Eating well, exercise, enough sleep, you probably already know what you?re supposed to do to stay healthy and fit.
But there?s one, very easy way, to support all of these activities: take a good multivitamin.
The best diet is not going to be varied enough in a single day to get every nutrient, mineral, or beneficial herb you need. A really healthy diet might get most, but that?s not most people. In fact, many people are now on elimination diets of one form or another, and need a multivitamin to fill the gaps left (B12 for vegetarians, calcium for dairy, iron for red meat, etc.).
A good multivitamin is the capstone of health and fitness. Health is dependant upon getting the nutrients your cells need, and fitness exacerbates that need, pushing your body to build itself up to even healthier and stronger levels.
If you want the best, most efficient multivitamins, look no further. Here are the first steps to building a healthy diet and lifestyle:
1) Start with the set of multivitamins that everyone should take: Welltrient Trio consists of Welltrient Vita One (basic vitamins and minerals), Mito Cardia (cell and heart health) and Triple Strength Antioxidant (providing nutrients that fight free radicals and promote overall health). If you?re interested in health and fitness, this is it.
2) Consider pairing Welltrient Trio with the Sleep Support Pack. If you need help falling and staying asleep (and want real sleep, not just fake sleep) this is the sleep aid for you. If you don?t need help sleeping, it?s the multivitamin combo to support your brain health while you?re sleeping.
3) Finally, consider your specific health needs, and add them to your regimen. Whether you?re a man or a woman, older, younger, really into fitness, or want to support your body as you battle specific health conditions, there?s something for you.
If nothing else. stick to the capstone: Welltrient Trio.
Where are you in your search for optimal health and fitness?
Google confirmed to Bloomberg Businesweek today that it bought Makani Power, a company that makes airborne turbines that collect wind power and delivers it to the ground via a tethered cable.
Makani Power will become part of Google X, Google's secret lab where it develops "moonshot" projects like the Google Glass computerized headgear and self-driving cars. Google did not disclose how much it paid for Makani Power.
Businessweek has a full profile on Google X. You can read it here >
WordPress CEO Matt Mullenweg has spoken out in an attempt to capitalize on Yahoo's rumored $1.1 billion acquisition of rival blogging service Tumblr. He claims that once the news broke on Sunday, defections from Tumblr to his own site rose from 400 to 600 per hour to over 72,000 -- which presumably included users put off by Yahoo's track record of shutting down its acquisitions (like Del.icio.us, Geocities and Broadcast.com). If that figure is true, then Marissa Mayer's probably going to have to answer some rather awkward questions in a few hours.
WordPress CEO Matt Mullenweg has spoken out in an attempt to capitalize on Yahoo's rumored $1.1 billion acquisition of rival blogging service Tumblr. He claims that once the news broke on Sunday, defections from Tumblr to his own site rose from 400 to 600 per hour to over 72,000 -- which presumably included users put off by Yahoo's track record of shutting down its acquisitions (like Del.icio.us, Geocities and Broadcast.com). If that figure is true, then Marissa Mayer's probably going to have to answer some rather awkward questions in a few hours.
Taylor Swift managed to pick up six awards before the Billboard Music Awards even started on Sunday night, so it's no surprise that she came away from the MGM Grand as the show's biggest winner. The pop/country superstar not only took home the most trophies -- eight -- but also the night's biggest honors: Top Artist and Billboard 200 Album of the Year for her mega-hit "Red."
In addition to Swift's winning spree, the night was full of crazy moments -- from Justin Bieber getting booed to Lil Wayne getting a lap dance from fellow performer Nicki Minaj, here's a look at some of biggest surprises and sour notes of one of the music industry's biggest nights.
Best performances
Swift kicked off her much-anticipated performance of her hit single "22" backstage in her dressing room. Dressed in a unicorn T-shirt that made her look more like 9 than 22, Taylor danced her way into a meeting room, whizzed around backstage on an office chair and entered the arena from a side door on a bike.
Pitbull who, like Bieber performed twice during the show, teamed up with a slim and sexy Christina Aguilera to perform their hit single "Feel This Moment." The pair got the crowd going more than any previous performer (Sorry Beliebers!) When surprise guest Morten Harket of A-ha emerged to sing the signature high-note snippet of 1980s band?s hit "Take on Me," the entire crowd seemed to be singing along.
Chris Pizzello / AP
Pitbull performs with a noticeably fit Christina Aguilera on Sunday.
Worst performances
Selena Gomez's robotic Bollywood-inspired dance moves during her performance of "Come & Get It" were more strange than sexy, and the long slices of white material hanging all over the stage made it look like Selena and her pals had gone toilet-papering before the performance.
