Researchers of the Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine (MDC) Berlin-Buch have discovered what enables embryonic stem cells to differentiate into diverse cell types and thus to be pluripotent. This pluripotency depends on a specific molecule – E-cadherin – hitherto primarily known for its role in mediating cell-cell adhesion as a kind of "intracellular glue". If E-cadherin is absent, the stem cells lose their pluripotency. The molecule also plays a crucial role in the reprogramming of somatic cells (body cells) into pluripotent stem cells (EMBO Reports, advance online ...

Most homeowners are waiting in anticipation for the commencement of the Federal mortgage relief program ( http://obamamortgagereliefplanqualifications.com/ ) this fall. The federal mortgage relief program offers hope to homeownersâEUR country wife with the promise of bailing borrowers out by lowering the monthly mortgage repayments. With the commencement of the Federal mortgage relief program borrowers will be able to either get their interest rates reduced or part of their principal debt written off. However, it is important to note that this program will not to salvage ...

Brain interventions must be planned so that the neurosurgeon can access and remove the tumor without causing unnecessary damage. Before the brain tumor can be removed, crucial questions must be answered. Where do the functional areas of the cortex (gray matter) of the patient lie? What are the paths of the nerve fiber tracts that connect them? Answering these questions is important because the functional areas of the brain are interconnected via nerve pathways, also known as nerve fiber tracts. These nerve tracts must be protected as much as possible; otherwise, permanent ...

Digital creative agency Outside Line has been recognised at the International Food and Beverage Creative Excellence Awards for the third year running following the outstanding success of its online marketing campaign for Cravendale. The multi award-winning agency scooped the prize for the Best Website Campaign of 2011 following of its popular Make The Tea community site, which judges praised for its blend of innovation, eye-catching design and effective communication. Collecting the prestigious award at a packed London ceremony earlier this week, the social media and ...

NEW YORK – May 27, 2011 – A study by Columbia Business School Professor Eric Johnson, co-director of the Center for Decision Sciences (http://www4.gsb.columbia.edu/decisionsciences) at Columbia Business School, Ye Li, a postdoctoral researcher at the Center for Decision Sciences, and Lisa Zaval, a Columbia graduate student in psychology, found that those who thought the current day was warmer than usual were more likely to believe in and feel concern about global warming than those who thought the day was unusually cold. The study, recently featured in Psychological Science, ...

Open-source parenting websiteSAHMAnswers.com [http://sahmanswers.com] relaunched with a new look on Monday. SAHMAnswers.com launched in 2004 by author and web entrepreneur Dominick Miserandino, founding editor of TheCelebrityCafe.com [http://thecelebritycafe.com]. The redesign will provide users a cleaner, easy-to-use interface, as well as give the site a much-needed makeover. The WordPress platform will make it easier forSAHMAnswers.com editors to monitor comments and block spam. "We're very pleased with the new look and - most importantly - we hope that our ...

University of Calgary Faculty of Kinesiology researcher Elias Tomaras says the idea came to him while watching track and field sprinters warm-up for a race. "If you watch sprinters, short distance speed skaters or cyclists before their race, they will often warm-up for one to two hours, including several brief bouts of high intensity exercise. From an exercise physiology point of view, it seemed like it might be pretty tiring." Many coaches and physiologists believe that a longer warm up provides an increase in muscle temperature, acceleration of oxygen uptake kinetics, ...

Part of what determines how much success you will have in the dating world is whether you have a good sense of whether people find you attractive. A new study published in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science, finds that certain personality traits contribute to being a good judge of whether someone else thinks you're worth meeting again. The study is one of a series to come out of a big speed-dating experiment held in Berlin about five years ago. "Most of the prior research had worked with hypothetical scenarios, where people are ...

Developing drugs to combat or cure human disease often involves a phase of testing with mice, so being able to peer clearly into a living mouse's innards has real value. But with the fluorescent dyes currently used to image the interior of laboratory mice, the view becomes so murky several millimeters under the skin that researchers might have more success divining the future from the rodent's entrails than they do extracting usable data. Now Stanford researchers have developed an improved imaging method using fluorescent carbon nanotubes that allows them to see centimeters ...

Pacific West Capital Group announced today that they will host informational seminars on June 7 and 8 at Brix Restaurant in Napa, California. Pacific West Capital Group representatives will discuss investing in the Life Settlement market. The company has specialized in the sale of beneficiary interests in life settlements to individual investors for the past seven years. The life settlement market is the secondary market for life insurance. Life settlements are an alternative to traditional investments because returns are not tied to stock market fluctuations, interest ...

A new product launched by Chipkin Automation Systems in May 2011 now helps the automation professionals to read current, voltage, phase, power and other variables from the Hobart devices. The Hobart Ground Power Gateway serves data from a Hobart Ground Power controller as Modbus, BACnet or Web data for easy remote monitoring. The intelligent Gateway connects to the Hobart Ground Power controller, then reads data and stores it internally. When a remote system requests data, this data is served in a form that is appropriate to the protocol (e.g. Modbus, BACnet and HTML). ...

