The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted orphan drug status for Teva Pharmaceutical's Treanda injection through October 2015 for indolent B-cell non-Hodgkin lymphoma (iNHL) that has progressed during or within six months of ...
Researchers in Taiwan have used cadmium selenide (CdSe) quantum dots (QDs) to increase the power conversion efficiency of three-junction solar cells by around 10% [Ya-Ju Lee et al, Optics Express, Vol. 21, pA953, 2013]. The team was ...
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The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted orphan drug designation to Conatus Pharmaceuticals' drug candidate emricasan for the treatment of liver transplant patients with reestablished fibrosis to delay the progression to ...
The Toyota Verso compact MPV will become the first vehicle from the Japanese manufacturer powered by a BMW-sourced diesel engine. The addition of the four-cylinder turbo-diesel engine to the Verso (pictured bottom)?range is the first step ...
Researchers at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Massachusetts Institute of Technology have developed a new type of nanoparticle, which can be taken orally and gets successfully absorbed through the digestive tract. The nanoparticles ...
Tags: nanoparticle, Medicine
The global market for specialty films is projected to be worth $6.0 billion in 2013 and grow at a compounded annual growth rate of 6.0% until 2018, according to a brand new market report from Smithers Pira. The Future of Specialty Films: ...
Tags: global market, Packaging
Friday, Nov 29, 2013 Redhawk Resources, Inc. ("Redhawk" or the "Company") (TSX:RDK)(OTCQX:RHWKF)(FRANKFURT:QF7) announces that further to the news release of October 10, 2013, the Company has started its drilling program on the Prospect, ...
Tags: Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy
Novogen, a biotechnology company, has announced the filing of a family of provisional patents in the US covering anti-tropomyosin (ATM) drug technology. ATM drugs represent an entirely novel approach to anti-cancer therapy, blocking the ...
VBL Therapeutics has secured fast track status from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for its lead oncology drug VB-111, for prolongation of survival in patients with Recurrent Glioblastoma Multiforme (rGBM). VB-111 was already ...
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved Merck's Noxafil (posaconazole) 100 mg delayed-release tablets. The tablets are a new formulation with a loading dose of 300mg (three 100mg delayed-release tablets) twice daily on the ...
In its search for more advantageous materials and processes for manufacturing efficient thin-film solar cells, ZSW (Zentrum für Sonnenenergie- und Wasserstoff-Forschung — or Center for Solar Energy and Hydrogen Research — ...
Tags: ZSW kesterite CZTS CIGS, Solar Cells, Electrical, Electronics
Prostate cancer stem cells evolve into different cells as the disease progresses and this becomes a moving target for treatment, U.S. researchers say. Drs. Andrew Goldstein, Owen Witte and Tanya Stoyanova and colleagues at the University ...
Tags: prostate cancer, stem cell, evolve, change, treatment, harder
Shopping is one of the top uses of mobile technology, and seven of the top 10 activities customers perform on their cell phone are shopping related. At the same time, the number of omni-channel shoppers who use multiple digital resources to ...
The Group of III-V Semiconductors of the Instituto de Energía Solar at Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (IES-UPM) in Spain has reported a triple-junction concentrator photovoltaic (CPV) solar cell with an efficiency of 39.2%, ...
Tags: Spain, IES-UPM, reach, efficiency, triple-junction, CPV, solar cell
Open cell TV panels sized 32-inch have dropped to US$82 as panel makers meet demand for US$100 and below 32-inch TVs in the market. Panel makers are running at full capacity to meet demand in North America for the year-end holidays and ...
Tags: Panel Makers, LCD TVs