Recent soft economic data including falling property prices have many investors worried about a growth slowdown in China, but Platinum Asset Management sees plenty of investment opportunities. The funds manager said in a note to investors ...
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BASF has obtained a patent for a method of self-healing cured coatings, which is comprised of heating a coating of a cured coating composition for a period of at least 10 minutes to a temperature which lies at least 25° C above the ...
Tags: Coating, Chemicals, Construction, Decoration
Pluristem Therapeutics, a developer of placenta-based cell therapies, has been granted a new patent by the Australian Patent Office. Patent #2007228341 covers the method and composition of matter for three-dimensional (3D) expansion of ...
Tags: 3D Cell Expansion, Pluristem
Zimmer Spine, a provider of musculoskeletal health solutions, has launched its Puros demineralized bone matrix (DBM) block and strip in the US, designed to stimulate natural bone formation processes in spine surgical procedures. Puros ...
German biotechnology company Miltenyi Biotec has received the US Food and Drug Administration's(FDA)approval for its CliniMACS CD34 reagent system to prevent graft-versus-host disease(GVHD)in the treatment of acute myeloid leukemia(AML). ...
Tags: Miltenyi Biotec, Blood, Medicine
AMES, Iowa --- Grafting is the best way to propogate apple trees. Horticulturists with Iowa State University Extension and Outreach guide gardeners through apple tree grafting by responding to questions and offering workshops. I have an ...
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As a fetal surgeon at UC San Francisco, Tippi MacKenzie, MD, has long known that conducting surgery on a fetus to correct a problems such as spina bifida often results in preterm labor and premature birth. Now, MacKenzie and her UCSF ...
Infants and children who undergo heart transplantation are experiencing good outcomes after surgery and may expect to live beyond 15 years post-surgery with reasonable cardiac function and quality of life, according to a study released ...
Tags: Loma Linda, heart transplant, Copeland, post-surgery
More than half of babies and children who receive heart transplants are surviving many years, say the authors of a new study. Pediatric heart transplant patients are living 15 years and longer with good heart function, the scientists ...
Tags: kids, Heart Transplant, Kidney failure, health
As co-ordinator of the European project 'ReBioStent', Ceram, the international materials technology company, is pleased to announce that the project, to develop new biomaterials and new arterial stents, has been awarded Euro 5.874M by the ...
Tags: Construction, Decoration, Ceram-Lead Project
Troubled smartphone maker BlackBerry Ltd. is accusing a company backed by "American Idol" host Ryan Seacrest of being a rip-off artist. The allegations emerged in a patent infringement lawsuit filed Friday in a San Francisco federal court ...
Tags: BlackBerry, Ryan Seacrest, Typo Products, iPhone keyboard
For the estimated 10 percent of patients whose bodies reject a corneal transplant, the odds of a second transplant succeeding are poor. All that could change, however, based on a UT Southwestern Medical Center study that has found a way to ...
Tags: corneal transplant, UT Southwestern Medical Center, interferon-gamma
Bolton Medical, a medical device manufacturer, has initiated its Phase II US clinical trial to study the safety and effectiveness of the Treovance abdominal stent-graft with Navitel delivery system. The first two cases were performed on ...
W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. (Gore) has received Shonin approval from the Japanese Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare to market the GORE EXCLUDER AAA endoprosthesis featuring C3 Delivery System as a minimally invasive treatment for ...
US-based Analogic has introduced the proprietary Vector Flow Imaging (VFI) Assist mode, a pioneering technique for measuring blood flow utilizing the BK Flex Focus 800 and 500 ultrasound systems, and the ProFocus UltraView 800 ultrasound ...
Tags: Health, Medicine, BK Ultrasound Systems