The Wake County Economic Development (WCED) (http://www.raleigh-wake.org/home), in partnership with the Greater Raleigh Chamber of Commerce (http://www.raleighchamber.org) and the Chamber's Competitive EDGE4 program, has announced the release of a podcast featuring Joel Kotkin, author of The Next Hundred Million: America in 2050 and keynote speaker for the Greater Raleigh Chamber of Commerce's 2012 Economic Development Forum taking place on Wednesday, May 9 from 10 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. The podcast details the topics of Kotkin's address to be delivered at the event at the Raleigh ...

BOSTON – May 1, 2012 – Scientists at Joslin Diabetes Center have identified a key mechanism of action for the TOR (target of rapamycin) protein kinase, a critical regulator of cell growth which plays a major role in illness and aging. This finding not only illuminates the physiology of aging but could lead to new treatments to increase lifespan and control age-related conditions, such as cancer, type 2 diabetes, and neurodegeneration. Over the past decade, studies have shown that inhibiting TOR activity, which promotes cell growth by regulating protein synthesis, increases ...

In celebration of Mother's Day, Coconut Bay Beach Resort & Spa, the premier Caribbean all-inclusive resort for romance and family travel, located on St. Lucia's exotic southern coast, is offering an exclusive Mother's Day All-Inclusive Spa getaway package. Give that special lady in your life a present she will cherish forever with savings of up to 50 percent. This special spa package is perfect for guests looking to rejuvenate skin, restore a sense of well-being and soothe away worries, especially for a multitasking mom in need of pampering. Guests must book their ...

mirabyte Software announces the immediate availability of Discstarter 6, the newest version of its award-winning tool for creating professional looking CD menus and front-ends for CD-ROMs, DVD-ROMs and USB portable media. Discstarter is successfully used for years by many major companies around the world and has become the de facto standard for menus of cover mount CDs published by IT and computer magazines. Version 6 comes with a completely new and intuitive interface that allows you to configure your front-end or menu with ease. Besides several other refinements the ...

New research reinforces the claim that resveratrol—a compound found in plants and food groups, notably red wine—prolongs lifespan and health-span by boosting the activity of mitochondria, the cell's energy supplier. "The results were surprisingly clear," said David Sinclair, a professor of genetics at Harvard Medical School and the study's senior author. "Without the mitochondria-boosting gene SIRT1, resveratrol does not work." The findings are to be published May 1 in the journal Cell Metabolism. Over the last decade, Sinclair and colleagues including Leonard Guarente ...

When it comes to your wedding, there is nothing more important than savouring the moments that make up the day. However, we can't all stay there forever and live the wedding moments out all day long, so a more feasible and realistic idea is put in place. Wedding photos are the best way to keep hold of moments, and relive the tension, love, nerves, happiness and satisfaction that you feel at your wedding. However, you must have a high quality photographer taking the images, otherwise emotions will be lost, moments will be lost and other important factors that make up your ...

JES, a leading engineering solutions company specializing in foundation repair, basement waterproofing and crawl space moisture control has received a Fantastic 50 award from the Virginia Chamber of Commerce. The Fantastic 50 recognizes the 50 fastest-growing companies in Virginia. The Fantastic 50 is now in its 17th year and is coordinated by the Virginia Chamber of Commerce. Companies that receive the award must be privately held, have headquarters in Virginia, and show sales between $200,000 and $100 million. JES was founded in 1993 as basement waterproofing company, ...

DURHAM, N.C.— The largest comprehensive analysis of ClinicalTrials.gov finds that clinical trials are falling short of producing high-quality evidence needed to guide medical decision-making. The analysis, published today in JAMA, found the majority of clinical trials is small, and there are significant differences among methodical approaches, including randomizing, blinding and the use of data monitoring committees. "Our analysis raises questions about the best methods for generating evidence, as well as the capacity of the clinical trials enterprise to supply sufficient ...

