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  Research the primary cause of degenerative diseases: aging / biological senescence

  At present a sum of 457.2 billion dollars is devoted to U.S. health care. Much of that money is devoted to researching late-stage progressive diseases associated with biological senescence that comes with increases in chronological age. A small fraction of that money, say one million dollars over ten years, could be redirected to biotechnology / information technology companies advancing legitimate science and technology ...more »

  At present a sum of 457.2 billion dollars is devoted to U.S. health care. Much of that money is devoted to researching late-stage progressive diseases associated with biological senescence that comes with increases in chronological age. A small fraction of that money, say one million dollars over ten years, could be redirected to biotechnology / information technology companies advancing legitimate science and technology that could slow and eventually halt the biological degradation of human aging, resulting in immense reductions in health care costs and a significantly healthier workforce. The Obama administration has the opportunity to advance the pace of this revolution considerably this term or next term with a relatively modest fiscal allocation to research and development coordinated by the SENS Foundation (Strategies for Engineering Negligible Senescence) (http://www.sens.org ) and the Methuselah Foundation (http://www.mprize.org ). Again, the result would be a healthier workforce and drastically reduced health care costs.

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  Create a national repository for research data

  The Federal Government should set up a repository for data collected as part of all publically-funded research. Such a repository would enable the reuse of existing data for new experimental purposes; promote the comparison of different analysis methods on the same data set; promote the verification of results presented by the initial data collector; and provide an archive of collected data. Initially, committees would ...more »

  The Federal Government should set up a repository for data collected as part of all publically-funded research. Such a repository would enable the reuse of existing data for new experimental purposes; promote the comparison of different analysis methods on the same data set; promote the verification of results presented by the initial data collector; and provide an archive of collected data. Initially, committees would have to be put in place to seek broad input, survey existing systems both domestric and abroad, and arrive at consensus guidelines for administering the national data repository. These guidelines would: define the formats, annotations, and metadata to be associated with the data; define criteria for inclusion of a dataset in the national repository; define standards for ensuring the integrity of submitted data; define policies and processes for public access to the data; and provide guidelines regarding the length of time data should be stored. In addition to providing tremendous value to the national research agenda, such a national resource would create jobs for IT specialists and scientists with domain expertise to be responsible for curating the data repository.

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  Freedom to Understand

  The freedom to support the reverse engineering of technology for educational research must be upheld. It is imperative if we are to create a safe and reliable future that our brightest minds can explore and understand complex systems without placing themselves into legal jeopardy. Today the DMCA and the chip copyright act of 1984 both provide provisions to protect researchers. Unfortunately these exceptions are insufficient. ...more »

  The freedom to support the reverse engineering of technology for educational research must be upheld.

  It is imperative if we are to create a safe and reliable future that our brightest minds can explore and understand complex systems without placing themselves into legal jeopardy.

  Today the DMCA and the chip copyright act of 1984 both provide provisions to protect researchers. Unfortunately these exceptions are insufficient.

  There are numerous cases where researchers from the fields of cryptography, microelectronics, and software engineering are unable to even publicly discuss flaws they have discovered in networks and computers.

  These flaws place our national infrastructure and economy in great peril. One only has to look at recent attacks on multinational American corporations. Not allowing accurate, independent research to be performed greatly harms all of us now that our lives have become inseparable from the internet.

  If we are to have a nation with reliable, trustworthy digital systems, legislative action must make strong, clear, and powerful provisions for protecting research.

  It should be noted that EU nation states have already begun to go towards the other direction, making it illegal by placing liability on computer researchers if they publish information which could be used in a computer intrusion. A proper analogy would be punishing gun manufacturers for violent gun crimes. Clearly the economic and legal incentives are being misplaced over there in Europe. America is not Europe though.

  Please enable us to continue to have the freedom to understand the world we rely on.

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  Open Internet Television with Open Video Markup Language

  Fund the emergence of independent nonprofit standards bodies that can each propose an open video markup language(OVML) which will allow people to watch video through the web. Require all video produced using public funds (NPR, etc.) to use one of these OVMLs on all the video they put on the web. This will massively accelerate the emergence of Open Internet Television, break the cable and Studio monopolies into pluralistic ...more »

  Fund the emergence of independent nonprofit standards bodies that can each propose an open video markup language(OVML) which will allow people to watch video through the web. Require all video produced using public funds (NPR, etc.) to use one of these OVMLs on all the video they put on the web. This will massively accelerate the emergence of Open Internet Television, break the cable and Studio monopolies into pluralistic networks with tens of thousands of specialty channels, and greatly improve the quality of information available to all American citizens.