Chris Pizzello / AP
Selena Gomez, center, performs at the Billboard Music Awards.
Chris Brown also earned a spot on the Worst Performance list for his rendition of ?Fine China.? While the special effects and dance moves were top-notch, Brown?s screeching high notes and all-over-the-place vocals made this performance hard to watch. In the words of ?American Idol? judge Randy Jackson, ?It was a little pitchy, dawg!?
Chris Pizzello / AP
Chris Brown leaps during his performance of "Fine China."
Most notable acceptance speeches
Swift's acceptance speech for the Top Artist award was arguably the best acceptance speech of the night The serial celebrity dater received deafening cheers from the audience when she told her fans that they are the "longest and best relationship" she?s ever had.
Bieber wasn't so lucky when he accepted the Milestone Award. During his speech, he congratulated himself for doing "a pretty good job" for someone who is 19, and made sure to let everyone know that he is a not a gimmick. "I'm an artist and I should be taken seriously and all this other bull should not be spoken of," Bieber said, which earned him a chorus of boos from the audience.
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Justin Bieber accepts the award for top male artist.
Most jaw-dropping moment
While Miguel's failed stage dive resulted in one of the evening's most shocking moments, Minaj dropped plenty of jaws when she gave fellow performer Lil' Wayne a lap dance live on stage. Minaj's stripper-esque booty-popping certainly provided viewers with a good show, although the network's censors may not have been too happy with the sexy performance.
Ethan Miller / Getty Images
Rapper Nicki Minaj dances for fellow rapper Lil Wayne.
Most awkward presenter
Kid Rock, who busted out his best hunting vest and coffee mug to present the Top Rap Song award, got a lot of nervous chuckles from the crowd when he decided to call out the performers who decided not to sing live, which was, unfortunately, nearly all of them.
Ethan Miller / Getty Images
Kid Rock speaks onstage before presenting to rapper Macklemore.
"Let?s give it up for people lip-syncing onto pre-recorded music!" Rock proclaimed. He then proceeded to choke on his own hair and mispronounce winner Macklemore?s name, making us wonder what was actually in that coffee cup!
Biggest diva
A pants-less Madonna, dressed in fur, fishnets and self-described pretentious sunglasses, arrived in full diva-mode to accept her award for Top Touring Artist. (She also took home the Top Dance Artist and Top Dance Album awards.) Using presenter will.i.am as a coat rack to hold her accessories, Madonna thanked her fans for supporting her for three decades, not-so-subtly reminding us that she?s owned the Billboard charts for more years than most of the other nominees have been alive.
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Madonna accepts the award for touring artist of the year from will.i.am.
What was your favorite moment from the Billboard Music Awards? Tell us in the comments below.
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(Reuters) - A single winning ticket for a record Powerball lottery jackpot worth $590.5 million was sold in Florida, organizers said late on Saturday, but there was no immediate word about who won one of the largest jackpots in U.S. history.
The winning numbers from Saturday night's drawing were: 10, 13, 14, 22 and 52, with a Powerball number of 11. The odds of winning were put at 1 in 175 million.
The winning ticket was sold at a Publix supermarket in Zephyrhills, a suburb of Tampa, according to the Florida Lottery.
The winner or winners had not come forward as of Sunday morning, said Connie Barnes, a Florida Lottery spokeswoman. The winning ticket holder's name will become part of the public record because a check will be made out to the winner, but that person or persons need not appear in public to acknowledge the prize, Barnes said.
The grand prize, accumulated after two months of drawings, surpassed the previous record Powerball payoff of $587.5 million set in November 2012.
The largest jackpot in U.S. history stands at $656 million, won in the Mega Millions lottery of March 2012. That prize was split between winners in Maryland, Kansas and Illinois.
The Multi-State Lottery Association, based in Iowa, announced the Powerball results in a brief message on its website, saying, "There was one winner sold by the Florida Lottery for the last drawing's $590,500,000 grand prize."
The extremely long odds of winning did not deter people from buying tickets at staggering rates. California was selling $1 million in tickets every hour on Saturday, said Donna Cordova, a spokeswoman for the California Lottery, which has only been selling Powerball tickets since April 8.
The $2 tickets allow players to pick five numbers from 1 to 59, and a Powerball number from 1 to 35.
