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20 Things I learned about Browsers and Web

Google's 20 page online book to explain the internet

11/19/10
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Vivo Biosciences, ACEA Biosciences, and Roche enter into R&D collaboration

Dr. Raj K Singh, CEO, VIVO Biosciences
Dr. Raj K Singh, CEO, VIVO Biosciences
October 6, 2010. ACEA Biosciences Inc. (San Diego, CA) and Vivo Biosciences Inc. (Birmingham, AL, US) announced that they have entered into a collaboration for the further development of label-free and real-time cell based assays for the xCELLigence System, which is co-developed by Roche (SIX:RO)(SIX:ROG)(OTCQX:RHHBY) and ACEA and marketed by Roche Applied Science. The new assays will incorporate Vivo Biosciences’ proprietary platform HuBiogel. HuBiogel is a human-derived, natural, biomatrix system which allows for growth, proliferation, and differentiation of primary cells, cancer cells, and stem cells in a 3D format and physiologically relevant environment that closely mimics the in vivo environment.

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10/07/10
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UAB Research Grant Funds Research for Undergrads, High School Teachers

July 9, 2010. BIRMINGHAM, Ala. - A summer program at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) is making research dreams come true for students and teachers from throughout the country. In the Interdisciplinary Materials Research Program, UAB Research Experiences for Undergraduates and Teachers (REUT) is funding 10 weeks of laboratory research for 16 students from colleges as far away as New York and Colorado and two secondary education teachers from South Carolina and Alabama.

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07/12/10
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Obama nominates Subra Suresh as Director of National Science Foundation

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June 3, 2010 U.S. President Barack Obama announced Thursday that he intends to nominate Subra Suresh, dean of the MIT School of Engineering, to serve as the next director of the National Science Foundation. If confirmed by the U.S. Senate, Suresh, the Vannevar Bush Professor of Engineering at MIT, would be appointed to a six-year term as director.

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07/05/10
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Dr. Darshana Jhala presents at American Society of Cytopathology’s educational forum

Dr. Darshana Jhala, Associate Professor in the Department of Pathology at University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) was invited by the American Society of Cytopathology to give a teleconference on ‘Endoscopic Ultrasound Guided Fine Needle Aspiration of Deep Seated Lymphadenopathy’ on August, 2009.

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06/25/10
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UAB Researchers Find Four Biomarkers Important in Colorectal Cancer Treatment Prognosis

May 15, 2010
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. - Researchers affiliated with the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) Comprehensive Cancer Center have discovered a set of four biomarkers that will help predict which patients are more likely to develop aggressive colorectal cancer and which are not.

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05/15/10
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DNA Testing of Blood Sample Not Effective for Identifying CMV in Newborns, Says UAB Research

April 13, 2010

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. - DNA analysis of dried blood samples routinely collected from newborns by a heel-stick procedure is not effective as the currently used saliva or urine culture in screening for cytomegalovirus (CMV) infection, a major cause of hearing loss in children, according to a University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) study published in the April 14 issue of JAMA.

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05/01/10
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Multitasking Brain Divides and Conquers, To a Point

04/22/10
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Southern Research and Vivo Biosciences Announce Collaborative Co-marketing Agreement

Dr. Raj K Singh, CEO, VIVO Biosciences
Dr. Raj K Singh, CEO, VIVO Biosciences
Birmingham, Ala. (April 16, 2010) - Southern Research and Vivo Biosciences, Inc. have signed a collaborative agreement to promote and co-market services of the respective organizations in a way to align complimentary market growth interests in the most cost efficient way, and to enhance their service offerings to clients.

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04/16/10
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One Step Closer to Personalized Medicine: UAB Researchers Find First Bio-Marker for MS

March 28, 2010

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BIRMINGHAM, Ala. - Researchers at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) have found the first bio-marker for multiple sclerosis (MS) that might predict which patients will respond to a standard therapy and which will not.

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03/31/10
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