Ragsdale Liggett PLLC attorney Bill Pollock has been invited to join the prestigious Claims and Litigation Management Alliance. Membership is extended to select attorneys based only on nominations from current CLM fellows. The organization is comprised of thousands of insurance companies, corporations, corporate counsel, litigation and risk managers, claims professionals and attorneys who promote the highest standards of litigation management in the defense of clients. Mr. Pollock is a litigation lawyer and partner at Ragsdale Liggett PLLC in Raleigh, North Carolina. ...

Vision and hearing are so crucial to our daily lives that any impairments usually become obvious to an affected person. Although a number of known genetic mutations can lead to hereditary defects in these senses, little is known about our sense of touch, where defects might be so subtle that they go unnoticed. In the 1 May issue of the online, open-access journal PLoS Biology, Gary Lewin's laboratory at the Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine (MDC) in Berlin demonstrates that differences in touch sensitivity arise from genetic factors that can also be inherited. ...

A study in the May issue of the Cell Press journal Cell Metabolism appears to offer vindication for an approach to anti-aging drugs that has been at the center of heated scientific debate in recent years. The new findings show for the first time that the metabolic benefits of the red wine ingredient known as resveratrol evaporate in mice that lack the famed longevity gene SIRT1. "Resveratrol improves the health of mice on a high-fat diet and increases life span," said David Sinclair of Harvard Medical School. The question was how. Resveratrol is a dirty molecule, he ...

The search for great Canadian authors has begun! Have you written a book or novel? Do you dream about getting published but you don't know where to start? This could be exactly what you need. Word Alive Press is launching their 9th Annual Free Publishing Contest and will select two winning Canadian manuscripts —one fiction and one non-fiction winner —to publish, market and distribute in both book and e-book format. The total prize package is worth over $10,000 ($5,000 for each winner). Total Package Screened and chosen by a judging committee that includes editors, ...

Researchers have discovered that a protein that transports sodium, potassium and chloride may hold clues to how glioblastoma, the most common and deadliest type of brain cancer, moves and invades nearby healthy brain tissue. The findings, reported 1 May in the online, open-access journal PLoS Biology, also suggest that a cheap FDA-approved drug already on the market could slow movement of glioblastoma cells. "The biggest challenge in brain cancer is the migration of cancer cells. We can't control it," says study leader Alfredo Quinones-Hinojosa, M.D., an associate professor ...

Boston – Cardiothoracic surgeons and endocrinologists from Boston Medical Center (BMC) have found that among patients undergoing coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) surgery, achieving Surgical Care Improvement Project (SCIP) benchmarks for glycemic control may be irrelevant when perioperative continuous insulin infusion protocols are implemented. These findings will be presented at the Annual meeting of the American Association for Thoracic Surgery on May 1 in San Francisco, CA. Currently, 40 percent of all patients undergoing CABG suffer from diabetes, and this number ...

Mims Distributing Company (http://www.mimsdist.com), a beer distributor that services a nine-county area in and around the Triangle, has announced that the company has been recognized as the Triangle Commercial Real Estate Women (TCREW) Champion in the Green and Sustainability category. The TCREW Champion Awards is an annual program that honors leaders, deals and projects in the Triangle commercial real estate industry. Mims Distributing partnered with Prime Building, HagerSmith PA, First Citizens Bank and Baker Renewable Energy to transform a pharmaceutical distribution ...

Los Angeles, CA (May 01, 2012) – Each time a release of radioactivity occurs, questions arise and debates unfold on the health risks at low doses—and still, just over a year after the disaster at the Fukushima Nuclear Power Station, unanswered questions and unsettled debates remain. Now a special issue of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, published by SAGE, examines what is new about the debate over low-dose radiation risk, specifically focusing on areas of agreement and disagreement, including quantitative estimates of cancer risk as radiation dose increases, or what ...

