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MATRIC Releases New Brochure

A new brochure is being published to describe MATRIC's organization, values and mission. Quoting from the brochure, "Creating OPPORTUNITY is a specialty of MATRIC. Whether it lies in taking advantage of an extant talent pool, as MATRIC has done at its South Charleston, WV headquarters, or in helping a customer reformulate one of its products and increasing that product's sales ten-fold, the MATRIC family of companies seeks to turn lemons into lemonade. This can-do attitude embodies MATRIC's corporate culture."

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Dow Chemical Begins Latest Layoffs
Previously announced layoffs at Dow Chemical have begun. MATRIC already has hired more than 40 former Dow and Union Carbide scientists.

County Diverts $100,000 Alliance Donation
Funds instead go to Clendenin restoration

Leaner Chemical Industry Hopes For Rebound
Economic pressures on the chemical industry have led to downsizing. MATRIC may be in a position to hire some of the displaced employees.

New Engineering Firm to Offer Jobs to Displaced Dow Workers
The research nonprofit MATRIC has started an engineering firm that it says will employ researchers laid off by Dow Chemical Co.

Research Center Expands Services
Group hopes creation of engineering arm will help keep that aspect of its projects in state

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PetroChina Refinery Protest
Chinese citizens demonstrate against planned petrochemical complex near Chengdu

Alternative Energy
Europe looks to develop second-generation biofuels

Guarding Against Too Much Light
Protective mechanism, which has inspired synthetic system, depends on minor constituents of photosynthetic apparatus

Crystal Structure Reveals Drug-DNA Quadruplex Interactions
Study could aid the redesign of promising anticancer drug

EPA Urged To Act On Nanosilver
Groups petition agency to regulate some nanotech-containing products as pesticides

Fruit fly avoidance mechanism could lead to new ways to control pain in humans
(University of Georgia) A team of researchers from the University of Georgia has discovered for the first time that the important developmental switch from food attraction to aversion...

Naltrexone is effective for Alaska Natives and other Alaskans living in rural areas
(Alcoholism: Clinical & Experimental Research) Access to treatment for alcohol dependence in rural and remote areas is limited. This study evaluated the effectiveness of two pharmaco...

Female concave-eared frogs draw mates with ultrasonic calls
(University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) Most female frogs don't call; most lack or have only rudimentary vocal cords. A typical female selects a mate from a chorus of males and t...

Human aging gene found in flies
(Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council) Scientists funded by the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council have found a fast and effective way to investi...

Development of new techniques to understand marble quality and durability
(Universidad de Granada) The results allow to establish durability controls in new constructions, preserve the historic heritage and restore it with guarantees. In addition, the resea...