Why the India chair in Virginia varsity matters

Source: Rediff

Professor Niraj Verma, director of the L Douglas Wilder School of Government and Public Affairs at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, US, who will be the operational head of the envisaged India [ Images ] Chair in Dem ...
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PH to be headquarters of stem cell therapy and research hub of Asia

Source: Inquirer

MANILA, Philippines—The much-anticipated opening of the Asian Regenerative Center for Cellular Therapies (ARCCT) will soon be taking stem cell therapy treatment to a whole new level and on a larger scale than ever before in the Philippines. Slated to ...
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Yet More on Statins' Lack of Benefit

Source: Hooked: Ethics, Medicine, and Pharma

One more post about cholesterol and I promise to lay off for a while. Sharon Begley has written a great article for the Saturday Evening Post: http://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/2012/04/24/wellness/cholesterol-conundrum.html --reviewing the dat ...
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Li presents award for architecture

Source: China Daily

Vice-Premier Li Keqiang attends the award ceremony for the Pritzker Architecture Prize, one of the field’s top prizes, in Beijing on Friday. [Photo by Alexander Yuan / Associated Press] Three months after Chinese architect Wang Shu was named the c ...
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CSHL researchers solve structure of human protein critical for silencing genes

Source: EurekAlert

IMAGE: This is a schematic representation of the hAgo2-miR-20a complex with the PAZ domain in red and the Mid domain in green. The microRNA, shown in stick representation, is anchored at... Cold Spring Harbor, N ...
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'Fiction For Men' E-Books To Be Published By Esquire Magazine

Source: The Huffington Post

Move over lady writers, “man fiction” is coming to town. Esquire magazine will begin publishing a series of “Fiction for Men” e-books in June, the New York Times reported this week. Each volume will contain a series of s ...
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Quantum Mechanics When You Close Your Eyes | Cosmic Variance

Source: Discover Magazine

Here’s a fun thing that has been zipping around the internets this week: a collection of “back of the envelope problems” put together by Edward Purcell. Hours of fun reading if you’re the kind of person who likes to spend their leisure time doing word pr ...
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Giant Telescope Project Goes to South Africa, Australia

Source: Wall Street Journal

By Kathleen Chaykowski in Pretoria, South Africa and Gautam Naik in LondonA consortium of countries chose South Africa and Australia to share a groundbreaking €1.5 billion ($1.87 billion) radio telescope that will ...
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Fair Haven “Strolls” For Early Ed

Source: New Haven Independent

Allyx Schiavone sent in this write-up about the second Annual Fair Haven Family Stroll: Building wooden boats, chasing bubbles, banging drums, dancing with streamers. Saturday May 12 was not just another day in the park for families in the Fair Haven c ...
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