Greetings. This is Ken Aldrich, I am Chairman of International Stem Cell Corporation and thought I would share with you briefly some of the thoughts that I’ve had recently about developments in the stem cell and regenerative medicine area. One of the things that I have noticed from a lot of emails [...]
Mexico gives cell frequencies to television giant
MEXICO CITY — Mexican officials trying to dilute a near-monopoly on cell phone services have awarded valuable frequencies to a company that holds a near-monopoly in broadcast television.
Government regulators say the new radio wave concessions approved Monday by the Federal Telecommunications Commission will provide more competition for the phone [...]
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Study: 1 in 5 US teenagers has slight hearing loss
CHICAGO — A stunning one in five teens has lost a little bit of hearing, and the problem has increased substantially in recent years, a new national study has found.
Some experts are urging teenagers to turn down the volume on their digital [...]
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Spain becomes latest country to take on Google
MADRID — Spain is investigating Google over its “Street View” mapping feature, becoming the latest country to tangle with the Internet search giant over concerns it violated people’s privacy while taking shots of city streets.
Madrid Judge Raquel Fernandino has issued a subpoena for an Oct. 4 [...]
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WordPress has been dominating the Blogosphere set aside Blogger. Both these offer free blog hosting, but there is varsity in the features. Distinctly Blogger is preferred by some users as it allows them integrate the third party application. Given that, Blogger already has loads of features from customizable templates to adding latest Google news, [...]
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US tweaks NKorea on Twitter
WASHINGTON — North Korea may think its new Twitter and YouTube accounts will be a prime platform for anti-U.S. propaganda, but the Obama administration says the world’s most secretive regime may have bitten off more than it can chew by joining the networked world.
State Department spokesman P.J. Crowley said [...]
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Israeli says Facebook photo with Arabs thoughtless
JERUSALEM — A former Israeli soldier who posted photos on Facebook of herself in uniform smiling beside bound and blindfolded Palestinian prisoners says her actions were thoughtless.
Eden Aberjil told Israel’s Army Radio on Tuesday that she did not think through her decision to post the photos. But [...]
HP buying cyber security firm Fortify Software
PALO ALTO, Calif. — Hewlett-Packard Co. says it is buying Fortify Software to beef up its cyber security offerings.
The company did not disclose financial terms of the buyout Tuesday.
Fortify is a privately held company based in San Mateo, Calif. It helps businesses identify and fix security weaknesses in their [...]
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Today the search share market witness an interesting turmoil with Yahoo’s search gaining shares in U.S search market. According to the reports from research firm ComScore, Yahoo’s share in the search market hiked from 16.7% to 17.1%. ComScore shows the new measure Explict Core Search to filter search linked to slide shows and other [...]
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NEW DELHI, INDIA (GaeaTimes.com)- Nokia which once used to be the de facto choice for the mobile users worldwide is slowly but steadily losing its market share in a lot of key markets including India. The company still holds the number one position in overall sales but given the way the rivals are [...]
THQ hopes to draw in artists with tablet for Wii
NEW YORK — Video game publisher THQ Inc. hopes to draw in artistically inclined fans when its uDraw GameTablet is available for the Wii this year.
The $70 add-on accessory to Nintendo Co.’s popular game console is aimed mainly at 6- to 12-year-olds. Players will be able [...]
Survey of viewers shows extent of TV time shifting
NEW YORK — If you’ve never time-shifted a prime-time television series — watched it later on a DVR, over the Internet or ordered it on demand — you’re now in the minority.
A survey of viewers conducted on the eve of the new fall season quantifies what has [...]
Adult stem cells that are vital for airway repair in the lung but that persist in areas where pre-cancerous lesions are found are associated with a poor prognosis in patients who develop cancer, even those with early stage disease, researchers have found.
A UCSF-led team has discovered at least one key reason why blood stem cells are susceptible to developing the genetic mutations that can lead to adult leukemia. (2010-08-17)
Having charted the occurrence of a common chemical change that takes place while stem cells decide their fates and progress from precursor to progeny, a Johns Hopkins-led team of scientists has produced the first-ever epigenetic landscape map for tissue differentiation. (2010-08-17)
Adult stem cells that are vital for airway repair in the lung but that persist in areas where pre-cancerous lesions are found are associated with a poor prognosis in patients who develop cancer, even those with early stage disease, researchers at UCLA’s Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center have found. (2010-08-17)
Mayo Clinic investigators, with Belgian collaborators, have demonstrated that rationally “guided” human adult stem cells can effectively heal, repair and regenerate damaged heart tissue. The findings — called “landmark work” in an accompanying editorial — appear in today’s Journal of the American College of Cardiology. (2010-08-17)
Researchers at the Buck Institute for Age Research have successfully used human induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) to treat rodents afflicted with Parkinson’s Disease (PD). (2010-08-17)
The California stem cell agency has hired a former executive of Geron Corp. to serve as a consultant on a $50 million clinical trial award round in which Geron is expected to be an applicant.
He is Laurence Elias, who worked for Geron from March 2006 until October 2009 as vice president for oncology [...]
The number of 16 and 17 year old smokers has dropped since it became illegal to sell cigarettes to under 18s according to new research published in Addiction today (Wednesday).