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  Four Teaching Assistantships and one Graduate Fellowship will be available for the Fall 2013 semester for the Master of Science in Marine and Environmental Biology program at NichollsStateUniversity. Teaching Assistantships include tuition wavier and stipend of $4500 a semester. Graduate Fellowship includes tuition wavier and stipend of $15,000 a year.  For more information about the program visit http://www.nicholls.edu/biology_graduate/ . ... Read More »

A new platform to support and extend the viability of proteins for scientific study has been developed through work done as part of the doctoral studies of a recent University of Alabama in Huntsville doctoral graduate. Working at UAHuntsville as part of a research team under the guidance of collaborator Dr. John D. Williams, Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer ... Read More »

Routes Towards Defect-Free Graphene Optical micrograph showing graphene domains formed across grain boundaries. (Credit: Image courtesy of University of Oxford) Feb. 1, 2013 — A new way of growing graphene without the defects that weaken it and prevent electrons from flowing freely within it could open the way to large-scale manufacturing of graphene-based devices with applications in fields such as ... Read More »

Reducing ‘Bad’ LDL Cholesterol by Silencing Disease Causing Genes As we told our readers last week, industry observers and Wall Street Analysts both feel that the RNAi space will heat up significantly in 2013. To that point, both Alnylam Pharmaceuticals, Inc and Tekmira Pharmaceuticals Corporation (NASDAQ: TKMR) (TSX: TKM) started February off with news. First, Alnylam announced that it has ... Read More »

  Blend Therapeutics Scientific Co-Founder Professor Robert Langer Awarded National Medal of Technology and Innovation -Blend Therapeutics, Inc., a biopharmaceutical company discovering novel medicines by integrating its novel drug discovery and nanotechnology, announced today that its scientific co-founder, Robert S. Langer, ScD, David H Koch Institute Professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, received the National Medal of Technology and Innovation ... Read More »

  Medical Device Using Evonik’s VESTAKEEP® PEEK Receives First FDA Spinal 510(K) Approval K7C™ Cervical Spacer Gains Intervertebral Body Fusion Clearance -K7 LLC’s K7C™ Cervical Spacer, a spinal implant device using Evonik’s VESTAKEEP® PEEK (polyetheretherketone), has received the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) 510(k) approval for use as an Intervertebral Body Fusion (IBF) device. “Creating innovative solutions for our ... Read More »

  Trends in Nanoscience 2013 Click Here to Visit the Website Organiser: University of Konstanz Location: Kloster Irsee, Germany Start Date: February 24, 2013 Close Date: February 28, 2013 Description: The 4th International Symposium “Trends in Nanoscience 2013″ will bring together scientists from chemistry, physics, and biology addressing experimental as well as theoretical issues of the topics given below. The ... Read More »