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We are seeking someone to do a deep competitive analysis on CE, qPCR, and NGS software competitors. It’s a highly fragmented industry (90+) competitors, someone dedicated over the summer would be very useful. Position could work remote. Skills Include Secondary and primary research skills Highly organized Comfortable learning and demonstrating software applications Screen recording and technical writing Prioritization Market sizing Communication and presentation skills Minimum Qualifications (must have) Keen interest in biology or biotechnology B.S. in biology, chemistry, life science, computer science, or engineering Highly computer literate MS Office Suite Preferred Qualifications (nice to have) Current MBA student EOE

Continue reading page | 1 | 2 The US is hoping to shock China into talks over its industrial cyber espionage programme, says a foreign relations expert At first glance, the US Justice Department's 31-count indictment of five Chinese military officers for hacking into the computers of six US corporations, in order to steal billions of dollars' worth of industrial secrets, seems a bit odd. No way are Beijing's leaders going to extradite members of their elite cyberwarfare unit to stand trial in a US criminal court. At second glance, the move still seems strange and possibly counterproductive. The United States engages in cyber-offensive operations, too. Doesn't president Obama â€" who must have approved the indictment and its high-profile rollout â€" worry that China will strike back by revealing some secret US plots? Besides, won't this whole business endanger US-Chinese relations, and at a time...

BEFORE dawn on 5 May, two pirates armed with knives boarded a ship in the Sierra Leone port of Freetown. They took the duty cadet hostage, stole some mooring ropes then slipped back into the darkness. No one saw them coming, but a new kind of intelligent radar might have done. The system, called WatchStander, uses radar mounted on either side of a ship to scan the surrounding water for small objects that look like they are moving to intercept. It can automatically sound an alarm and dispense countermeasures to deter the approaching vessels. The system is meant to tackle one of the biggest issues with preventing piracy at sea: spotting them coming. "The problem is that pirates use skiffs â€" small, fast fishing boats with a very low profile on the surface of the ocean," says Giacomo Persi Paoli, a piracy analyst with the RAND Corporation in Cambridge, UK. Large ships' radar systems are designed to pick up large objec...

Why are ever more curved-screen gadgets being launched? It seems bendiness has deep aesthetic appeal and will spur new materials and manufacturing methods THE future looks curvy. A spate of gadgets sporting concave displays has already been launched, and the big manufacturers will soon be hurling yet more TVs and smartphones with curved screens on to the shelves. Rumours continue to swirl that even Apple's forthcoming iPhone 6 will bend to the craze later this year. There's more to the trend than just a novel shape, though. It may be tapping into a deep-seated desire to get away from the hard corners and rectangles that have defined our appliances for decades. The craze for curves is also fueling a search for materials and manufacturing techniques that will help companies exploit it to the full. "The first adjective used by people to describe curves is 'soft'," says Oshin Vartanian, a neuroscientist at the University ...

07:03 30 May 2014 Want to get rich out of making video games? Don't worry about winning awards for your graphic artistry â€" hire some psychologists instead. They can tell you how the simplest of games can hijack our brain's evolved instincts to keep players hooked. Sally Adee and Douglas Heaven Read more: "Obsession engineers: Mind control the Candy Crush way" Image 1 of 7 Pattern recognition Humans like matching up patterns. We're born that way: even infants can work out that round pegs don't go into square holes. Casual puzzle games like Tetris (shown here), Candy Crush Saga , Bejeweled and Puyo Puyo tap into this affinity, which may explain why their main objectives are similar: the player must match up the random shapes that appear on screen with other shapes to clear the board and score points. (Image: EA)

(Image: Antiquity Publications) Ghostly riders, temples, boats and palaces live again after lost paintings at the temple of Angkor Wat in Cambodia were resurrected using digital techniques. During a 2010 visit, Noel Hidalgo Tan of the Australian National University in Canberra spotted faint traces of red paint on some walls of the temple. Using an algorithm originally developed by NASA, Tan took digital photographs of the decorations (upper image) and enhanced the colours to expose them in all their glory (lower image). The paintings are particularly notable because they seem to date from a mysterious "middle period" of the temple's history, during the 16th century, when it was converted from Hindu to Buddhist use. It is not the first time that modern imaging techniques have revealed Angkor Wat's secrets: ground-sensing radar and high-resolution aerial photographs revealed a huge urban sprawl that once ...

