Monday, March 3rd, 2008
International Stem Cell Corporation (OTCBB:ISCO) announced that its human parthenogenetic stem cell lines will be used in Germany in studies aimed at creating specific cell types to treat human neural diseases such as Parkinson's disease.
The work will be headed by Dr. Albrecht Mueller of the University of Wuerzburg, Wuerzburg, Germany ...
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Thursday, February 28th, 2008
The Global Child Nutrition Foundation's 5th annual A Possible Dream Gala will take place Tuesday, March 4, 2008, and honor several champions of child nutrition, including the 2008 recipient of the Gene White Lifetime Achievement Award. The gala supports the Foundation's mission to raise awareness about the global epidemic of ...
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Saturday, February 23rd, 2008
The Altshuller Institute for TRIZ Studies is pleased to announce TRIZCON2008, a conference that focuses on the Theory of Inventive Problem Solving (TRIZ). Celebrating its 10th anniversary, the largest international TRIZ conference in the world will be sponsored by and held at Kent State University's Student Center in Kent, Ohio, ...
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Friday, February 22nd, 2008
NASA's space shuttle Atlantis, which successfully delivered ESA's Columbus laboratory to the International Space Station, has safely returned to Earth with its crew of seven. Landing was at 14:07 UTC (15:07 CET) on 20 February at Kennedy Space Center, Florida.
On this STS-122 mission, the shuttle spent nearly 13 days in ...
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Tuesday, February 19th, 2008
Science communicators meet in Scandinavia
The subject area of the 10th PCST (Public Communication of Science and Technology) conference is "Bridges to the future". Among nearly 400 proposals, 30 seminars and nearly 300 abstracts have been selected for the final programme, targeting a variety of topics ranging from new media to ...
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