(Additional reporting by Karen Brooks in Austin, Texas, and Steve Gorman in Los Angeles.; Editing by Daniel Trotta, Christopher Wilson and Cynthia Osterman)
Armous Peterson figures out what numbers he is going to play in the Powerball lottery at Jimmy's Mart on Saturday, May 18, 2013, in Columbia, S.C. Peterson keeps track of what numbers he plays from week to week. (AP Photo/Jeffrey Collins)
Armous Peterson figures out what numbers he is going to play in the Powerball lottery at Jimmy's Mart on Saturday, May 18, 2013, in Columbia, S.C. Peterson keeps track of what numbers he plays from week to week. (AP Photo/Jeffrey Collins)
A customer, right, waits for his Powerball lottery ticket at a convenience store in Chicago on Saturday, May 18, 2013. A little more than a year after three tickets split a world-record lottery prize, the jackpot for Saturday's Powerball drawing was nearing historic territory. Should nobody pick the correct six numbers, the prize money will roll over to next week's drawing and almost certainly eclipse the $656 million doled out to winners in Illinois, Kansas and Maryland in the Mega Millions game in March 2012. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh)
A clerk dispenses a Powerball Lottery ticket in Oklahoma City, Friday, May 17, 2013. Powerball officials say the jackpot has climbed to an estimated $600 million, making it the largest prize in the game's history and the world's second largest lottery prize.(AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki)
A Powerball lottery ticket is printed out of a lottery machine at a convenience store in Chicago on Saturday, May 18, 2013. A little more than a year after three tickets split a world-record lottery prize, the jackpot for Saturday's Powerball drawing was nearing historic territory. Should nobody pick the correct six numbers, the prize money will roll over to next week's drawing and almost certainly eclipse the $656 million doled out to winners in Illinois, Kansas and Maryland in the Mega Millions game in March 2012. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh)
Brianwa Flores, left, and Katie Cosentino from Illinois State Lottery greet hockey fans before Game 2 of an NHL hockey playoff Western Conference semifinal between the Detroit Red Wings and the Chicago Blackhawks in Chicago, Saturday, May 18, 2013. A little more than a year after three tickets split a world-record lottery prize, the jackpot for Saturday's Powerball drawing was nearing historic territory. Should nobody pick the correct six numbers, the prize money will roll over to next week's drawing and almost certainly eclipse the $656 million doled out to winners in Illinois, Kansas and Maryland in the Mega Millions game in March 2012. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh)
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) ? It's all about the odds.
With the majority of possible combinations of Powerball numbers in play, someone is almost sure to win the game's highest jackpot during Saturday night's drawing, a windfall of hundreds of millions of dollars ? and that's after taxes.
The problem, of course, is those same odds just about guarantee the lucky person won't be you.
The chances of winning the estimated $600 million prize remain astronomically high: 1 in 175.2 million. That's how many different ways you can combine the numbers when you play. But lottery officials estimate about 80 percent of those possible combinations have been purchased, so now's the time to buy.
"This would be the roll to get in on," said Iowa Lottery CEO Terry Rich. "Of course there's no guarantee, and that's the randomness of it, and the fun of it."
That hasn't deterred people across Powerball-playing states ? 43 plus Washington, D.C., and the U.S. Virgin Islands ? from lining up at gas stations and convenience stores Saturday for their chance at striking it filthy rich.
At a mini market in the heart of Los Angeles' Chinatown, employees broke the steady stream of customers into two lines: One for Powerball ticket buyers and one for everybody else. Some people appeared to be looking for a little karma.
"We've had two winners over $10 million here over the years, so people in the neighborhood think this is the lucky store," employee Gordon Chan said as he replenished a stack of lottery tickets on a counter.
Workers at one suburban Columbia, S.C., convenience store were so busy with ticket buyers that they hadn't updated their sign with the current jackpot figure, which was released Friday. Customer Armous Peterson was reluctant to share his system for playing the Powerball. The 56-year-old was well aware of the long odds, but he also knows the mantra of just about every person buying tickets.
"Somebody is going to win," he said. "Lots of people are going to lose, too. But if you buy a ticket, that winner might be you."
The latest jackpot is the world's second largest overall, just behind a $656 million Mega Millions jackpot in March 2012. The $600 million jackpot, which could grow before the numbers are drawn at 10:59 EDT Saturday, currently includes a $376.9 million cash option.
Charles Hill of Dallas says he buys lottery tickets every day. And he knows exactly what he'd do if he wins.
"What would I do with my money? I'd run and hide," he said. "I wouldn't want none of my kinfolks to find me."
Clyde Barrow, a public policy professor at the University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth, specializes in the gaming industry. He said one of the key factors behind the ticket-buying frenzy is the size of the jackpot ? people are interested in the easy investment.
"Even though the odds are very low, the investment is very small," he said. "Two dollars gets you a chance."
That may be why Ed McCuen has a Powerball habit that's as regular as clockwork. The 57-year-old electrical contractor from Savannah, Ga., buys one ticket a week, regardless of the possible loot. It's a habit he didn't alter Saturday.
