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Soon the word "hella" may not be associated with California surfers as much as with scientists in lab coats. A physics student is petitioning to add "hella" to the International System of Units (SI) as the official designation of 10 to the 27th power, or a trillion trillions.

Researchers have found a pharmaceutical way to clear some of the cognitive fog that results from a sleepless night. In a new study using lab mice, researchers corrected the memory problems in sleep-deprived mice through a drug that suppressed levels of a certain enzyme in a brain region called the hippocampus.

Brain, bodily awareness, and the emergence of a conscious self: these entities and their relations are explored by Germanphilosopher and cognitive scientist Metzinger. Extensively working with neuroscientists he has come to the conclusion that, in fact, there is no such thing as a "self" -- that a "self" is simply the content of a model created by our brain - part of a virtual reality we create for ourselves. But if the self is not "real," he asks, why and how did it evolve? How does the brain construct the self? In a series of fascinating virtual reality experiments, Metzinger and his colleagues have attempted to create so-called "out-of-body experiences" in the lab, in order to explore these questions. As a philosopher, he offers a discussion of many of the latest results in robotics, neuroscience, dream and meditation research, and argues that the brain is much more powerful than we have ever imagined. He shows us, for example, that we now have the first machines that have developed an inner image of their own body -- and actually use this model to create intelligent behavior. In addition, studies exploring the connections between phantom limbs and the brain have shown us that even people born without arms or legs sometimes experience a sensation that they do in fact have limbs that are not there. Experiments like the "rubber-hand illusion" demonstrate how we can experience a fake hand as part of our self and even feel a sensation of touch on the phantom hand form the basis and testing ground for the idea that what we have called the "self" in the past is just the content of a transparent self-model in our brains. Now, as new ways of manipulating the conscious mind-brain appear on the scene, it will soon become possible to alter our subjective reality in an unprecedented manner. The cultural consequences of this, Metzinger claims, may be immense: we will need a new approach to ethics, and we will be forced to think about ourselves in a fundamentally new way. At

Amazing impact of the Trivedi Effect on Surface Area Determination BET Test done at (IRMRA) - Thane Lab. Read full report to know more facts.

Stem cell research has now proved that stem cells exist in the mind and the heart. Researchers in numerous labs are attempting to discover better approaches to make substantial amounts of adult stemcells and to control them to produce particular cell sorts so that, they can be utilized to treat damage or malady.

"The BioMed X Innovation Center is an exciting new collaboration model at the interface between academia and industry. At our center, distinguished early career scientists recruited from all over the world are working jointly on novel pre-clinical research projects in the fields of biomedicine, molecular biology, cell biology, diagnostics, bioinformatics, neuroscience and nanomaterials. These interdisciplinary project teams are conducting outstanding biomedical research in an open innovation lab facility on the campus of the University of Heidelberg"

Scientists and engineers work across diverse research areas in labs worldwide.

Laboratory Glassware suppliers and Laboratory Equipment manufacturers serve various labs with their manufactured tools, instruments and specialised glassware. Numerous laboratories (labs) are served by leading and the most renowned laboratory equipment manufacturers.

QuaLIS is an Enterprise scale Web based Laboratory Information Management Software (LIMS) that helps global organisations standardise on a single LIMS system.

OpenLab Network facilitates innovative, creative and collaborative research with art, community, design, technology, and science with the University of California Santa Cruz.

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@NerdyChristie Don't think you need to be on g+ ? Time to reach 20 mio users: g+: 24 days tw: 1035 days fb: 1152 days

"Thomson Reuters has smashed a Brazilian self-citation cartel in which editors of journals cited each other to boost their impact factors!"

"Europa und insbesondere auch Oberösterreich steuern auf einen massiven Technikermangel zu. Bereits jetzt fällt es den oberösterreichischen Betrieben schwer, genügend qualifizierte Techniker zu finden und der Mangel nimmt weiter zu. In den nächsten Jahren kommt es euro-paweit zu einer Pensionierungswelle an hochqualifizierten Technikern und aus den Univer-sitäten und Fachhochschulen kommen zu wenige Ingenieure nach. Verschärft wird diese Situa-tion noch durch den demografischen Wandel. Weiters haben die österreichischen Jugendli-chen im Quervergleich mit allen EU 27 eine negativere Einstellung zu Technik und Engineering als der EU-Durchschnitt (Flash Eurobarometer „Young people and science" 09/2008). "

A chemistry professor at Harvard University is trying to shrink a medical laboratory onto a piece of paper that's the size of a fingerprint and costs about a penny.