Giant in Biological Technology

VIASPACE Pursuing Renewable Energy Business in Asia

... "We have generated strong interest in Asia for giant King Grass as a dedicated renewable energy crop ... are seeking a dedicated energy crop, such as giant King Grass, for at least 50% of their fuel needs. ... toward renewable energy. The potential for giant King Grass as biomass for power plants is ...

VIASPACE Plants Biofuel & Animal Feed Grass and Signs Land Lease in China

... seedlings of its proprietary fast-growing China giant King Grass near the IPA factory in Guangdong province in China. giant King Grass is a natural hybrid perennial grass ... 1400 acres in 2009. VIASPACE plans to plant giant King Grass seedlings in Heyuan early next year. ...

Professor-turned-producer learns the movie biz

... Siegel will get to watch his name scroll down the giant screen of a darkened IMAX theater with a new ... SK Films, unveil a clip from the film at the giant Screen Cinema Association's 2008 International ... way, Siegel also became a charter member of the giant Screen Cinema Association, which was solidifying ...

Muscular protein bond -- strongest yet found in nature

... muscle doesn't start with exercise; it comes ultimately from nanoscale biological building blocks. One key element is a bond involving titin, a giant among proteins. Titin is considered a molecular "ruler" along which the whole muscle structure is aligned, and it acts as an elastic spring when a ...

American Mothers Seriously Concerned About Childhood Allergies, Siemens Survey Reveals

... Walt Disney Company. The two companies have teamed up to teach children and parents about health issues through Disney storytelling. Mickey and the giant Kachoo!, a children's book featuring Disney's Mickey Mouse, will be introduced to clinical laboratory and physician communities at this year's ...

Unexpectedly long-range effects in advanced magnetic devices

... they can have unusual and valuable magnetic properties. The data read heads on modern high-density disk drives usually exploit a version of the giant magnetoresistance (GMR) effect, which uses such layered structures for extremely sensitive magnetic field detectors. Arrays of nanoscale sandwiches ...

NIST's LIDAR may offer peerless precision in remote measurements

... system could have applications from precision manufacturing lines on Earth to maintaining networks of satellites in perfect formation, creating a giant space-based platform to search for new planets. LIDAR transmits light through the air and analyzes the weak reflected signal to measure the ...

NC Biomanufacturers Supply Defense for World vs. Flu

... -- The global fight against swine flu is shining a spotlight on North Carolina's long-term commitment to biomanufacturing. Global pharmaceutical giant GlaxoSmithKline, with North American headquarters in Research Triangle Park, is one of the world's two key manufacturers of antiviral flu treatments. ...

Brazil's top automakers to distribute 2 million copies of the 'Ethanol Handbook' in partnership with the Brazilian Sugarcane Industry Association

... a million of its handbooks in 2008 as inserts in major publications and through other partnerships, including one with German chemical giant BASF announced earlier this year. Together, the four automakers involved in the partnership with UNICA answer for 80% of the Brazilian car market. ...

Cells Exhibition Opens at Maryland Science Center

... exhibits allow visitors to explore the many aspects of the exciting and rapidly changing field of stem cell research. These exhibits include a giant touch screen map detailing the latest updates on stem cell research throughout the world; a virtual stem cell lab where visitors can explore the ...

VIASPACE Inc. Alternative Energy Business Covered in Research Report

... our base for growth and also broadens the universe of potential investors in VIASPACE." Kukkonen reiterated that the Company is now growing giant King grass in China and plans to initially sell to the animal feed market and later to producers of biofuels such as cellulosic ethanol, biocrude and ...

New Technology to Revolutionize the Way the Planet Does Business

... to Hire Overseas Workers - Even for Domestic Manual Labor LOS ANGELES, March 16 /PRNewswire/ -- Today's outsourcing industry has taken a giant leap forward thanks to new, revolutionary technology created by Cybracero Systems ( http://www.cybracero.com ), which makes it possible for ...

GeoVax Labs, Inc. Reports Fourth Quarter and Year-End 2008 Financial Results

... line can be grown in suspension (without the cells attached to the surface of the growth vessel) and can be scaled up for growth in giant bioreactors (a cutting edge industrial method) for large scale production of the MVA viral vaccine. * In December 2008, ...