The creators of an app that draws maps of sexual harassment in Bangladesh hope it will make women feel safer and improve their political engagement WOMEN walking down the streets of cities in Bangladesh face a daily onslaught of sexual harassment. Euphemistically known as "Eve teasing", it takes many forms, from women being told by men to adjust their clothing or headgear to suit religious mores, to sexually suggestive remarks, groping â€" and more serious sexual assaults. Now a smartphone app has been created to help combat this. While making women feel safer is a major aim of the project, the creators also want to reduce the toll on the political lives of Bangladeshi women. By discouraging access to public space, street harassment silences women's voices and quashes their participation in public life, the team behind the app told a computing conference in Canada earlier this month. The app has been developed by teams at Ba...

Continue reading page | 1 | 2 On 18 September, the people of Scotland will vote on whether their country should become independent of the UK. This article is part of our Four Futures for an independent Scotland special report, looking at the choices a newly independent Scotland could make. Edinburgh, Scotland's bustling and aspiring capital, has dubbed itself the Athens of the North. If Scotland gets independence, the new government should instead consider looking across the Mediterranean Sea, to Israel, for some high-tech inspiration. Israel's nickname is the Start-Up Nation, thanks to a 2009 book of the same name that explored how a small country with 7 million people became a global player in the tech scene. Today, Israel is thought to boast the highest number of start-up companies per person in the world. So could Scotland follow Israel's example? Scotland has fewer people â€" about 5.3 million â€" but it a...

It looks a bit like a Fiat 500 crossed with an oversized Microsoft mouse â€" but Google believes this driverless car design is much closer to the real future of autonomous transport than the saloon vehicles it has been testing to date. Revealed at the inaugural Code Conference in California this week, Google's two-person driverless car is an all-electric design with a top speed of 25 miles an hour. It incorporates a range of pedestrian, road and environmental sensing technologies based on lasers, radar and cameras. The firm has perfected these during 1 million kilometres of autonomous driving tests on the streets of California. But it isn't only the shape of the driverless car that Google has changed: it has got rid of the steering wheel, accelerator and brake pedals, so no human can interfere with the ride. The new driverless pods will "be designed to operate safely and autonomously without requiring human intervention. They wo...

Already there are humanoid robots capable of convincing people they are emotional beings (Image: Emile Loreaux/Picturetank) Many blame the internet for loosening the ties that bind us â€" but it's also weaving a new kind of social web "FRIENDSHIP is the only cement that will ever hold the world together," said US president Woodrow Wilson. A century on, could it be that our fast-moving, high-tech and increasingly urbanised existence is causing that cement to crumble? Much has been made of the US General Social Survey, which reported that between 1985 and 2004, the average US citizen's number of close friends â€" the people they can turn to in a crisis â€" fell from three to two, and individuals with no confidants at all increased from 8 to 23 per cent. In the UK, a rise in the number of people living alone and the weakening of community ... To continue reading this article, subscribe to receive access to all of newscientist.com, including 20 years o...

Ballard Spahr's Atlanta office seeks an associate with four to six years of experience in patent prosecution to join our growing Biotechnology practice. The ideal candidate has a background in biotechnology, particularly plant genetics, molecular biology, or immunology, as well as excellent academic credentials. Preference for a candidate with a Ph.D. The candidate must be a member of or eligible for the Patent Bar. Ballard Spahr's Atlanta office seeks an associate with four to six years of experience in patent prosecution to join our growing Biotechnology practice. The ideal candidate has a background in biotechnology, particularly plant genetics, molecular biology, or immunology, as well as excellent acade... Law360.com - 46 minutes ago - save job - block ...

