Archive for December, 2011

Keep Polk County Beautiful’s Cleanup Day Is Coming To Combee

The Combee Community will be the next site for the “Clean It Up to Green It Up” pilot program sponsored by Keep Polk County Beautiful, Inc. and Polk County Waste Resource Management.

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Genome Editing For the Win

Nature Methods lauds genome editing with engineered nucleases as its 2011 Method of the Year. The journal says that, with an eye toward clinical application, researchers have for years toiled with nuclease engineering, generating “very powerful basic research tools … in the process.”

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Burn Code Green Tonight into Saturday Morning

This evening’s wood burning color code is GREEN. It is okay to use your fireplace, wood stove, or pellet stove tonight and tomorrow morning.

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BizCloud Computing Consultants: Tips for Protecting Your Identity and Privacy Online

BizCloud®, a leading cloud technology solutions provider, offers Internet users advice on how to protect their identities and other personal information from hackers and other would-be cyber criminals.San Francisco, CA (PRWEB) December 30, 2011 According to the FBI, they receive 300,000 cyber crime complaints every month. Most of these complaints involve either the theft of consumers’ identities …

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Industry Layoffs Top Readers’ Interest in 2011

We caught up with Sandy Aronson , executive director of IT of the Partners HealthCare Center for Personalized Genetic Medicine, during the Personalized Medicine Conference in Boston, MA. Aronson discussed IT challenges associated with the $1,000 genome, the GeneInsight Suite and GIGPAD software solutions developed by his lab to facilitate the use of genetic information in the clinic, and more.

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