Helsinn Healthcare and Zealand Pharma Sign a Partnering Agreement for ZP1846, a Novel GLP-2 Agonist

... its oral formulation, the molecule represents a novel paradigm for the potential chronic prevention of cardiac arrhythmias. US based pharmaceutical giant Wyeth Pharmaceutical is currently conducting Phase I trials in the US. ZP1846 is useful prevention and/or treatment of an unmet medical ...

'The photon force is with us': Harnessing light to drive nanomachines

... will now begin a similar process of development, according to the authors. "While this development has brought us a new device concept and a giant step forward in speed, the next developments will be in improving the mechanical aspects of the system. But," says Tang, "the photon force is with ....

Stuart Parkin first 'distinguished professor' at Eindhoven University of Technology

... new developments in hard disks and magnetic RAM memory, for instance. The read heads of modern hard disks would not function properly without the giant magnetoresistive effect (GMR) that occurs in certain layered magnetic structures. Parkin's research into these structures, which has opened up new ...

Like an arrow: Jumping insects use archery techniques

... BMC Biology reveals that they achieve their prowess by flexing bow-like structures between their hind legs and wings and releasing the energy in one giant leap in a catapult-like action. Froghoppers are well distributed around the world. Images of the insects flexing and jumping are described in the ...

GeoVax Labs, Inc. Announces Six Month Financial Results and Provides Operational Update

... cell line can be grown in suspension (without the cells attached to the surface of the growth vessel) and can be scaled up for growth in giant bioreactors (a cutting edge industrial method) for large scale production of the MVA viral vaccine. GEOVAX LABS, ...

A phonon floodgate in monolayer carbon

... tunneling from the STM tip could enter the graphene at low energies within this gap region, but at slightly higher energies there was an abrupt, giant enhancement in tunneling, like a floodgate opening up for electrons." And this was not the only odd feature in the graphene spectrum. "There was ...

Senesco Signs a Supply Agreement for Polyplus-transfection's Delivery System

... R&D has well-established partnerships with biotech companies and is also involved in several European research collaboration networks, such as giant (Gene Therapy, an Integrated Approach to Neoplastic Treatment) and RIGHT (RNA Interference Technology as Human Therapeutic Tool). ...

Weitz & Luxenberg Files Seroquel Diabetes Lawsuit Against AstraZeneca

... /PRNewswire/ -- Weitz & Luxenberg, PC, one of the leading plaintiffs' litigation law firms in America, filed a lawsuit today against pharmaceutical giant AstraZeneca on behalf of a New York City Fire Department Emergency Medical Technician whose diabetes was allegedly caused by AstraZeneca's drug ...

Record Venture Capital and Heated Deal Environment Propel Global Biotechnology Industry Forward in 2007

... approvals in over two decades. Europe -- The European industry's revenues declined in 2007 because of the loss of publicly listed biotech giant Serono, which was acquired by Merck KGaA. Without this acquisition, public companies revenue growth would have been 20%. After years of ...

Aflac and the American Association for Cancer Research Unite to Issue Inaugural Aflac Career Development Award for Childhood Cancer Research

... past decade, Aflac has invested in helping young scientists and doctors get the training they need at our national meetings. Now, they have taken a giant step by supporting researchers in childhood cancers. Together, AACR and Aflac will make a difference in the lives of patients and their families." ...

Ganeden Biotech Takes Sustenex(TM) National with GanedenBC30 Probiotic

... is widely available at Wal-Mart, Walgreens and CVS/pharmacy, select Rite Aid/GNC Live Well(R) stores, Meijer, Longs, Kroger, Stop & Shop, giant and other retail outlets. Sustenex(TM) is also available online at drugstore.com, amazon.com and other sites. For more information, visit ....

Siemens to Launch PETNET Services in India

... Molecular Imaging, Siemens Healthcare. Being able to offer this PET technology to the residents of Chennai and the surrounding community is a giant step in making this dream a reality." Currently, there is no PET-CT in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu due to a critical lack of F18-FDG, which has ...

PacifiCare Capitulates to Latest Patient Revolt

... office by friends, family, nurses CYPRESS, Calif., March 25 /PRNewswire/ -- In the face of a national campaign on behalf of Nick Colombo, insurance giant PacifiCare has reversed its decisions and agreed to critically needed cancer treatments for the 17-year-old from Placentia, Calif. The decision came ...

