New initiative aims to grow UK life sciences

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Data Integration in the Life Sciences DILS 2009 , Manchester , UK

e-DBI is a database application that allows the scientists to seamlessly connect to several of multi-format data sources. It facilitates the navigation and exploration of scientific data sources with potential for data integration. In a typical integration scenario, the scientists need to perform several activities and tasks to gather and collect all the information from the different data sour...

New Citizens for the Life Sciences

For years, the general public have been helping scientists to track weather, count birds, and observe the universe. Now such citizen scientists are starting to tackle research projects in the life sciences. Laura Bonetta reports.

New ambulance design aims to improve safety.

A new ambulance is helping deliver emergency medical care in a manner that is intended to improve safety for patients as well as providers, increase efficiency during patient care, decrease supply costs and provide better communication with hospital staff. The ambulance is a working proof of concept using a beta version of Ferno’s new modular iN∫Traxx component set. The ambulance was built for ...

Wi-Fi Certification Program Aims to Boost Battery Life

Wi-Fi devices used for voice over IP (VoIP) or other real-time applications that are WiFi Certified for WMM Power Save will have a substantially longer battery life, according to analyst Monica Paolini, president of Senza Fili Consulting. Estimating a 15to 40-percent improvement, Paolini says this is an important consideration for cell phone users who, unlike laptop users, don't usually have a ...