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Medical News Targeting Pathogenic Bacteria During the AVS 63rd International Symposium and Exhibition being held November 6-11, 2016, in Nashville, Tennessee, Stephane Evoy, an applied physicist from the University of Alberta, will explain how the team recognized the limited reliability of an... – AVS: Science Array Technology of Materials, Interfaces, and Processing AVS 63rd International Symposium and Exhibition Embargo expired on 09-Nov-2016 at 09:00 ET Mismatched Light and Heat Levels Can Disrupt Body Clock Body clock function can break down when light and temperature levels throughout the day are out of sync, finds new UCL research in fruit flies. – University College London Cell Reports Embargo expired on 08-Nov-2016 at 12:00 ET McMaster Scientists Discover Autism Gene Slows Down Brain Cell Communication The researchers discovered an important ‘on’ button in DIXDC1 protein that instructs brain cells to form mature connections called synapses with other brain cells during development. – McMaster University Embargo expired on 08-Nov-2016 at 12:00 ET Penn Medicine Endocrinologist Named President-Elect of the Endocrine Society Susan J. Mandel, MD, MPH, director of Clinical Endocrinology and Diabetes for the University of Pennsylvania Health System, and a professor in the division of Diabetes, Endocrinology and Metabolism in Penn’s Perelman School of Medicine, has been el... – Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania Embargo expired on 09-Nov-2016 at 09:00 ET Experimental Drug Delivers One-Two Punch to Prostate Cancer Cells An experimental drug that targets abnormally high levels of a protein linked to cancer growth appears to significantly reduce the proliferation of prostate cancer cells in laboratory cell cultures and animals, while also making these cells considerab... – Johns Hopkins Medicine Cancer Research NYU Meyers Nursing Research Identifies Predictors of Depression Among Women with Diabetes Research shows adults with diabetes are disproportionately prone to depression and the risk to be significantly greater for women than it is for men. A NYU study establishes various depression predictors among adult women of diverse ages, races, and... – New York University The Diabetes Educator Social Networking by Doctors May Save Patients’ Lives, Study Suggests A new study finds that heart surgery patients’ chances of survival depends in part on the overall previous level of teamwork among all the physicians who cared for them across their surgery preparation, operation, hospitalization and recuperation. – University of Michigan Health System Circulation: Cardiovascular Quality and Outcomes, DOI: 10.1161/CIRCOUTCOMES.116.002714 ; HS020927 Television Cooking Shows Overlook Safe Food Handling Practices Television cooking shows are an important resource for home cooks, but if these shows fail to model recommended food safety measures, it may lead to poor practices among consumers. Therefore, researchers from the University of Massachusetts Amherst d... – Society for Nutrition Education and Behavior Journal of Nutrition Education and Behavior Lab-Grown Mini Lungs Successfully Transplanted Into Mice Scientists can now grow 3-D models of lungs from stem cells, creating new ways to study respiratory diseases. – University of Michigan Health System eLife First Cellular Atlas of DNA-Binding Molecule Could Advance Precision Therapies Biochemists at the University of Wisconsin–Madison have created the first atlas that maps where molecular tools that can switch genes on and off will bind to the human genome. It is a development they say could enable these tools to be targeted to ... – University of Wisconsin-Madison Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Nov 7 2016 NYU Researchers Examine the Influence of Country-Level and Health System Factors on Nursing and Physician Personnel Production A key component to achieving good patient outcomes in the healthcare world is having the right number and type of healthcare professionals with the right resources. This is still a large problem for many countries throughout the world. A recent NYU ... – New York University Quality Improvement Funding Available for Health Care Providers in Ohio /PRNewswire/ -- Medical Advantage Group is offering qualified Ohio practices grant funding for practice transformation and quality reporting necessary for optimum reimbursement under the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act of 2015 (MACRA). ... – Medical Advantage