotherapy of ovarian cancer and endometrial cancer to study ovarian cancer consolidation and maintenance therapies in order to reduce ovarian cancer recurrences.
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GenomeWeb News - Fri Nov 27, 11:45 am ET
The pressure exerted on graduate students is one of factors that contributes to grad students who "fudge or even fake data," writes Ms. PhD at YoungFemaleScientist.
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GenomeWeb News - Fri Nov 27, 11:30 am ET
A researcher writes to Janet Stemwedel to ask what he should do after finding out that his work has been plagiarized . The reader, Doug writes that part of his thesis appeared in a journal article and he wrote to the journal but hasn't heard back.
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GenomeWeb News - Fri Nov 27, 11:15 am ET
A news article in Nature looks into the problems inherited by the new FDA commissioner Margaret Hamburg: "The FDA, once globally revered as the gold standard in regulation of food and medical-product safety, has lapsed repeatedly in recent years under a string of different leaders and a long stretch without any permanent chief," the article says.
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LiveScience.com via Yahoo! News - Fri Nov 27, 10:26 am ET
Almost no one flying with a laptop or smartphone might have expected in-flight Wi-Fi Internet access just several years ago. Now some lucky travelers have experienced free Internet access while flying this holiday season, courtesy of airline partnerships with the likes of Google and eBay.
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The Motley Fool - Fri Nov 27, 10:12 am ET
Market-trouncing returns could be written in these four stars.
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LiveScience.com via Yahoo! News - Fri Nov 27, 9:35 am ET
If Americans don't eat better and exercise more, diabetes cases will double by 2034 and costs to care for the patients will triple, according to a new report that paints a bleak picture of the future.
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Nutraingredients.com - Fri Nov 27, 8:28 am ET
Mercedes Unzeta, a professor in the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at the Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona (UAB) claims that the study showed that mice fed a diet based on polyphenols and fatty acids, when compared to those in the control group, had more cell growth in the olfactory bulb and the hippocampus, both of which are damaged in patients with Alzheimer’s disease.
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Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance - Fri Nov 27, 8:00 am ET
MELBOURNE, Australia & MENLO PARK, Calif.----ChemGenex Pharmaceuticals Limited announced today that the European Medicines Agency has determined that the Marketing Authorization Application for omacetaxine mepesuccinate for the treatment of chronic myeloid leukemia patients who have failed treatment with imatinib and who have developed the Bcr-Abl T315I mutation is valid.
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The Messenger-Press - Fri Nov 27, 7:19 am ET
ROBBINSVILLE Christmastime last year seemed to bring a stroke of luck to Kevin Scibilia and his family when doctors said they had found a stem cell donor to aid him in his fight against cancer.
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The Downey Patriot - Fri Nov 27, 3:59 am ET
While this week we direct our thoughts to God in thankfulness for His manifold blessings that He lavished upon us even in the midst of a severe economic downturn, many of today’s elite in the scientific and academic community are celebrating Charles Darwin‘s 150th anniversary of the publication of his book “On the Origin of Species” - on November 24 to be precise.