The Washington Biotechnology & Biomedical Association (WBBA) is seeking a part-time Receptionist/ Administrative Assistant to join our team. Outstanding organizational skills, detail oriented, cooperative, personable, professional, self-motivated, and customer service oriented are some of the qualities we seek. Must be able to work independently or as part of a team, to handle a fast pace, and to prioritize. - Office supply ordering and stocking supplies - Front-desk reception, phones and guests - Database entry - Run errands - Projects as requested Eastlake/Seattle location, Part-time. Washington Biotechnology & Biomedical Association - 4 days ago - save job - block ...

The response on Twitter to the 2014 Australian budget was furious Over-sharing on Twitter might prove to be a boon for mental health services. Grabbing 750 tweets a second, a new tool can read the emotional state of a region in real time. The idea is to figure out exactly what kinds of events affect people's moods and tailor mental health treatments accordingly. Researchers at Australia's national science agency, the CSIRO, and the Black Dog Institute in Sydney, created an emotional vocabulary of about 600 words and confirmed their meaning by crowdsourcing responses from over 1200 people. They built an app that filters tweets by location and linguistically analyses their emotional content. The output is an interactive graph of the target region's mood. It shows how much each of seven emotions are being expressed in that region. "If it works then in the future we can monitor, and eventually predict, where services can ...

IT LOOKS like an oil rig, but it may really be a beachhead. A Chinese drilling platform out at sea, in an area also claimed by Vietnam, is the latest issue in a decades-long dispute over the South China Sea and its oil and gas resources. On 1 May, China installed its Haiyang Shiyou 981 rig near the Paracel Islands, in the northern part of the South China Sea. Since then Vietnamese and Chinese ships have clashed in the area, and China has evacuated thousands of its citizens from Vietnam after violent anti-Chinese protests. The US Energy Information Administration estimates that the South China Sea holds 11 billion barrels of oil and 190 trillion cubic feet of natural gas. "It's pretty plausible there's oil and gas in a lot of those areas," says Ben Clennell, an oil exploration expert at CSIRO, Australia's national science agency, in Perth. China lays claim to a swathe of the South China Sea. For its part, Vietnam ...

A schoolgirl arriving for class presses her thumb against a fingerprint scanner, verifying her presence. Since April, this has been the scene at a handful of schools in the state of Jharkhand in eastern India. There, the attendance of students and teachers has been tracked using biometrics that are linked with India's huge national database, Aadhaar. It is the world's largest biometrics database, but now it is under threat. Started in 2009, Aadhaar holds the fingerprints, iris and facial scans of 600 million Indians. Besides school attendance, the database is used to provide natural gas subsidies to India's rural poor, and to send wages directly to people's bank accounts. It is a way of providing identification to people who may not even have a birth certificate, and has been trumpeted by the national government as a way to stamp out fraud. Aadhaar was the flagship programme of India's Congress Party, which lost to Narendra Modi...

Martin Rees explains why he's helping to revive the 18th-century Longitude prize for innovation â€" and why it's far tougher to pick today's big challenge You are helping to recreate the centuries-old Longitude prize. What is it? It's a £10 million challenge prize to commemorate the 300th anniversary of the original prize created by the Longitude Act in 1714. To navigate safely and accurately, sailors of the day desperately needed to be able to measure longitudeâ€" their east-west position on the Earth's surface. The prize was for £20,000, most of which was eventually won by clockmaker John Harrison, who devised a shipboard chronometer. What's the big challenge this time? In the 1700s there was one obvious technical challenge. Now the world is far more complicated. Moreover, there are many challenge prizes, especially in the US. For a single, high-profile UK prize, our group of experts identified six areas with ...

This position is a part-time, temporary position filled each semester on an as-needed basis. Major Responsibilities Responsibilities include assisting Program Chair or Adjunct Faculty in Chemistry labs; preparing solutions and reagents for upcoming labs; general housekeeping and clean-up after labs; and special projects as needed. Conduct all activities with an appreciation and respect for diversity of people, styles, and views. Promote same as an integral part of one’s work. Minimum Qualifications Must have at least CHM 105. Preferred Qualifications Prior lab experience and knowledge of aseptic technique and basic molecular and cell biology preferred. Other Requirements Selected candidate for employment will be subject to pre-employment background checks, including criminal history check, and any offer of employment will be contingent upon that outcome. Work Hours Day and/or evening hours to be arranged. Posting Date 05/09/2014 Closing Date Open Until Filled Yes Spe...

