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New center to support aspiring entrepreneurs
09-17-2007 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)The firm Legatum announced Aug. 17 a structured gift of $50 million to create a new center at MIT to support aspiring entrepreneurs from the developing world who have a strong commitment to development entrepreneurship.
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- Research shows NPD1 protects a key component of vision
07-30-2007 · EurekAlert!
Two papers to be published in the early edition online of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences the week of July 30-Aug. 3, 2007 report findings that demonstrate that neuroprotectin D1 (NPD1) protects against damage to retinal pigment epithelial cells and identifies an important trigger for its production and novel molecular mechanisms that support vision. The research was conducted at LSU Health Sciences Center New Orleans.
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- China's biotech industry: An Asian dragon is growing
01-07-2008 · EurekAlert!
With extensive support from a government intent on promoting innovation and fuelled by a "brain gain" of talented scientists and entrepreneurs returning from abroad, China's health biotech industry only needs a more favourable investment climate to emerge as a global force in the production of therapies and medicines -- both new and low-cost generics -- according to research to be published by the journal Nature Biotechnology.
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- $50 million gift from T. Boone Pickens Foundation to benefit UT Southwestern
05-17-2007 · UT Southwestern Medical Center
The T. Boone Pickens Foundation, named for the Texas icon and energy entrepreneur who founded it in 2006, has donated $50 million to ensure the continued excellence and prominence of UT Southwestern Medical Center into the future.
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- Arctic ice retreats into uncharted territory
09-27-2007 · EurekAlert!
On Oct. 1, the National Snow and Ice Data Center will issue a report summarizing the 2007 Arctic sea ice season, and NASA will issue a press release on a new sea ice study by NASA/JPL researchers. NASA has created new images in support of these and other reports about the remarkable decrease in sea ice this summer.
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- Therapeutic value of meditation unproven, says study
06-28-2007 · EurekAlert!
"There is an enormous amount of interest in using meditation as a form of therapy to cope with a variety of modern-day health problems, especially hypertension, stress and chronic pain, but the majority of evidence that seems to support this notion is anecdotal, or it comes from poor quality studies," say Maria Ospina and Kenneth Bond, researchers at the University of Alberta/Capital Health Evidence-based Practice Center in Edmonton, Canada.
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- Study: Praying online helps cancer patients
01-03-2007 · EurekAlert!
Breast cancer patients who pray in online support groups can obtain mental health benefits, according to a new study conducted by the University of Wisconsin-Madison Center of Excellence in Cancer Communications Research that was funded by the National Cancer Institute.
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- Columbia dentists to improve oral health in sub-Saharan Africa
06-15-2007 · EurekAlert!
A new initiative from Columbia University Medical Center will be the first to target chronic oral health problems in sub-Saharan Africa, where the vast majority of chronic diseases are left undetected and untreated. The initiative is the result of an anonymous $1.5 million gift to support the Millennium Villages, which aims to fight extreme poverty and related challenges such as disease, hunger and lack of access to water and sanitation though scientifically sound and sustainable interventions.
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- Caregivers benefit from cancer support programs, U-M study finds
11-12-2007 · EurekAlert!
Researchers at the University of Michigan Comprehensive Cancer Center found that a targeted intervention aimed at prostate cancer patients and their caregiver spouses provided significant improvements for the spouse in physical and emotional quality of life.
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- Protein fragments sequenced in 68 million-year-old Tyrannosaurus rex
04-12-2007 · EurekAlert!
In a venture once thought to lie outside the reach of science, researchers from Harvard Medical School and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center have captured and sequenced tiny pieces of collagen protein from a 68 million-year-old Tyrannosaurus rex. The protein fragments -- seven in all -- appear to most closely match amino acid sequences found in collagen of present day chickens, lending support to a recent and still controversial proposal that birds and dinosaurs are evolutionarily related.
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- Louisiana Tech joins in effort to protect cyberspace
08-16-2007 · EurekAlert!
A new cyberspace technology center has been established in Ruston through the combined efforts of Louisiana Tech University and Louisiana State University.The Center for Secure Cyberspace has been created to assist Tech faculty members in their research and to support the US Air Force if it decides to place its planned cyber center in Louisiana, said Dr. Les Guice, vice president for research and development.
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