UNCW's CREST Campus Aims to Turn Scientific Research Into Revenue

UNCW's CREST campus aims to turn scientific research into revenue

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If you think of each building at CREST as one step in the scientific process, director Daniel Baden said, then the first place to start is the Center for Marine Science. There, Baden said, is where interdisciplinary basic and applied research takes …
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NC double lung transplant grateful to be alive

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The 58-year-old received the transplant at Duke University Medical Center on Oct. 21, 2012, after being diagnosed in 2005 with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis and polymyositis. Idiopathic pulmonary … Ken's Navy career as an avionics instructor and …
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Chairman of Florida GOP calls on Rep. Trey Radel to step down

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Radel, 37, said last week that he would take a leave of absence for an unspecified time, donate his salary and enter an inpatient drug treatment program. "I have no excuse for what I have done. I have let down our country," he said at a news conference.
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Costly eye drug costs Medicare billions

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Avastin costs about $ 50 per injection. Lucentis costs about $ 2,000 per injection. Doctors choose the more expensive drug more than half a million times every year, a choice that costs the Medicare program, the largest single customer, an extra $ 1 …
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