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Cell Therapeutics Closes Italian Facility, Reduces Headcount and Expects to Cut $14 Million in Operating Expenses

Reaches severance agreement with unions SEATTLE, May 15 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Cell Therapeutics, Inc. (CTI) (Nasdaq and MTA: CTIC) announced today that, as previously discussed in a press release on February 27, 2009, it is closing its Bresso, Italy operations and has reached agreement wi...

New Hospital Energy Performance Service Helps Hospitals Cut Energy Costs by 25% or More

NEEDHAM, Mass., May 5 /PRNewswire/ -- A new Hospital Energy Performance Service can help hospitals to improve both building systems performance and energy efficiency by 25% or more -- with much of the savings linked to low-cost modifications. The service is available from Environmen...

Aviation partners to cut 500,000 tonnes of CO2 a year

ACI EUROPE, CANSO, EUROCONTROL and IATA launched a joint action plan designed to reduce the CO2 emitted by aircraft in Europe by over half a million tonnes a year. Geneva, Switzerland (PRWEB) April 6, 2009 -- ACI EUROPE, CANSO, EUROCONTROL and IATA launched a joint acti...

Defense Threat Reduction Agency Halts Contract Negotiations With Peregrine Pharmaceuticals as It Suffers $100 Million Cut in FY 2008 Budget for Its Transformational Medical Technologies Initiative (TMTI) Program

- Agency Confirms Its Continuing Interest in Peregrine's Anti-PS Technology for Biodefense Applications - TUSTIN, Calif., Dec. 14 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Peregrine Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Nasdaq: PPHM ), a clinical stage biopharmaceutical company developing monoclonal antib...

What If We Cut Our Own Path?

What if we didnt spend so much time trying to be the next Silicon Valley? I have lived in both places, and if Wisconsins technology roadmap is to become a Midwest carbon copy of Silicon Valley, we should save ourselves the frustration. The cultural differences in business, labor and general popul...

Wisconsin Engineers Devise Cutting-Edge Method to Cut Cheese

Madison, Wis. - Lasers do everything these days - from removing tattoos to playing music on compact discs. Now, in the great dairy state of Wisconsin, lasers have been harnessed to an entirely new purpose: slicing cheese. Xiaochun Li, a University of Wisconsin-Madison mechanical engineering prof...

Off-the-grid networking can help you cut past chit-chat

How the notion of networking has changed over the years is a funny thing. When Midwest tech people talked about networking a decade ago, they were mostly talking about reaching out to their friends and colleagues for job opportunities and business development leads. In other words, to most Mid...

Budget axe could cut SE Wisconsin tech alliance funding

MILWAUKEE - A group of business and technology leaders is asking Wisconsin Gov. Jim Doyle to preserve $2.6 million in pledged state funds for the Biomedical Technology Alliance (BTA), which seeks to increase collaboration between academic researchers and private industry in southeastern Wiscons...

Renaissance Learning will expand in Dallas and cut back California and Madison

Wisconsin Rapids, Wis.— Renaissance Learning , Inc., a provider of computerized assessment and progress monitoring tools for pre-K-12 schools and districts, will expand its Dallas field sales office and add a training and certification office center for all Renaissance product solutions. Re...

RedPrairie exec calls for 50 percent tax cut

Milwaukee, Wis. - Wisconsin can create a dynamic, creative economy in its largest city by dramatically cutting taxes and shedding its "welfare state" mentality, the leader of RedPrairie Corp. told a gathering of business executives. John Jazwiec, who earlier this year made headlines when he ...

Biotech Hot in July Driven by Positive Drug Data and Acquisitions

...announced a corporate restructuring by slashing staff and/or putting promising projects in the refrigerator. Recent announcements included: - Celera cut 80 employees or 13 percent of its workforce - Epix Pharmaceuticals entered bankruptcy and is winding down its operations. - YTD the Burrill Biote...

The MedZilla Report: June 2009 Employment Outlook for Biotech/Pharma/Health

...y experts now call an outright recession -- companies are still required to cut back on their biggest expense: their employees. In June, pharmaceutical com...volved in bringing a new medication from development to market. The largest cut in June came from Oscient Pharmaceuticals in Massachusetts, as they announc...

NIH funds support UAB joint replacement research

... total joint replacements, which UAB researchers believe could dramatically cut the number of recurrent surgical procedures performed each year, said Yoges... during long-term implantation in the human body, which could significantly cut the follow-up surgery rate. ...

