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  LowerSaxonyInternationalSummerAcademy (LISA) in Immunology, Hannover, August/September 2013 Hannover Biomedical Research School, as part of Hannover Medical School (MHH), invites applications for the summer academy, from August 17th – 31st, 2013. The 2 to 4-week LISASummerAcademy in Immunology allows excellent international students of life-sciences to gain knowledge in “cutting-edge” inflammation research. This field has gained a tremendous momentum over the ... Read More »

Poland: Student within project Phase microscopy and tomography “ new approach to 3D measurements of biological and technological structures (3DPHASE). Number of stipends:3 Institution:Photonics Department / Institute of Micromechanics and Photonics / Warsaw University of Technology / Warsaw Maximum  period of stipend agreement: 5 months Position starts on:1.03.2013 Stipend’s amount:1000 PLN/month Profile of candidates: The offer is directed to students ... Read More »

  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 »