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Saturday, November 21, 2009 3:13 AM

Biotechnology

First Reported 16 hours ago - Updated 4 hours ago - 20 Documents (in Market News)

Nokia Corporation

Nokia Lays Off 330 Research and Development Staff

Espoo, Finland - Cell phone maker Nokia (NYSE: NOK) announced on Friday that it will lay off up to 330 employees from its researchand development operations, representing about 2% of its global research anddevelopment staff of 17,000.read more ... [Digital Media Wire - 4 hours ago]

Entities: Nokia Corporation, Espoo (Finland), Finland

First Reported 20 hours ago - Updated 3 hours ago - 12 Documents (in Biology)

Embryonic Stem Cells Show Potential for Skin Substitute

Human embryonic stem cells can be used to create a stratified epithelium resembling normal humanepidermis, a finding that has potential implications in producing temporary skin replacement for burn patients,according to research published in the Nov. ... [Modern Medicine - 3 hours ago]

Entities: Embryonic Stem Cell, epithelium, Epidermis

First Reported 11/19/2009 - Updated 9 hours ago - 27 Documents (in Biology)

Scientists complete corn genome

After three years and $30 million, U.S. scientists have finished mapping the complete genome sequence of corn, the most widely eaten cereal after rice.A strain of corn called B73 may prove to be a textbook of how genes work, said Patrick Schnable, a geneticist ... [UPI - 9 hours ago]

Entities: Corn, Genome, Genome Sequencing, Iowa State University, National Science Foundation

First Reported 11/19/2009 - Updated 14 hours ago - 18 Documents (in Health)

Food and Drug Administration

Stem-cell transplants offer hope to patients losing sight

People suffering from a form of incurable blindness could soon become the first patients in the world to benefit from a new and controversial transplant operation using stem cells derived from spare human embryos left over from IVF treatment.Scientists ... [Irish Independent - 14 hours ago]

Entities: Stem Cell, Food and Drug Administration, Embryo

First Reported 8 hours ago - Updated 8 hours ago - 3 Documents (in Market News)

Apple Inc

Nokia R&D Workers Researching and Developing New Job Leads

Nokia’s workforce is deteriorating nearly as fast as its share of the mobile phone market. This morning, the company–which sacked 1,700 employees in March and another 450 in April –said it will cut 330 more jobs in its research and development group. ... [All Things Digital - 8 hours ago]

Entities: Nokia Corporation, Smartphone, Apple Inc, Research In Motion Limited, Dominance

First Reported 8 hours ago - Updated 7 hours ago - 6 Documents (in Medicine)

Medco Health Solutions Inc

Medco Reforming Healthcare with 'Smarter Medicine'; Wired, Transf...

Company: Medco Health Solutions Inc (MHS) "Our clients are not waiting for healthcare reform. They're aggressively seeking solutions that can be immediately implemented," Medco Chairman and CEO David B. Snow Jr. told those attending the company's annual ... [Zibb - 7 hours ago]

Entities: Medco Health Solutions Inc, Plavix, Health Care, David Snow

First Reported 22 hours ago - Updated 4 hours ago - 4 Documents (in Biology)

Leeds Research Finds New Piece Of BSE Puzzle

New research funded mainly through the Wellcome Trust with additional support from the Medical Research Council shows that a new treatment route for bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) and its human form Creutzfeldt Jakob disease (CJD) could be a step ... [Medical News Today - 4 hours ago]

Entities: Prion, Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy, Leeds, Protein

First Reported 13 hours ago - Updated 1 hour ago - 3 Documents (in Health)

US university board votes down stem-cell changes

The University of Nebraska's governing board has voted down a proposal to restrict the school's rules governing embryonic stem-cell research beyond what the federal government allows.The eight-member Board of Regents voted 4-4 Friday, defeating the resolution ... [Taiwan News Online - 1 hour ago]

Entities: Stem Cell Research, University of Nebraska, Cell Lines, Embryo

First Reported 11/19/2009 - Updated 10 hours ago - 5 Documents (in Health)

