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deCODE Lauds Federal Legislation to Ban Discrimination on the Basis of Genetic Information

REYKJAVIK, Iceland, April 25 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- deCODE genetics (Nasdaq: DCGN ) today expressed its enthusiastic support for the Genetic Information Non-discrimination Act (GINA), a bill that, many years in the making, is now moving swiftly through Congress and is expected to be signed...

State faces revenue drop as federal Internet tax ban passes House

Starting November 1, 2006, Wisconsin will no longer be allowed to tax Internet usage, in a move that would open up savings for users but could put a hole in the state budget. The federal measure to eliminate the tax was authored by Representative James Sensenbrenner , R-Wis., who said home user...

Cloning ban too broad, stem-cell researchers argue

Madison, Wis. - A proposed state ban on all forms of human cloning has been approved by the Wisconsin Assembly Committee on Children and Families and is headed for a full Assembly vote. State Republicans have put the legislation on a fast track with identical bills - SB 243 and AB 499 - that wer...

Cloning ban passes Assembly, Doyle pledges veto

The state Assembly on Thursday passed AB 499, a proposed ban on all forms of human cloning in Wisconsin. The bill would outlaw the cloning of embryos both for reproductive purposes and for what practitioners have called research or therapeutic cloning, the making of a cloned embryo for the purpo...

Cloning ban comes before Wisconsin Senate on Tuesday

Madison, Wis. -- A proposed ban on all human embryonic cloning in the state will be voted on in the state Senate Tuesday, a proposal opposed by many in the medical research community. The proposed ban, known as AB 499, would outlaw not only cloning for reproductive purposes but also what propo...

Amendment on cloning ban rejected; vote on bill set for Wednesday

Madison, Wis. -- The Wisconsin Senate voted 17-16 Tuesday night to reject an amendment to the proposed human cloning ban, setting the bill on course for a likely veto by Gov. Jim Doyle. The Senate will take up the proposed ban, known as AB 499, on Wednesday. It would outlaw not only cloning fo...

Bill would ban computers from landfills

Madison, Wis. -- Wisconsin residents would lose their ability to send old computers and other household electronics to landfills in the state under legislation proposed by state Sen. Mark Miller of Monona. Miller on Tuesday said he would introduce legislation similar to that he proposed in Fe...

Doyle vetoes cloning ban

Madison, Wis. - Gov. Jim Doyle announced Thursday his veto of AB 499, which would have outlawed all forms of human cloning in Wisconsin. The bill would outlaw not only cloning for reproductive purposes but also what proponents call therapeutic or research cloning, in which an embryo is created...

Video of EpiDerm Skin Irritation Test (SIT) Method Now Available

... John Sheasgreen, MatTek's President, explained the need for the video, "We knew the recent validation of the EpiDerm SIT method combined with a full ban on the use of animals for this test in the EU would create unprecedented demand from organizations worldwide for information on how to perform this te...

Excalibur International Marine (49% Owned by EFT BioTech Holdings) Completes Inaugural Passenger Crossing of Taiwan Strait

...e across the Taiwan Strait takes only four-and-a-half-hours, but it took Taiwan and China 60 years to ease tension and for Taipei to agree to lift the ban on sea links with the mainland." The Excalibur International Marine Corp, operator of the cruise service, said that in the initial stage, the Ta...

EFT BioTech Holdings, Inc.'s Sea Vessel Completes Inaugural Passenger Voyage Across the Taiwan Strait

... The voyage across the Taiwan Strait takes only 4 1/2 hours, but it took Taiwan and China 60 years to ease tension and for Taipei to agree to lift the ban on sea links with China's mainland. The voyage was featured in a news article that has run in several internet news sites, including the Taiwan ...

Repair Stem Cell Institute Warns About Real Cost of Embryonic Stem Cell Research

...ons, are receiving successful stem cell treatments today on every continent but North America!" "When the President lifted the partial ban on federal funding for embryonic stem cell research stem cell research , he did not mention that Embryonic Stem Cells (ESC) have never worked on huma...

How Long Will the Economic Downturn Affect the Dental Biomaterials Market?

...everal significant market events: BIOMET 3i's Endobon and NovaBone's NovaBone were launched in the US in the second quarter of 2008; the US import ban on Straumann's Emdogain and BoneCeramic we lifted in August, making these products available toward the end of the year; Curasan's dental business...