  More on this at: http://www.accelerating.org/articles/televisionwillberevolutionized.html

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  Provide ongoing education for teachers

  In order to create a steady stream of creative, innovative young minds to feed the perpetual advance of technology, few bottlenecks offer more leverage than that of the teachers at the K-8 levels. The government is in a unique position to broker and help finance partnerships between elementary/middle school teachers, universities, and private IT companies to help keep teachers up to date with the leading edge of technololgy. ...more »

  In order to create a steady stream of creative, innovative young minds to feed the perpetual advance of technology, few bottlenecks offer more leverage than that of the teachers at the K-8 levels. The government is in a unique position to broker and help finance partnerships between elementary/middle school teachers, universities, and private IT companies to help keep teachers up to date with the leading edge of technololgy. Even one week programs in the summer can keep classroom content fresh, keep teacher motivation levels high, and create an exponential impact because each teacher reaches hundreds of students.

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  scientific integrity

  Get on with restoring science to its rightful place which is not with the cHRISTIan right.

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  Invest in Green Chemistry

  I suggest you substantially increase the US Government's investment in Green Chemistry, in much the way USG has made a targeted investment in nanomaterials. The existing portfolio of toxic chemicals in the US marketplace creates an enormous economic drag in the form of adverse health effects on workers and consumers, wasted energy and raw materials, and Superfund sites and other economic dead zones. Greater investment ...more »

  I suggest you substantially increase the US Government's investment in Green Chemistry, in much the way USG has made a targeted investment in nanomaterials. The existing portfolio of toxic chemicals in the US marketplace creates an enormous economic drag in the form of adverse health effects on workers and consumers, wasted energy and raw materials, and Superfund sites and other economic dead zones. Greater investment in Green Chemistry offers the prospect of eliminating this economic drag and enhancing productivity. For suggestions on moving forward through public endeavors, private efforts, and public-private partnerships, see, e.g., http://www.greenbiz.com/blog/2010/04/23/formula-building-green-chemistry-future and http://www.greenbiz.com/blog/2010/04/26/game-plan-accelerating-green-chemistry. For one of many available descriptions of the health care burden from toxic chemicals, see http://iehn.org/publications.reports.fiduciary.03-07.php

  The downside of the USG investment in nanomaterials is inadequate characterization of the environmental health hazards of many materials that potentially can produce enormous environmental and other social benefits. See, e.g., http://www.greenbiz.com/blog/2009/09/09/nanomaterials-why-your-company-should-sweat-small-stuff

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  Government must do what business can not do for itself

  Government must educate and regulate and insure business is fair. It would be nice if the gov could start by leveling the field when it comes to government bid jobs by eliminate the continued problem or practice of creating a rejection criteria. When a product is offered as "an equal for intended use" different or any product that saves money should be considered; based on the merit of the offering. Often the company ...more »

  Government must educate and regulate and insure business is fair. It would be nice if the gov could start by leveling the field when it comes to government bid jobs by eliminate the continued problem or practice of creating a rejection criteria. When a product is offered as "an equal for intended use" different or any product that saves money should be considered; based on the merit of the offering. Often the company who got their product specified is the only bidder as being called out with some odd minor alleged oh so important features that makes it the only product that meets the specification. Second important for small business is the legal advantage that big business has over small. Litigation till the smaller company is finanically ruined is legalized robbery. Something needs to be done to stop predator behavior of larger business upon smaller firms.

  Businesses are governed by people, corporate officers need to be held accountable for actions of those business they run when they do financial harm to others. This is racketeering, they need to think that they could be in trouble with federal law and if crimminal they need to be held accountable. Shelling out corporations and moving on and doing it over needs to be monitored as small businesses are hurt as crimminal operator move from one state to another and bad business hurts all business. Just like shoplifters cost us all - bad business needs to be dealt with.

  Educate new business, how to protect themselves would be a great place to start. Keep a master list of alias and failed business names and complaints so cross state problem businesses can be stopped or punished or at least recognized.