You can buy a drone in a toy store and they're all over YouTube â€" but US law still doesn't know what to do with them SHORTLY after a powerful tornado struck Mayflower, Arkansas, on 27 April, storm-chaser Brian Emfinger flew a drone over the ravaged town, capturing dramatic aerial images of a wide swathe of wreckage, even as emergency services were flocking to the scene. The footage aired on local TV and quickly went viral online, but it also caught the eye of the US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), which launched an investigation the next day. Emfinger and others like him could be forgiven for failing to anticipate the agency's ire. Though he is one of thousands of drone-owners in the US â€" with most craft being the small, quadcopter variety â€" there are no official regulations on how to operate them in the US. Even the current ban against flying them for commercial purposes, which Emfinger flouted, comes from a 2007 pol...

Star Wars medical technology is going mainstream. The US Food and Drug Administration has approved a prosthesis for commercial sale that is controlled by the body's own electrical signals. The Deka Arm System, developed by Deka Research and Development Corporation in Manchester, New Hampshire, uses electromyogram electrodes to pick up electrical signals from muscle contractions where the prosthesis is attached, or from a wireless controller operated by foot movements. It learns to convert these signals into the arm movement intended by the user. Approval follows a study in 36 people with amputations which compared the arm's capabilities with those of conventional inert prostheses. Nine in 10 users managed tasks that were very difficult or impossible with standard devices, including turning keys in locks, using zippers, brushing and combing hair, feeding themselves and even gripping and moving delicate objects like eggs (Watch the hand in a...

"FACTS, not opinions". This motto, inscribed over the doorway at 99 Southwark Street in London, is an oblique tribute to its unusual resident: an enormous machine used to crush, stretch and twist huge bits of metal (see "The Victorian monster destruction engine"). This machine was used to forge a revolution in engineering. Over the latter half of the 19th century, its owner, David Kirkaldy, and others created de facto standards for construction materials whose strength had previously been guesstimated at best. This triumph of facts over opinions helped make bridges, trains and much else safer. It is still the ethos of engineers today. In many other walks of life, however, the difference between facts and opinions remains fuzzy. The mass media and politics, in particular, seem full of people who don't know one from the other. But as any engineer will tell you, if you let opinion take the place of facts, whatever you build is...

Put some "crap" technology with some smart software and you get one life-changing solution. People who can't move their arms and legs will soon be able to attach a £50 gadget to their wheelchair along with their laptop to allow them to drive around using just their eyes â€" without having to stare at any controls. People who have lost the use of their body because of multiple sclerosis or spinal cord injury, for example, can usually move their eyes, because eyes are directly connected to the brain. Several technologies allow people to stare at arrows on a computer and direct the movement of a wheelchair, but there is a considerable delay between the movement of the eyes and the chair, and the person can't look around while manipulating the chair. To overcome this problem, Aldo Faisal at Imperial College London and his colleagues have developed software that uses subtle eye movements to distinguish when a person is looking ar...

If you prick it, does it not bleed? Puncture this plastic and it will heal itself with oozing fluids, in a process that mimics the way blot clots form to repair wounds. The plastic could one day be used to automatically patch holes in distant spacecraft or repair fighter jets on the fly. So far, efforts to develop materials that fix themselves the way biological tissue mends itself have been limited. Scott White at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and his colleagues developed one of the first versions in 2001, but that material could only heal microscopic cracks. Now his team have created a plastic lined with a type of artificial vascular system that can heal damage large enough to be visible to the naked eye. The key is a pair of liquids that react when they are mixed. One fluid contains long, thin molecules and the other contains three-sided molecules. When the fluids mix, the molecules join together to create a scaf...