Beverly Hills Surgeon Dr. Payman Simoni Applauds Obama Administration's New Direction in Stem Cell Research

...ch restrictions by President Barack Obama has been heralded by stem cell researchers across the nation. The action has reversed an eight year research ban and, to many, signifies the coming of a new era of potential cures for many debilitating diseases like diabetes, Parkinson's, Alzheimer's and many can...

Bauer Calls Taxpayer-Funded Embryonic Stem Cell Research 'A Tragedy'

... now will allow human embryos to be destroyed to create cell lines. My concern is that the long-term result of this work will lead to a lifting of the ban against human cloning, a development that would allow testing in laboratories on human embryos, human life. But today, Obama's decision to allow feder...

Cord Blood America Restructures Debt; Projects to be Cash Flow Positive

...r. Schissler also stressed that the entire stem cell sector and its investors await the announcement from the Obama Administration lifting the current ban on Federal funding for research on embryonic stem cell lines. "Continued progress and potential additional discoveries in the use of stem cells in tr...

Improved governance needed to realize nanotech's benefits

...tors will put their money elsewhere. Public perceptions about risksreal and perceivedcan have large economic impacts. For example, the European Unions ban on genetically modified foods, driven largely by public concerns, cost American farmers an estimated $300 million annually in lost sales and much more...

A New Era in Cell Biology: German Company Develops Groundbreaking Alternative to Stem Cell Therapy

...d not be further apart: its proponents are calling for the complete liberalisation of stem cell research, while its critics are in favour of a general ban on the use of human stem cells, which are produced from embryos. While the Bundestag debates on a new regulation, Blasticon Biotechnologische Forschun...

CryoCor Requests International Trade Commission Investigation Into CryoCath for Patent Infringement

... property rights. Importantly, an ITC investigation has a fast timeline for completion, usually just over one year. If we prevail, the ITC may issue a ban on importation of CryoCath's cryoablation system into the United States. We expect to hear from the ITC within 30 days and will provide an update upon...

Biotech Crops Experience Remarkable Dozen Years of Double-Digit Growth

...he next mostly likely countries to approve biotech crops. Australia is field-testing drought-tolerant wheat and two states recently lifted a four-year ban on biotech canola. Finally, countries like India recognize the importance of using biotechnology to make the country self-sufficient in food grains, i...

Probiotic good bugs may control gut infections

...d as growth promoters to make pigs put on weight and protect them from diseases, says James Collins from the Veterinary Laboratories Agency. The EU ban is part of the effort to reduce the emergence of new antibiotic resistant bacteria, particularly as many disease-causing and antibiotic-resistant bact...

New Initiative Has Shocking Effect: Thousands of Missourians with Abnormal Chromosome Structures Are Not Human

...hrough small chromosomal variations. Added Dena Ladd, a longtime child and patient advocate, "It's bad enough that this initiative's supporters would ban some of the most promising stem cell research and potentially lifesaving stem cell cures our families need. But that they'd be so careless in pursuing...

Anti-Cloning Petition Drive Launched in Wisconsin

...e is instead supporting The Human Embryonic Protection Act, which bans human cloning and embryo destruction, and another bill, which deals only with a ban on human cloning. Both are sponsored by Republicans. Such bills have netted blows from both Republicans and Democrats who contend such anti-scienc...

Is Wisconsin a Technology Leader or Laggard?

... is set to expire in November. Senator Allen's legislation will permanently ban taxes on Internet access, as well as taxes on Internet transactions by mult...d Chairman John McCain (R-AZ) on this issue. This bill would permanently ban such Internet taxes and update the definition of Internet access to include...

Barriers Outlined for Wisconsins Biotech Growth

...nvestment issues; security issues driven by animal rights and other anti-science terrorism, and local, state, and federal efforts to severely limit or ban promising areas of research, the WABRE study concluded. Availability of capital may be easier to fix than cultural and political issues, according ...

Putting spam back in the can wont be all that easy

...Act in January provided the basis for the lawsuits filed last week, but experts say the law passed by Congress may legitimize some spam as it seeks to ban other unsolicited messages. CAN-SPAM (Controlling the Assault of Non-Solicited Pornography and Marketing Act of 2003) prohibits sending junk e-mail th...

