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Radius Global Market Research Acquires Profile Marketing Research

21 May, 2013 15:00 CET  -   Radius Global Market Research
Deal augments Radius GMR’s practice serving global utility and energy sectors
New York, NY (May 21, 2013) – Leading global market research firm Radius Global Market Research (Radius GMR) has announced its acquisition of Profile Marketing Research (PMR), solidifying its standing as one of the largest independent market research networks based in the U.S. The acquisition is effective immediately. PMR will...

Consumer Study Shows Influence of Online Research Over Purchase Decisions Expand...

6 May, 2013 14:57 CET  -   Radius Global Market Research
New York, NY (May 6, 2013) – Consumers have long been turning to online research in the form of reviews, blogs, forums, and social media sites as they consider making big-ticket purchases. But a Radius Global Market Research (Radius GMR) study of online media use shows that consumers are increasingly conducting online research as they make smaller everyday purchases.

Radius GMR measured consumers’ stated use of...
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Researchers looking at 'goo' to predict impact of coastal storm surges

1 May, 2013 15:59 CET  -   University of Hull
Predictions on the threat of coastal flooding are leaving out a vital ingredient, claims a University of Hull scientist.

A team led by Professor Dan Parsons in the Department of Geography, Environment and Earth Sciences is recreating realistic seabed conditions in the Total Environment Simulator at The Deep, Hull, to investigate the interaction of sand, mud and biological ‘goo’. It is hoped that the findings will...

CDC-Recommended Non-Profit Launches ‘MotherToBaby’ In Time For Mother’s Day

30 Apr, 2013 16:35 CET  -   MotherToBaby, a service of the Organization of Teratology Information Specialists (OTIS)
Experts Provide Free Answers About Medications & More During Pregnancy & Breastfeeding
Brentwood, TN – As Mother’s Day approaches, the non-profit Organization of Teratology Information Specialists (OTIS), a prestigious professional society comprised of international leaders in the field of birth defects research, announces MotherToBaby, the new name of its free counseling service that connects experts with...

Mapping of cancer cell fuel pumps paves the way for new drugs

29 Apr, 2013 10:00 CET  -   Karolinska Institutet
For the first time, researchers at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden have managed to obtain detailed images of the way in which the transport protein GLUT transports sugars into cells. Since tumours are highly dependent on the transportation of nutrients in order to be able to grow rapidly, the researchers are hoping that the study published in the scientific magazine Nature Structural & Molecular Biology will form...

Certain Bacteria May Build Organ Tolerance in Lung Transplant Patients

25 Apr, 2013 16:06 CET  -   ISHLT
New research evaluates how microbes interact with and respond to transplanted lungs
MONTREAL, April 25, 2013 – New research will be revealed today at the International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation (ISHLT) 33rd Annual Meeting and Scientific Sessions in Montreal, Canada to determine if there is a link between microbiota (microscopic living organisms of a region) and the...

Natural Environmental Research Council (“NERC”) out of United Kingdom selects IO...

24 Apr, 2013 15:00 CET  -   IOCOM
Chicago, IL April 24, 2013: IOCOM, a leading provider of universal video conferencing solutions, today announced the selection of the Janet-connected Visimeet service by the Natural Environmental Research Council in the UK as a global video collaboration tool for use in its environmental research. The selection of Visimeet came after an exhaustive vetting of many solutions against the needs...

New light shed on early stage Alzheimer’s disease

23 Apr, 2013 09:00 CET  -   Karolinska Institutet
The disrupted metabolism of sugar, fat and calcium is part of the process that causes the death of neurons in Alzheimer’s disease. Researchers from Karolinska Institutet in Sweden have now shown, for the first time, how important parts of the nerve cell that are involved in the cell’s energy metabolism operate in the early stages of the disease. These somewhat surprising results shed new light on how neuronal...

Mammograms reveal response to common cancer drug

23 Apr, 2013 07:15 CET  -   Karolinska Institutet
Researchers at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden have developed a method for assessing the effect of tamoxifen, a common drug to prevent the relapse of breast cancer. The key lies in monitoring changes in the proportion of dense tissue, which appears white on a mammogram, during treatment. Women who show a pronounced reduction in breast density during tamoxifen treatment have a fifty per cent reduction in breast...

Swedish study suggests reduced risk of dementia

19 Apr, 2013 09:17 CET  -   Karolinska Institutet
A new Swedish study published in the journal Neurology shows the risk of developing dementia may have declined over the past 20 years, in direct contrast to what many previously assumed. The result is based on data from the SNAC-K, an ongoing study on aging and health that started in 1987.
“We know that cardiovascular disease is an important risk factor for dementia. The suggested decrease in dementia risk...