takes in Biological Technology

BioStorage Technologies Takes Lead Sponsorship Role of 2nd Annual IIR Biorepositories Conference

INDIANAPOLIS, June 11 /PRNewswire/ -- BioStorage Technologies, Inc., a worldwide provider of long- and short-term storage of biomaterials, sample management and cold chain logistics, announced it will participate in the Institute for International Research (IIR) 2nd Annual Biorepositories Conferen...

The Coalition to Prevent Deep-Vein Thrombosis (DVT) RV Tour Takes to the Road to Educate the Nation About the Importance of DVT Risk Assessment

Driving to Reduce the Risks of DVT to Mark U.S. House of Representatives National Screening NEW YORK, March 10 /PRNewswire/ -- The Coalition to Prevent DVT today announced the launch of its first nationwide tour to raise public awareness about deep-vein thrombosis (DVT) and to encourage dial...

DuPont Takes Aggressive Actions to Strengthen Competitiveness and Increase Cash Flow

Company Provides Fourth Quarter 2008 and Full Year 2009 Earnings Guidance WILMINGTON, Del., Dec. 4 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- DuPont, (NYSE: DD ) today announced further actions to address current market challenges and strengthen the company's competitiveness in 2009, including con...

Breakthrough Technology Takes Egg Freezing from Myth to Dependable Reality

NEW YORK, Oct. 24 /PRNewswire/ -- The day of true reproductive freedom for women has arrived. A new scientific study confirms the efficacy of a revolutionary egg selection and freezing process that, at long last, offers women a viable and reliable fertility preservation option. Developed and...

CEL-SCI Takes Delivery of New Manufacturing Facility

VIENNA, Va., Oct. 9 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- CEL-SCI Corporation (NYSE: CVM ) announced today that it has taken delivery of the new manufacturing facility for its lead drug Multikine(R). This dedicated facility, located in the Baltimore area, will produce the Multikine that will be used for ...

As personalized, genomic medicine takes off, four developing countries show the way for others

Developing countries that want the benefits of cutting-edge health care possibilities based on the genetic variation of individual citizens and sub-populations need to foster the new science at home, says a major new Canadian study published today by Nature Publishing Group. In a special six-p...

It takes nerves for flies to keep a level head

The nerve connections that keep a fly's gaze stable during complex aerial manoeuvres, enabling it to respond quickly to obstacles in its flight path, are revealed in new detail in research published today (22 July 2008). Scientists from Imperial College London have described the connections be...

Cystic Fibrosis - Axentis Pharma Takes Over Patents and Continues Development of Innovative Platform Technology

ZURICH, Switzerland, June 26 /PRNewswire/ -- The rights to key patents for an innovative screening tool for treatments for cystic fibrosis were transferred today to Swiss biotech company Axentis Pharma AG. The company has acquired the rights from an Austrian firm that has made a vital contribu...

Simbionix Takes Non-Invasive GYN Surgical Training to the Next Level

CLEVELAND, Ohio, June 2 /PRNewswire/ -- Simbionix has announced the release of a new and exciting module for its LAP Mentor simulator that gives trainees hands-on experience with different techniques and alternative approaches to the treatment of ectopic pregnancy, tubal sterilization and ooph...

Migenix Takes Operational Actions To Extend Cash Past Upcoming Key Milestones

VANCOUVER and SAN DIEGO, May 27 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ - MIGENIX Inc. (TSX: MGI, OTC: MGIFF), a clinical-stage developer of drugs for infectious diseases, is taking aggressive steps to further reduce expenses to extend its cash runway through the Omigard(TM) Phase III results milestone expecte...

Board Certified Dermatologist and President-Elect of the Dermatologic Society of Greater New York, Dr. Lance H. Brown Takes His Comprehensive Practice to East Hampton, NY

NEW YORK, May 21 /PRNewswire/ -- Citing increasing demand for a higher level of dermatologic treatment in the Hamptons, Board Certified Dermatologist Dr. Lance H. Brown has expanded his Manhattan practice to include an office at 386 Montauk Highway in Wainscott. His telephone number there is 6...

Tepper School Team Takes Top Honors at Global Moot Corp(R) Competition

Ninth Award at Leading Venture Contest Makes Carnegie Mellon 'Winningest' School Ever PITTSBURGH, May 6 /PRNewswire/ -- For the ninth time, a team of students from the Tepper School of Business at Carnegie Mellon have landed the top prize this past weekend at leadin...

