Linden Lab's rules now say the land is a service the company controls and can cancel.

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Biophysical Corporation, the Austin, Texas--based firm that created the Biophysical250, is affiliated with Rules-Based Medicine, a lab that's received biomarker research grants from, among others, the National Cancer Institute.

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Dr. Andreas Weigend, former Chief Scientist at Amazon.com who now teaches at Stanford and directs the Social Data Lab, delivered an excellent presentation titled How to Use Social Data to Rewrite the Rules.

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But half his budget goes to redundant lab gear and overhead he wouldn't need if it weren't for the NIH rules against stem-cell funding.

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The Southold Town Board last week considered zoning rules that would split the island into two parts: a research district, encompassing the current lab campus, and a sprawling conservation district where building would be all but prohibited.

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