A team of biomechanical and paleontological researchers at University of Manchester are exploring a question that teenaged dinosaur girls have wondered for years: how thin should a dinosaur model be?

Karl Bates and his team built their supermodels using a framework reconstructed from museum-installed skeletons, using an infrared laser scanning technique called LiDAR.

Show Me The Science Month Day 18



The transition from one-celled microbes to multicellularity was a huge step in the evolution of life on this planet, but as daunting as this evolutionary step seems, it didn't happen just once. Today's plants, fungi, animals, and various types of algae are all descendants of separate transitions to multicellular life.

All of these transitions from a single-cell lifestyle to multicellularity occurred in the very distant past, so how can we learn anything about them? It turns out that it is not hard to find living, modern examples that closely parallel the momentous evolutionary transitions that led to animals, plants, and fungi. Right now on earth there are primitive multicellular organisms that, in many ways, resemble the first multicellular creatures that existed a billion years ago. Researchers are using these organisms to understand what kinds of genetic changes are needed to turn a single-celled organism into a multicellular one.

CARLSBAD, California, February 20 /PRNewswire/ --

- Encouraging Safety and Efficacy Results Support Follow-on NEST-3 Trial

In a clinical trial sponsored by PhotoThera, Inc., transcranial laser therapy (TLT) for acute ischemic stroke within 24 hours of stroke onset demonstrated improved outcomes for patients, but did not meet statistical significance for efficacy. A post-hoc analysis in patients who had moderate to moderately severe strokes revealed a statistically significant treatment effect. These encouraging results support a follow-on phase III trial, NEST-3.

LONDON, February 20 /PRNewswire/ -- In the news release, Unite Shocked by Panasonic's Redundancy Proposals issued on 20 Feb 2009 16:20 GMT, by Unite the Union over PR Newswire, we are advised by a representative of the company that in the last line of the first paragraph the number of job losses should have read 15,000 rather than 1500 as originally issued inadvertently. Complete, corrected release follows:

Unite the Union and its members in Panasonic PCCUK Newport have been demanding assurances regarding the future of Panasonic in Newport following weeks of uncertainty after a Panasonic Global announcement that 27 Panasonic plants were to close and 15,000 job losses were expected worldwide.

The floodgates have opened, and through it rushes advances in stem cell research. It seems that every day, another effort makes a push forward for medical stem cell therapy.

Earlier this week, a team of research scientists published a study evaluating long term clinical results of treating patients with Parkinson’s disease with autologous neural stem cells. The results of the study demonstrated that stem cells from cerebral tissue could form differentiated neurons and could produce dopamine and reverse symptoms of Parkinson’s.  Restored GABA and dopamine signals can restore and provide long term motor improvement.

LONDON, February 20 /PRNewswire/ -- Unite the Union and its members in Panasonic PCCUK Newport have been demanding assurances regarding the future of Panasonic in Newport following weeks of uncertainty after a Panasonic Global announcement that 27 Panasonic plants were to close and 1500 job losses were expected worldwide.

Unite and employees onsite were finally informed today (Friday) of the potential impact of a restructuring proposal that might result in 139 out of 413 current employees being at risk of redundancy.

Bryan Godsell, Unite Regional Officer, said:

TOKYO, Japan and CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, February 20 /PRNewswire/ --

- Soh Fujiwara is Appointed Managing Director

Shire plc (LSE: SHP, NASDAQ: SHPGY), the global specialty biopharmaceutical company, announced today that it has officially opened a new representative office in Japan and has appointed Soh Fujiwara as Managing Director for Japanese operations.

LONDON, February 20 /PRNewswire/ -- Unite, Scotland's largest trade union, has slammed SNP and Conservative councillors at Stirling Council after they voted to close two local residential care homes last night as part of the local budget proposals.

Amid angry scenes at the Stirling City Chambers, Labour and Liberal councillors voted 11-11 against their SNP and Tory counterparts on a budget plan shaped by private-hire consultants KPMG.

The SNP Provost then cast the deciding vote in favour of the budget, closing the Beech Gardens and Wellgreen residential homes at a cost of 40 full-time residential placements and potentially 50 local jobs.

AMSTERDAM, February 20 /PRNewswire/ -- Elsevier announced today that Scopus(R), its flagship product and world's largest abstract and citation (AC) database, was chosen by the Australian Research Council (ARC) for its Excellence in Research for Australia (ERA) initiative.

The ERA initiative will assess research quality within Australia's higher education institutions using a combination of indicators and expert review by committees comprised of experienced, internationally-recognized experts.

Scopus Custom Data will be the sole provider used to assess the country's higher education research output for the ERA's first group of science disciplines: Physical, Chemical and Earth Sciences (PCE).

LONDON, February 20 /PRNewswire/ --

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Mouth cancer (also called oral cancer) is a malignant growth which can occur in any part of the mouth including the lips and tongue. Mouth cancers often appear as a painless mouth ulcer that does not heal normally or, less often, as a red or white patch in the mouth. Dental Authorities seek to encourage people to understand their level of risk for the disease and to advise dentists to be vigilant in their examination procedures.