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Bodies Revealed exhibit raises questions about origin of specimens
The exhibit is an anatomy student's dream, from full-body specimens to bodies broken down to their individual parts. Every bit of Bodies Revealed at the Virginia Living Museum in Newport News is educational, even those portions intended as a...
Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Culture, Hampton University, Criminals, Teaching and Learning
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Antietam Bible College, seminary, grad school commencement held
Antietam Bible College, Biblical Seminary and Graduate School, at 15 High St. in Hagerstown, announced its Class of 2013 graduates. Graduation was held May 18 in the sanctuary at First Baptist Church, High Street and Washington Avenue. The guest...Tags: Mount Airy, Religious Education, Seminaries, Colleges and Universities, Graduation
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Despite a lot more people and cars, California's air is cleaner
Despite a threefold increase in people and cars in the last 50 years, California's strict vehicle emissions standards have managed to significantly clear the state's air, according to new research. The study also found that Southern California's air...
Tags: Standards, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Environmental Pollution, Environmental Issues, Science and Technology
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All-Scholar-Athlete team
SCHOLAR-ATHLETE OF THE YEAR Danielle Leavitt Sr., Lake Highland Sports: Volleyball, tennis The Buzz: Valedictorian with 4.0 unweighted GPA made FHSAA all-academic team and plans to major in human regenerative and developmental biology at Harvard....
Tags: Florida High School Athletic Association, High School Sports, Science and Technology, Valencia College, Tennis
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Supreme Court rejects idea of patenting natural human genes
McClatchy Washington BureauWASHINGTON The Supreme Court ruled Thursday that naturally occurring human genes may not be patented, potentially opening up commercial and scientific terrain to more freewheeling exploration. In a unanimous decision that is a mixed bag for the...Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Alzheimer's Disease, Biotechnology Industry, Clarence Thomas, Litigation
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AstraZeneca taps outside experts to screen cancer compounds
ReutersLONDON (Reuters) - British drugmaker AstraZeneca is deepening its collaboration with academia by roping in more outside researchers to help to find new cancer drugs. Scientists at the Cancer Research UK Paterson Institute for Cancer Research at the...Tags: AstraZeneca Plc, United Kingdom, Research, Science and Technology
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As top court invalidates some gene patents, biotech has moved on
ReutersNEW YORK (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court decision on Thursday to uphold patent protections for genetic material that has been changed in the laboratory but invalidate patents for purely natural DNA may seem like a partial setback for the biotech...Tags: Medical Specialization, Biotechnology Industry, Xalkori (drug), Genentech Inc., Vaccines
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Ban on patenting DNA cheers researchers
Researchers hailed the Supreme Court ruling Wednesday that bans the patenting of human DNA, saying it would expand access to genetic testing for disease at lower cost to patients. In a unanimous decision, the justices said Myriad Genetics did not have...
Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Medical Specialization, Biotechnology Industry, Clarence Thomas, Ovarian Cancer
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Penn State to host international conference on pollinator health
College of Agricultural Sciences, Penn State UniversityWith populations of wild and domesticated pollinators, such as honeybees, in decline, some of the world's foremost scientists in the field will converge on Penn State this summer to discuss the latest research aimed at understanding and overcoming...Tags: Conservation, Ecosystems, Colleges and Universities, North Carolina State University, Syngenta AG
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Camp takes students into space
South Bend TribuneSOUTH BEND -- It looks like a crafts class, as students slice Styrofoam cups in half and thread strings so they cross into a peace sign, but they are really building a robotic "grappler" for space stations. Latrell Franklin, 12, shows how he twists...Tags: Western Branch, NASA, The Salvation Army, Engineering, Teachers
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U.S. proposes new protections for captive chimps
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service on Tuesday proposed extending tough new protections for chimpanzees in captivity, a shift that would place strict limits on primates' role as human surrogates in biomedical research. In reclassifying chimps as...
Tags: Conservation, Diseases and Illnesses, Lincoln Park Zoo, Bethesda (Montgomery, Maryland), Vaccines
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At Clinton Global Initiative talk in Chicago, social enterprises discuss balancing profit, mission
Entrepreneurs who want to do business but also do good face a unique struggle: figuring out how much profit is appropriate. The issue came up Thursday among people running social enterprises who participated in a panel discussion at the Clinton Global...
Tags: Computer Science, Goldman Sachs Group, Inc., Politics, Computing and Information Technology Industry, National Government
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