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How can you build a team environment when its individual performance that leads to recognition, advancement, and more money? To start, you have to show your employees that working as a team benefits them personally.
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A Hastings Center workshop examining moral issues in synthetic biology completed its third meeting as the J. Craig Venter Group announced that it had created the first viable cell with a synthetic genome and President Barack Obama called on the Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues to "undertake, as its first order of business, a study of the implications of this scientific milestone."
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The Pittcon Program Committee is pleased to announce the Call for Papers for Pittcon 2011, which will be held March 13 - 18, 2011, at the Georgia World Congress Center, Atlanta, Georgia.
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Cytometers, Inc., and eBioscience announced May 5 that they have entered into a worldwide co-marketing agreement. The collaboration is designed to offer scientists a better and more comprehensive solution for their flow cytometry research needs, harnessing the cost-effectiveness, ease-of-use, performance capabilities and accessibility of the Accuri C6 Flow Cytometer System with the market leading extensive line of high quality cytometer research reagents offered by eBioscience.
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For the second time in as many years, BioTek Instruments, Inc., has been selected as one of three finalists for the annual Deane C. Davis Outstanding Business of the Year Award.
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As thousands of Generation Y college graduates flood the workforce this spring, the nations employers may want to brace themselves for a new crop of entitlement-minded workers.
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U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius announced on May 14 one billion dollars of American Recovery and Reinvestment Act funds have been awarded to construct, repair and renovate scientific research laboratories and related facilities across the country.
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You might think bacteria that invade trees are there to cause certain destruction. But like the helpful bacteria that live within our guts, some microbes help plants thrive. To find out what makes these microbe-plant interactions tick, scientists at the U.S. Department of Energys (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory decoded the genome of a plant-dwelling microbe theyd previously shown could increase plant growth by 40 percent.
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Features a virtually unbreakable non-glass silicon chip sensor that gives stable readings in seconds.
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Quantachrome Instruments, a leading manufacturer and supplier of powder and porous materials characterization instruments, has long offered measurement services through its application laboratory located at its corporate headquarters in Boynton Beach, Florida.
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To support basic research that will build a foundation for generating sustainable, science-based solutions to agricultural problems in developing countries, the National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded 15 grants in the inaugural year of the Basic Research to Enable Agricultural Development (BREAD) program.
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A scientific first can be claimed by Kansas State University's David Wetzel, professor of grain science and industry, and Yong-Cheng Shi, associate professor in grain science and industry, and their colleague John Reffner, professor of chemistry at John Jay College, City University of New York.
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