Group How Brain Surgery Eliminates Seizures in Epilepsy Patients Surgery is an option for patients who do not respond to medications and have epileptic scar tissue that can be removed safely. In 60 to 70 percent of surgery patients, seizures are completely eliminated, and the success rate likely will improve as im... – Loyola University Health System Dermatologists Share Skin Care Tips for Men When it comes to skin care, men have traditionally kept it simple. However, experts say more men are now pursuing healthier, younger-looking skin. Since November is National Healthy Skin Month, dermatologists from the American Academy of Dermatology... – American Academy of Dermatology The Endocrine Society Elects Five Members to Its Governing Council Members of the Endocrine Society have elected five new Officers and Council members to lead the world’s oldest and largest global membership organization representing endocrinologists, who are dedicated to research on hormones and the clinical prac... – Endocrine Society Case-Coulter Translational Research Partnership Awards $1 Million for Promising University-Based Biomedical Engineering Technologies The Case-Coulter Translational Research Partnership (CCTRP) announced more than $1 million in funding and support for the 2016 cycle. Four Case Western Reserve University projects were selected for full program funding. Projects range from diagnostic... – Case Western Reserve University Seattle Cancer Care Alliance and Hawaii Pacific Health Announce Partnership to Expand Access for Patients in Hawaii Hawaii Pacific Health has joined the Seattle Cancer Care Alliance Affiliate Network. SCCA has 13 Affiliate Network partners located across the Western U.S., including in Alaska, Idaho, Montana, Oregon, Washington, and now Hawaii. – Seattle Cancer Care Alliance Science News Aircraft Topcoat Degradation During the AVS 63rd International Symposium and Exhibition being held November 6-11, 2016 ,in Nashville, Tennessee, Taraneh Bozorgzad Moghim and a team of researchers from the University of Surrey in the U.K. studied how the high-performance organic ... – AVS: Science Array Technology of Materials, Interfaces, and Processing AVS 63rd International Symposium and Exhibition Embargo expired on 09-Nov-2016 at 09:00 ET Now You See It, Now You Don’t A University of Utah electrical and computer engineering associate professor Rajesh Menon and his team have developed a cloaking device for microscopic photonics integrated devices in an effort to make future processing chips smaller, faster and cons... – University of Utah Embargo expired on 09-Nov-2016 at 05:00 ET Evolution Purged Many Neanderthal Genes From Human Genome Larger populations allowed humans to shed weakly deleterious gene variants that were widespread in Neanderthals. – PLOS PLOS Genetics 12(11): e1006340 Embargo expired on 08-Nov-2016 at 14:00 ET Study: Carbon-Hungry Plants Impede Growth Rate of Atmospheric CO2  New findings suggest the rate at which CO2 is accumulating in the atmosphere has plateaued in recent years because Earth’s vegetation is grabbing more carbon from the air than in previous decades. – Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Embargo expired on 08-Nov-2016 at 11:00 ET How Land Use Change Affects Water Quality, Tracing the Ivory Trail, How Severe Wildfires Make Forests Susceptible To Bark Beetle Outbreaks, and More in the Environmental Science News Source The latest research on the environment in the Environmental Science News Source – Newswise Studying Structure to Understand Function Within ‘Material Families’ Carbon, silicon, germanium, tin and lead are all part of a family that share the same structure of their outermost electrons, yet range from acting as insulators to semiconductors to metals. Is it possible to understand these and other trends within... – American Institute of Physics (AIP) Collective excitations and viscosity in in liquid Bi; The Journal of Chemical Physics Greenland Fossils Reveal Global Ecosystem Recovery After Mass Extinction A new study published in Scientific Reports shows how higher latitude ecosystems recovered after the World's most cataclysmic extinction event 252 million years ago. – Uppsala University Scientific Reports Shedding Light on the Formation of Nanodroplets in Aqueous Solutions of Polar Organics Researchers have shed new light on the heterogeneous nature of a polar organic liquid mixed with water. They used laser light as a tool that allowed them to demonstrate the existence of stable nanodroplets of tetrahydrofuran