The ‘Shamoon’ malware that nixed the hard drives of 30,000 Saudi oil industry PCs in August was more of a ‘quick and dirty’ job by talented amateurs than a skilfully crafted professional cyberweapon, an analysis has ...
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The designs for the jewels are based on artifacts and drawings also discovered on the archeological digs. The Roman Low-E glass is a beautiful piece of history dating back 2,000 years to the time of the Roman Empire.Each bear the marks of ...
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The Institute of Cancer Research (ICR) has selected Labcyte's Access workstation to automate the production of low-volume, assay-ready microplates from high-throughput screening and fragment libraries for biochemical, cell-based, and ...
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Africo Resources Limited announced the latest assay results received recently from the resource drilling on the Kalukundi Fragment on the company's Kalukundi Project near Kolwezi in the DRC. The initial drilling assay results for the near ...
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Astellas Pharma and Japan's National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) have entered into a research partnership for the discovery and development of drugs targeting neglected tropical diseases caused by ...
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Full Spectrum Genetics and BioBlocks have signed an agreement to find new Small Molecule Therapeutics for protein-protein interactions As part of the agreement, Full Spectrum Genetics protein analysis and engineering platform, MapEng, and ...
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Vernalis has reached a research milestone as part of the oncology drug discovery alliance with French pharmaceutical company, Servier. Under the drug discovery program, Vernalis will receive a payment of €0.5m from Servier on ...
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Computerworld-WASHINGTON--There's a new television show,"Revolution,"which looks at what happens to society after every piece of complex technology,including power generation,stops working.The reasons for this outage aren't explained. ...
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LensAR cataract procedures carried out in US 26 Sep 2012 The country's first commercial procedures using the LensAR femtosecond platform have taken place in two locations. The LensAR Laser System LensAR,the Florida-based vendor of ...
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LED-based sequencer to track Salmonella and E.coli 18 Sep 2012 US Food&Drug Administration agrees$17??million contract for sequencing systems to track future outbreaks of potentially harmful pathogens. Illumina,the San Diego company ...
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Technology giant Google has blocked hardware vendor Acer from producing a mobile phone running a variant of the Android operating system,claiming that it would excessively fragment the ecosystem. Acer had planned to produce a mobile phone ...
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The majority of IT departments might accept employees are using their tablets and smartphones in the workplace, but less than a quarter have policies to control it. This was the finding of new research published by LANDesk today. Of the ...
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Genentech, a member of Roche Group, has obtained clearance for its Lucentis 0.3 mg (ranibizumab injection) from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Lucentis 0.3 mg is a recombinant humanized monoclonal antibody fragment (lacking an ...
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Security firm Entrust has announced that it is withdrawing from a voluntary online security standards organisation that it co-founded and co-chaired for six years. The move follows the introduction of a mandatory Intellectual Property ...
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Chemicals giant files complaint in Oregon court accusing companies of infringing patent awarded earlier this year. Who's shooting at SolarWorld? DuPont,the chemicals company that supplies a huge proportion of the conductive paste ...