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President of Academia Sinica Presents the Universal Vaccine: “Molecular Vaccine” (Chinese Version)
UDN.com & China Times E-paper(2009/06/17) President of Academia Sinica Chi-Huey WONG made the debut of his new invention “molecular vaccine” on 16th-Jun., whose lower cost, simpler process, higher reliability and stronger antigen strength exhibited the originality and value of the invention,
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Academia Sinica Astrophysicist Frank SHU Awarded 2009 Shaw Prize in Astronomy (Chinese Version)
Academia Sinica Newsletter (2009/06/16) Academician Frank SHU has been awarded the 2009 Shaw Prize in Astronomy, the Shaw Prize Foundation announced June 16.
The Shaw Prize is awarded in three fields: the Astronomy, Life Science and Medicine, and Mathematical Sciences. It is awarded annually
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NTU Assistant Professor's Finding Selected as the Cover Story of the Journal 《Development》 (Chinese Version)
NTU Newsletter (Issue 968) The recent issue (June 5, 2009) of the top journal in the field of developmental biology Development selected NTU Assistant Professor Po-Nien TSAO's findings as the cover story.
Dr. Po-Nien TSAO serves at the Neonatology Division of NTU Hospital; his spe
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International Astronomy Research Team Finds Key Information about Formation of Massive Stars (Chinese Version)
Academia Sinica Newsletter (2009/06/12) An international team of astronomers including Ramprasad RAO from Academia Sinica - Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysics (ASIAA) has confirmed that the process of formation of massive stars is governed by the interstellar magnetic fields.
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Renewable Energy Development Bill Completed Third Reading at the Legislative Yuan (Chinese Version)
Awakening News Network (2009/06/13) “Renewable Energy Development Bill” was completed the third reading at the Legislative Yuan on 12th-Jun., 2009. The government has thereby promised the purchase, profit and cost recovery with respect to solar energy, biomass energy, wind power, hydraulic p
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Academia Sinica Earth Scientists Show Slow Earthquakes Triggered by Typhoons at the Journal Nature (Chinese Version)
Academia Sinica Newsletter (2009/06/11) Scientists from Academia Sinica's Institute of Earth Sciences (IES) and the Department of Terrestrial Magnetism of the Carnegie Institution of Washington have made a surprising discovery that slow earthquakes are triggered by typhoons.
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ScienceDaily (June 10, 2009) — Dark matter is an enigmatic energy that makes up most of the mass in the Universe, whose nature has not yet been identified. Researchers have succeeded in estimating the percentage of dark matter in the Universe and describing the processes related to the very existence of this matter. But, until now, no one has established the distribution and behavior of the dark m
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Research Report: The No. 6 Naphtha Cracking Project and the Cancer Rates in Its Settlement Are “Highly Relevant” (Chinese Version)
Liberty Times (2009/06/08) NTU-Institute of Occupational Medicine and Industrial Hygiene Professor Chang-chuan CHAN presents his investigation report “The Risk Assessment of the Effects of Air Pollution on the Environment and Residents' Health in Coastal Areas”
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Taiwan College Female Student Wins UN Award for Her Smart Idea Making Environmental Killer Become Helper (Chinese Version)
Yahoo! News/CTS (2009/06/07) Discarded styrofoam being mixed within chemicals turns itself out from an environmental killer into a smart helper. The college young lady Yu-chen ZHENG (鄭玉辰) spent four years finding the smart way and won her the medal of United Nations Wor
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NTU Research Team Discovers Three Novel Species of Salt-resistant Microbes (Chinese Version)
Liberty Times (2009/06/07)NTU Biodiversity Center has discovered three novel species of extreme salt-resistant microbes in the salt pans in Tainan. The research team gives names to the novel species with the place names in Taiwan, and the findings are internationally recognized. After some further i
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Taida Presents Novel Techniques of Hair Follicle Regeneration (Chinese Version)
According to NowNews (2009/06/02), via the four-year effort of National Health Research Institutes, NHRI, and NTU Hospital, it is possible now to replant certain microtissue which is cultured from the dermal papilla cells taken from the subject and able to solicit hair follicle generation, in order to regenerate
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Taiwan NCT Research Team Broke the High Altitude Scientific Balloon Record (Chinese Version)
National Applied Research Laboratories, NARL, reported in the second issue of NARL E-paper (2009/06/05) that in order to develop Taiwan's space sci-tech capacity, NARL positively participates international spcae sci-tech projects. A research team of members also from National Tsing Hua University, Na
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Taida Institute of Oceanography's Findings on Records of Climate Changes in Fish Selected as the Research Highlight of Nature (Chinese Version)
According to Taida Alumni E-paper (2009/05/26), the Taiwan-US research team led by Assistant Professor Chih-hao HSIEH, Institute of Oceanography, NTU, found that there are certain “records” of climate changes in various kinds of fish. The fin
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National Taichung First Senior High School Students Found the Way to Produce Energy with Pasture (Chinese Version)
National Taichung First Senior High School announced on 2nd-Jun., the team of two second-grade students Buo-Ray CHEN (陳柏瑞) and Ren-shuo LIU (劉人碩), led by the teacher Pen-yu XUE (薛朋雨) wan the champion of SISC (Singapore International Science Challenge) for their finding of the en
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Academia Sinica Research Team Found Gene Reducing Invasion of Cancer Cells (Chinese Version)
Academia Sinica's Newsletter (2009/05/27) announced, Taiwan researchers have now discovered that normal p53 restrains the metastasis of cancer cells from the primary cancer, thus reducing the possibility of secondary cancer growth. Their research was published online in the prestigious scientific jou