"You've got one shot in a gazillion or whatever," McCuen said, tucking his ticket in his pocket as he left a local convenience store. "You can't win unless you buy a ticket. But whether you buy one or 10 or 20, it's insignificant."
Seema Sharma doesn't seem to think so. The newsstand employee in Manhattan's Penn Station has purchased $80 worth of tickets for herself. She also was selling tickets all morning at a steady pace, instructing buyers where to stand if they wanted machine-picked tickets or to choose their own numbers.
"I work very hard ? too hard ? and I want to get the money so I can finally relax," she said. "You never know."
Officials will conduct the drawing live Saturday night from Tallahassee, Fla.
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Associated Press Writers Jeffrey Collins in Columbia, S.C., Betsy Blaney in Lubbock, Texas, Russ Bynum in Savannah, Ga., John Rogers in Los Angeles and Verena Dobnick in New York contributed to this report.
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Stitcher just announced a new car mode for the iPhone version of its radio and podcasting app, bringing a simplified interface that works in both portrait and landscape positions. Accessible by tapping the Stitcher logo at the top of the screen, car mode offers a pared-down version of the app's standard UI, with bigger buttons and only the essential audio controls. It's nowhere near as flashy as Stitcher's BMW integration, mind you, but the point is to keep your eyes on the road and off your iPhone's screen. The app gets a few other updates this time around: a front page with top headlines, one-tap access to shows and podcasts you're searching for and improved playback when you're picking up in the middle of a show. Head to the source link below to give the app a spin, and drive safely!
LONDON (Reuters) - Bayer's acne pill Diane 35 and its generic versions are safe to use in certain women when other options have failed, the European Medicines Agency said on Friday.
Following a formal safety review, conducted at the request of French authorities, the agency concluded that the benefits outweighed the risks - provided measures were taken to minimize the chance of blood clots forming in veins and arteries.
The medicines should be used solely in the treatment of moderate to severe acne in women of reproductive age and only when alternative treatments, such as topical therapy and oral antibiotic treatment, have failed.
French authorities suspended sales of drugs in January after four deaths over the past 25 years were linked to their use. Bayer said at the time it was "surprised" by the suspension.
Diane 35 reduces acne by regulating hormones and blocking ovulation, and is often prescribed as a contraceptive even though it is not approved for this use.
(Reporting by Ben Hirschler; editing by Kate Kelland)
During BlackBerry Live this week we got to speak with Vivek Bhardwaj, BlackBerry's Head of Software, about the future of BB10. In light of the the platform's first major software update rolling out to its devices, we asked about the plans for future releases. Bhardwaj told us that the plan is for them to come at a regular cadence of one major code update per year, with other, incremental updates for specific devices sprinkled in as needed. A particular focus is to do so while delivering devs fully realized hardware and to avoid fragmentation in the code base -- making it easier to create BB10 apps.
While he wouldn't dish details about features coming to BB10 in those updates, Bhardwaj did explain that he's working on making BB10 a platform particularly suited for use not only in cars, but also in the healthcare and financial services industries. That focus is a part of the mobile computing ethos espoused by CEO Thorsten Heins meant to have BB10 devices be users' personal, portable computing terminal that is simply plugged into a screen -- whether it's a desktop monitor, a car or somewhere else -- that delivers a uniform experience. When asked whether those screens would include TVs, Bhardwaj didn't rule it out, but he did say that home experiences weren't a priority because it's a crowded space and BB10 "is all about getting things done." As a result, the number one focus is building out a compelling automotive platform, with healthcare and financial services coming in a close second. So, folks thinking BB10 was BlackBerry betting on consumers instead of the enterprise, think again. The more things change, the more they seem to stay the same -- at least when the folks in Waterloo are involved.
Thanks to Alpine?s running specialist,?Kristi Moore, MSPT, for this informative article. Runner?s take note! Drills can take your running to new levels.
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If you want to improve as a runner and prevent injury, you need to do more than just run.? Running drills can be a great way to help you do both.? Running drills provide dynamic flexibility, strength training specific to running, and will help to improve your running form.? What does this mean?? You become a more efficient runner with less risk of injury.? As a Physical Therapist I use drills as a way to assess how a runner moves, to see imbalances within movement, and as a way to rehabilitate runners from injury.
Dynamic flexibility is moving joints and muscles to gain active mobility, which helps you to loosen up effectively before running.? Drills often take you through a larger range of the motions you would normally do in running.? Using bigger range of motion for repetitions warms up your muscles to get ready for running.
Drills work specific muscle groups utilized in running by exaggerating motions used in running.? This leads to improved recruitment of these muscles when we need them during running.? Drills are often quick and/or powerful movements, which will train muscles to respond quickly when running and may even help to push you quicker to a finish line.
