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Accelerated Technology Laboratories, Inc. has joined the Microsoft BioIT Alliance, which brings together pharmaceutical, biotechnology, hardware and software industries to explore new ways to share complex biomedical data and collaborate among multi-disciplinary teams.
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Concerned a brain drain could hurt its long-term ability to compete, Google Inc. is tackling the problem with its typical tool: An algorithm. The Internet search giant recently began crunching data from employee reviews and promotion and pay histories in a mathematical formula Google says can identify which of its 20,000 employees are most likely to quit.
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National Science Foundation (NSF) Director Arden L. Bement, Jr. recently presented the agency's proposed $7.045 billion budget for fiscal year (FY) 2010, an 8.5 percent increase over its planned expenditures for FY 2009. The additional $555 million would increase funding for major investments in the scientific infrastructure, research endeavors and human capital.
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Fast, easy navigation and solutions orientation enable site visitors to quickly find hazardous material storage information and building solutions.
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Perkins+Will has launched the 2030 e2 Energy Estimating Tool. This free online tool was created to assist Perkins+Wills 1500 designers in designing buildings to achieve the 2030 challenge.
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Milestone no cost webinar event will discuss how to prepare your laboratory for the highest quality trace metal data with the use of your ICP/ICP-MS instrumentation.
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The Association for Laboratory Automation (ALA) has announced that an agreement has been reached to begin a partnership with MipTec a European conference and exhibition.
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On February 11, the U.S. House of Representatives Science and Technology Committee passed the National Nanotechnology Initiative Amendments Act of 2009 (H.R. 554), intending to gain a better understanding of the health and safety risks associated with nanomaterials seeking approval to enter the marketplace. The legislation followed a report by the National Research Council criticizing the current level of oversight regarding nanotechnology products and the Environmental Protection Agencys interim report on the Nanoscale Materials Stewardship Program.
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A team of scientists and engineers from Stanford, the University of Florida, and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory is the first to create one of two basic types of semiconductors using an exotic, new, one-atom-thick material called graphene. The findings could help open the door to computer chips that are not only smaller and hold more memory -- but are also more adept at uploading large files, downloading movies, and other data- and communication-intensive tasks.
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The expression the glass ceiling first appeared in the Wall Street Journal in 1986 and was then used in the title of an academic article by A.M. Morrison and others published in 1987. Entitled Breaking the Glass Ceiling: Can Women Reach the Top of Americas Largest Corporations?, it looked at the persistent failure of women to climb as far up the corporate ladder as might be expected from their representation in the working population as a whole.
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Microarrays offer customized options - New probes and assays offer higher throughput and flexibility for diverse applications.
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