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Four Taiwan Incorporations Listed in the Top Ten of BusinessWeek's 11th Annual InfoTech100 (Chinese Version)
New York PRNewswire released the news(2009/05/21) that BusinessWeek's eleventh Annual InfoTech100 was to appear. Amazon.com (U.S.) tops it, and the top ten list includes four Taiwan infotech incorporations: Inventec Co., Quanta Computer lnc., Wistron Co. and Acer Inc. HTC Co. ranks t
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NSF Newsletter (2009/05/25) Scientists are, for the first time, objectively evaluating ways to help species adapt to rapid climate change and other environmental threats via strategies that were considered too radical for serious consideration as recently as five or 10 years ago. Among these radical strategies currently being considered is so-called "managed relocation." Managed relocation, which
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Academician Ovid TZENG Re-elected "Freedom and Responsibility in the Conduct of Science" Committee Member (Chinese Version)
Academia Sinica's Newsletter reported (2009/05/26), Academician Ovid TZENG was re-elected as a member of the of International Council for Science (ICSU)'s Committee on Freedom and Responsibility in the Conduct of Science (CFRS) during the committee's regular meeting in
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Mathematician in Academia Sinica Tai-Ping LIU Wins Agostinelli Award (Chinese Version)
Academia Sinica's Newsletter reported (2009/05/25), Academician and Director of the Institute of Mathematics, AS, Dr. Tai-Ping LIU has been awarded the "Cataldo e Angiola Agostinelli" International Prize by Italy's Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei. Dr. LIU will receive the award at the award ceremony on 11th
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Squid's Sense of Hearing Has First in the World Been Proved by Academia Sinica (Chinese Version)
China Times reported (2009/05/25), Academia Sinica – Institute of Cellular and Organismic Biology's research team led by Hong Young YAN uses the method, developed under YAN's leadership, “auditory brainstem recording (ABR) system” and has proved for the first time in the world that squids are in
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Academician Ernest S. KUH to receive Kirchhoff Award at IEEE Circuits and Systems Symposium in Taipei (Chinese Version)
In the Academia Sinica's Newsletter (2009/05/22) it is reported that Academician Ernest S. KUH will receive the Kirchhoff Award on 26th-May at the annual 2009 IEEE Symposium on Circuits and Systems which is being held this year in Taipei International Conference Center (fr
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Academia Sinica Disclose Membrane Protein Structure; the Results May Aid in Development of Antibiotics (Chinese Version)
Academia Sinica Newsletter (2009/05/21) reported, this week, Assistant Research Fellow, Che Alex MA and colleagues at the Academia Sinica Genomics Research Center, Academia Sinica, published a complete 3-dimensional model structure of the membrane protein (penicillin-bin
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ScienceDaily (May 20, 2009) — Whether a monkey is looking to the left or merely watching another monkey looking that way, the same neurons in his brain are firing, according to researchers at the Duke University Medical Center.
(Credit: Ben Hayden / Courtesy of Duke University Medical Center)
"We speculate that the neurons' activity may lie beneath critical social behavior, such as joint at
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Taiwan Sphaeropteris Lepifera Faces Catastrophe (Chinese Version)
In the Editorial of the 2009 May issue (issue 87) of the Chinese Scientific American, Jia-Wei LI (李家維, trans. temp.) indicates that the brush barrel trees (sphaeropteris lepifera) which are often seen in the mountains in Taiwan, are vastly withering one after another. The catastrophe has been noticed since three years ago, and
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Tungs' Taichung MetroHarbor Hospital Finds Novel Metastatic Marker (Chinese Version)
According to China Times, cited in China Times E-paper (2009/05/20),Departments of Urology, Medical Research, Surgery, and Pathology of Tungs' Taichung MetroHarbor Hospital reported finding a novel blood marker for metastatic cancers. By means of enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA), it becomes detect
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ScienceDaily (May 19, 2009) — Charles Darwin described the sudden origin of flowering plants about 130 million years ago as an abominable mystery, one that scientists have yet to solve. But a new University of Florida study, set to appear in the online edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, is helping shed light on the mystery with information about what the first flowers
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National Taichung Girls' Senior High School I-Ching TSENG Finds Styrofoam-Decomposing Microbe (Chinese Version)
According to China Times report, cited in Yahoo! News, (2009/05/17), the biggest high school science competition in the world Intel International Science and Engineering Fair, ISEF, had announced its result. Taiwan representatives wan 11 awards, five of which I-Ching TSENG from Na
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TMC Chief HSUAN: TMC Cannot Be Abolished (Chinese Version)
According to money.udn.com (2009/05/16), Honorary Vice Chairperson of UMC Group John HSUAN said on 15th-May that he was still willing to help with the DRAM integration project of the government. But, he stressed, the government has to clarify first that it is a case of temporary opportunism or a case of long-term task solving Taiwa
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ScienceDaily (May 15, 2009) — NASA's Kepler spacecraft has begun its search for other Earth-like worlds. The mission, which launched from Cape Canaveral, Fla., on March 6, will spend the next three-and-a-half years staring at more than 100,000 stars for telltale signs of planets. Kepler has the unique ability to find planets as small as Earth that orbit sun-like stars at distances where temperatur
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Academia Sinica Presents Breakthrough, Develops First Effective Immunotherapy for Childhood Neuroblastoma (Chinese Version)
According to the Academia Sinica Newsletter (2009/05/15), a new immunotherapy treatment pioneered by Distinguished Research Fellow and Deputy Director, Academia Sinica's Genomics Research Center, Dr. Alice Lin-Tsing YU has resulted in an average 20% improvement in the c
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