Many of the drills highlight one or more aspect of proper running form and are accentuated? through repetitive motions, thus helping you to insert it into your typical running mechanics.? A runner needs to have proper form as well as the appropriate strength and flexibility to allow their body to run without risking injury. Each individual has specific areas to work on with strengthening? and stretching exercises, but drills take it to the next level.
One example of how a drill can address these three areas is high knee skipping.? This drill is a dynamic stretch for hip extensors, a strengthening exercise for calf muscles and quadriceps, and it improves your form by having you push off your foot closer to the mid/fore foot instead of striking with your heel.? There are similar benefits to the majority of running drills.
To learn more about drills come to?Alpine Physical Therapy?s?Free Drills session on Saturday May 18th?at 8:30 am?at the dirt track off the Kim Williams trail.? We will demonstrate correct form with drills, explain their purpose and have you go through some beneficial drills that will improve your running. ? The first 25 people to arrive will also get a free stainless steel water bottle.? If you have any questions please call our north clinic at (406) 541-2606.
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) ? A suicide car bomber attacked a convoy of foreign advisers in the Afghan capital on Thursday, police said. The number of dead and wounded was unclear.
The powerful explosion rattled buildings on the other side of the capital and sent a pillar of white smoke into the sky over eastern Kabul.
Initial reports were that a car bomb exploded in front of a member of parliament's house in the east of the city, Afghan police officer Jahn Agha said.
Kabul provincial police spokesman Hashmad Stanakzi said the suicide bomber attacked the convoy of "foreign advisers" with a car packed with explosives.
"The explosion was very big. It set the nearby buildings on fire," Stanakzi said.
He said people were killed in the attack but could not estimate how many. Several wounded were rushed to hospitals.
New life is coming to Washington State's Olympic Peninsula. Two dams along the Elwha River are being removed, bringing a rush of sediment downstream and exposing hundreds of acres of once-submerged land. The dams were built in the early 1900s to power nearby timber mills. But they blocked salmon migration and their power is no longer needed, so they're coming out. This story originated as part of the public media collaboration, EarthFix.
Core for Life, a new European alliance in biomedical researchPublic release date: 15-May-2013 [ | E-mail | Share ]
Contact: Kris Van der Beken kris.vanderbeken@vib.be 32-473-783-435 VIB (the Flanders Institute for Biotechnology)
6 European research centres in life sciences share technology and expertise in new Alliance for Core Facilities
As life sciences become increasingly dependent on technology, research centres create separate "core facilities" with innovative and cutting edge technologies, to serve their own institute. From now on "Core for Life"- members will share the fast-evolving technologies and expertise from their core facilities at European level. This will allow them to maximize resources and best practices to produce excellent science. Core for Life members today are CRG (Spain), VIB (Belgium), EMBL (Germany), FGCZ (Switzerland), MPI-CBG (Germany) and VBC-CSF (Austria).
Since technologies turn over very fast and become more expensive, no individual research laboratory can master all technologies and no institute can house all kind of platforms and equipment. The way forward is to set up a dialogue with peers. This is the starting point of Core for Life, the new pan-European excellence alliance for Core Facilities. This new alliance will allow the partners' research institutes to have a forum for scientists and to boost scientific collaboration and new interdisciplinary projects.
The main goals of Core for Life are: to identify and share good practices and procedures, to provide specialized training, to explore and validate new technologies, to share equipment and services, and to engage European and national funding bodies in a dialogue to increase funding opportunities for Core Facilities.
"At VIB the core facilities play a crucial role in enabling our scientists to achieve ambitious research goals in a cost effective way. By making use of the suite of state-of-the art core facilities our researchers plug in on sophisticated technologies to execute their interdisciplinary projects. As technologies become more expensive and short-lived the next step to stay at the forefront is the leverage of capabilities through strategic alliances where platform sharing is key. I am delighted that Core for Life enables this collaboration", states Geert Van Minnebruggen, Head of the Core Facilities at VIB (Belgium).
"Research institutes today have to decide on a few technological areas in which it will strive to be at the cutting edge and commit a continuous investment in order to stay there, and need to guarantee access to other platforms that cannot be provided at an equal level of sophistication in-house. By sharing platforms and expertise across institutes, Core for Life will answer this need, and at the same time deliver integrated core facility expertise to the scientific community. Together we will co-develop new models of managing core facilities, and provide high-level training to the next generation of scientists.", adds Doris Meder, Head of the Core Facilities at the Centre for Genomic Regulation (CRG) in Barcelona (Spain).
Geert Van Minnebruggen in Belgium and Doris Meder in Spain were the initiators of this initiative, which now counts some of the most important research institutes among its members. Core for Life starts with a pilot group of partners but aims, in the long run, to translate this initiative to the whole Core Facility Community. In time, Core for Life aims to provide training to the next generation of Core Facility scientists.