Drugs work best when taken as prescribed. Take control with the help of a smart pill and skin patch that report back if you forget to take your meds TIME to take your electric meds. Sensors could come embedded in the pills in your next prescription, watching whether you take your medication on time and tracking your body's response to the drugs. The tiny sensors, which are ingested and pass harmlessly through the body, are part of the Helius system, developed by Proteus Digital Health in Redwood City, California. Together with a sensor-laden patch worn on the skin, Helius can let patients track personal data like activity levels and body temperature, and share it with their doctors or loved ones. The system could also help solve a serious problem: half of all medications dispensed in the US are not taken as prescribed, because of factors such as forgetfulness or discomfort with a drug's side effects. This costs healthcare providers bet...

(Image: Edgar Martins) ALL important people have dressing rooms. This is the one for Russian cosmonauts. It's based at the Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Star City, outside Moscow. As might be expected from something that dates back to the Soviet space programme, the dressing room itself isn't terribly high-tech. "It's a fairly nondescript room with incredibly decorative brown carpets," says photographer Edgar Martins, who has gained access to Star City â€" or the more charming Zvyozdny gorodok, "starry townlet", in Russian â€" as well as other facilities operated by the European Space Agency and its partners. The result is a book and exhibition with the intriguing, Borgesian name The Rehearsal of Space and the Poetic Impossibility to Manage the Infinite . What's he trying to say? "Space and the technological marvels that surround it have an immeasurable resonance on our so...

Sony Corporation of America , located in New York, NY, is the U.S. headquarters of Sony Corporation, based in Tokyo, Japan. Sony's principal U.S. businesses include Sony Electronics Inc., Sony Mobile Communications (USA) Inc., Sony Computer Entertainment America LLC, Sony Network Entertainment Inc., Sony Pictures Entertainment Inc., Sony Music Entertainment, Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, and Sony Online Entertainment LLC. With some 900 million Sony devices in hands and homes worldwide today, a vast array of Sony movies, television shows and music, and the PlayStation Network and the Sony Entertainment Network, Sony creates and delivers more entertainment experiences to more people than anyone else on earth. Sony Biotechnology, Inc. is a leading innovator of cell-based research analytical systems. Product offerings include flow cytometers for analysis and cell sorting, a spectral analyzer, software, reagents, and an experienced a...

Teacher-CTE-Biotechnology Position Number: 306150 District - Site: DURHAM PUBLIC SCHOOLS - BROGDEN MIDDLE Position Type: Licensed Full-Time/Part-Time: Full-Time Term: 10 month Continuing or Temporary: Continuing Position Available Date: 8/19/2013 Position End Date: Level of Benefits: Full Salary Range: State Salary Plus Local Supplement Vacancy Closing Date: Minimum Degree Level: Minimum Experience: General Position Comments: Special Conditions:

The DuPont Biochemical Sciences and Engineering group has an immediate opening for a Biochemical Engineer with a strong background in process research and development. The position involves development of novel bioprocesses including fermentation-based production via recombinant strains and fermentation process development at lab through pilot scales. The successful applicant will have excellent communication, project management, and leadership skills as well as strong theoretical knowledge and hands-on experience in one or more areas including bioreactor design, fermentation optimization, and fermentation scale- up. This position requires a multidisciplinary approach and a person who can take a leading role in both conceptual design and experimental validation of fermentation-based processes within a collaborative team of molecular biologists, biochemists, and engineers. DuPont is a global Fortune 100 company, operating in 70 countries today. We are looking for people who have a pas...

SOLAR power is about to bring some focus to your roof. Concentrated solar power has traditionally been confined to the desert, where huge arrays of mirrors focus the sun's rays to heat water, oil or salt. Now, thanks to cheap microprocessors and sun-tracking technology, a start-up called Avalanche Energy is bringing it to the rooftops of ordinary houses. The firm plans to make solar water heating more affordable than ever before. Alex Pina, CEO of Avalanche, has built a prototype solar water heater the size of a satellite dish. The device, called ThermalSquare, concentrates sunlight into a beam that heats water directly, then pumps it into the existing hot water tank. There are no expensive heat transfer fluids, vacuum tubes or silicon panels. When ThermalSquare goes on sale early next year, it will cost about $1000 to install, and the firm claims it will pay for itself in hot water within three years, although the exact time will...