WASHINGTON, Feb. 8, 2012 ?The U.S. Department of Agriculture?s (USDA) Agricultural Research Service (ARS), partnering with Bioversity International and the Global Crop Diversity Trust, has launched the Germplasm Resources Information Network-Global (GRIN-Global), a powerful but easy-to-use, Internet-based information management system for the world?s plant genebanks. Genebanks support ...
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( Washington University School of Medicine ) DNA sequences from tumor cells can be used to direct the immune system to attack cancer, according to scientists at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. The research, in mice, appears online Feb. 8 in Nature.
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DNA sequences from tumor cells can be used to direct the immune system to attack cancer, according to scientists at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. The research, in mice, appears online Feb. 8 in Nature.
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U.S Rep. Ron Kind (D-WI), Co-Chair of the Congressional Wellness Caucus, will join CEOs, senior benefit leaders, wellness directors, chief medical officers and others executives from top U.S. firms for the 2012 Employer Health & Human Capital Congress, a three-day forum focused on leveraging health to maximize business results, improve health outcomes, restructure benefits to achieve cost ...
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By MICHAEL FALCONE (@michaelpfalcone) and AMY WALTER (@amyewalter) Even before any of the votes had been tallied last night, Rick Santorum told supporters earlier in the day, “I feel great that Minnesota is going to change the direction of this race tonight.” He got his...
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NEW YORK, NY-- - Arnold Worldwide is pleased to announce that it has named Patricia A. Clifford to the newly created position of Global Chief Talent Officer. In this role, Clifford will be responsible ...
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Almost 150,000 people sign online petition which calls for tech giant to clean up its act on alleged human rights abuses in China Mark Shields, a communications worker in Washington DC, did not intend to become an activist calling for Apple to clean up its act over allegations of brutal labour abuses in its Chinese supplier network. But, listening to a recent radio show on the subject, Shields ...
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At the request of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), the Measures Application Partnership (MAP), a public-private, multi-stakeholder group of healthcare leaders convened by the National Quality Forum, has submitted its recommendations on the improvement and coordination of care by post-acute care (PAC) and long-term care (LTC) providers. ...
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ARLINGTON, Va., Feb. 8, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The U.S. Treasury has just released hundreds of pages detailing the new proposed regulations under the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act ("FATCA"). The information reporting and withholding rules will have a pervasive impact on foreign financial institutions (FFIs) and on non-financial foreign entities (NFFEs). ...
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A Columbus man was indicted Wednesday by a Lee County grand jury for allegedly enticing a child for immoral purposes.
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