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Altana Buys Nulabel Technologies
Aug 14, 2017Specialty chemicals group Altana has acquired NuLabel Technologies, which develops engineering and material science solutions to enhance packaging design using less material. The companies have agreed not to disclose the purchase price. ...
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Body Labs Secures Patents For 3D Body Modeling Technologies
Mar 22, 2016Body Labs has secured the exclusive rights to two patents issued to Brown University and licenses to several new technologies developed at Max-Planck-Innovation GmbH. U.S. Patents 9,189,886 B2 and 2013/0249908 A1 expand Body Labs' ...
Tags: Body Labs, Brown University, 3D Body Modeling Technologies, Patent
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Lighting Science Group: Five Health Benefiting Lighting Applications
Oct 14, 2015Healthy lighting … it’s not just for your home. In fact, it’s not just for the planet earth! Or humans, for that matter. Here are five innovative biological correct lighting applications currently helping humans and ...
Tags: Lighting Science Group, lighting applications, health related
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Apparel Announced The Appointment of Laura a. Lee to The Company's Board of Directors
Aug 15, 2014American Apparel, Inc. announced the appointment of Laura A. Lee to the company's board of directors. "Laura brings a deep understanding of the internet space and digital launch initiatives, combined with a strong background in major ...
Tags: Laura Lee, Apparel, Accessories
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Afrezza Hopes That Its Inhalable Insulin Product Will Be a Gamechanger for Diabetics
Apr 8, 2014Afrezza hopes that its inhalable insulin product will be a gamechanger for diabetics. (Image courtesy Afrezza). Insulin injections may soon be a thing of the past if Mannkind Corp.'s inhalable insulin product, Afrezza, is approved by ...
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Pregnant and Postpartum Women Have Significant Mental Health and Mothering Challenges
Feb 27, 2014Pregnant and postpartum women with bipolar disorder more frequently have significant mental health and early mothering challenges than other perinatal women undergoing psychiatric treatment, according to a study in the Journal of Affective ...
Tags: Pregnant Woman, Mental Health, BD, PTSD
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Many Effective Ways for Colleges to Mitigate Common Drinking Patterns and Problems
Feb 11, 2014A new systematic review of data published in more than 40 studies of freshman alcohol interventions finds that there are many effective ways for colleges to mitigate common drinking patterns and problems among new students. Based on their ...
Tags: Mitigate Drinking, Drinkin, Clinical Psychology, alcohol
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A Patients' Race or Ethnicity Is Associated with Differences
Feb 8, 2014A lot of evidence shows that a patients' race or ethnicity is associated with differences in how health care providers communicate with them, the health care they receive, and their health outcomes. In HIV care, a key to those outcomes is ...
Tags: HIV care, drug, AIDS, M.Barton Laws
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The Deepest Dark Detector
Feb 7, 2014Photo: Scott Stephenson King Under The Mountain: In the PandaX experiment, a vat of liquid xenon is stored beneath hundreds of meters of rock. With luck, the isolation will keep things quiet enough to sense signs of dark matter. In the ...
Tags: WIMPs, PandaX, Dark-Matter, LUX
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We May Have Something to Join Mix in 2-D Universe That Will Go by Name "Borophene"
Feb 7, 2014The world of two-dimensional (2-D) materials has just gotten a little more crowded. If graphene, boron nitride, molybendum disulfide and silicene weren’t quite enough, we now may have something to join the mix in the 2-D universe that ...
Tags: Borophene, Nature Communications, Scotch Tape, B36
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In 1965, Alaska, Rhode Island, Delaware and Pennsylvania Had The Highest Mortality Rates
Feb 7, 2014In 1965, Alaska, Rhode Island, Delaware and Pennsylvania had the highest mortality rates, but by 2004 the highest death rates moved south, researchers say. Andrew Fenelon of Brown University and the Population Council -- a group that ...
Tags: Smoking, Death Rate
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Acyldepsipeptides-ADEPs-May Provide a New Way to Attack Bacteria
Jan 20, 2014A new class of molecules called acyldepsipeptides-ADEPs-may provide a new way to attack bacteria that have developed resistance to antibiotics. Researchers at Brown and MIT have discovered a way to increase the potency of ADEPs by up to ...
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Children Who Are Assaulted Account for Nearly 90,000 Emergency-Room
Jan 14, 2014Children and teenagers who are assaulted at school account for nearly 90,000 emergency-room visits in the United States each year, new research finds. Although school shootings garner much attention, it was rare for kids aged 5 to 19 to ...
Tags: ssaults at Schools, Assaults Kids
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How Cilia Have Come to Be Used for So Many Different Tasks in Nature?
Jan 13, 2014Cilia—short, hair-like fibers—are widely present in nature. Single-celled paramecia use one set of cilia for locomotion and another set to sweep nutrients into their oral grooves. Researchers at Brown have discovered that those ...
Tags: Cilia, Single-celled paramecia, locomotion, fibers
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Teens Who Sext Are Linked with Higher Rates of Engaging in Sexual Behavior
Jan 10, 2014Teens who sext are linked with higher rates of engaging in sexual behavior, U.S. researchers say. Christopher D. Houck of the Bradley/Hasbro Children's Research Center and colleagues at Bradley/Hasbrom, the Rhode Island Hospital, and The ...
Tags: Sexting, Sex Activity, Teens Sex Activity