WASHINGTON, DC – Chinese and Russian officials have agreed to set up a first ever protected area for endangered Amur tigers, also known as Siberian tigers, between Jilin province in China and neighboring Primorsky province in Russia.
World Wildlife Fund (WWF) facilitated the agreement, which will help Chinese and Russian wildlife authorities establish a transboundary cooperative [...]

Ribbon-cutting ceremony to inaugurate solar energy system
SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. – Kyocera Solar, Inc., in collaboration with Solar Monkey, today announced the completion of a solar energy system at the headquarters of Rainbow Sandals, Inc. To mark its official transition to sustainable energy, Rainbow Sandals will host a ribbon-cutting ceremony on August 31 at 10:30 a.m. [...]

WASHINGTON, DC – Until America fully transitions to clean energy sources, oil and gas development must be done safely with science-based decisions that are made in the context of the full suite of potential uses of ocean resources, including fishing and tourism, as well as the maintenance of overall ecosystem health, World Wildlife Fund President [...]

Replicating nanostructures from the wings of Morpho butterflies, GE’s sensors would enable highly selective, near-instantaneous detection of chemical threats
GE’s sensing platform could create other industrial and healthcare applications, including emissions monitoring at power plants, water purification and food safety testing and breath analysis for disease detection
NISKAYUNA, New York – Scientists at GE Global Research, GE’s [...]

National Institutes of Health Funding Enables Use of SOLiD 4 Technology for Cancer Biomarker Research
CARLSBAD & LA JOLLA, Calif. –LifeTechnologies Corporation (NASDAQ: LIFE) and the University of California at San Diego Moores Cancer Center today announced a partnership to use SOLiD(TM) 4 genomic analysis technology in a research program to study chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL), [...]

Provider Saves More Than Three and One-Third Tons of Paper with Oracle E-Business Suite and Oracle Content Management
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Cox Communications, Inc., a multi-service broadband communications and entertainment company serving more than 6 million U.S. residences and businesses, has significantly reduced its carbon footprint with the help of Oracle E-Business Suite and Oracle [...]

DNAdvance SP Delivers High Yield with Oragene•DNA Samples
ORANGE County, Calif., and OTTAWA, Ont. – Beckman Coulter Genomics today announced the development of a new version of the DNAdvance System for use with DNA Genotek’s Oragene®•DNA samples.
DNAdvance SP, from Beckman Coulter Genomics, is an extraction kit for the isolation and purification of DNA from saliva samples [...]

Collaboration aims to accelerate human genome analysis and enable advancements in personalized healthcare
YORKTOWN HEIGHTS, N.Y. & BRANFORD, Conn. – Roche (SIX: RO, ROG; OTCQX: RHHBY) and IBM (NYSE: IBM) announced today an agreement to develop a nanopore-based technology that will directly read and sequence human DNA quickly and efficiently. Focused on advancing IBM’s recently published [...]

Collaboration Aimed at Helping Build ‘Life Sciences Corridor’ in the Midwest
COLUMBIA, Mo. - IBM (NYSE: IBM) and the University of Missouri today announced a life sciences research initiative using IBM high performance computing technologies to advance the school’s bioinformatics research projects. The goal of the initiative is to develop a first-of-a-kind cloud computing environment [...]

GE Executives to Discuss Global Solutions During Singapore International Water Week

SINGAPORE —The planet is facing significant water-related challenges. Within 10 years, water demand is expected to exceed supply by 470 trillion gallons, and the United Nations predicts that two-thirds of the world’s population will face water scarcity issues by 2025. At the upcoming Singapore International [...]