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• “Foundation laid on Treasure Coast”

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  The evolution of the Treasure Coast into the Research Coast and a world leader in biotechnology reached a milestone Wednesday with groundbreaking ceremonies for VGTI Florida’s $42 million laboratory in Tradition’s Florida Center for Innovation in Port St. Lucie.

  The 100,000 square-foot facility is being built next to the region’s first [...]

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• UCSB physicists detect and control quantum states in diamond with light

  Physicists at UC Santa Barbara have succeeded in combining laser light with trapped electrons to detect and control the electrons’ fragile quantum state without erasing it. This is an important step toward using quantum physics to expand computing power and to communicate over long distances without the possibility of eavesdropping. [...]

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• Scientists perfect new nanowire technique

  Scientists at the University of Leeds have perfected a new technique that allows them to make molecular nanowires out of thin strips of ring-shaped molecules known as discotic liquid crystals (DLCs).

  The findings could be an important step in the development of next generation electronic devices, such as light-harvesting cells and [...]

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• Unsung Hero – Berkeley researchers produce high-res model of Ndc80 in action

  Unless you are in a field of study related to cell biology, you most likely have never heard of Ndc80. Yet this protein complex is essential to mitosis, the process by which a living cell separates its chromosomes and distributes them equally between its two daughter cells. Now, through a [...]

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• Free Career Workshop and Networking Event at BioFlorida’s 13th Annual Conference

  For the first time, BioFlorida will introduce a free career workshop for graduate students and post-docs as part of the 13th Annual Conference, scheduled for October 24 – 26 at the Marriott Harbor Beach in Ft. Lauderdale. Presented by Scripps Florida and Workforce Alliance, this special event on Sunday, October [...]

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• I see you standing by the centrifuge…

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• UCF Awarded Accreditation for Protecting Research Participants

  The University of Central Florida has been recognized for excellence in its research once again, this time by the national accrediting board that oversees the protection of human research subjects.

  The accreditation by the Association for the Accreditation of Human Research Protection Programs (AAHRPP) is not a requirement, but it is [...]

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• Scripps Florida Scientists Awarded $3 Million NIH Grant to Accelerate Identification of Learning and Memory Genes

  The Scripps Research Institute has been awarded a three-year, $3.2 million grant by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to identify the full spectrum of genes involved in learning and memory in Drosophila, the common fruit fly. The research could lead to a number of new therapeutic targets for several [...]

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• Scripps Research Study Challenges Conventional Theory of Modern Drug Design

  Scientists from The Scripps Research Institute have uncovered new evidence that challenges the current theory about a process key to the way modern drugs are designed and how they work in the human body.

  The new study was published October 10, 2010 in an advance, online edition of the journal Nature [...]

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• First hESC trial begins

  Geron Corporation (Nasdaq: GERN) today announced the enrollment of the first patient in the company’s clinical trial of human embryonic stem cell (hESC)-derived oligodendrocyte progenitor cells, GRNOPC1. The primary objective of this Phase I study is to assess the safety and tolerability of GRNOPC1 in patients with complete American Spinal [...]

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