Material world: Graphene's versatility promises new applications

...e compatible with conventional electronic devices than other materials, including the much-vaunted carbon nanotubes. "You can imagine an atomic sheet, cut into different shapes to create different device properties," Tao says. Since the discovery of graphene, the hunt has been on for similar two-dime...

Nanopillars promise cheap, efficient, flexible solar cells

... photovoltaic devices based on nanostructured materials even though the nontransparent copper-gold electrodes on top of the Javey group's test device cut its efficiency by 50 percent. In future, top contact transparency can easily be improved. Other factors that greatly affect the efficiency of a 3-...

Monitoring water through a snake's eyes

... America test water reservoirs usually once every day or two, with no system in place to detect chemical threats instantaneously. "This new system can cut millions of dollars from the cost of testing water manually." The fiber sensors developed by Prof. Katzir are made of insoluble, non-toxic, and bioco...

New Pre-Clinical Data on OmniGuide's BeamPath NEURO(TM) Demonstrates Precise Cutting in Brain Tissue

...ow's Neurosurgical Research Laboratory. "The device also allows surgeons to cut and coagulate with a single instrument. Given the high absorption of the CO...BeamPath fiber in neurosurgery. The ability to precisely and hemostatically cut in the brain while minimizing loss of precious brain tissue has a real pote...

Gyros Raises SEK 80 Million to Accelerate the Commercialization of its Gyrolab(R) Systems for the Cost-Efficient Development of Biopharmaceuticals

... is a versatile analytical tool that dramatically reduces the time required to optimize and execute immunoassays. Time for assay optimization is often cut from weeks to a matter of days. This results in increased efficiency in process development and in clinical evaluation of therapeutic proteins. The ea...

Galichia Heart Hospital Partners with Mobile Surgery International to Develop Wichita-based Center of Excellence with Global Convenience(TM)

...nt an uninsured American and his American surgical team to Trinidad in the West Indies. In so doing, MSI delivered the treatment the patient chose and cut his cost by more than half. Galichia Heart Hospital is an 82-bed full-service, acute care hospital located in Wichita, Kan. With a staff of mo...

Guy J. Quigley Resigns as Chairman and CEO of The Quigley Corporation: Quigley Leaves Company He Founded 20 Years Ago

...ts Cold Remedy segment is a leading marketer and manufacturer of the COLD-EEZE(R) family of lozenges, gums and sugar free tablets clinically proven to cut the common cold nearly in half. COLD-EEZE customers include leading national wholesalers and distributors, as well as independent and chain food, dru...

Mexico Premiere for Money-Saving Pharma Leak Testing Equipment

...ugh blister packs and also child resistant and peelable blister packs. Blister packs are automatically fed from the magazine into a cutting machine. A cut is made in the lidding material of the blister pack, around the base of the blister pocket. The tablets or capsules are then eased out of the blisters...

Monitoring water through a snake's eyes

... America test water reservoirs usually once every day or two, with no system in place to detect chemical threats instantaneously. "This new system can cut millions of dollars from the cost of testing water manually." The fiber sensors developed by Prof. Katzir are made of insoluble, non-toxic, and bioco...

Smith & Nephew Endoscopy Launches the BICEPTOR(TM) Tenodesis System, the First All-Arthroscopic Procedure for Biceps Tendon Repair

...the walls of the bone tunnel, providing multiple potential attachment points. With the tendon re-attached, the damaged section of the biceps tendon is cut away. "Smith & Nephew's innovation over the last several years has given surgeons options as they determine the best tools and techniques for...

The Concerned Shareholders of Biovail Say Biovail Has Misled Shareholders

... Biovail's strategy, its management or members of the incumbent Board. The Concerned Shareholders have remained silent regarding the dramatic dividend cut announced by Biovail on May 6, 2009. As has been stated, this is not about Mr. Melnyk or about a confrontation; this is about improving Biovail for al...

Corgenix Reports Third Quarter Fiscal 2009 Financial Results

...sident and CFO of Corgenix, added "Over the past quarter, we have instituted a vendor/service provider cost reduction initiative which we believe will cut well over $500,000 annually in our cost of sales and operating expenses, without any head-count reductions. This cost cutting initiative should help u...

Medicago succesfully expresses VLP antigen for A H1N1 strain

...ufacturing technologies can take up to six months to produce a vaccine for a new strain. With our proprietary technology we believe we can potentially cut development time up to five months." About Medicago Medicago is committed to provide highly effective and affordable vaccines based on propr...