in the bulk of aqueous el... – American Institute of Physics (AIP) Droplet-like heterogeneity of aqueous tetrahydrofuran solutions at the submicrometer scale; The Journal of Chemical Physics PPPL Physicists Build Diagnostic That Measures Plasma Velocity in Real Time Physicists at PPPL have developed a diagnostic that provides crucial real-time information about the ultrahot plasma swirling within doughnut-shaped fusion machines known as tokamaks. – Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory DE-AC02-09CH11466 IBO Matthews Elected Fellow of Optical Society Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory physicist Manyalibo (Ibo) Matthews has been elected as a fellow of the Optical Society for his “outstanding contributions and sustained leadership in the field of high power laser-induced damage science, laser... – Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Nuclear Reactor Workshop Spotlights Collaboration, Progress Renewed interest in molten salt technology was evident at a recent gathering of advanced nuclear reactor experts at the US Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL). Nearly 200 attendees from national labs, industry, ut... – Oak Ridge National Laboratory Internship Program Helps Foster Development of Future Nuclear Scientists For a second straight summer, Rachel Seibert spent her days at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) researching advanced nuclear reactors. The Ph.D. candidate may not have had such an opportunity more than a decade ago, b... – Oak Ridge National Laboratory LLNL Wins Three R&D 100 Awards Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory researchers have garnered three awards among the top 100 industrial inventions worldwide. – Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Brookhaven Lab Wins Three 2016 R&D 100 Awards Innovations in microscopy, catalysis, and nanomaterials are among the 100 technologies and services of the past year selected by R&D Magazine to receive awards. – Brookhaven National Laboratory University of Arkansas Leads Effort to Nurture Research Collaborations in Southeast Asia The University of Arkansas is helping lead an effort to develop a bioscience network of scientists in the United States and Southeast Asia. – University of Arkansas, Fayetteville 1624171 Accelerating Talent: Perimeter Institute Partners with South American Institute for Fundamental Research Perimeter Institute and the South American Institute for Fundamental Research celebrate a new partnership that will support research, training, and educational outreach. – Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics Argonne Researchers Win Three 2016 R&D 100 Awards Innovative technologies developed by researchers at Argonne and their partners earned three R&D 100 Awards on Thursday, November 3. – Argonne National Laboratory Brookhaven Lab's Robert McGraw Receives AS&T's Outstanding Publication Award from the American Association for Aerosol Research The award recognizes the novel method he developed nearly 20 years ago to mathematically characterize how the distribution of tiny atmospheric particles called aerosols evolves over time. – Brookhaven National Laboratory Lifestyle & Social Sciences Trump’s Political Success Was a Triumph of Style Over Substance Style, not substance, accounts for Donald Trump’s U.S. Republican presidential nomination, according to a psychological analysis from the University of British Columbia. – University of Bristol Personality and Individual Differences. Play Weaves Fairy Tales Into Darkly Beautiful Story at UIC The UIC School of Theatre and Music is presenting “The Secret in the Wings,” a play from Tony Award winner Mary Zimmerman. The play is directed by UIC School of Theatre and Music director and Lookingglass ensemble member Christine Mary Dunford. – University of Illinois at Chicago Business News Election 2016: Why Investors Might Benefit No Matter Who Wins When the U.S. experiences three simultaneous conditions—a major macroeconomic news day, a Democrat President in office, and pre-election day—the U.S. stock market surges an average of 17 basis points, according to a new study. – University of California, Berkeley Haas School of Business Babson College Hosts 2016 Entrepreneurship Forum The Babson Entrepreneurship Forum 2016 will take place November 11, 2016 at the Babson College Wellesley campus. Every year, students, faculty, professionals and entrepreneurs from the Boston community gather for this one-day conference to learn and ... – Babson College