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Global Alliance for TB Drug Development Appoints Respected Scientist and Director of R&D as New...

Dr. Melvin Spigelman, TB Alliance Director of Research and Development, to Lead Organization in Speeding Search for Faster, Better Cure NEW YORK Oct. 10, 2008– The Global Alliance for TB Drug Development (TB Alliance), a...

Mutuals ‘safer as well as more ethical’

Oct 11 2008 by Martin Shipton, Western Mail PEOPLE should put their savings into old-style mutual building societies or credit unions as a response to the banking crisis, according to green economist Molly Scott-Cato. Dr...

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2008

Vrijdag 10 oktober 2008 | Nobel Foundation ] The discoveries awarded the 2008 Nobel Prize in Chemistry are a shining example of how fundamental research in one area of science can sometimes lead to highly beneficial...

Stem cell generation from ordinary cells now safe

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Japanese researchers who invented a way to make powerful stem cells out of ordinary cells say they have now found a safer way to do it. Shinya Yamanaka of Kyoto University in Japan and colleagues invented...

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Could gene tests change health choices? Study aims to quiet critics

By Marcus Wohlsen, Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO — A Silicon Valley gene-testing start-up is responding to criticism that the tests could spur bad health-care choices by teaming up for a broad study of how the results affect...

Obama unveils plan to help small businesses

Sen. Obama's plan would increase government loans to small businesses Democrat's plan would also cut capital gains taxes on small businesses, start-ups Sen. McCain's campaign launches ad highlighting Obama ties to '60s radical...

Angiotech's corporate partner, Boston Scientific, announces FDA approval of second-generation...

VANCOUVER, Oct. 10 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Forward-looking statements may involve, but are not limited to, comments with respect to our objectives and priorities for the second half of 2008 and beyond, our strategies or...

Scientists adapt economics theory to trace brain's information flow

Scientists have used a technique originally developed for economic study to become the first to overcome a significant challenge in brain research: determining the flow of information from one part of the brain to another.

US culture derails girl math whizzes

MADISON - In a report published today (Oct. 10) in the Notices of the American Mathematical Society, a comprehensive analysis of decades of data on students identified as having profound ability in math describes a culturally...