research

See the following -

Can Open Innovation Speed Up Drug Development?

Paul A. | IdeaConnection | July 26, 2012

Transparency Life Sciences claims to be the world’s first drug development company based on open innovation. Officially launched in January 2012 it provides a platform for patients, doctors, researchers and various other stakeholders to contribute to the design of clinical studies. Read More »

Changing The IT Culture At NIST

David Stegon | Fedscoop | March 18, 2013

The National Institute of Standards and Technology is known around the world for its groundbreaking research and innovations. Del Brockett, the agency’s chief information officer, wants the institute’s information technology services to be at that same level. Read More »

Conemaugh Health System One Of First Hospitals To Join Nationwide Health Information Network (NwHIN)

Press Release | Conemaugh Health System | September 11, 2012

The Conemaugh Health System is the first Pennsylvania non-government health care system and one of just 30 in the United Systems to go “LIVE” on the Nationwide Health Information Network (NwHIN) Exchange. Read More »

Distributed Computing For The Greater Good

Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols | ZDNet | March 1, 2013

From searching for alien life to working out cancer's protein structures to seeking cores for orphan and rare diseases, distributed computing programs can put your idle computers to good work. Read More »

Do It Yourself And Save: Open-Source Revolution Is Driving Down The Cost Of Doing Science

Marcia Goodrich | Michigan Tech | September 14, 2012

The DIY movement has vaulted from the home to the research lab, and it’s driven by the same motives: saving tons of money and getting precisely what you want. It’s spawning a revolution, says Joshua Pearce. Read More »

Dr. Stephen Aylward Elected To MICCAI Board Of Directors

Press Release | Kitware | October 23, 2012

On Friday, October 19th, Dr. Stephen Aylward, Kitware’s Senior Director of Operations in North Carolina, was elected to the MICCAI Society’s Board of Directors. Dr. Aylward was appointed to this position along with Josien Pluim of the Image Sciences Institute after a competitive vote, which was validated, reviewed, and ratified by the current Board of Directors. Read More »

EU Agency Lifts Lid on Drug Data Secrets

Ben Hirschler | Reuters | July 15, 2012

Europe's medicines regulator, criticised in the past for excessive secrecy, is opening its data vaults to systematic scrutiny in a move that will let independent researchers trawl through millions of pages of clinical trial information. Read More »

Europe Joins UK Open-access Bid

Richard Van Noorden | Nature | July 17, 2012

Being the first to try something new is nerve-wracking — so it is always a relief to see someone else follow your lead. When the UK government announced on 16 July that it would require much of the country’s taxpayer-funded research to be open-access from April 2013, it was not immediately clear whether the move would set a trend or prove to be an isolated gamble... Read More »

European Commission Embraces Open Access

Richard Van Noorden | Nature | July 17, 2012

The European Commission has announced its intention to make open access all research findings funded by Horizon 2020, its enormous, €80-billion (US$98-billion) research-funding programme for 2014–20. And it is urging member states to follow its lead. Read More »

First European Student Summit On Open Access

Katarina Lovrečić | InTechWeb Blog | May 10, 2011

Right to Research Coalition has announced the first European student summit on Open Access. The event will be held on May, 20-21 at the Humbold University of Berlin, in Germany. Read More »

Free Access to British Scientific Research within Two Years

Ian Sample | The Guardian | July 15, 2012

The government is to unveil controversial plans to make publicly funded scientific research immediately available for anyone to read for free by 2014, in the most radical shakeup of academic publishing since the invention of the internet. Read More »

G8 Science Ministers Endorse Open Access

Jack Grove | Times Higher Education | June 13, 2013

Science ministers from the G8 group of the world’s richest countries have jointly endorsed the need to increase access to publicly-funded research. Read More »

Harvard’s 3D-Printing Archaeologists Fix Ancient Artifacts

Joseph Flaherty | Wired | December 10, 2012

Indiana Jones practiced archaeology with a bull whip and fedora. Joseph Greene and Adam Aja are using another unlikely tool — a 3-D printer. Read More »

Health Care (Insurance) Reform Upheld, but Concentration and Abuse of Power Remain Largely Unaddressed

Roy M. Poses | Health Care Renewal | June 28, 2012

Numerous media reports say that the US Supreme Court has upheld the massive US health care "reform" law...In my humble opinion, the law will likely increase acess to commercial health care insurance, although will likely not reduce the expense of such insurance, or address the misbehavior of many large insurance companies... Read More »

High impact EMBO Molecular Medicine to Publish Under Open Access Model

Natasha White | Wiley Open Access Blog | March 7, 2012

 EMBO Molecular Medicine, as of March 2012, joins the Wiley Open Access publishing program. Articles in the journal are open access and free to view, download and share for non-commercial use. Read More »