Ganeden Biotech Takes Sustenex(TM) National with GanedenBC30 Probiotic

CLEVELAND, April 8, 2008 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, Ganeden Biotech announced that Sustenex(TM), its all-natural daily probiotic supplement is now available nationwide. Each Sustenex(TM) capsule contains at least 2 billion live probiotic cells of GanedenBC30, a proprietary, patented strain of Baci...

Ground-Breaking Conference Takes on Abortion

LONDON, October 23 /PRNewswire/ -- - Organisers Highlight the Global Pandemic of Unsafe Abortion and Call for Universal Access to Safe Abortion Care. Expanding access to safe abortion around the world is on the agenda at the groundbreaking Global Safe Abortion Conference beginning today in L...

First European IGRT School Takes Place for Radiotherapy Practitioners in UK

CLATTERBRIDGE, England, Sept. 27 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Varian Medical Systems (NYSE: VAR ) and one of Europe's leading oncology centers are jointly hosting Europe's first IGRT (image guided radiotherapy) training school, enabling hospitals across Europe to be trained to use the latest and...

N.C. Takes Biofuels Leadership, Establishes New Endeavor With $5 Million State Appropriation

OXFORD, N.C., Sept. 4 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Catalyzing an entire new industry for North Carolina is the long-term task of the newly established Biofuels Center of North Carolina, which moved to reality today following its first board of directors meeting. Funded with a $5 million initial...

Cell Therapeutics, Inc. Takes Corrective Actions in Response to Nasdaq Determination

SEATTLE, Aug. 28 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Cell Therapeutics, Inc. (CTI) (Nasdaq and MTAX: CTIC) today announced that it had received a Deficiency Letter (the "Letter") from Nasdaq indicating that the Company's recently completed registered offering of Series C 3% Convertible Preferred Stock (...

Abbott Executive Jim Tyree Takes IBIO Helm

Chicago, IL - The recent Chicago biotech festivals weren't the only indicators that biotech in Illinois is finally coming of age. That same week, the Illinois Biotechnology Industry Organization (IBIO) elected as its new chairman Jim L. Tyree, vice president of global business development ...

An Overnight Business Success Takes 20 Years

CHICAGO One of the American dreams has always been to build a business from scratch and sell it for a not-so-small fortune. We had this same dream in the 1990s but we wanted to speed it up so the entire thing from start-up to sale could happen in a year or two. In a few rare cases, thats exact...

International Paper takes RFID out of the lab and into its warehouses

WAUKESHA, Wis. Now that International Paper has worked out some of the kinks in the automated inventory tracking system installed in its Texarkana, Texas warehouse, it is offering help with RFID radio frequency identification to others. At the RFID Conference June 17 near Waukesha, held by ...

Steering a project portfolio takes more than expensive software

Practically everybody knows that ERP isnt the rude noise somebody makes in a meeting after too many donuts and soda. And most of that savvy population also knows that Enterprise Resource Planning isnt some silver bullet solving your company-wide functional problems with a single check to a vendor. ...

American Family CIO takes entrepreneurial approach to innovation

Byrne Chapman, CIO of American Family When Byrne Chapman started his career in IT, weatherman probably wasnt one of the variations he imagined. Yet the business needs at American Family Insurance have taken him in just that direction. Byrne Chapmans organization has started handling terabytes of...

Scientist takes back patents and develops product others ignored

Madison, Wis. Mark Cook, a tenured animal sciences professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, had seen his patents get licensed out to several businesses, only to sit on the shelves. Hed been working since the mid 1980s on biotechnology that was was not being promoted by any of the bus...

With Sarbanes-Oxley, compliance takes center stage for CIOs

If, five years ago, you asked a group of chief information officers for their number-one issue, they might have said storage capacity, security or bandwidth. Today, the consensus issue is compliance, particularly with the new spate of securities legislation, highlighted by Congress's passage of ...

IBM takes one direction, Milwaukee entrepreneurs the other

Last Thursday was a day of interesting juxtapositions. I spent the morning with Milwaukee entrepreneurs at eForum 2005, where one of the hot topics was the shift from selling services to selling products. The thinking was that it's easier to grow per-employee revenue selling products. Later th...

