Digimarc reports wider 2Q loss on joint venture BEAVERTON, Ore. — Digimarc Corp., which develops digital watermarking technology for images, reported a wider second-quarter loss on Friday as it booked development costs for joint venture investments with The Nielsen Co. For the quarter that ended June 30, Digimarc lost $896,000, or 13 cents per share, [...]
more images more images Quest Software shares jump after solid 2Q results NEW YORK — Shares of Quest Software Inc. got a boost Friday after the business software maker posted better-than-expected second-quarter results. The company earned $17.4 million, or 19 cents per share, down 15 percent from a profit of $20.5 million, or 21 cents [...]
more images more images Guyana to sell needy 90,000 computers at discount GEORGETOWN, Guyana — Guyana has pledged to spend $30 million in the next three years to buy 90,000 laptops and resell them at a discount to the poor. President Bharrat Jagdeo says the project aims to improve education in poor communities. The South [...]
FBI access to e-mail, Web data raises privacy fear WASHINGTON — Invasion of privacy in the Internet age. Expanding the reach of law enforcement to snoop on e-mail traffic or on Web surfing. Those are among the criticisms being aimed at the FBI as it tries to update a key surveillance law. With its proposed [...]
CV Screen, the reputed UK based IT employment agency reported that there is a sharp rise of registered IT vacancies in Q2, 2010 compared to Q2, 2009. The company witnessed an increase of 47% jobs during Q2 period this year compared to the same period last year. Additionally, the number of candidates per role … [...]
more images more images Cell phone shipments continue to recover NEW YORK — The number of cell phones shipped worldwide rose 14.5 percent in the second quarter compared with a year earlier, with much of the growth coming from smaller challengers like the iPhone and BlackBerry, according to research firm IDC. Manufacturers shipped 317.5 million [...]
Soldier accused of leaking secrets flown to US WASHINGTON — The Army intelligence specialist charged with leaking U.S. military secrets to the WikiLeaks website has been moved from Kuwait to a military jail in Virginia. In a statement Friday, the Army said Pvt. Bradley Manning was flown Thursday to Quantico Marine Base where he will [...]
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A therapy for acute spinal cord injuries developed by a UC Irvine scientist will become the world’s first clinical trial of a treatment using human embryonic stem cells. Geron Corp. of Menlo Park announced Friday that the U.S. Food and Drug…
D.C. Family Research Council Action today praised U.S. Rep. Chris Smith (R-NJ) for introducing bipartisan legislation to codify federal abortion funding restrictions that have been greatly undermined this year. With passage of a health care law that will fund and subsidize abortion, and with efforts by pro-abortion senators to open up military bases to abortion, [...]
Geron will begin tests of its therapy for spinal cord injury. Advanced Cell Technology hopes to follow with a stem cell treatment for blindness. The Food and Drug Administration has cleared Geron, a stem cell company based in Menlo Park, CA, to move forward with clinical tests of its experimental cell therapy for spinal cord [...]
Geron Corp. said it was cleared by U.S. regulators to proceed with the first human test of an embryonic stem-cell therapy, aimed at patients with spinal-cord injuries. The shares rose 17 percent.
Geron Corp. said U.S. regulators cleared the company to proceed with the first medical trial of embryonic stem-cell treatment in patients with spinal-cord injuries. The shares rose as much as 16 percent.
Geron says FDA will allow embryonic stem cell study; safety concerns caused 11-month delay Stem cell – Embryonic stem cell – Biotechnology – Spinal cord injury – Geron Corporation
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Active ingredients ranging from weight-loss herbals to cancer-killing cytotoxics attract billions in venture investment dollars every year. But technologies designed to selectively deliver active ingredients to targeted locations are beginning to gain momentum, as their application in drugs, medical devices, food, personal care, and agricultural chemicals rapidly grows and corporate venture investors take notice, according [...]
Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn Thursday signed a law establishing new nursing home safety measures “aimed at ending chronic violence in the facilities. Work already has begun on hiring dozens of additional nursing home inspectors, as well as writing rules that will increase licensing fees and nursing staff levels in the homes. State authorities also say [...]
Leveraging a $20,000 “Feeding Our Future” grant from the Sodexo Foundation, St. Anthony Central Hospital, along with volunteers from Sodexo and the Food Bank of the Rockies, serves 12,400 summer lunches to Denver children at risk of hunger. Sodexo’s Feeding Our Future program provides school children who rely on free and reduced-price meals during the [...]
Vanishing bile duct syndrome refers to a group of disorders characterized by destruction and disappearance of intrahepatic (inside the liver) bile ducts. Multiple causes have been identified including infections, malignancies, autoimmune conditions and adverse effects of medications. The usual course of this condition is variable and many patients with VBDS respond to treatment of the [...]
The six-site Consortium on the Genetics of Schizophrenia (COGS), led by the director of the Schizophrenia Program at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine, has received a $10 million renewal grant from the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), one of the National Institutes of Health. The grant funds an ongoing, multiple-site [...]