Boulder, CO, USA - What would we see and what would we learn if we were able to cut North America in half, pull it apart, and look at the resulting cross section through the continent, from the surface all the way down to its very deepest mantle roots? Although it sounds like an impossible undertaking, Philip Hammer of the University of British Columbia and colleagues have done just that. In the June issue of GSA Today: The big picture: A lithospheric cross section of the North American continent Philip T.C. Hammer et al., Earth and Ocean Sciences, University of British ...

In the first major study exploring the connection between vitamin D and multiple sclerosis in African Americans, a team of scientists at the University of California, San Francisco has discovered that vitamin D levels in the blood are lower in African Americans who have the disease, compared to African Americans who do not. "It seems relatively clear," said Ari Green, who is the assistant director of the UCSF Multiple Sclerosis Center, director of the UCSF Neurodiagnostics Center and the senior author on the study. "Low vitamin D levels are a risk factor for developing ...

Private Label Rights(PLR) and Master Resell Rights (MRR) as defined by http://www.plrsifu.com is the licensing rights for a product that dictates whether or not a product can be resold, and if yes, the conditions and restrictions by which they can be sold. PLR and MRR can be considered the key ingredient to make a living online using digital products. There is no denying that article writers, ebooks authors and software developers, who provide resale rights license with their products end up selling more copies than those who don't, this is because the resellable digital ...

One the fastest growing, pharmaceutical companies Core Gestra Pvt. Ltd bagged the Arch of Excellence in Pharma Award 2011. The award was presented at a glitzy award ceremony organized by All India Achievers Conference to honor corporate and individual achievements in nation building. The presentation ceremony was attended by top-notch corporate big-wigs, leading film stars as well well-known personalities from different fields. At the same award ceremony Core Group Managing Director, Sunil Kumar was awarded Promising Businessman of the Year Award in the individual category. ...

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A new study from George Mason University and the Urban Institute reveals that greater spending on medical services means better overall health for Medicare participants. Health Administration and Policy Professor Jack Hadley and his co-authors, Urban Institute researchers Timothy Waidmann, Stephen Zuckerman, and Robert Berenson, analyzed data from more than 17,000 Medicare beneficiaries to draw this conclusion. Previous reports showed that Medicare spending varies greatly by geographic area, but with little to show for it-the health outcomes for people who live in expensive ...

With the summer fashion trends now in full swing, Peacocks end another week of great press with a number of hits in the style pages of leading newspapers and magazines. A green floral By Design dress from the company is featured in The Sun, while Chat features a Missoni inspired dress and some must-have summer accessories are recommended in Love it, Bliss and on Daybreak online. In an article entitled Copycat Walks, The Sun picks out catwalk inspired fashion for a fraction of the price and includes a green floral By Design dress as a great high street look-a-like of ...

Both preschool children and adults distinguish between damage done either intentionally or accidently when assessing whether a perpetrator had done something wrong. Nonetheless, adults are much less likely than children to think someone should be punished for damaging an object, especially if the action was accidental, said study author Jean Decety, the Irving B. Harris Professor in Psychology and Psychiatry at the University of Chicago and a leading scholar on affective and social neuroscience. The different responses correlate with the various stages of development, ...

Northwestern Georgia felt the effects of severe weather season yesterday, May 27, as severe thunderstorms brought heavy rainfall, gusty winds and reports of a tornado. NASA's Aqua satellite provided an infrared look at that storm system that revealed very strong thunderstorms with icy cold cloud tops. Infrared imagery basically shows temperature signatures. That means that scientists can determine how hot or cold something is by looking at something using infrared light. The Atmospheric Infrared Sounder (AIRS) instrument aboard NASA's Aqua satellite captured infrared ...

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Life's lessons sometimes come from the most unexpected places. For 20th century artist Romare Bearden it was chance meeting with a prostitute on the street in Harlem. Standing there shaking her keys and shouting out prices Romare knew immediately what her profession was. She was the homeliest woman he had ever seen. But he couldn't stop thinking about her. He went to his mother for help asking her to find the woman a new occupation. She did. As a thank you the woman cleaned Romare's studio for him every Saturday. One Saturday as she was cleaning the woman noticed ...

Typhoon Songda became a Super Typhoon in the evening on May 26, 2011 (Eastern Daylight Time) was it reached a Category 5 status on the Saffir-Simpson Scale. NASA satellite data shows that the monster storm with a 14 mile-wide eye has weakened due to adverse wind conditions today and is still a powerful Category 4 typhoon. The Atmospheric Infrared Sounder (AIRS) instrument on NASA's Aqua satellite captured an infrared image of Super Typhoon Songda on May 27, 2011 at 5:05 UTC (1:05 a.m. EDT). At that time Songda was a Category 4 storm. The infrared image showed a large ...

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On April 29, 2009, a five-second-long burst of gamma rays from the constellation Canes Venatici triggered the Burst Alert Telescope on NASA's Swift satellite. As with most gamma-ray bursts, this one -- now designated GRB 090429B -- heralded the death of a star some 30 times the sun's mass and the likely birth of a new black hole. "What's important about this event isn't so much the 'what' but the 'where,'" said Neil Gehrels, lead scientist for Swift at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. "GRB 090429B exploded at the cosmic frontier, among some of the ...