Digital Lifestyle: I'm linked in, now what?

...ce reports. He is also calling on lawmakers to not overtax broadband access and stifle innovation. In fact, Bush is supporting a proposed Internet tax ban . . . Mirra, Inc. has gathered up $8 million in Series B Funding. The company, which created the Mirra Personal Server, is being backed by a band of i...

The passing of Ronald Reagan, and other Americans, is a reminder of the promise of stem-cell research

...of research will undoubtedly be done elsewhere. The worst fears of stem cell research opponents are more likely to be realized if the federal research ban stays in place, not if it is lifted. It is unlikely that Bush will reverse himself in an election year. But the broad-based appeal by 58 senators, ...

Gov. Doyle comments on unlocking the power of power of stem cell research

...versity would be shared with the world for the benefit of everyone. A privately funded one would become the property of a private corporation. The ban on federal funding for research on new stem cell lines must be overturned. Federal policy should instead allow for the development of new stem cell l...

Referendum may pull California to the forefront of stem cell research

...curity, Svendsen touched upon the seemingly ever-present legislative threat to his research, as the Wisconsin Legislature has attempted to restrict or ban embryonic stem cell research every year since the 1999-2000 session. Earlier this month at a news conference, Doyle said Wisconsin probably sustain...

Will mobile phones go back to school?

...dministrators worried. Last week, in one example local to Silicon Valley, administrators at San Mateo Union High School District debated new policy to ban the use of camera and video phones. Echoing the fears that SMS messaging was the new tool of cheaters, school officials are concerned that camera phon...

Is your employee handbook evolving with technology?

... employers workplace. Some employers may choose to ban camera phones altogether. However, a more practical approach for most employers may be to ban the presence of camera phones in certain areas of the employers facilities and/or to ban their use during working hours or on the employers...

John Kerry talks technology

...racy in between. The SBA itself needs to become much more entrepreneurial and business friendly. CS: Do you support making the Internet sales tax ban permanent? JK: I was an original co-sponsor of the Internet tax moratorium. ... I have been working to create a common sense, long-term compromis...

California stem cell initiative should wake up Washington and Madison

...earch. Pennsylvania, New York and Massachusetts have put similar protections into place. Wisconsin needs to join those states and repudiate efforts to ban stem cell research, which would have a chilling effect on many unrelated forms of academic research. If you want to look at states with booming econom...

The black hole of corporate branding

...now upon us. The branding and design industry is equally dumbfounded during this meltdown of their services. The future looks pretty dark. Should we ban the word branding? This term, so unnecessarily used by such a large number of unqualified services as a band-aid to all problems irrespective of siz...

UN committee opposes human cloning

... has made its position on the matter clear, as in its statement supporting the Human Cloning Prohibition Act of 2003, which called for a comprehensive ban on all human cloning. Similar legislation died in the U.S. Senate. "The administration is strongly opposed to any legislation that would prohibit h...

Finance Committee rejects extra tax on Internet buys

...nies have to play by the same rules?" Governor Doyle's plan also includes a tax on Internet access. Though there is federal legislation in place to ban this type of tax, Wisconsin has been able to use a loophole in the legislation to continue to collect the tax. "The Internet access tax was impose...

Feuds between UW and the Legislature should end for good of the state

...tical problem facing the UW and its leadership. Sorensen didn't get the approval of UW System President Kevin Reilly or the Regents before he acted to ban ROTC, because that's basically how the system works. Chancellors have an enormous amount of discretion. The UW "System" is far more decentralized than...

The Attack of the Clones: No, its not a summer movie

...n-led state Assembly agreed with those who want to ban all forms of human cloning, even for research. The...ratic Gov. Jim Doyle would almost certainly sign a ban on reproductive cloning. If only it was that ...t senator discussed introducing a separate bill to ban most research involving human embryonic stem cells...

Delivery of needles in the Capitol missed the point about stem-cell research

...juvenile diabetes") somehow persuaded Gov. Jim Doyle's staff to deliver 1,400 used needles, capped and bagged, to Gard's office. Why? Gard supported a ban on the cloning of human stem cells for research purposes, and Elizabeth Kastner of Fish Creek believes his opposition to cloning is closing a possible...