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FDA rolls out Web-based risk assessment tool for food, drug imports

admin — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 20:41:14 +0000

FDA rolls out Web-based risk assessment tool for food, drug imports
The Food and Drug Administration is launching its automated risk-assessment system that will flag high-risk shipments of imported food and drugs.

New computational tool for cancer treatment

admin — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 22:25:21 +0000

New computational tool for cancer treatment
Many human tumors express indoleamine 2,3-dioxygenase (IDO), an enzyme which mediates an immune-escape in several cancer types. Researchers in the Molecular Modeling group at the SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics and Dr. Benoît J. Van den Eynde’s group at the Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research Ltd (LICR) Brussels Branch developed an approach for creating new IDO inhibitors by computer …

Schools add new tool to track student progress

admin — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 00:32:54 +0000

Schools add new tool to track student progress
Daniel McBride Staff Writer HOUMA — Terrebonne schools will have a new way to track student academic progress during the year after the School Board voted Tuesday to buy a $244,000 computer program to handle the work.