Slacker or go-getter? Everyone knows that people vary substantially in how hard they are willing to work, but the origin of these individual differences in the brain remains a mystery. Now the veil has been pushed back by a new brain imaging study that has found an individual's willingness to work hard to earn money is strongly influenced by the chemistry in three specific areas of the brain. In addition to shedding new light on how the brain works, the research could have important implications for the treatment of attention-deficit disorder, depression, schizophrenia ...

Bold Endeavours announced launch of a new addition to its Big Easy Content Management System (CMS) - an integrated widget for adding videos on a webpage directly or add them from online video services such as YouTube and Vimeo. The new feature of CMS will allow placing videos with custom size player onto any area of a page quickly and would not require any special technical knowledge. Although embedding video clips onto a webpage is not something new, however it is a complex procedure that most content management systems still suffer from. Especially it causes some ...

The United States government would get a better bang for its health-care buck in managing the country's most prevalent childhood disabilities if it invested more in eliminating socio-environmental risk factors than in developing medicines. That's the key conclusion of Prevention of Disability in Children: Elevating the Role of Environment, a new paper co-authored by a Simon Fraser University researcher. The paper is in the May issue of the Future of the Children journal, which is produced by the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University ...

On Friday 27th April 2012, students and staff at Sydenham High School held a 'Big Breakfast and Balloon Race' to set the world record for the biggest cereal breakfast and release over 3,500 balloons to raise money for charity. The outdoors event, part of Sydenham High School's 125th anniversary celebrations, took place on the school astroturf between 8 and 10am on Friday morning. 653 girls from the junior and secondary schools braved the weather to sit down together at 9am and officially break the Guinness World Record for biggest cereal breakfast. The record previously ...

There is now overwhelming evidence that all babies should be offered screening for heart defects at birth, according to a major new study published online in The Lancet. Heart defects are the most common type of birth defects in the UK. Although newborns often show no visible signs of the condition, if not treated promptly it can be fatal. The research, led by a Queen Mary, University of London academic with a colleague from the University of Birmingham, shows that a non-invasive test called pulse oximetry offers an accurate and cost effective screening tool. Pulse ...

In addition to the many risk factors associated with poor health, reducing body mass index (BMI) will have a considerable and independent impact if you want to reduce the risk of developing ischemic heart disease (IHD). This is the key finding from new research, published in PLoS Medicine, which evaluated the causal relationship between BMI and heart disease in 76,000 individuals. BMI, alongside age, smoking, diabetes, high blood pressure, high blood cholesterol levels, and individuals who have family history of the disease, has been long recognised as a risk factor ...

According to a recent survey by the National Specialist Contractors Council in association with the School of the Built and Natural Environment at Northumbria University, flooring contractors fear a 'double dip' recession. The survey was carried out at the end of the last quarter of 2011. There has been a significant rise in specialist flooring contractors reporting a severe fall in new contracts being won, at nearly 50% compared to just 37% in the previous quarter. This is an alarming finding, especially as general enquiries have also fallen according to over a third ...

Researchers from the University of Bristol have created artificial muscles that can be transformed at the flick of a switch to mimic the remarkable camouflaging abilities of organisms such as squid and zebrafish. They demonstrate two individual transforming mechanisms that they believe could be used in 'smart clothing' to trigger camouflaging tricks similar to those seen in nature. The study is published today, 2 May, in IOP Publishing's journal Bioinspiration and Biomimetics, and is accompanied by a video showing the camouflaging in action. "We have taken inspiration ...

Join Chuck and Dave's for "Cinco 'D' Mayo" on Saturday May 5 in Foxtown at Bookie's Bar & Grille in Detroit. This FREE Cinco de Mayo party celebrates the Mexican holiday of freedom, democracy, heritage and pride - with a distinctively Detroit flair! Revelers are invited to join the party at this fun and flavorful event, featuring Latin dance demonstrations (and lessons), Mexican food, salsa and tequila sampling and music! Cinco "D" Mayo will take place inside Bookie's Bar & Grille and outside in a huge heated tent from 2 p.m. - 10 p.m. All ages ...