This message contains images. If you don't see images, click here to view. Advertise in this news brief. Advertisement Text version   RSS   Subscribe   Unsubscribe   Archive   Media Kit July 13, 2016 SLAS.org    SLAS2017    Moving? New job? Let SLAS know.       Advertisement Advertisement   SLAS Europe Council Seeks Candidates: Respond by Aug. 24 SLAS     Share    Individuals who wish to serve on the SLAS Europe Council are invited to submit materials for consideration by midnight CET, Wednesday, Aug. 24. Nomination materials include current CV, a short statement of your reasons for seeking a position and an affidavit acknowledging your eligibility to serve. The current SLAS Europe Council will review submitted materials and select a slate to fill three open spots on the Council; the slate will be presented to all SLAS members in the Europe Region in October. The new Council members will replace Emilio Diez-Monedero, Steve Rees and Burkhard Schaefer, whose terms expire in 2016. More Advertisement SLAS ELN Reports: Anti-Leaching Solutions Featured on SLAS2016 Innovation AveNEW SLAS    Share    Read the latest SLAS Electronic Laboratory Neighborhood e-zine article about the magic that happens when connections are made through participation in SLAS. Longtime SLAS member Amer El-Hage saw how a medical products company could help with issues being discussed in the SLAS Labware Leachables Special Interest Group, so he brought SIG Chair Lynn Rasmussen together with SiO2 Medical Product's Brian Maurer. The discussions led to a new market for SiO2 and the company's spot on SLAS2016 Innovation AveNEW. Read the full story and learn more about other SLAS Innovation AveNEW companies in the e-zine. 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Between them they account for 60% of referral traffic to SAGE Journals Online. The search engine is now the first port of call for researchers and it is of paramount importance your article can be found easily in search engine results." Repeat key phrases in the abstract while writing naturally, get the title right and choose your key words carefully are among the strategies the SLAS journals publisher recommends. Read about additional resources, like Kudos and ORCID, on the SLAS website. More Advertisement SLAS2017 Special Session: Regenerative Medicine — Next Generation Treatments SLAS    Share    Regenerative medicine is having a big impact on the future of medicine with its potential to fully repair damaged cells, tissues and organs. Developments in stem cell technology, tissue engineering and molecular biology are pushing the frontiers of medicine by providing the possibility of cures through the use of cellular therapies. The next decade will see the rapid development of treatments that will employ human iPS cells, drugs and biologics as substrates for therapies in acute and chronic diseases. In this SLAS2017 session, presenters explore the recent advances in the generation, standardization, characterization and the mechanistic behavior of stem cells and their applications in regenerative medicine. Session chairs are G. Sitta Sittampalam from the National Institutes of Health and Marcie Glicksman of ORIG3N and SLAS2017 conference co-chair. More Advertisement Superior Mass Spec Results Start with Superior Protein Sample Prep Agilent AssayMAP automated protein and peptide sample preparation gives you greater throughput, precision, and reproducibility. Skin Cancer Tracked From (Stem) Cell of Origin Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News    Share    Investigations into cancer's ultimate origins bring to mind the "want of a nail" proverb, a reminder that a small initial dysfunction can trigger a chain of increasingly serious problems that culminate in disaster. Yet these investigations have had difficulty nailing down the oncogenic, well, nail. Must cancer originate in a stem cell, or may it originate in a progenitor cell? An answer to this question comes from scientists based at Université Libre de Bruxelles and the University of Cambridge. More High-Field-Effect Mobility of Low-Crystallinity Conjugated Polymers with Localized Aggregates Journal of the American Chemical Society    Share    Charge carriers typically move faster in crystalline regions than in amorphous regions in conjugated polymers because polymer chains adopt a regular arrangement resulting in a high degree of π–π stacking in crystalline regions. In contrast, the random polymer chain orientation in amorphous regions hinders connectivity between conjugated backbones; thus, it hinders charge carrier delocalization. Various studies have attempted to enhance charge carrier transport by increasing crystallinity. More Advertisement Chart your own course, we’ll help you get there. Find the right microplate reader solution today. [Download Free eBook] Fast track cell-based assays like a pro [Webinar On Demand] Implement high-throughput 3D image analysis for samples from subcellular structures to spheroids Grow stable hybridoma cell lines with our complete set of culture media. Learn more today>> Position your research – with breakthrough, intelligent imaging solutions New Microfluidic Device Offers Means for Studying Electric Field Cancer Therapy Phys.org    Share    Researchers at MIT's research center in Singapore have developed a new microfluidic device that tests the effects of electric fields on cancer cells. They observed that a range of low-intensity, middle-frequency electric fields effectively stopped breast and lung cancer cells from growing and spreading, while having no adverse effect on neighboring healthy cells. The device, about the size of a U.S. dollar coin, is designed to help scientists narrow in on safe ranges of electric fields to noninvasively treat breast, lung, and other forms of cancer. More New Clues Could Help Scientists Harness the Power of Photosynthesis Lab Manager    Share    Identification of a gene needed to expand light harvesting in photosynthesis into the far-red-light spectrum provides clues to the development of oxygen-producing photosynthesis, an evolutionary advance that changed the history of life on Earth. "Knowledge of how photosynthesis evolved could empower scientists to design better ways to use light energy for the benefit of mankind," said Donald A. Bryant, the Ernest C. Pollard Professor of Biotechnology and professor of biochemistry and molecular biology at Penn State University. More Survey Finds Laissez-Faire Attitude Toward Validating Antibodies Science Magazine    Share    James Anderson studies how epithelial cells that act as barriers within cells, tissue, or organs are bound together. In his lab at the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute on the Bethesda, Maryland, campus of the National Institutes of Health, the cell biologist uses antibodies to tag the proteins he and his colleagues are looking for, but only after making sure they are labeling with the proper antibody. To do without such baseline information, the entire experiment could be irreproducible. More Federal Study of MCHM Concludes Chemical & Engineering News    Share    A just-released federal study of 4-methylcyclohexanemethanol (MCHM) concluded that exposure to the chemical after it spilled into the Elk River in Charleston, W. Va., in January 2014 is "not likely to be associated with any adverse health effects." MCHM was the largest component of a mixture of chemicals that leaked from a corroded commercial storage tank upstream of the water supply for some 300,000 people. At the time of the spill, little was known about MCHM, an alicyclic alcohol used to process coal. More Composite Endpoints in Clinical Trials The Scientist    Share    It's a moment every clinical researcher dreads: you crunch the numbers for an upcoming trial and realize you'll need to recruit tens of thousands of participants to show a statistically significant effect for the therapy you're testing. You don't see any way to change most of your variables linked to trial size. But what if you change your endpoints? In recent years, a growing number of clinical trials have used composite endpoints — multiple events all treated as one endpoint — as a way to boost the power of a study so that fewer participants are needed. More Gene Sequencing Offers Way to Beat Global Spread of Gonorrhea Bioscience Technology    Share    With drug-resistant strains of sexually-transmitted infection gonorrhoeae increasing, scientists from Brighton, Oxford University and Public Health England have found that genetic sequencing can track the spread of infection. They show coordinated national and international strategies are required to stop drug-resistance spreading further. Their study, funded by the National Institute for Health Research Oxford Biomedical Research Centre and the NIHR Healthcare-Associated Infections and Antimicrobial Resistance Health Protection Research Unit, is published in The Lancet Infectious Diseases. 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