Apieron, Inc. Announces FDA Clearance of the Insight(TM) eNO System to Assist Physicians with Patient Asthma Management

... managing airway inflammation was, for all practical purposes, little more than a guess! The ability to measure eNO in the physician's office is 'one giant step' in the care of adults and children with asthma." The Insight eNO system includes a small desktop monitor with an easy-to- read display, trend ...

Derma Sciences Expands Direct Sales Force for Advanced Wound Care, Looks to Double Again in 2008

... line of advanced wound-care products. We will be detailing wound-care centers, nursing homes, hospitals and medical specialists. "We are not a giant corporation, but we believe strongly in our products, and we know that they improve quality of life for patients, and make better patient care ...

Feeling the heat

... can say that the technique does work. Nearly all of the worlds electrical power, approximately 10 trillion Watts, is generated by heat engines, giant gas or steam-powered turbines that convert heat to mechanical energy, which is then converted to electricity. Much of this heat, however, is not ...

Using supercomputers to make safer nuclear reactors

... University and the State University of New York at Stony Brook, all New York state-based institutions. Another Empire State connection is computer giant IBM, headquartered in New York and the maker of Blue Gene supercomputers. The company developed, designed, and built both CCNI and New York Blue. ...

Video shows buckyballs form by 'shrink wrapping'

... Huang solved this problem by creating an ingenious, controllable heat bath inside a 10-nanometer-wide nanotube. That allowed him to capture video of giant fullerenes gradually shrinking." Huang, who performed the experiments while at Boston College and analyzed the data at Sandia, said the results ...

The Food Allergy & Anaphylaxis Network (FAAN) and Verus Pharmaceuticals Work Together to Raise Awareness of Food Allergies

... at Whole Foods La Jolla on August 15th. Other San Diego sponsors include Latham & Watkins, Phillips Plastics, Nutricia, Access Communications and giant Creative at the silver sponsorship level. San Diego Printers and Staylor-Made Communications provided in-kind donations. Registration for the San ...

Innovative Neurotronics, a Subsidiary of Hanger Orthopedic Group, Earns the 2007 da Vinci Award for the WalkAide System

... of the da Vinci Awards Committee and the National MS Society Advocacy Committee. "To paraphrase a famous quotation -- one small step for a woman, one giant leap for persons with MS." Presented by General Motors, and chaired by Chet Huber, President of OnStar Corporation, the 2007 da Vinci Awards ...

The Industry Impact of Two Big Pharmas Mating

... about the hostile bid by French pharmaceutical giant Sanofi-Synthelabo to take over French-German pharmaceutical giant Aventis . This would create a real major ... from the German chemical-pharmaceutical giant Hoechst. Now this gets tricky and confusing: the ...

German Life Science Oktoberfest Comes to the Midwest

... Labs acquired the pharmaceutical business from Knoll of German chemicals giant BASF in March 2001 for several billion dollars (Abbotts largest ... Likewise, Baxter made an important acquisition of German chemical giant Degussas Asta Medica pharma business when it bought the worldwide oncology ...

Biotech 2004: Cautious optimism

... Stewart). 2. The hostile announced takeover of the French-German giant Aventis by the also French company Sanofi-Synthelabo (note that this ... Esperion Therapeutics for more than $1 billion and biotech giant Cephalon acquired Minnesota-based CIMA Labs . 5. The sudden but not ...

Five seed-stage funding groups filling Midwest Life Science void

... drugs. Tetronics was just acquired by pharmaceutical specialty chemicals giant Sigma-Aldrich. He is also a co-founder of biochip company Gentel ... called Hectorol). In Japan, they are commercialized by the pharmaceutical giant Chugai. He is also a founder of Deltanoid Pharmaceuticals, Tetrionics and ...

TomoTherapy considers IPO with medical-device business on the rise

... out of Madison in Middleton, was recently sold to Massachusetts-based drug giant Genzyme. Around Milwaukee, health-care companies such as Merge ... monitoring) join several manufacturing, IT and financial outfits. The giant GE Healthcare, though it has major operations in Milwaukee, is ...

DEMO 2006: A sea change is coming

... question now, of course, is whether Microsoft can, once again, turn the giant ship and re-architect not just its software, but its entire business ... company, and made tougher still by the markets distrust of the software giant and the very nature of service-based computing. The switching costs are ...