438 research outputs found
Harnessing Human Potential: Induced Pluripotent Stem Cell Patentability Under the Lens of Myriad
After the Supreme Court\u27s decision in Ass\u27n for Molecular Pathology v. Myriad Genetic\u27s, previously patentable materials may now be rejected as unpatentable subject matter, specifically because they cover natural products. This presents a problem for businesses performing adult stem cell research and development, because stem cells exist in nature but pluripotency in adult stem cells does not. The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) and federal courts must recognize that these stem cells are still patentable because there is human intervention that creates a product that could not exist in nature on its own. Neither the USPTO nor any federal courts have yet reached the substantive issue of whether stem cells are patentable post-Myriad.
By recognizing the patentability of adult stem cells, the USPTO and federal courts would allow research institutions to recoup their substantial investment into the critical adult stem cell field, while still respecting the standard of patentable subject matter dictated in Myriad. This Note argues for retaining patentability of adult stem cells in the face of certain future challenges to patentable subject matter, at both the examination and appeals stages
Excellent, dat word je niet zomaar:een schets van de ontwikkeling van zes excellente HR professionals
Een boek op basis van een studie naar de invloed van leercondities (support, challenge, assessment) en cruciale gebeurtenissen op de ontwikkeling van individueel talent. Zes HRM-ers, uit wetenschap en praktijk, die dominant zijn in het hedendaags HRM-debat, zijn op basis van een theoretisch model bevraagd op de invloed van condities en gebeurtenissen en de mate waarin deze bepalend zijn geweest voor wie en wat ze nu zijn geworden. Support van ouders en leidinggevenden lijken van cruciaal belang, evenals op vroege leeftijd in aanraking komen met situaties waardoor vroegtijdig talent werd herkend en erkend. Hard werken en doorzetten bij tegenslag zijn factoren die in alle respondenten te herkennen zij
Atom--Molecule Coherence in a Bose-Einstein Condensate
Coherent coupling between atoms and molecules in a Bose-Einstein condensate
(BEC) has been observed. Oscillations between atomic and molecular states were
excited by sudden changes in the magnetic field near a Feshbach resonance and
persisted for many periods of the oscillation. The oscillation frequency was
measured over a large range of magnetic fields and is in excellent quantitative
agreement with the energy difference between the colliding atom threshold
energy and the energy of the bound molecular state. This agreement indicates
that we have created a quantum superposition of atoms and diatomic molecules,
which are chemically different species.Comment: 7 pages, 6 figure
Boson-like quantum dynamics of association in ultracold Fermi gases
We study the collective association dynamics of a cold Fermi gas of
atoms in atomic modes into a single molecular bosonic mode. The many-body
fermionic problem for amplitudes is effectively reduced to a dynamical
system of amplitudes, making the solution no more complex than
the solution of a two-mode Bose-Einstein condensate and allowing realistic
calculations with up to particles. The many-body dynamics is shown to be
formally similar to the dynamics of the bosonic system under the mapping of
boson particles to fermion holes, producing collective enhancement effects due
to many-particle constructive interference. Dissociation rates are shown to
enhance as the number of particles whereas association rates are enhanced as
the number of holes, leading to boson-like collective behavior.Comment: 5 pages, 2 figures, critical typo in Eq. (13) correcte
Controlling a magnetic Feshbach resonance with laser light
The capability to tune the strength of the elastic interparticle interaction
is crucial for many experiments with ultracold gases. Magnetic Feshbach
resonances are a tool widely used for this purpose, but future experiments
would benefit from additional flexibility such as spatial modulation of the
interaction strength on short length scales. Optical Feshbach resonances offer
this possibility in principle, but suffer from fast particle loss due to
light-induced inelastic collisions. Here we show that light near-resonant with
a molecular bound-to-bound transition can be used to shift the magnetic field
at which a magnetic Feshbach resonance occurs. This makes it possible to tune
the interaction strength with laser light and at the same time induce
considerably less loss than an optical Feshbach resonance would do
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