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http://www.coreforlife.eu
MEMBERS COUNTRY CORE FACILITIES DIRECTOR
Centre for Genomic Regulation (CRG)
http://www.crg.eu
Spain Doris Meder
European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL)
http://www.embl.org
Germany Christian Boulin
Functional Genomics Center Zurich (FGCZ)
http://www.fgcz.ch
Switzerland Ralph Schalpbach
Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics (MPI-CBG)
http://www.mpi-cbg.de
Germany Ivan Baines
Vienna Biocenter Campus (VBC) / Campus Science Support Facilities GmbH (CSF)
http://www.viennabiocanter.org / http://www.csf.ac.at
Austria Andreas Tiran
VIB
http://www.vib.be
Belgium Geert Van Minnebruggen
ABOUT THE CENTRE FOR GENOMIC REGULATION (CRG)
The Centre for Genomic Regulation (CRG) is an international biomedical research institute of excellence whose mission is to discover and advance knowledge for the benefit of society, public health and economic prosperity.
The CRG believes that the medicine of the future depends on the groundbreaking science of today. This requires an interdisciplinary scientific team focused on understanding the complexity of life from the genome to the cell to a whole organism and its interaction with the environment, offering an integrated view of genetic diseases.
The CRG is a unique centre in Spain, based in an innovative organization research model. Group leaders at the CRG are recruited internationally and receive support from the centre to set up and run their groups. An external Scientific Advisory Board, made up of 12 world leaders in the different areas, evaluates them. The result of evaluations conditions the future of the CRG scientists, no matter whether they have open-ended or time-limited contracts. This ensures the mobility and the renewal of the workforce.
ABOUT THE EUROPEAN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY LABORATORY (EMBL)
The European Molecular Biology Laboratory is a basic research institute funded by public research monies from 20 member states (Austria, Belgium, Croatia, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Iceland, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and the United Kingdom) and associate member state Australia. Research at EMBL is conducted by approximately 85 independent groups covering the spectrum of molecular biology. The Laboratory has five units: the main Laboratory in Heidelberg, and Outstations in Hinxton (the European Bioinformatics Institute), Grenoble, Hamburg, and Monterotondo near Rome. The cornerstones of EMBL's mission are: to perform basic research in molecular biology; to train scientists, students and visitors at all levels; to offer vital services to scientists in the member states; to develop new instruments and methods in the life sciences and to actively engage in technology transfer activities. Around 190 students are enrolled in EMBL's International PhD programme. Additionally, the Laboratory offers a platform for dialogue with the general public through various science communication activities such as lecture series, visitor programmes and the dissemination of scientific achievements.
ABOUT THE FUNCTIONAL GENOMICS CENTER ZURICH (FGCZ)
The Functional Genomics Center Zurich (FGCZ) is a joint state-of-the-art research and training facility of the ETH Zurich and the University of Zurich. With latest technologies and expert support in genomics, transcriptomics, proteomics, metabolomics, and bioinformatics, the FGCZ carries out research projects and technology development in collaboration with the Zurich Life Science research community. With more than 180 new research projects initiated per year and an active user base of more than 2000 researchers, the FGCZ is the largest integrated technology platform for Omics research in Switzerland."
ABOUT THE MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR CELL BIOLLOGY AND GENETICS (MPI-CBG)
The Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics (MPI-CBG), founded in 1998, is one of 80 institutes of the Max Planck Society, an independent, non-profit organization in Germany.
"How do cells form tissues?" has been and still is the question that researchers at MPI-CBG are tackling from different angles. Molecular cell biologists provide insight into basic processes of cellular life and organization. Developmental biologists and geneticists place these functions into the context of tissue development in different model organisms like zebrafish, Drosophila, C. elegans, or mouse.
The MPI-CBG has also invested extensively in Services and Facilities to allow research scientists shared access to sophisticated and expensive technologies.
ABOUT THE VIENNA BIOCENTER CAMPUS (VBC) / CAMPUS SCIENCE SUPPORT FACILITIES (CSF)
The Campus Vienna Biocenter (VBC) is one of the leading multi-disciplinary biomedical research centers in Europe and the premier location for Life Science in Austria. It hosts a broad spectrum of Life Science players ranging from universities, basic research institutions and biotech companies. Most prominent campus members are the Research Institute of Molecular Pathology (IMP), the Institute of Molecular Biotechnology (IMBA), the Gregor Mendel Institute of Molecular Plant Biology (GMI) and the Max F. Perutz Laboratories (MFPL).