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  Examples of Basic and Applied Science Topics; Points of Intersection

  Where do Nanotechnology, Biotechnology and Information Technology intersect? Investing in basic and applied sciences to fill future Science and Technology gaps DNA-based computing Though usually viewed as “the building blocks of life,” nucleic acids and proteins have a large potential to form the basis of future computers. At their core they represent nano-technology as they generally can be measured on the size ...more »

  Where do Nanotechnology, Biotechnology and Information Technology intersect? Investing in basic and applied sciences to fill future Science and Technology gaps

  DNA-based computing

  Though usually viewed as “the building blocks of life,” nucleic acids and proteins have a large potential to form the basis of future computers. At their core they represent nano-technology as they generally can be measured on the size scale 1-100 nm. A DNA-based computing chip would utilize nucleic acids site specific binding capacity to process and store greater amounts of information than typical silicon based computing. These essential building blocks provide the ability to perform a very complex set of processes, essential in a cascade of events, utilizing Adenosine triphosphate (ATP) hydrolysis to generate energy to power the DNA-based computers. This computing power may be particularly bio-compatible as inserting DNA-based computers in-vivo should both perform a number of functions and processes, e.g. the ability to analyze and store great quantities of retrievable data.

  Chem-Bio Defense

  The current soldier’s uniform provides essentially no proactive chemical or biological protection. A bio-functional uniform can be engineered to mimic in-vivo physiological conditions such as temperature, pH, glucose concentration and atmospheric pressure in nano-environments providing an optimized environment to detect multiple select pathogens/agents. Utilizing the concept of molecular scaffolding, it may be possible to develop an organized network of various nano-laboratories within the uniform. The utilization of a dual-use hydrophobic/hydrophilic functionalized textile offers the ability to "attract" and “repel” a myriad of biological and chemical agents based on an agent’s chemical polarity. Furthermore, the ability of single molecule nucleic acid sequencing through nanopores offers real-time sequencing analysis and biological agent detection on the uniform. Once the agent(s) is detected the release of nano-prophylactics ensures the soldier is diagnosed, treated and managed at the point of contact.

  Intelligent-chemotherapeutics

  Traditional drug therapy is often administered in large doses, to maintain minimally effective drug levels. Current research efforts have focused on developing inexpensive nano-scale vehicles to deliver chemotherapeutics to tumors with high specificity, cutting the necessary dosages of the drugs while preventing side effects through interactions of the drug with unaffected areas of the body. These vehicles could carrying a “pharmacy” worth of chemotherapeutics, calculating optimal dosages of an appropriate chemotherapeutic for a particular cancer type while potentially having the ability to release and activate their therapeutic payloads at particular points in the body. Essentially, the intelligent-chemotherapeutic delivery vehicle has the ability to discriminate between healthy and diseased tissue so that it may diagnose, treat and manage cancer effectively and efficiently. This technology has the potential to minimize cancer deaths substantially.

  Food Safety & Security

  The magnitude and extent of recent food-borne disease outbreaks, such as the widespread Salmonella and E. coli. incidents, highlight the potential disasters that could occur should the U.S. food infrastructure become the target of a terrorist attack. These outbreaks are often difficult to investigate and contain because the processing chain of plant and animal food products can be so complex involving first a disperse network of farms, producers and distributors, then restaurants or stores, and many consumers. Plants or animals from a large industrial farm can end up in the products of several different companies. A DNA-genomic tag in each plant or animal, indicating its original source, would make it much simpler to pinpoint the source of an outbreak, limiting its scope and potentially saving many lives. The J. Craig Venter Institute recently incorporated a nucleotide ‘alphabet’ code into the genome of their synthetic self-replicating bacterial cell, proving that genes can be constructed and inserted into the genome of a plant or animal without being expressed, thereby posing no risk to food quality. The ability to precisely locate the origin of infected food products would improve the safety of all Americans as well as saving money by reducing unnecessary recalls.

  The Artificial Cell

  Engineering a cell from the bottom-up presents an interesting challenge. Starting from non-living organic and inorganic matter, science may create nano-sized cells with life-like properties. This cell would need to be a self-enclosed entity with the ability to self-replicate, metabolize, and interact with other cells and the environment. Current attempts have resulted in light-catalyzed reactions that produce lipid micelles and, within, the replication of RNA. Other experiments include the creation of chips with tiny chemical channels controlled by computers. Despite considerable progress, artificially engineering parts that mimic enzymes, creating algorithms that govern them, and integrating all of the necessary components remains an ambitious task. However, the creation of an artificial cell would allow us to create complex, evolving nano-systems useful towards many ends.

