WASHINGTON, April 30 -- The Center for Science in the Public Interest issued the following news release on April 29, 2024: In a critical step forward, FDA's rule closes a longstanding regulatory loophole CSPI applauds the Food and Drug Administration's final rule regulating laboratory-developed tests (https://public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2024-08935.pdf) (LDTs) published today. LDTs, a subset of in-vitro diagnostic tests, are commonly used by patients and healthcare providers to inform  more

COLD SPRING HARBOR, New York, April 30 -- The Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory issued the following news: Leaders from two of New York's preeminent bioscience and healthcare institutions came together at Carnegie Hall to acknowledge the signing of an update to their affiliation agreement initiated in 2015. The Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory-Northwell Health affiliation aims to bring cutting-edge biology research to the bedside of tens of thousands of cancer patients in diverse communities across th  more

WASHINGTON, April 30 -- The Food and Water Watch issued the following statement on May 29, 2024: * * * Last week, organizers from environmental organization Food & Water Watch traveled across New Mexico, meeting with impacted community members to discuss the effects of factory farms on the state's air, water, climate and family-scale farms. They also held a series of screenings of the film Right to Harm, a documentary that chronicles the failures of state agencies to regulate industrial animal  more

GENEVA, Switzerland, April 30 -- The European Organization for Nuclear Research issued the following news release on April 29, 2024: Following an international open call launched in collaboration with Copenhagen Contemporary in January, Arts at CERN announced today that the artist Alice Bucknell is the recipient of the second Collide Copenhagen residency award. Established in 2012, Collide is Arts at CERN's international residency award, where the residency is a unique opportunity for artists   more

MUNICH, Germany, April 30 (TNSres) -- The Max Planck Society issued the following news: * * * High temperatures and extreme wind speeds influence the chemistry inside the planet's atmosphere. * * * Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), a team of astronomers, including scientists from MPIA, constructed a global temperature map of the hot, gas giant exoplanet WASP-43b. The nearby parent star perpetually illuminates one hemisphere, raising temperatures to a blistering 1250 degrees Celsiu  more

MUNICH, Germany, April 30 (TNSres) -- The Max Planck Society issued the following news: * * * A new synthesis route makes the production of dyes, for example, safer * * * For over 100 years, the chemical industry has been using explosive aryl diazonium salts to produce paints, for example. A team from the Max Planck Institute for Coal Research has now discovered a safer alternative for the processes in which the chemical is used. The researchers are mimicking a reaction that plants use to re  more

MUNICH, Germany, April 30 (TNSres) -- The Max Planck Society issued the following news: * * * In many areas of the oceans, coral reefs are losing their colour and threatening to die - the cause is the high temperatures of the world's oceans * * * Since the beginning of 2023, mass bleaching of coral reefs has been occurring in over 50 areas around the world. Due to the high temperatures in the world's oceans the corals expel single-celled algae that they need to survive. Since 15 April 2024,   more