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4th Annual New Energy Symposium
Expert panels will discuss business opportunities and challenges in solar energy and energy storage, and entrepreneurs will pitch their business plans to a panel of investors and financial industry experts.

Progress in Cytokine Therapies
Cytokine-based therapeutics promise new treatments for cancer, autoimmune disorders, and infectious diseases. Can researchers find more effective ways to turn these intercellular messengers into life-saving medicines?

Values and Empathy Across Social Barriers
Through a neuroscientific lens, this Annals volume examines the human qualities of empathy, sacred values, and cooperation, and focuses on ways in which this approach can help explain human conflicts.
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Collaborative Health Care for Older Adults

Friday, October 16, 2009 | 8:00 AM - 6:00 PM

Organizer: David Albert (Columbia University College of Dental Medicine)

Bringing together geriatric care leaders from the medical and dental communities, this symposium will focus on oral health and the significant role it plays in the overall health of this population.

Towards Personalized Cancer Medicine

4th International Conference on Oxidative/Nitrosative Stress and Disease

Journal of Cell Biology Meeting, Cell Biology of Disease
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eBriefing
The Market's Hidden Cards

Algorithmic trading has transformed the finance industry, affecting the way shares are sold in "dark pools" and how portfolio managers and traders interact.

Annals The Year in Evolutionary Biology 2009

eBriefing Careers for Scientists in Pharma

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Steinman Wins Albany Medical Center Prize

Distinguished immunologist shares $500,000 award with two others.

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The Challenge of Climate Change
Michael Oppenheimer (Princeton University)
Considering humanity's capacity to address this problem, the longtime member of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change observes, "Things are under our control, if we choose to exert that control."

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