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		<title>Even Nobel Prize-winning ideas take a long time to get accepted, finds study</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Aug 2011 18:11:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The path of success for Nobel Prize laureates in the sciences isn’t a straight shot from obscurity to never-ending scientific superstardom, a new study has revealed. Instead, many laureates see their Nobel-winning idea grow in acceptance from their first related scientific article to their most successful publication. But their later work related to the Nobel [...]]]></description>
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		<title>India to double expenditure on science research</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Apr 2011 12:26:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[India will double its spending on research and development related to science and technology during the 12th Five Year Plan starting next year, Minister of State for Science and Technology Ashwani Kumar said Tuesday. &#8220;The government is giving a big push to science and technology during the 12th Five Year Plan (from 2012-2017). The expenditure [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Google better at advising teachers than Scotland&#8217;s curriculum body</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Nov 2010 11:07:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Leading education academics have concluded that the Internet search engine Google offers better advice to teachers than Scotland&#8217;s curriculum body. The verdict comes as the Scottish Government admitted it was &#8220;abolishing&#8221; Learning and Teaching Scotland (LTS) rather than simply merging it with the school inspectorate HMIe. Sue Ellis, a reader in literacy and language at [...]]]></description>
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		<title>One-size-fits-all approach to child custody dangerous for mum, child</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Jul 2010 03:32:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Child custody evaluators should know how to differentiate between types of violence &#8211; because a one-size-fits-all approach to custody can endanger both mums and kids, according to new American research. The University of Illinois study reveals that evaluator&#8217;s beliefs generally fall into two categories, and one group is far more likely to prioritise safety for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The 2010 Körber Prize goes to Jiri Friml</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Jun 2010 11:31:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Prof. Dr. Jiri Friml is to receive the 2010 Körber European Science Award, which is endowed with 750,000 euros, for his groundbreaking discoveries in the field of plant development. Every year, this award honours a European scientist for his or her innovative, forward-looking research project. The awardee is selected by an international Trustee Committee chaired [...]]]></description>
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		<title>UMB Received 104 NIH Research Grants Under the Federal Stimulus Bill</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 18:10:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nov. 5 &#8211; The University of Maryland, Baltimore (UMB) has captured 104 of 476 Maryland grants from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009. Attracting more than 100 NIH competitive grants under the recovery act reflects an overall expansion of vital research programs in recent years at [...]]]></description>
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		<title>ATS, ERS Jointly Issue Asthma Assessment Guidelines</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2009 14:11:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[June 25 &#8211; The American Thoracic Society and the European Respiratory Society have released official standards for clinical trials and practice with respect to the assessment of asthma. The statement appears in the July 1 issue of the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine. &#8220;In the past, there has been no standard way [...]]]></description>
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		<title>NSF grant to fund research in advanced light microscopy at UCLA</title>
		<link>http://news.bioscholar.com/2007/11/nsf-grant-to-fund-research-in-advanced-light-microscopy-at-ucla.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Nov 2007 09:23:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nov 2 : The National Science Foundation has awarded a $1.1 million Major Research Instrumentation grant for the Advanced Light Microscopy core laboratory at the California NanoSystems Institute at UCLA. The award will facilitate the acquisition of the first commercially available super-resolution stimulated emission depletion (STED) confocal laser scanning microscope for nanoscopic resolution of biological [...]]]></description>
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		<title>London may soon have world&#8217;s biggest medical research lab</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Oct 2007 06:21:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[October 1 : A consortium of British organisations that are well known for funding various big clinical studies is reportedly planning to establish a world-class medical science centre in London. The Government’s Medical Research Council (MRC) has teamed up with the Wellcome Trust, Cancer Research UK and University College, London (UCL) to develop the British [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fat in stomach may cause Vitamin C to promote carcinogens</title>
		<link>http://news.bioscholar.com/2007/09/fat-in-stomach-may-cause-vitamin-c-to-promote-carcinogens.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Sep 2007 10:54:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sept 4 : A new study has given people another good reason to lose all that extra weight by finding that fat in the stomach may cause vitamin C to promote the formation of certain cancer causing chemicals rather than preventing it. As a part of their study the researchers set out to find the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Kerala&#8217;s biotech institute transferred to central government</title>
		<link>http://news.bioscholar.com/2007/08/keralas-biotech-institute-transferred-to-central-government.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Aug 2007 04:40:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Aug 2 : The Thiruvananthapuram-based Rajiv Gandhi Centre for Biotechnology (RGCB), the only institution of its kind in the country, will now be run by the central government, the union cabinet decided Thursday. The cabinet meeting presided over by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh decided &#8220;to place RGCB as an autonomous institute under the administrative control [...]]]></description>
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		<title>20 young researchers to receive Nobel Prize-sized awards for breakthrough ideas</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Aug 2007 03:49:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[August 1 : Entering its fourth and final year the European Young Investigator Awards (EURYI) scheme is “going out with style”. Twenty young researchers, which have been selected by high-level scientific peer review, will gather in Helsinki, Finland on 27 September 2007 to receive awards of as much as €1.2 million that will allow them [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Scientists call for changes in stem cell legislation</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jul 2007 14:45:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[July 26 : Leading stem cell scientists from across Europe are today lobbying European government in an attempt to get embryonic stem cell legislation in Europe changed. Scientists from two European-funded groups &#8211; EuroStemCell (European Consortium for Stem Cell Research) and ESTOOLS &#8211; are working together to demonstrate the impact national legislation in European countries, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Research Councils launch strategy to boost global reach</title>
		<link>http://news.bioscholar.com/2007/07/research-councils-launch-strategy-to-boost-global-reach.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jul 2007 14:46:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[July 25 : From groundbreaking research on rapid climate change to the design of the world’s first sustainable city, the UK’s research community has an excellent record of working on some of the most important and innovative international research programmes in the world. Research Councils UK is set to build on this already impressive international [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Medicines being diverted for drug abuse: UN official</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Jun 2007 08:28:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[June 26 : India faces a problem of medicines being diverted for drug abuse and the smuggling of such drugs to neighbouring countries is also a serious issue, says a senior UN official. &#8220;There is some diversion at the retail level, (but) primarily the problem of diversion exists at the wholesale level,&#8221; Gary Lewis, the [...]]]></description>
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