The Union government has proposed to set up a department of medical genetics at NIMS for providing diagnostic, treatment and counseling services to children and families with inherited genetic disorders.

IBC Life Sciences announced the keynote presenters for the 5th Annual BioProcess International(TM) Conference & Exhibition, to take place on September 23-26, 2008 at the Disneyland® Hotel in Anaheim, California.

One of the biggest lunar discoveries of the decade -- proof that the moon might have had water since its formation -- was announced Wednesday by a team of researchers whose background is more in Earth science than moon rocks.

A new NASA mission, IBEX, launches this weekend, geared to probe the very edge of the solar system from a high Earth orbit. One of its two instruments is a compact Los Alamos device called the High Energy Neutral Atom Imager.

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