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Rice takes zeolite design into 21st Century using teragrid

Rice University physicist Michael Deem is taking zeolite design into the 21st Century using a combination of supercomputers at the University of Texas at Austin and disused computing cycles from more than 4,300 idling desktop PCs at Purdue University to create a database containing more than 3.4 million atomic formulations of the porous silicate minerals. Zeolites — there are 50-odd naturally occurring ones and about 180 synthetics — are heavily used by chemical manufacturers.

Colorectal Cancer :: Stool DNA testing for colon cancer

Mount Sinai School of Medicine and EXACT Sciences Corporation (NASDAQ: EXAS) announced today the publication of results from a prospective, multi-center study of stool DNA testing. The study found that the test demonstrated an 88% sensitivity for colorectal cancer, and with equal detection across all stages of cancer, regardless of the cancer?s location in the colon.

Leukemia :: SPRYCEL, dasatinib 100 MG Once A Day more effective in leukemia

Today, Bristol-Myers Squibb Company (NYSE: BMY) announced results from a randomized Phase III study showing that patients receiving SPRYCEL 100 mg once a day achieved similar cytogenetic responses at six months with considerably fewer hematologic and non-hematologic adverse events than patients receiving three other dosing schedules of SPRYCEL.

Nystagmus :: Leicester breakthrough in eye disease

Researchers at the University of Leicester have identified for the first time a gene which causes a distressing eye condition. Their discovery, as reported in the journal Nature Genetics, is expected to lead to better treatments for the condition.

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