Editas Medicine, a transformative genome editing company, today announced it has secured a $43m Series A financing led by Flagship Ventures, Polaris Partners and Third Rock Ventures with participation from Partners Innovation Fund. ...
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After 85 years, antibiotics are growing impotent. So what will medicine, agriculture and everyday life look like if we lose these drugs entirely? A few years ago, I started looking online to fill in chapters of my family history that no ...
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Alvopetro Inc. ("Alvopetro" or the "Company") announces that it has closed a transaction with Petrominerales Ltd. ("Petrominerales") to sell its 25 percent interest in 10 exploration blocks located in the Reconcavo Basin and three marginal ...
In case you missed it, the mainstream media is currently engaged in a gratuitous misinformation orgy following the release of a new observational study published in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute, which absurdly claims that ...
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A new study out of California has identified some practical steps that men can take to avoid developing prostate cancer, and all of them involve making simple dietary changes. Researchers from the University of California, San Francisco ...
Dating back thousands of years in Ayurvedic medicine, oil pulling may seem like an unlikely curative miracle due to its simplicity. Yet practitioners of the therapy laud its effectiveness in healing everything from AIDS to diabetes, heart ...
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You can prevent (and reverse) dementia, Alzheimer's disease, ALS, multiple sclerosis, plus many other neurodegenerative disorders by eating coconut-related foods. This is not just a "health nut" making these claims - it's all backed by ...
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The two-day Commercialization of Research Findings Fair is held in Changsha. Vice Chairman of the Standing Committee of NPC Chen Zhili, Vice Minister of Ministry of Science and Technology Cao Jianlin attend the opening ceremony and the ...
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Changyi Petrochemical's ERP project for its 1-million-to-per-year reforming integrated unit and diesel hydrogenation unit recently went into operation ahead of schedule, providing for trial material feedings for new projects. The company ...
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The American Heart Association and American College of Cardiology released new U.S. cardiovascular prevention guidelines to prevent heart attack and stroke. "These new guidelines represent the best of what scientific research can tell us ...
The American Heart Association and American College of Cardiology released new U.S. cardiovascular prevention guidelines to prevent heart attack and stroke. "These new guidelines represent the best of what scientific research can tell us ...
Microvehicles and other devices that can change shape or move with no power source other than a beam of light may be possible through research led by the University of Pittsburgh Swanson School of Engineering. The researchers are ...
China's most competitive medium and heavy duty truck manufacturer Dongfeng Commercial Vehicle (DFCV) will showcase Wuhan International Commercial Vehicle Exhibition with its latest trucks and powertrain products to demonstrate its latest ...
UK-based pharmaceutical company GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) has reached an agreement with Fundacao de Amparo a Pesquisa do Estado de Sao Paulo (FAPESP), the Brazilian funding agency for scientific research, to establish a new center of excellence ...
Tags: Sustainable Chemistry, Medicine
Preliminary Accounting Results of GDP for the First Three Quarters of 2013 National Bureau of Statistics of China According to the related information, the preliminary accounting results of GDP for the first three quarters of 2013 are as ...