The Campus Science Support Facilities GmbH (CSF) is a publicly funded non-profit organization to provide cutting edge research infrastructure primarily to members of VBC. Spare resources may be offered to off-campus academic research institutions or companies.
ABOUT THE VLAAMS INSTITUUT VOOR BIOTECHNOLOGIE (VIB)
VIB is a non-profit research institute in life sciences. About 1,300 scientists conduct strategic basic research on the molecular mechanisms that are responsible for the functioning of the human body, plants, and microorganisms. Through a close partnership with four Flemish universities ? UGent, KU Leuven, University of Antwerp, and Vrije Universiteit Brussel ? and a solid funding program, VIB unites the forces of 76 research groups in a single institute. The goal of the research is to extend the boundaries of our knowledge of life. Through its technology transfer activities, VIB translates research results into products for the benefit of consumers and patients and contributes to new economic activity. http://www.vib.be
MEDIA CONTACT:
Centre for Genomic Regulation (CRG) Press office
Laia Cendrs laia.cendros@crg.eu - +34 93 316 0237 / +34 607 611 798
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Core for Life, a new European alliance in biomedical researchPublic release date: 15-May-2013 [ | E-mail | Share ]
Contact: Kris Van der Beken kris.vanderbeken@vib.be 32-473-783-435 VIB (the Flanders Institute for Biotechnology)
6 European research centres in life sciences share technology and expertise in new Alliance for Core Facilities
As life sciences become increasingly dependent on technology, research centres create separate "core facilities" with innovative and cutting edge technologies, to serve their own institute. From now on "Core for Life"- members will share the fast-evolving technologies and expertise from their core facilities at European level. This will allow them to maximize resources and best practices to produce excellent science. Core for Life members today are CRG (Spain), VIB (Belgium), EMBL (Germany), FGCZ (Switzerland), MPI-CBG (Germany) and VBC-CSF (Austria).
Since technologies turn over very fast and become more expensive, no individual research laboratory can master all technologies and no institute can house all kind of platforms and equipment. The way forward is to set up a dialogue with peers. This is the starting point of Core for Life, the new pan-European excellence alliance for Core Facilities. This new alliance will allow the partners' research institutes to have a forum for scientists and to boost scientific collaboration and new interdisciplinary projects.
The main goals of Core for Life are: to identify and share good practices and procedures, to provide specialized training, to explore and validate new technologies, to share equipment and services, and to engage European and national funding bodies in a dialogue to increase funding opportunities for Core Facilities.
"At VIB the core facilities play a crucial role in enabling our scientists to achieve ambitious research goals in a cost effective way. By making use of the suite of state-of-the art core facilities our researchers plug in on sophisticated technologies to execute their interdisciplinary projects. As technologies become more expensive and short-lived the next step to stay at the forefront is the leverage of capabilities through strategic alliances where platform sharing is key. I am delighted that Core for Life enables this collaboration", states Geert Van Minnebruggen, Head of the Core Facilities at VIB (Belgium).
"Research institutes today have to decide on a few technological areas in which it will strive to be at the cutting edge and commit a continuous investment in order to stay there, and need to guarantee access to other platforms that cannot be provided at an equal level of sophistication in-house. By sharing platforms and expertise across institutes, Core for Life will answer this need, and at the same time deliver integrated core facility expertise to the scientific community. Together we will co-develop new models of managing core facilities, and provide high-level training to the next generation of scientists.", adds Doris Meder, Head of the Core Facilities at the Centre for Genomic Regulation (CRG) in Barcelona (Spain).
Geert Van Minnebruggen in Belgium and Doris Meder in Spain were the initiators of this initiative, which now counts some of the most important research institutes among its members. Core for Life starts with a pilot group of partners but aims, in the long run, to translate this initiative to the whole Core Facility Community. In time, Core for Life aims to provide training to the next generation of Core Facility scientists.
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http://www.coreforlife.eu
MEMBERS COUNTRY CORE FACILITIES DIRECTOR
Centre for Genomic Regulation (CRG)
http://www.crg.eu
Spain Doris Meder
European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL)
http://www.embl.org
Germany Christian Boulin
Functional Genomics Center Zurich (FGCZ)
http://www.fgcz.ch
Switzerland Ralph Schalpbach
Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics (MPI-CBG)
http://www.mpi-cbg.de
Germany Ivan Baines
Vienna Biocenter Campus (VBC) / Campus Science Support Facilities GmbH (CSF)
http://www.viennabiocanter.org / http://www.csf.ac.at
Austria Andreas Tiran
VIB
http://www.vib.be
Belgium Geert Van Minnebruggen
ABOUT THE CENTRE FOR GENOMIC REGULATION (CRG)
The Centre for Genomic Regulation (CRG) is an international biomedical research institute of excellence whose mission is to discover and advance knowledge for the benefit of society, public health and economic prosperity.