  About the Authors

  Michael A. Morgan, PhD is an expert and published author on the subject of Bio-nanotechnology. He currently works as consultant supporting the Basic and Applied Sciences Directorate at the Defense Threat Reduction Agency.

  Emily Osborn supports the Defense Threat Reduction Agency, Basic and Applied Research Division, while working on her Master of Science degree in Information Systems at George Mason University.

  Timothy Lee is a 2010 Defense Threat Reduction Agency summer intern. He is currently pursuing his Bachelor of Science Degree in Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at the University of Maryland.

  The comments and views expressed are our own and not reflective of any of our current or past employers

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  Encourage universities to start offering entreprenure-track positions

  Many technological breakthroughs happen at universities. And, for these technologies to make it to the commercialization stage, they really need the technical support from the original inventor (i.e the faculty member.) However, as a faculty member at a research university, your priority is basic research, publications, and teaching -- not patents and start-ups. And because of the time commitments of the former, inventors ...more »

  Many technological breakthroughs happen at universities.

  And, for these technologies to make it to the commercialization stage, they really need the technical support from the original inventor (i.e the faculty member.) However, as a faculty member at a research university, your priority is basic research, publications, and teaching -- not patents and start-ups. And because of the time commitments of the former, inventors can't spend the required amount of time advising, and consulting the resulting start-up. Thus the technology flounders.

  I would like to see universities offer an entrepreneur-track position. One in which the goal of the researcher is to eventually commercialize a break-through technology. These faculty members would not have the teaching obligations and publication requirements typical of faculty members. Instead, these faculty members would focus on transferring and advising the further development of their technologies in the commercialization stages

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  Virtual Reality / Internet Crowdsourcing for Participatory Experimentation / Invention in Science and Technology.

  Information, data, the latest experiments/research should not be secretly restricted to industry or academics/universities. There should be an open-source attitude to emerging technology and science thereby allowing members of the public to remotely (virtually) participate. There is a great untapped resource in the millions of minds within our civilization. For one reason or another not everyone has been university educated ...more »

  Information, data, the latest experiments/research should not be secretly restricted to industry or academics/universities. There should be an open-source attitude to emerging technology and science thereby allowing members of the public to remotely (virtually) participate. There is a great untapped resource in the millions of minds within our civilization. For one reason or another not everyone has been university educated regarding science and technology therefore they’ve been unable to get a job working in the field of cutting-edge science and technology. Despite a lack of scientific education many unqualified people are very inventive; they possess sharp minds. People of all ages and from all walks of life could make valuable contributions to scientific and technological research. Experiments could easily be presented online in a manner allowing the vast majority of the general public to comprehend and thereby contribute. Fully immersive virtual reality would be the preferable medium for this proposed “crowdsourcing participation” but the internet in its current state would be adequate to allow great strides forward technologically, socially, and economically.

  The role of the Government is to facilitate open communication, interaction, participation, and sharing between businesses, universities, and the general public.

  LINKS REGARDING EMERGING VIRTUAL REALITY

  http://singularityhub.com/2010/07/02/presentation-for-minority-report-interface-that-blew-peoples-minds-at-ted-video/

  http://oblong.com/

  http://www.physorg.com/news197186879.html

  http://www.informationweek.com/news/security/client/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=225702022&cid=RSSfeed_IWK_News

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  Clean Energy Development Fee

  Based on an average 12,000 mi. per year @ $3 per gallon 35 miles per gallon or 343 gallons per vehicle as the break even point. A car getting 30 mph estimate over 12,000 miles uses 400 gallons and at the time of sale would pay a 57 gallon Energy Development Fee of 57 gallons X $3 per gallon $171 each year for driving a car getting less than the federal guidelines for fuel consumption.. This fee would go to a dedicated ...more »

  Based on an average 12,000 mi. per year @ $3 per gallon

  35 miles per gallon or 343 gallons per vehicle as the break even point.

  A car getting 30 mph estimate over 12,000 miles uses 400 gallons and at the time of sale would pay a 57 gallon Energy Development Fee of 57 gallons X $3 per gallon $171 each year for driving a car getting less than the federal guidelines for fuel consumption..

