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Researchers make market on avian flu
Starting next month experts from around the globe will be asked to place bets on the flu. University of Iowa economists and physicians have organized a so-called global avian flu...
Net neutrality divides parties
Should Democrats take control of one or both houses of Congress in next Tuesday's election, people who back Internet non-discrimination laws believe they'd get a boost. Called "net neutrality," the...
Software calls on cell phones to aid in fighting crime
Using cell phones as cameras is gaining popularity, a new report from M:Metrics finds. With summer vacations, Americans boosted photo-messaging by about one-third over what it was last February, the...
Meeting magnifies importance of microtechnology
The microscope is so widely recognized as an instrument of scientific inquiry that it's often used as a logo to depict an organization's research bent. But regardless of the microscope's...
Experts say phone firms at law’s edge
The furor over the National Security Agency's collection of Americans' phone records intensified Friday, with one telecommunications giant slapped with a $5 billion damage suit for allegedly violating privacy laws...
Northfield denies any coverup on blood trial
Faced with criticism of its research protocol, blood substitute-maker Northfield Laboratories Inc. Wednesday denied it tried to cover up deaths and other problems found in an earlier clinical trial and...
Deals to flow at BIO 2006 show
When BIO 2006, the biotechnology industry's annual meeting, convenes in Chicago this spring, among the 20,000-plus attendees expected will be a fair number affiliated with big pharmaceutical companies. Over the...
Nanotechnology industry puts focus on safety issues
Like the proverbial elephant frightened by a mouse, segments of American industry are awakening to potential danger in really tiny particles. Earlier this month a report commissioned by the Woodrow...
IBM leads effort to help patent examiners
As the firm that consistently wins more patents each year than any other, IBM can appreciate the difficulties faced by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office in evaluating stacks upon...