Boston Scientific

Boston Scientific is a global medical device company, the 8th largest (based on annual sales, which were over $8 billion in 2010). It is the world's second largest maker of heart devices; prod...

Middle East

The Middle East has a wealth of biotechnology companies and is an important player in the global biotechnology industry. Following a World Summit on the Information Society, Arab countries are str...

Forensics

Many questions in the legal system can be answered using scientific techniques. These are termed forensics. Examples inlcude fingerprint recognition, DNA databases, iris (eye) indentification and...

Public Health

Public health is the scientific, political and sociological approach by a society to maximise the health of the population through disease preventaion and mainenance of healthy life-styles. The main...

Tinnitus

Tinnitus causes people to hear constant sounds in one ear, both ears or in their head. Tinnitus is the medical name for the perception of noise in one ear, both ears or in the head. The noise comes...

FDA to review Titan's buprenorphine

FDA accepted and granted Priority Review to an NDA for Probuphine buprenorphine from Titan Pharmaceuticals Inc. (OTCBB:TTNP) to treat opioid dependence. The PDUFA date is April 30. Titan is eligible f...

ORNL debuts Titan supercomputer

(DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory) The Oak Ridge National Laboratory launched a new era of scientific supercomputing today with Titan, a system capable of churning through more than 20,000 trillion c...

TITAN PHARMACEUTICALS LICENSES EXCLUSIVE PROBUPHINE COMMERCIALIZATION RIGHTS IN U.S. ...

Titan Receives $15.75 Million Up-Front Payment, Up to $215 Million in Potential Milestones Plus Tiered Royalties; Titan to Host Conference Call Today at 4:05pm ET

FDA panel to discuss Titan's Probuphine

FDA's Psychopharmacologic Drugs Advisory Committee will meet on March 21 to discuss an NDA for Probuphine buprenorphine from Titan Pharmaceuticals Inc. (OTCBB:TTNP) to treat opioid dependence. The PDU...

The Tennessee Titan: Oak Ridge, Cray, NVIDIA Create New Open Science Supercomputer

Bio-IT World | A new 20 petaflop supercomputer dubbed Titan is powering up at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) in Tennessee and ready to tackle some a host of scientific applications.

River networks on Titan point to puzzling geologic history

While images of Titan have revealed its present landscape, very little is known about its geologic past. Now researchers at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the University of Tennessee at Kno...

UPDATE 1-FDA rejects Titan drug for opioid dependence

* Titan says extremely surprised and disappointed by ruling

UPDATE 2-FDA rejects Titan drug for opioid dependence

* Titan says extremely surprised and disappointed by ruling

Rapid and extensive surface changes near Titan's equator: evidence of April showers.

Although there is evidence that liquids have flowed on the surface at Titan's equator in the past, to date, liquids have only been confirmed on the surface at polar latitudes, and the vast expanses of...

Structural Investigation of Titan Tholins by Solution-State (1)H, (13)C, and (15)N NMR: One-Dimensional and Decoupling Experiments.

Titan, the largest moon of Saturn, is enveloped in a reddish brown organic haze. Titan haze is presumed to be formed from methane and nitrogen (CH(4) and N(2)) in Titan's upper atmosphere through ener...

Parafoveal load of word n+1 modulates preprocessing effectiveness of word n+2 in chinese reading.

Preview benefits (PBs) from two words to the right of the fixated one (i.e., word N + 2) and associated parafoveal-on-foveal effects are critical for proposals of distributed lexical processing during...

Contextual constraint and N + 2 preview effects in reading.

Extracting linguistic information from locations beyond the currently fixated word is a core component of skilled reading. Recent debate on this topic is focused on the question of whether useful ling...

Likelihood of attending to the color word modulates Stroop interference.

Three experiments investigated whether the Stroop color-naming effect is modulated by the likelihood of a color word capturing visual attention. In Experiment 1, a bar or a neutral word was presented...