  This fee would go to a dedicated Green Energy Fund to develop green energy and green energy manufacturing in the USA. It is time for the citizens of this country to feel a little of the pain to achieve energy independance.

  THIS WOULD BE VERY PAINFUL POLITICALLY AND WOULD REQUIRE BIPARTICIAN SUPPORT BY POLITICAL LEADERS WHO HAVE A GREAT DEAL OF COURAGE. TIME TO WALK THE WALK.

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  Medical Diagnosis Artificial Intelligence machine

  As suggested in the NY Times article last Sunday, develop a computer system that assists health care professionals in diagnosis by analyzing all the data about a patient and suggesting diagnosis / treatment options for the health care professionals to consider. This system could provide potential answers along with confidence factors.

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  Innovation and Technology Advisory Committee (PITAC)

  The creation of a framework that is based on scientific integrity for any policy would be a good start. We've had many years now of political spin and pandering to fear-based emotions instead.

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  Revolution in transportation

  A new transportation paradigm is needed to avoid excessive oil consumption. Energy should come directly from the sun. New biothechnologies, nanotechnologies and other technologies are needed to achieve this.

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  Create collaborators open forum

  Allow individuals with diverse super skills to work together on problems. i.e. clinical doctors, nanotechnologists, biochemists, molecular biologists etc. This should be on a website with an open forum access.

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  Share resources in a translational pipeline

  Allow researchers in different fields to work on each step in a translational project with an over arching cordinator that defines each step.

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  biotech companies

  biotech companies have not provided sufficient proof of the safety of their products. They must be required to fund independent research and to make publich all results. Until this proof is provided, they should not be allowed to market these products. Sufficient protection for organic farmers is required, and the safety of agricultural chemicals (such as roundup) has to be documented. Lobbyists or former employees ...more »

  biotech companies have not provided sufficient proof of the safety of their products. They must be required to fund independent research and to make publich all results. Until this proof is provided, they should not be allowed to market these products. Sufficient protection for organic farmers is required, and the safety of agricultural chemicals (such as roundup) has to be documented. Lobbyists or former employees of these companies should not be allowed to serve in any government agency. The FDA has been infiltrated with company representatives who have the interest of their companies more in mind thanb the health of the public, a thorough housecleaning is required. Similar considerations surely exist for other agencies.

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  Fundamental research

  The private sector is driven by commercialization of near-term technology development, and understandably reserves research resources for applied research. The government is the only source of support for fundamental research, the research that lays the foundation for future discovery and unforseen innovations. Government research is becoming too enthralled with applied (buzz word "transformational") research, and needs ...more »

  The private sector is driven by commercialization of near-term technology development, and understandably reserves research resources for applied research. The government is the only source of support for fundamental research, the research that lays the foundation for future discovery and unforseen innovations. Government research is becoming too enthralled with applied (buzz word "transformational") research, and needs to maintain support for fundamental research as the priority. This is so across the physical and life sciences.

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  Building a Sustainable Futrue

  There are very few real developmental ideas noted such as two-cycle fuels or biobased coatings and insulation materials

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  An Open Source Quantal Universal Exchange Language

  An open source Quantal Universal Exchange Language providing an XML-like metadata language as proposed by PCAST in December 2010. This language is a combination of the triplets proposed by the WC3 as implemented in RDF and a probabilistic semantics, as well as a quantum mechanics notation and a secure aggregation model. See more information about QuantalUEL at http://quantalsemantics.com.

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  Wireless Spectrum treated as currency

  In much the same way there are trade imbalances between currencies of different countries have impacts on international trade and trade policy, the use of a given Nation's wireless spectrum should also be viewed as a currency--though a currency for "internal use only" (ie spectrum, and the economic value it creates, is to some extent tied to the geography in which its used) Evaluating the "internal use" of US "spectrum ...more »

  In much the same way there are trade imbalances between currencies of different countries have impacts on international trade and trade policy, the use of a given Nation's wireless spectrum should also be viewed as a currency--though a currency for "internal use only" (ie spectrum, and the economic value it creates, is to some extent tied to the geography in which its used)

  Evaluating the "internal use" of US "spectrum currency" could be a way of making an apples to apples comparisons--or international comparisons as well--to see how we are doing with our use of our "spectrum currency" as an enabler of economic value as compared to other nation states.