Centralization mania takes over

I don't know if you've noticed but the IT industry is gripped in a mania for centralization right now. If this were fashion, we'd be talking about the new black, but since it's technology, I'll have to settle for saying centralization is the new outsourcing. The big "C" is giving outsourcing some...

Innovative health care takes more than just IT automation

After a brief reprieve during the 1990s, healthcare again faces the vexing problem of rising healthcare costs with accompanying increases in premiums and out-of-pocket costs for consumers who are expecting better outcomes. For some time now clinical information technology has been seen as the...

TDS takes top spot in region in customer satisfaction rankings

Madison, Wis. - TDS Telecommunications Corp. outperformed all regional major carriers in a J.D. Power and Associates study of overall customer satisfaction, the company reported Tuesday. TDS results in the 2005 Residential All-Distance Telephone Customer Satisfaction Study represent a combin...

Local software company takes Google to court over a patent

Madison, Wis. - For the second time in six years, a Madison software company has sued a technology giant, claiming patent infringement. This time Hyperphrase Technologies has filed suit against Google, Inc. , the Internet search engine company, for allegedly using technology that provides vie...

Green economic plan takes cue from Indiana

Green Bay, Wis - Mark Green's economic development plan calls for many changes, but perhaps its most sweeping proposal would eliminate the state Department of Commerce and replace it with an economic development corporation. Amid a series of ideas that include revenue caps, employer incent...

CATI takes tech transfer model national

Sturtevant, Wis. - The Center for Advanced Technology and Innovation , a non-profit intellectual property management group that attempts to breath commercial life into unused and underused technologies, is taking its technology transfer model to national public markets. If successful at facil...

It takes more than money to reach the top

To get the first spot on Google , Yahoo , or MSN , all it used to take was the highest bid. Today, even the experts aren't sure exactly what it's going to take. Major search engines continue to update their pay-per click (PPC) infrastructures to increase the relevancy and quality of adverti...

Milwaukee takes another step in electronic patient data exchange

Milwaukee, Wis. - There are many obstacles to the full electronic exchange of patient data between healthcare organizations, but there is little doubt that one of the best places to start is the emergency room. Metropolitan Milwaukee healthcare providers took an initial step toward providing e...

New angle on gecko research

... incline in order to trigger the deployment of their adhesive system. "Much has been learned in recent years about the mechanism by which clinging takes place, but little is known about how geckos determine when to use this ability," says Higham, a former U of C student and now an assistant professor o...

Model predicts evolution of Mediterranean landscape following fires

... out. The model is an original one, which predicts the most probable way in which vegetation will develop according to the variables introduced. It takes into consideration parameters such as the dispersal of plants (by shoots or seeds), their distribution over space and time, and the resources they com...

Senesco Technologies Enters Into Agreements For Additional $700,000 In Financing

...ave applications to development of cancer treatments. Delaying apoptosis may have applications to certain inflammatory and ischemic diseases. Senesco takes its name from the scientific term for the aging of plant cells: senescence. Delaying cell breakdown in plants extends freshness after harvesting, whil...

Seasoned Dermatologist Nissan Pilest of Irvine, CA, Joins SDS Clinical Trials as Clinical Investigator for Dermatology Division

... devise research potentially will assist all of the clinical trial patients to reach better levels of skin health and appearance much faster. It often takes years' of controlled studies before an FDA approval is given. If my enrolled patients can be the first to experience a new solution, then that makes m...

Sechrist Industries, World Leader in Hyperbaric Chambers, Announces Edward Pulwer as President/CEO

...kind of vision and experience that our industry needs. The world is poised for dramatic new developments and applications of medical technology and it takes strong leaders like Ed to provide the stimulus." In addition to his extensive executive experience in medical technology fields, Mr. Pulwer has...

DNA Software, Inc. Awarded $2.5 M in NIH Funding to Develop Pioneering Nucleic Acid-based Technologies

...e thermodynamics (i.e. the results at equilibrium after a long time) of DNA and RNA reactions, none can model the kinetics (i.e. how fast the reaction takes place). In addition, most software can only model DNA or RNA. None can accurately model the large variety of modified nucleotides that are added to ...

Junying Yu, Leading Stem Cell Researcher, Joins Cellular Dynamics International

...but she chose CDI, an endorsement of which I am proud. I have always been optimistic in CDI's success, however now I have great confidence. If Junying takes on a project, it succeeds." About Cellular Dynamics International, Inc. Cellular Dynamics International, Inc. (CDI) is a leading d...