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Saturday, November 21, 2009 11:45 PM

University College London

Type: Organization
Name: University College London
First Reported 11/19/2009 - Updated 11/19/2009 - 1 Documents
Lord Falconer of Thoroton - Click to view image in its original context
Lord Falconer of Thoroton
Birthdays: Nov 19
The actress Jodie Foster is starring in and directing a black comedy The Beaver with Mel Gibson, due for release in 2010. She is a little picky about the parts she will play. Her reputation rests on two films: Taxi Driver (1976), which was nominated for ... [Times Online - 11/19/2009]
First Reported 11/19/2009 - Updated 11/19/2009 - 1 Documents
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NHS
Tension as a Monitor chair still not named
Foundation trusts and the Monitor board have raised concerns that the government has not yet appointed a chair for the regulator, with less than three months until its current executive chair leaves the organisation. $ The Department of Health insisted ... [Health Service Journal - 11/19/2009]
First Reported 11/19/2009 - Updated 11/19/2009 - 1 Documents
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It is something of a relief that an academic as eminent as Vernon Bogdanor is willing to question the link between good universities and economic growth ('Misguided philistines in a relationship that is doomed to failure', 12 November). Not only is there ... [Times Higher Education Supplement - 11/19/2009]
First Reported 11/19/2009 - Updated 11/19/2009 - 1 Documents (in Politics)
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Andrew Adonis
Northwest Train Stations To Undergo Upgrade
A number of train stations across the northwest are to be upgraded as part of a £50 million government programme.Transportsecretary Andrew Adonis said ten key stations would be offered funding to improve facilities for passengers.These include stations ... [Invest in England's NorthWest - 11/19/2009]
First Reported 11/19/2009 - Updated 11/19/2009 - 1 Documents (in Chemistry)
Pleasure in decision-making
DatingVouchers Express Mortgages Express Loans Bingo Lose Weight Franchising Mobile Recycle Shopping Book Shop Compare Broadband Wine Shop Legal Store FlatShare CruisesPLEASURE IN DECISION-MAKINGFINDINGS: A reward chemical in the brain makes a key role ... [Daily Express - 11/19/2009]
Entities: Dopamine, Placebo, Chemical
First Reported 11/19/2009 - Updated 11/19/2009 - 1 Documents (in Politics)
Human capital central to emerging economic analysis of education
Human capital, a leading approach used to understand the role of education and job training in the economy, has been the subject of seminal research at the University of Chicago. On Friday, Nov. 20 and Saturday, Nov. 21, scholars from around the world ... [University of Chicago - 11/19/2009]
First Reported 11/19/2009 - Updated 11/19/2009 - 1 Documents (in Biology)
Gene Protects Brain-Eaters From Mad Cow-Type Disease, University College London Study
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Villagers in the highlands of Papua New Guinea who ritualistically ate human brains but did not die of a brain disease called kuru have a genetic mutation that protects them, researchers said Wednesday. ... [BioSpace - 11/19/2009]
First Reported 11/19/2009 - Updated 11/19/2009 - 1 Documents (in Internet & IT)
Excessive Ketamine Use may Harm Memory
Frequent use of ketamine may cause memory problems, scientists have said. Ketamine is a drug popular with clubbers.The University College London boffins came to the conclusion after carrying out a range of memory and psychological tests on 120 people. ... [MedIndia - 11/19/2009]
First Reported 1 hour ago - Updated 1 hour ago - 1 Documents (in Space Science)
Big Bang machine back in business
SCIENTISTS successfully restarted the this weekend, aiming to power the 6 billion Big Bang simulator up to record-breaking speeds.Nine days after last years project launch, a component overheated, causing damage that cost 24m to repair. Following a 14-month ... [Times Online - 1 hour ago]
First Reported 3 hours ago - Updated 3 hours ago - 1 Documents (in Medicine)
Magnetic Nanoparticles Simultaneously Diagnose, Monitor, and Treat Diseases
Tiny magnetic nanoparticles (mNPs) and external magnetic forces create a medical means to confirm specific ailments and automatically release healing drugs while inside a living system. For example, mNPs can direct "therapeutically armed" white blood ... [Lab Medica - 3 hours ago]
First Reported 11/16/2009 - Updated 11/16/2009 - 1 Documents (in Biology)
Gene found that seems key in evolution of speech
WASHINGTON — Chimps, our nearest relative, don't talk. We do. Now scientists have pinpointed a mutation in a gene that might help explain the difference.The mutation seems to have helped humans develop speech and language. It's probably not the only gene ... [STLtoday.com - 11/16/2009]
First Reported 11/17/2009 - Updated 11/17/2009 - 1 Documents (in Politics)
Shabby railway stations condemned by Government inspectors
Rail passengers are disenchanted with shabby stations and angered by having little idea when their train will arrive, a Government investigation has found..A study carried out by the Department for Transport showed that one passenger in two regards the ... [Telegraph - 11/17/2009]