Pharmaceutical Packaging Equipment Manufacturer Boosts European Distribution

...ugh blister packs and also child resistant and peelable blister packs. Blister packs are automatically fed from the magazine into a cutting machine. A cut is made in the lidding material of the blister pack, around the base of the blister pocket. The tablets or capsules are then eased out of the blisters...

Under the Microscope: 'Micro IVF'

...ds in similar fashion to conventional IVF with egg retrieval, fertilization, embryo culture and embryo transfer. This new protocol is said to not only cut down on costs, but to diminish risks of multiple births. Following are the opinions expressed by Reproductive Endocrinologists at FertilityTies.c...

TeleHealth Services Chosen by Baptist Hospital East in Development of New Park Tower

...with the newest healthcare television technology , combined with the best possible solution, was our top priority. At a time when budgets are being cut and capital expenditures are put on hold, we feel it is imperative to work with our clients to ensure that their needs and visions are fulfilled and q...

The MedZilla Report: March 2009 Employment Outlook for Biotech/Pharma/Health

... Generally, cuts in health care are being increased because more and more facilities are losing money. It is the smaller, specialty programs that are cut first -- such as youth residential centers -- but some companies, like Kaiser, have announced sweeping cuts of more than 800 jobs. Kaiser's situation ...

Neurobiological Technologies Announces Hiring of Advisor to Seek Sale of Company

... a duty to our shareholders to maximize the value of NTI. We intend to proceed expeditiously in this process while continuing to wind-down operations, cut expenses and preserve cash. If our evaluation of strategic options does not result in a transaction that meets our objectives, NTI will act expeditiou...

New Website Offers Fuel Saving Products Such as Hydrogen Injection Systems and Hydrogen Generators

... During these flailing economic times, many consumers are foregoing purchasing expensive hybrid or gasoline vehicles and looking for other ways to cut costs. A recent survey conducted by Consumer Reports shows that "The weak economy is forcing consumers to assess the value of their current vehi...

Frost & Sullivan Recognizes Nanopoint for its Pioneering Cell Imaging Solution, the cellTRAY(R) Imaging System CT-2000

... material costs. Further, the cellTRAY's microarray of wells and microfluidic channels are designed to minimize the amount of reagents needed, helping cut operating costs as well as biological waste. Furthermore, the system could be employed for time lapse imaging, that is, multi-day experiments could be...

Progress toward an Alzheimer's drug that saves brain cells

...ons. The sticky β-amyloid arises when the amyloid precursor protein is cut into pieces incorrectly. The γ-secretase complex − which cut... Alzheimer's disease. Furthermore, because the toxic side effects have been cut away, it could also be administered preventively to persons with a risk of ...

Quantum dots and nanomaterials: Ingredients for better lighting and more reliable power

...also weigh less than conventional lighting devices and can be produced in a variety of shapes. "Imagine a light that is made on a roll that can be cut into various shapes according to the desire of the user," Jabbour says. Such an advance is still far off, but not impossible. In fact, he points out, ...

New Report - Prospering in a Down Market: Strategies for Life Science Suppliers

...onomy, but she points out that scientists are employing a variety of ways to stretch their budgets. "Understanding how and where scientists intend to cut back will be essential for suppliers developing effective marketing and sales strategies." To learn more about this report, a complimentary Execu...

SleepQuest Continues to Fight for Sleep Apnea Education

...aid Robert Koenigsberg, President of SleepQuest. "We can give physicians the tools they need to easily screen, diagnose and treat sleep apnea--helping cut the risk of stroke and heart disease associated with chronic sleep loss for more than 30 million Americans." SleepQuest has begun using two new p...

New Genomatica Chemical Process Targets Ailing Ethanol Assets

...nt market contraction. Because of a recent downturn in demand for corn ethanol, many small- and mid-sized manufacturing facilities have been forced to cut production or shut down. These facilities are also facing serious concerns regarding the long-term competitive outlook for profitable ethanol producti...

Life Science Labs Reacting to the Economic Crisis

...conomy but she points out that scientists are employing a variety of ways to stretch their budgets. "Understanding how and where scientists intend to cut back will be essential for suppliers developing effective marketing and sales strategies." A complimentary pre-publication Executive Summary of t...

Favrille and MyMedicalRecords.com, Inc. Obtain Shareholder Approval to Move Forward With Merger

...cing healthcare costs," Lorsch noted. "In fact, WellPoint Health Networks reported this year that the cost of a typical $1,200 Emergency Room visit is cut in half with the availability of pre-populated health records." Additional Information about the Merger and Where to Find It On Novemb...