Exome-Sequencing Might Help Identify Genetic Cause Of Thousands Of Disorders

For the first time, scientists have successfully used a method called exome sequencing to quickly discover a previously unknown gene responsible for a mendelian disorder. Mendelian disorders, such as cystic fibrosis and sickle cell disease, are the ... [Medical News Today - 10 hours ago]

Entities: Cystic Fibrosis, Mutation, Protein

First Reported 22 hours ago - Updated 10 hours ago - 5 Documents (in Politics)

News Analysis: Screening Debate Reveals Culture Clash in Medicine

This week, the science of medicine bumped up against the foundations of American medical consumerism: that more is better, that saving a life is worth any sacrifice, that health care is a birthright.Two new recommendations, calling for delaying the start ... [New York Times - 10 hours ago]

Entities: CERVICAL CANCER, Health Care, Task Force

First Reported 11/19/2009 - Updated 11 hours ago - 5 Documents (in Health)

Inovio's Pre-clinincal Study Of Universal Flu Vaccines Reports Protective Response Against Multiple Influenza Strains; Stock Up - Update

TOP MARKET NEWS(RTTNews) - Friday, biotechnology company Inovio Biomedical Corp.(INO: News ) said a combination of its synthetic consensus H1N1, H2N2, H3N2, and H5N1 influenza vaccine candidates achieved protective antibody responses against several ... [RTTNews.com - 11 hours ago]

Entities: Vaccine, Influenza, Inovio Biomedical Corporation

First Reported 11/19/2009 - Updated 19 hours ago - 6 Documents (in Biology)

IBM Reveals the Biggest Artificial Brain of All Time [Voices]

By Douglas Fox, Writer, Popular Mechanics Scientists at IBM’s (IBM) Almaden research center have built the biggest artificial brain ever—a cell-by-cell simulation of the human visual cortex: 1.6 billion virtual neurons connected by 9 trillion synapses. ... [All Things Digital - 19 hours ago]

Entities: International Business Machines Corp, Neuron, Computer Simulation

Quotes

"Innovative energy comes from the people. India has 2.5 million people graduating every year out of which 3,50,000 are Engineers. By 2015 there would 1.4 million Engineering Graduates" he said

Innovation should be collective effort : Prof Balaram [NewKerala.com - 31 mins ago]

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Blogs

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An Easy Way to Save $71 Billion on Health Care [Mouth of the Potomac - NY Daily News Blogs - 6 hours ago] With all the pressure to find savings in health care, it’s quite a testament to the pharmaceutical industry lobbyists that they’ve managed to keep some $71 billion ...
Book Review Monday: Intellectual Property Right... [Patent Baristas - 7 hours ago] I aim to shed light on the extent to which advance in the life sciences was directed by the profit motive and the availability of the patent system … and on the ...
Rats in the urban ecology [Boing Boing - 7 hours ago] (CC-licensed image by Flickr user laverrue) Gregory Glass is a disease ecologist -- he studies the relationship between pathogens and hosts. A professor ...
Sushi DNA Tests Reveal Fraud [Wired: Wired Science - 7 hours ago] A biologist walks into a sushi bar and orders some tuna. What does he get? Escolar, a nasty fish with buttery flesh that can cause bizarre episodes of diarrhea, ...
Nokia R&D Workers Researching and Developin... [All Things Digital - 8 hours ago] Nokia’s workforce is deteriorating nearly as fast as its share of the mobile phone market. This morning, the company–which sacked 1,700 employees in March and another ...

Audio/Video

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Cancer Screening Guidelines Debated [ABC News Video: World News with Charles Gibson - 2 hours ago]
Medicine in the Year 2060 [Fox News Channel - YouTube - 6 hours ago]
How to cut medicine costs [CNN.com - Video - 12 hours ago]
Scientists Probe For Smoking Gene [Mefeedia Video Tag : geneti - 11/19/2009]
NHS denies drug to cancer patients [ITN News - YouTube - 11/19/2009]

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