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...by scientists in Britain led by Professor Pete Coffey of University College London, but this clinical trial is unlikely to start until early 2011. "It's such a complex, wholly new process that nobody had done before and it has to be done properly" he said
Stem cells: all set for the first human trial [The Independent - 15 hours ago]
Anna Cassoni, lead clinical oncologist at University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (UCLH), said, "RapidArc produced a lower dose to the optic nerve than conventional IMRT treatment and its precision minimized exposure to surrounding critical tissues."
University College Hospital Introduces Varian's Radiotherapy [Medicexchange.com - 20 hours ago]
University College London's Institute of Neurology geneticist Professor John Hardy said the findings were fascinating. "It's fantastic demonstration of natural selection. 'Because people who have this mutation were protected from this fatal disease their proportion in society increased massively.' But he said a similar resistance to CJD would be less likely to develop. He said: 'In Papua New Guinea kuru became the major cause of death, so there was a clear survival advantage and the selection pressure was enormous. 'Here in Britain the numbers with CJD are very small and so the selection pressures will be less.'"
Tribes resistance could help CJD [BBC - 11/20/2009]

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Big Bang machine back in business [Times Online - 1 hour ago]
Magnetic Nanoparticles Simultaneously Diagnose,... [Lab Medica - 3 hours ago]
UK SMEs showcase life-saving innovations at wor... [UK Trade & Investment - 14 hours ago]
Stem cells: all set for the first human trial [The Independent - 15 hours ago]
University College Hospital Introduces Varian's... [Medicexchange.com - 20 hours ago]
Archaeologists publish first map of contested s... [UCLA News - 23 hours ago]
Drilling volcano will not make it erupt [Times Online - 11/20/2009]
The LHC Higgs Boson Hunter [Discovery Channel - 11/20/2009]
Brain Disease "Resistance Gene" Could... [Medical News Today - 11/20/2009]
Cannibals survived brain disease epidemic thank... [Russia Today - 11/20/2009]
Tribes resistance could help CJD [BBC - 11/20/2009]
Stem-cell transplants offer hope to patients lo... [Irish Independent - 11/20/2009]
UCH introduces RapidArc technology from Varian ... [News-Medical.Net - 11/20/2009]
University College Hospital in London Introduce... [MedIndia - 11/20/2009]
Bushboard supplies plumbing system for University [Building Talk - 11/20/2009]
Stem cells: the first human trial [The Independent - 11/20/2009]
Book of the week: Francis Crick: Hunter of Life... [Times Higher Education Supplement - 11/20/2009]
Excessive Ketamine Use may Harm Memory [MedIndia - 11/19/2009]
Gene Protects Brain-Eaters From Mad Cow-Type Di... [BioSpace - 11/19/2009]
Human capital central to emerging economic anal... [University of Chicago - 11/19/2009]
Stargardt’s disease sufferers to be first for p... [Times Online - 11/19/2009]
World-first stem cell therapy for eye disease [Times Online - 11/19/2009]
Gene change in cannibals reveals evolution in a... [New Scientist - 11/19/2009]
South East innovator takes cancer diagnosis too... [News Distribution Service - 11/19/2009]
Cheshire company's global success with life-sav... [News Distribution Service - 11/19/2009]
Crohn's blamed on lazy immune cells [New Scientist - 11/19/2009]
University College Hospital in London Introduce... [Stockwatch - 11/19/2009]
Pleasure in decision-making [Daily Express - 11/19/2009]
Braineating tribe could help find treatment for... [Telegraph - 11/19/2009]
Northwest Train Stations To Undergo Upgrade [Invest in England's NorthWest - 11/19/2009]
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Haters Trying to Hate on Sexy Female Sex Pill [... [Gawker - 11/17/2009]
Sexy scientists say that they have, for real, no playing, discovered a drug that boosts female sexual desire. Everything is better now! But who's that trying throw ...
Egypt's Darwin debates | Riazat Butt [Comment is free | guardian.co.uk - 11/14/2009]
Scientists from around the world gather in Alexandria to discuss evolution – but is religion getting in the way?It was perhaps fitting, and more than a little fortuitous, ...
Dopamine and Future Forecasting [The Frontal Co... [ScienceBlogs : Combined Feed - 11/13/2009]
Ed Yong has a typically excellent post on a new paper that looks at how manipulating dopamine levels in the brain can change our estimation of future pleasure: Tali ...
We can't fool ourselves – PFI is a liability | ... [Comment is free | guardian.co.uk - 11/13/2009]
As the man now in charge of the largest PFI-built hospital in England, I know what a millstone it can beI have worried about private finance initiatives for a dozen ...
Travels with dopamine - the chemical that affec... [ScienceBlogs : Combined Feed - 11/12/2009]
How would you fancy a holiday to Greece or Thailand? Would you like to buy an iPhone or a new pair of shoes? Would you be keen to accept that enticing job offer? ...
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Planning Past and Future: Early 21st Century Re... [UC Berkeley Events - YouTube - 10/22/2009]
Steve Jones Enlightenment Lecture - Is Human Ev... [Edinburgh University - YouTube - 09/25/2009]
Peter Shepherd Editor-in-Chief Biochemical Journal [Mefeedia Video Tag : chemist - 09/15/2009]
Nature Extra: Ian McEwan [Nature Podcast - 05/08/2009]
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