The 2008 Frost & Sullivan Global Polymerase Chain Reaction Product of the Year Award has been awarded to Spartan Bioscience Inc., a Canadian molecular diagnostics company. The company is recognised for its pioneering Spartan DXTM DNA analyser. This innovative, portable

However, technological advances, mounting awareness of their role in clinical diagnostics and a widening application base are set to promote the uptake of MS instruments over the next few years.

Less than three weeks after its maiden launch, the European Space Agency's Jules Verne Automated Transfer Vehicle is set to begin a series of automated approaches and make an eventual docking with the International Space Station.

Clinical Transplantation (March/April 2008 - Vol. 22 Issue 2) is now available by subscription only. Articles include:"Attitude of health care professionals to brain death: influence on the organ donation process" by Jonathan Cohen, Sharona Ben Ami, Tamar Ashkenazi and Pierre

Journal of Religious Ethics (March 2008 - Vol. 36 Issue 1) is now available by subscription only. Articles include:"ISLAM AND BIOETHICS. Beyond Abortion and Euthanasia" by Jonathan E. Brockopp, 3-12"BRAIN DEATH AND ITS ENTANGLEMENTS. A Redefinition of Personhood for Islamic

Archives of Neurology (Neuromics 2008 Part I: March 2008; Vol. 65, No. 3) is now available by subscription only. Articles include:"Stem Cells on the Brain" by Paul S. Knoepfler, 311-315

Artificial Organs (March 2008 - Vol. 32 Issue 3) is now available by subscription only. Articles include:"Importance of Artificial Organs Research in the Age of Regenerative Medicine" by Yoshinori Mitamura, PhD, 179-182"Artificial Organs 2007: A Year in Review" by Paul

History and Technology An International Journal (Volume 24 Issue 2, 2008) is now available by subscription only. Articles include:"How pharmaceuticals became patentable: the production and appropriation of drugs in the twentieth century" by Jean-Paul Gaudillière, 99 - 106"Professional or industrial

Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics (Volume 17, Issue 02) is now available by subscription only. Articles include:"Healthcare Disparities: The Salience of Social Class" by ERIKA BLACKSHER, 143-153"Clinical Cultural Competence and the Threat of Ethical Relativism" by INSOO HYUN, 154-163 "Culture

Jamie Taylor had an idea that soon solidified into Flirty Aprons, a store now open in the University Mall.

BYU Law School graduate and professor of Native American Studies at the University of Nebraska-Omaha said he is fighting the ignorance of Native American culture of his students and others around the country.

Two BYU communications students have been selected to participate on the Public Relations Student Society's National Committee.

BYU's unique cadaver lab exists because of the university's dedication to both religion and science.

April 25, 2008, 12:00 pm - In his new book, The Big Squeeze, New York Times Reporter Steven Greenhouse explores why, in the world's most affluent nation, so many corporations are intent on squeezing their workers dry. Steven Greenhouse has

Three times as much as previously thought was paid in student loans and grants to prisoners.

It is of adaptive value for a plant to prepare its defenses when a threat is detected, and certain plant...

Phytohormones mediate the perception of insect-specific signals and the elicitation of defenses during insect attack. Large-scale changes in a plant's...

The interaction between Depressaria pastinacella (parsnip webworm) and wild parsnip (Pastinaca sativa), in its native Europe and in its longstanding...