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Apple shutting Lala; ‘Cloud’ music on horizon?
LOS ANGELES — Apple Inc. is shutting down its newly bought Lala online music service amid speculation it is creating a way for iTunes customers to listen to songs stored on distant computers.
The move comes just weeks before an annual conference for developers in San [...]
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Amazon adding Twitter, Facebook to Kindle e-reader
SAN FRANCISCO — Amazon.com Inc.’s Kindle e-reader is getting access to Facebook and Twitter, along with several other enhancements, as part of a software update being sent wirelessly to the devices.
In a posting on Amazon’s site, the company says the new software will let users share book [...]
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Recalls this week: cribs, fitness benches, ATVs
NEW YORK — Among the recalled items this week are cribs whose mattress supports can collapse. The cribs were cited in the death of a 1-year-old. A second crib recall involves the potential for the drop side hardware to fail, allowing the side to detach.
Also recalled: fitness [...]
HP names new strategy head for PC business
PALO ALTO, Calif. — Hewlett-Packard Co. said Friday that it named a Sears Holding Corp. executive as head of strategy and global marketing for the personal computer business, taking over from Satjiv S. Chahil, who retired this year.
HP said Richard Gerstein, who mostly served as president of marketing [...]
Mobile phone recycling is {starting to increase in popularity with numerous individuals from around the world, but what mobile phone is selling for the most? And which cell phone is the best selling?
Well predictably the iPhone 3G is the most valuable at the moment clocking in at a staggering £350 at MobilePhoneXchange, so if [...]
It has been a long-time coming. It has been hyped and scoffed, bet against and hoped for, but now none of that matters. It’s here. Dendreon has brought Provenge to market. Here, in the word’s of the FDA…
FDA NEWS RELEASE
For Immediate Release: April 29, 2010
FDA Approves a Cellular Immunotherapy for [...]
Owners of elderly dogs can get help and information on a new Web site.Pet Ventures LLC has launched www.seniordogs.com for owners of older dogs. In the United States, about 40 percent of households with dogs have at least one that is considered a senior (7 or older), statistics on the Web site indicated.”Thanks to preventative [...]
THURSDAY, April 29 (HealthDay News) — The U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Thursday granted approval to Provenge, a therapeutic vaccine aimed at preventing the spread of prostate cancer in men with an advanced form of the disease.
The results of two separate research studies taking place at Children’s Mercy Hospitals and Clinics will help physicians use genetic testing to prevent complications, and ease the worry of new parents by predicting in advance which newborns may require readmission to the hospital shortly after birth. The studies also will help physicians identify which of [...]
Veterinary vision scientists have safely and successfully used a viral vector in targeting a class of photoreceptors of the retina called rods, a critical first step in developing gene therapies for inherited blindness caused by rod degeneration.
Image Caption: This is a canine retina, injected with an AAV2/5 carrying the GRK1 promoter and the GFP gene. A red antibody that specifically identifies cones was used to label this class of photoreceptor cells, and confirm that GFP targeted rods. Blue labeling identifies the retina cells. Credit: University of Pennsylvania
Veterinary vision scientists at the University of Pennsylvania have safely and successfully used a viral vector in targeting a class of photoreceptors of the retina called rods, a critical first step in developing gene therapies for inherited blindness caused by rod degeneration.
In trying to plant his tomatoes upside down, Terry Dickson ended up with his shirt and shoes full of dirt. We offer instead this insightful correspondence from Bubba Gene Hightower, mayor of Pond Scoggin, Ga. Dear Mr. Dickerson, I hope this finds you and yours fine and otherwise dandy. As for me and Guynell and [...]
Ceregene, Inc., a biopharmaceutical company, announced that enrollment is proceeding in a new Phase 1/2 clinical study evaluating CERE-120, a gene therapy product which delivers the neurotrophic factor neurturin, to dying neurons in Parkinson’s disease patients. This new clinical study follows a completed Phase 2 trial and builds on experience gained in that trial, by [...]
Findings describe a biodegradable gene therapy nanotechnology that can silence genes more stably. (Source: Cancer Research)
Findings describe a novel cell-based technology for delivery of a proapoptotic cancer gene therapy. (Source: Cancer Research)
(University of Pennsylvania) Veterinary vision scientists at the University of Pennsylvania have safely and successfully used a viral vector in targeting a class of photoreceptors of the retina called rods, a critical first step in developing gene therapies for inherited blindness caused by rod degeneration. (Source: EurekAlert! – Biology)
Authors: J M Dadgari, R E Moore, K A Louie, T D Lee
& M McMillan (Source: Gene Therapy)
Authors: G D Trobridge
& H-P Kiem (Source: Gene Therapy)
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rAAV2/5 gene-targeting to rods:dose-dependent efficiency and complications associated with different promoters
Gene Therapy advance online publication, April 29, 2010. doi:10.1038/gt.2010.56
Authors: W A Beltran, S L Boye, S E Boye, V A Chiodo, A S Lewin, W W Hauswirth
& G D Aguirre (Source: Gene Therapy)