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Scientists Are Scouring The Globe For Mystery Bacteria To Help Reduce Our Dependence On Fertilizer
Researchers from Michigan State University and Imperial College London have just received $1.87 million in funding to conduct a treasure hunt. [...] If it pays off, it could contribute to lowering the world’s reliance on toxic—and expensive—fertilizer, replacing it with bacteria. Read More »
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Scientists Discover What’s Killing The Bees And It’s Worse Than You Thought
As we’ve written before, the mysterious mass die-off of honey bees that pollinate $30 billion worth of crops in the US has so decimated America’s apis mellifera population that one bad winter could leave fields fallow. Now, a new study has pinpointed some of the probable causes of bee deaths and the rather scary results show that averting beemageddon will be much more difficult than previously thought. Read More »
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Scientists Scour the Globe for a Drug to Kill Deadly Brain-Eating Amoeba
The deaths hit the headlines every summer, sometimes five or six of them across the country. They’re newsworthy for their rarity and for how innocuous the events leading up to them are — it’s usually a young person who was swimming in a lake, got some water up their nose, and within days, was dead. The cause is an amoeba called Naegleria fowleri, which when it infects the brain, causes massive swelling that is almost always fatal. Over the past half-decade, 137 people in the US have died of the infection...
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Scorecard Reveals Wide Disparities in Care Across the Country
Healthcare access, cost, quality and outcomes can vary greatly from one community to the next, both within states and across states, depending on the performance of the healthcare system available to residents, according to a new report from the Commonwealth Fund Commission on a High Performance Health System. Read More »
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SCOTUS majority embraces individual mandate, ACA
The Supreme Court has ruled that it is constitutional to require that all Americans obtain health insurance coverage or pay a penalty, defying the expectations of many that the majority conservative leaning justices would strike it down.
SCU Invites The Public To Experience The Proven Benefits Of Acupuncture And Oriental Medicine With Complimentary Treatments On World AOM Day
Southern California University Of Health Sciences Celebrates World AOM Day On October 24th With Free On-Campus Treatments For Stress Relief, Insomnia, Pain Relief, Smoking Cessation And More Read More »
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SDN Switch Implementation Fosters Open Development.
Centec Networks, a leading innovator of SDN switching silicon and advanced SDN turnkey system solutions, today announced a revolution in open software-defined networking (SDN) with the introduction of "Lantern". Read More »
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Seagate Embraces Open Source: Joins The OpenStack Foundation And Open Compute Project
Seagate Technology plc (NASDAQ: STX), a worldwide leader in storage solutions, today announced it has become a corporate sponsor member of the OpenStack Foundation and Open Compute Project as part of a collaborative effort to partner with industry leaders to define and promote open source standards for cloud computing. Read More »
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Search/Find Open Access Scholarly Articles, Reports Using New iOS Apps From CORE Project
The CORE (COnnecting REpositories) Project comes from the Knowledge Management Institute at The Open University in the UK. Read More »
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Searching For Finland's Education Entrepreneurs
What's to solve when your education system is supposedly perfect? Last week, Annie Murphy Paul’s review of Amanda Ripley’s book, The Smartest Kids in the World, began with Ripley’s quote: “If you want the American dream, go to Finland.” It just so happened that I was there last week for a CICERO conference on digital learning...In addition to grokking with academics, I had another quest in mind: are there edtech entrepreneurs in Finland? And if so, what problems in this seemingly idyllic education environment are they trying to solve? Read More »
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Searching Upstream For The Source of Sickness
New “upstreamist” doctors are looking for the roots of illness in patients’ environmental and social spheres. Read More »
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Sears Eschews IBM/Oracle For Open Source And Self Build
As Sears refactors its IT landscape, legacy vendors are finding themselves out in the cold in favor of open source alternatives. Read More »
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Seattle’s Health Innovators of the Year: Industry Group Recognizes 7 Leaders in the Field
Washington’s life sciences industry has a habit of flying under the radar, despite the innovative and impactful work being done in labs and clinics around the state every day. But once a year, the Seattle Health Innovation Forum brings this work to the top by recognizing local leaders in health innovation, from researchers to startup mentors to those changing the way we communicate about health. The 2016 Health Innovator of the Year awardees include Ingrid Swanson Pultz, a senior research fellow at the University of Washington’s Institute for Protein Design and the Chief Scientific Officer at PvP Biologics. She received the Imagination Award, which recognizes imaginative problem-solving in the health sciences...
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Sebelius, Park Should Show More Proof Of Health Datapalooza Claims
Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius and US Chief Technology Officer Todd Park co-authored a White House blog this week about the high-points of the recent Health Datapalooza, touting a number of accomplishments...However, looking more deeply into some of the high points mentioned in the blog, one discovers not everything is as self-evident or available to data users as it might appear... Read More »
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Secrecy Is Google's Achilles Heel In Battle For The Cloud
Google is trying to position itself as a more reliable IaaS provider than Amazon Web Services. But given that its cloud technology is proprietary, can it meet enterprise demands for openness and transparency? Read More »
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