Sylvester Stallone Admits He Tried to Smuggle Banned Growth Hormone to Australia

Yet another star falls for banned substances. The 60-year-old macho Sylvester Stallone admitted to possessing the growth hormone Jintropin when he was stopped at Sydney airport in February last. Stallone was then in Australia to promote his film Rocky Balboa, but he was not in the Sydney cour...

Written Statement of Kevin J. O'Connor, Chairman of the Department of Justice Task Force on Intellectual Property, at the Senate Judiciary Committee Hearing on Intellectual Property Enforcement

... Conspiracy to Smuggle Counterfeits On June 6, 2007, in Brooklyn, New York, 29 defendants were charged in three separate complaints with conspiracy to smuggle over 950 shipments of merchandise into the United States through ports of entry at Newark, N.J., Houston Texas, Long Beach, California, New York Conta...

Sylvester Stallone Regrets Smuggling Banned Substances to Australia

... Hollywood star Sylvester Stallone has apologized profusely for trying to smuggle human growth hormones and testosterone into Australia. Stallone has been charged with importing banned substances into Australia in February thi...

Copy-cats Not Approved

... Yet, he emphasizes it is important that the sign is not misused because in conflict areas, terrorists could use a vehicle with the red cross sign, to smuggle arms and ammunition. AN ...

Punjab Plans of Banning Sex Determination Kit from US

...said. However, doctors in Punjab and Chandigarh said such a ban would not be foolproof. "There are NRIs and travellers from abroad who can smuggle these kits into India. The PNDT Act needs to be amended suitably with a strict penalty for using such kits," said gynaecologist Sanjay Goyal. Pu...

Drugs Part of Mumbai High Life

...drug cartels are increasingly using foreign students studying in Mumbai and Delhi, mainly Sudanese, Nigerians and Kenyans as dealers and couriers to smuggle cocaine," said a Mumbai Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) official. "Mumbai alone has 30-35 big-time drug suppliers with a well-knit network of o...

Compressed DNA aids gene patients

...ontains a complete blueprint for building an entire human.// This means that the DNA molecule is long and unwieldy. Doctors are looking for ways to smuggle or slip their modified DNA strands into the cells they want to change. Other methods involve using viruses - which "infect" the cell and pass o...

Smuggle in Biological News

Study on keeping nuclear bombs from US ports shows misplaced fear over cargo scanning cost

...n Cambridge, Massachusetts on June 28. http://mitsloan.mit.edu/omg/msom2009/ With continuing concern that Al Qaida or other terrorists will try to smuggle a nuclear weapon into the United States, Congress has mandated that, by 2012, all containers bound for the U.S. be inspected overseas. . The paper ...

Pores open the door to death

...up a fight: specialized cells in the immune system smuggle small molecules (granzymes) into cancer cells and ...d unclear as to which of these pathways is used to smuggle the lethal amount of granzymes into a cell. Scient...er to destroy a target cell, the attackers need to smuggle their weapons, known as granzymes, into the afflic...

Mechanism for the in-vivo transport of siRNA

...apy. However, the determination of the siRNA doors also opens up new approaches to fundamental research. Instead of siRNA it might also be possible to smuggle in miRNAs, another group of small RNAs, in the same way. The same mechanism ought to work for miRNA inhibitors as well. Since miRNA is increasingly su...

Batten down the hatches against HIV

...gments into the T-cells? The shells of nonpathogenic viruses can be used to smuggle genetic material into cells, but this is dangerous in therapeutic applicati...rbon nanotubes are known for their abilities to be absorbed by cells and to smuggle other molecules in at the same time. The researchers attached phospholipids...

New approach to BSE successful in lab

... per cent.? The researchers then tested what effect these siRNAs had on mice which had scrapie. ‘If brain cells are to produce siRNAs, you have to smuggle in the corresponding gene,?says Professor Kretschmar, director of the Prion Centre of Munich’s Ludwig Maximilian University. ‘But presumably we’ll nev...

Illegal trade is propelling rare turtle toward extinction, new report

...n high demand. "We hope that by increasing awareness and enforcement capacity of these agencies, poachers will find it increasingly difficult to smuggle out any of the turtles that remain on Roti Island," said Chris Shepherd from TRAFFIC Southeast Asia and the co-author of the report. In 2000, the I...

AIDS drug from sunflowers

...e one enzyme, which acts as a catalyst for this transfer. If we can find the construction manual for this enzyme, i.e. the corresponding gene, and can smuggle it into the bacteria, the latter can produce the enzyme in large quantities. The critical step of synthesis would then be child's play and could be ca...

Novel gene-silencing nanoparticles shown to inhibit Ewing's sarcoma

...el of the disease. In this classic "Trojan horse" approach, a protein called transferrin that normally delivers iron into cells is modified to also smuggle into tumor cells siRNA (short interfering RNA) encased in nano-sized sugar polymers. The siRNA was designed to target a specific growth-promoting gene...

Nano-Probes Allow an Inside Look at Cell Nuclei

...nd Gerion used an especially compact cadmium selenide/zinc sulfide quantum dot coated with silica. Next, they stole a trick from a virus's playbook to smuggle this nanocrystal past the highly selective membrane that guards the entrance into the nucleus. In nature, a virus called SV40 is coated with a protein...

Smuggle in Biological Technology

Study on keeping nuclear bombs from US ports shows misplaced fear over cargo scanning cost

...n Cambridge, Massachusetts on June 28. http://mitsloan.mit.edu/omg/msom2009/ With continuing concern that Al Qaida or other terrorists will try to smuggle a nuclear weapon into the United States, Congress has mandated that, by 2012, all containers bound for the U.S. be inspected overseas. . The paper ...

Mechanism for the in-vivo transport of siRNA

...apy. However, the determination of the siRNA doors also opens up new approaches to fundamental research. Instead of siRNA it might also be possible to smuggle in miRNAs, another group of small RNAs, in the same way. The same mechanism ought to work for miRNA inhibitors as well. Since miRNA is increasingly su...

Opportunities rise from travel chaos

... Air travel got turned on its head again last week, as British authorities broke up a plot to smuggle explosives aboard U.S.-bound aircraft. For the vast majority of U.S. travelers, new regulations means more checked baggage, if only to be assured they...