  This practice & process could also be the means to develop national spectrum goals and best practices for regulators and law makers as spectrum is intuitively a major contributor to the US economy. By developing both models and empirical measurements to validate a "spectrum use" to "economic value" mapping, federal agencies that manage spectrum might be able to develop a long term view of how best to guide US spectrum policy.

  And, given the President's recent proposal for reorganizing a number of Federal agencies, (some of which manage US spectrum policy) the breaking down of the federal agency silos might be an enabler of this cross-disciplinary task.

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  Shared IP resource grant and tax incentive

  There are currently established programs sponsored by the goverment relating to new technology development through universities, Many of the companies developing these technologies, or intrested in ultizing the outcomess, do not have the resources nessary to invest in the capital required for the initial research or prototype development. Pooling such reasources and grant through the established university programs ...more »

  There are currently established programs sponsored by the goverment relating to new technology development through universities, Many of the companies developing these technologies, or intrested in ultizing the outcomess, do not have the resources nessary to invest in the capital required for the initial research or prototype development. Pooling such reasources and grant through the established university programs and finding willing corporate partners who are willing to assume part of the risk for developing prototypes whould all share in the fianl IP rewards. This is quite different from the typical capilist model in which companies fight to own every single piece of IP. A goverment establishment that would eliinate the cost of such infighting and legal issues associated with IP ownership would establish a basis for the initial development and prototyping for all companies involved, A goverment sponsored organization would own the IP and only be allowed to lience it to the partispating sponsoring companies, little or no fee would be charge for such liencing by the goverment owned corporation. Once a sucessful prototype and manufacturing system was established and initial liencing underway, The companies would then be free to alter and upgrade the intitial protypes based on their skills and ingenuity to further develop their internal IP. This would reduce the high cost of the inital prototying stage ( one of a kniond) so that a mass production stage and multipe copies could be established for cost reduction.

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  International Forum on Cancer, Materials Science and Nanotechnology

  On July 15, 2010 at 8:00 am (Los Angeles) the Egyptian Cultural and Educational Bureau is holding a videoconference, entitled "International Forum on Cancer, Materials Science and Nanotechnology." The videoconference is a prelude to 2011 US-Egypt Year of Science. Other venues include Cairo University, UCLA, University of Texas Health Science Center and Georgia Institute of Technology. Agenda ...more »

  On July 15, 2010 at 8:00 am (Los Angeles) the Egyptian Cultural and Educational Bureau is holding a videoconference, entitled "International Forum on Cancer, Materials Science and Nanotechnology." The videoconference is a prelude to 2011 US-Egypt Year of Science. Other venues include Cairo University, UCLA, University of Texas Health Science Center and Georgia Institute of Technology.

  Agenda

  11:00 am (Washington, DC)

  Egyptian Cultural and Educational Bureau—Maha M. Kamel, MD, PhD, Director, moderator

  National Cancer Institute Health—Piotr Grodzinski, PhD, Chairman, NCI's Nanotechnology Alliance, speaker

  University of Texas Health Science Center—Mauro Ferrari, PhD, speaker

  11:30 am (Washington, DC): CNSI Auditorium at UCLA

  CNSI (UCLA)—Paul S. Weiss, PhD, Director, speaker

  CNSI (UCLA)—Jeffrey I. Zink, PhD, speaker

  CNSI (UCLA)—Fuyu Tamanoi, PhD, speaker

  12:00 noon (Washington, DC):

  Georgia Institute of Technology—Mostafa A. El-Sayed, PhD, speaker

  Civilian’s Research and Education Foundation—Eric J. Novotny, PhD, Senior Vice President, speaker

  12:30 pm (Washington, DC):

  Cairo University—Abdel Rahman Vikri, PhDPresident, National Cancer Institute (Egypt), speaker

  Cairo University—Ahmed Galal Helmy, PhD, Dean of the Faculty of Science, speaker

  Future titles for videoconferences include:

  Materials Science Applications to Archaeology with a focus on the Valley of the Queens

  Entertainment Technology for Cinema and Ancient Egypt

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  Petrolium eating Microbes

  Use the petrolium eating microbes befoe we kill the oceans and all life in it! Expensive? Not compared to killing the waters that keep us alive and earth in balance! BP/Hliiberton/etc need to step up to the plae here

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