US-based Trovagene has developed a urine-based molecular diagnostic test to detect and monitor cancer mutations. The test quantitatively detects KRAS mutations in transrenal DNA,which may be originated from both normal and diseased cells. ...
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New York Life Insurance Company has promoted Michael Secolo as its senior vice president and chief technology officer, who will report to senior vice president and chief information officer Sue Ericksen. In his current role, Secolo will ...
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Prosetta Antiviral has entered into a multi-year collaboration with Bristol-Myers Squibb Company to further discover and develop select drug candidates representing new, novel classes of antiviral drugs. The collaboration will focus on ...
Prosetta Antiviral has entered into a multi-year collaboration with Bristol-Myers Squibb Company to further discover and develop select drug candidates representing new, novel classes of antiviral drugs. The collaboration will focus on ...
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Amonix Inc of Seal Beach, CA, USA, which makes utility-scale concentrated photovoltaic (CPV) systems using III-V multi-junction solar cells, says that its systems can now convert more than one third of direct sunlight into electricity. In ...
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Lunera Expands into SoCal Manufacturing&Design Facility Lunera Lighting,Inc.,an LED lighting solutions leader,announced its expansion to a new manufacturing and design facility in Anaheim,California.The facility,in addition to Lunera's ...
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Australian clean technology innovator,BluGlass Limited announced today that it is now producing n-type gallium nitride(GaN)films with demonstrated industry equivalent performance properties using its breakthrough low temperature Remote ...
Covidien, a provider of healthcare products, has introduced V-Loc knotless suture reload device. The V-Loc knotless device, designed to increase operating room efficiency during laparoscopic and single-incision procedures, works with the ...
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Midtronics has completed the initial field testing of its GRX-5100 Hybrid/EV Battery Station, a high-voltage Hybrid/EV vehicle battery service and de-power device for several hybrids and EVs. Following the deployment, the GRX-5100 ...
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Watersolutions AG and Technische Universität Berlin have received the Desertec Best Paper Award for 'Modeling the Cogeneration of Power and Water with Concentrated Solar Power (CSP) and Low Temperature Desalination: New Approach of ...
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One Laptop Per Child has cancelled plans to release its XO-3 tablet,although technology from that project could still be used in other products,OLPC Chairman Nicholas Negroponte said. "The XO-3 is by no means gone.It may emerge in its ...
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Icann, the organisation that manages internet protocol numbers and the domain name system root, is hosting its first internet root server system in Scotland in a 100-rack datacentre in Dundee from IT provider brightsolid online technology. ...
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The Weightless wireless standard has this week won the backing by a number of UK companies to try and establish it as the way forward for machine-to-machine (M2M) communications. ARM, Vodafone-owned Cable and Wireless Worldwide (C&WW) and ...
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Digital skills in the UK must be increased in order to take advantage of the economic benefits of superfast broadband, said communications minister Ed Vaizey. Speaking at the Huawei Broadband Forum event, Vaizey said: "We need to make ...
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McAfee is the latest information security supplier to admit that the challenges facing organisations are so great that it will take cross-industry collaboration to turn the tide. A cross-industry approach is being advocated by other big ...
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