Awardee of a $400,000 5-year National Science Foundation grant is developing the technology for a device that "...will result in a noninvasive approach for breast cancer detection.”

An acoustic resonant sensor is at the core of the development. Smaller than the diameter of a human hair, the sensor produces nearly immediate results, reducing patient anxiety. Read the whole news release at:

http://munews.missouri.edu/news-releases/2010/0217-small-liquid-sensor-may-detect-cancer-instantly-could-lead-to-home-detection-kit/

Sign up NOW if you're planning on attending. Technical sessions, exhibits, one-on-one partnering, keynotes, networking...a career fair for those seeking employment, and much more.

http://convention.bio.org/default.aspx

Take a look at the sample attendee list by company and title from BIO's 2008 and 2009 events: http://convention.bio.org/content.aspx?id=2395

You can even download a digital brochure at http://bio.advancis.com/cgi-bin/BIO2010.cgi?SourceCode=PREVIEW

Spring is coming - time to activate those little gray cells (as Hercule Poirot would say).

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In the spirit of "A Rising Tide Raises All Boats," we'd like to populate our biocluster resource links in geographic areas where we have none right now.

We know there are emerging bioclusters in Africa, non-Japan Asia (Japan is well represented), Mexico, Central and South America, and the Mideast, especially Israel. Please help us identify and celebrate them by sending relevant biocluster URLs to jogucwa@techmanage.com.

Thanks!

"For Dummies" books cover everything! Just added links to Amazon on:

Stem Cells
Genetics (2nd edition coming soon)
Molecular Biology

Find them in our Resource Links:
http://www.techmanage.net/resources

Microcystin-LR, produced by cyanobacteria, or blue-green algae is suspected to cause liver damage and possibly liver cancer. It's been suspected to have caused mass poisonings going back to early human history.

The paper infused with carbon nanotubes is small (about the size of a home pregnancy test kit), inexpensive enough for frequent use in developing countries (not to mention water treatment plants everywhere), can be adapted to detect other toxins. What's not to like?

http://www.ns.umich.edu/htdocs/releases/story.php?id=7481

Play around with the "state data tool" of The U.S. National Science Foundation's (NSF) Science and Engineering Indicators 2010 report: http://www.nsf.gov/statistics/seind10/c8/c8s7.htm

Data includes 4th and 8th grade performance and proficiency in mathematics and science for up to 10 states you select; it also shows national averages.

For perspective on the concept of throwing money at a given problem, figures are given for public school teacher salaries, expenditures as share of gross domestic product and expenditures per pupil.

Out of curiosity I decided to compare the states of Illinois and Colorado - I live in one and ski in the other - on elementary and secondary education. What do you think I found?

Two recent items on the same topic caught my attention today.

The first: an article from Popular Scientist" "Heading to the Olympics? Don't Leave Without Controlling the CN Tower's Lights With Your Mind."

The second: a video from IMPO: "Writing E-mails with Your Mind."

Because we bring you compilations of gene-related patents and patent applications in the U.S. each month, the title and subtitle of the Feb. 5 2010 Economist article captured my attention: "Patent Nonsense; An End to Frivolous Patents May Be in Sight."

I, too, believe that most business process patents are extortionist (my word, NOT the Economist's), set up to extract unearned fees from those actually putting their art into practical, economic practice.

And I believe in "putting my money where my mouth is." A number of years ago I walked away from a good-paying client who wanted me to help develop a lawsuit strategy against a well-known innovator in the job listing market (as a consultant -- I'm not a lawyer).

Have you registered for the BIO 2010 convention yet? My top 3 picks of the "Exciting Science" topics:

An Embryonic Stem Cell Alternative
Biomanufacturing
Therapeutics for Cognitive Aging

See them all at:

http://bio2010.bdmetrics.com/sessionsearch.aspx?configid=1&track=29100110&keyword=