The CRG believes that the medicine of the future depends on the groundbreaking science of today. This requires an interdisciplinary scientific team focused on understanding the complexity of life from the genome to the cell to a whole organism and its interaction with the environment, offering an integrated view of genetic diseases.
The CRG is a unique centre in Spain, based in an innovative organization research model. Group leaders at the CRG are recruited internationally and receive support from the centre to set up and run their groups. An external Scientific Advisory Board, made up of 12 world leaders in the different areas, evaluates them. The result of evaluations conditions the future of the CRG scientists, no matter whether they have open-ended or time-limited contracts. This ensures the mobility and the renewal of the workforce.
ABOUT THE EUROPEAN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY LABORATORY (EMBL)
The European Molecular Biology Laboratory is a basic research institute funded by public research monies from 20 member states (Austria, Belgium, Croatia, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Iceland, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and the United Kingdom) and associate member state Australia. Research at EMBL is conducted by approximately 85 independent groups covering the spectrum of molecular biology. The Laboratory has five units: the main Laboratory in Heidelberg, and Outstations in Hinxton (the European Bioinformatics Institute), Grenoble, Hamburg, and Monterotondo near Rome. The cornerstones of EMBL's mission are: to perform basic research in molecular biology; to train scientists, students and visitors at all levels; to offer vital services to scientists in the member states; to develop new instruments and methods in the life sciences and to actively engage in technology transfer activities. Around 190 students are enrolled in EMBL's International PhD programme. Additionally, the Laboratory offers a platform for dialogue with the general public through various science communication activities such as lecture series, visitor programmes and the dissemination of scientific achievements.
ABOUT THE FUNCTIONAL GENOMICS CENTER ZURICH (FGCZ)
The Functional Genomics Center Zurich (FGCZ) is a joint state-of-the-art research and training facility of the ETH Zurich and the University of Zurich. With latest technologies and expert support in genomics, transcriptomics, proteomics, metabolomics, and bioinformatics, the FGCZ carries out research projects and technology development in collaboration with the Zurich Life Science research community. With more than 180 new research projects initiated per year and an active user base of more than 2000 researchers, the FGCZ is the largest integrated technology platform for Omics research in Switzerland."
ABOUT THE MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR CELL BIOLLOGY AND GENETICS (MPI-CBG)
The Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics (MPI-CBG), founded in 1998, is one of 80 institutes of the Max Planck Society, an independent, non-profit organization in Germany.
"How do cells form tissues?" has been and still is the question that researchers at MPI-CBG are tackling from different angles. Molecular cell biologists provide insight into basic processes of cellular life and organization. Developmental biologists and geneticists place these functions into the context of tissue development in different model organisms like zebrafish, Drosophila, C. elegans, or mouse.
The MPI-CBG has also invested extensively in Services and Facilities to allow research scientists shared access to sophisticated and expensive technologies.
ABOUT THE VIENNA BIOCENTER CAMPUS (VBC) / CAMPUS SCIENCE SUPPORT FACILITIES (CSF)
The Campus Vienna Biocenter (VBC) is one of the leading multi-disciplinary biomedical research centers in Europe and the premier location for Life Science in Austria. It hosts a broad spectrum of Life Science players ranging from universities, basic research institutions and biotech companies. Most prominent campus members are the Research Institute of Molecular Pathology (IMP), the Institute of Molecular Biotechnology (IMBA), the Gregor Mendel Institute of Molecular Plant Biology (GMI) and the Max F. Perutz Laboratories (MFPL).
The Campus Science Support Facilities GmbH (CSF) is a publicly funded non-profit organization to provide cutting edge research infrastructure primarily to members of VBC. Spare resources may be offered to off-campus academic research institutions or companies.
ABOUT THE VLAAMS INSTITUUT VOOR BIOTECHNOLOGIE (VIB)
VIB is a non-profit research institute in life sciences. About 1,300 scientists conduct strategic basic research on the molecular mechanisms that are responsible for the functioning of the human body, plants, and microorganisms. Through a close partnership with four Flemish universities ? UGent, KU Leuven, University of Antwerp, and Vrije Universiteit Brussel ? and a solid funding program, VIB unites the forces of 76 research groups in a single institute. The goal of the research is to extend the boundaries of our knowledge of life. Through its technology transfer activities, VIB translates research results into products for the benefit of consumers and patients and contributes to new economic activity. http://www.vib.be
MEDIA CONTACT:
Centre for Genomic Regulation (CRG) Press office
Laia Cendrs laia.cendros@crg.eu - +34 93 316 0237 / +34 607 611 798
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Public release date: 15-May-2013
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