Archive for December 2009
is a daily summary made from the selected links I post on Twitter. It is in a bullet points format with links to the original sources which include 350 RSS feeds that produce about 2,500 items per day:
Coffee May Have Some Health Perks, but Can Brew Trouble in People With Certain Conditions. Coffee is the [...]
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First Pepose Award From Brandeis Goes To Vision Researchers Jay And Maureen Neitz
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Brandeis University selected Jay and Maureen Neitz, the husband-and-wife team whose pioneering research may lead to the use of gene therapy to treat vision disorders, as the inaugural recipients of the Jay Pepose ‘75 Award in Vision Sciences. The award is funded by a $1 million endowment established this year through a gift from Brandeis [...]
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Relief over market’s big U-turn gives way to questions over the economy’s prospects in 2010
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Few called market turn, fewer predict it will last
NEW YORK — Few analysts forecast this year’s remarkable stock market rebound as major indexes were plunging to 12-year lows last March. Now, with most experts predicting the pace of stocks’ gains will slow in 2010, there’s reason to believe they will be proven correct.
Stocks [...]
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Airline attack could mean profits for companies that make body imaging scanning devices
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Airline attack may mean profits for some companies
JACKSON, Miss. — A recent attempted terrorist attack aboard a commercial airliner could mean big business for companies making body imaging scanners, especially two firms with technology already approved by federal authorities.
Transportation Security Administration spokesman Greg Soule said Rapiscan Systems in Ocean Springs, Miss., and L-3 Communications Holdings, [...]
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New Ill. laws: Texting restrictions, tougher information rules, warnings about bowling shoes
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New Ill. laws limit texting, expand records access
CHICAGO — Most drivers have their own name for those texters in traffic who seem more interested in their cell phones than their cars — jerk and idiot, to name a couple. Come Friday the state of Illinois will have one, too: outlaw.
A statewide ban on [...]
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Oregon’s cell phone ban has loophole, police expect challenges from some drivers
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Oregon cell phone ban has loophole
SALEM, Ore. — Beginning New Year’s Day, Oregon police officers may hear some arguing when they start pulling motorists over for violating a new law banning them from talking on hand-held cell phones while driving.
The new law, passed by the 2009 Oregon Legislature, exempts motorists who are on their hand-held [...]
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AT&T is latest to end sponsorship agreement with Tiger Woods following infidelity allegations
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AT&T is latest to end Tiger Woods sponsorship
NEW YORK — AT&T Inc. said Thursday it would no longer sponsor Tiger Woods, joining Accenture in dropping support for the world’s top golfer, who’s taking a break from the sport to focus on his marriage after his admitted infidelity.
The phone company hasn’t used Woods’ image extensively in [...]
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Granholm issues order to merge state technology, management departments effective in March
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MI tech, management departments to merge in March
LANSING, Mich. — An order from Gov. Jennifer Granholm consolidating two state government agencies is scheduled to take effect March 21.
The Department of Management and Budget will merge with the Department of Information Technology unless the Legislature rejects the order within the next 60 days, which is considered [...]
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IPOs make a comeback in 2009 setting stage for a busy year of companies going public in 2010
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IPO comeback in 2009 sets stage for busy 2010
NEW YORK — The pipeline of initial public offerings for 2010 looks promising as private equity firms look to cash in on their investments after coming back to the nearly defunct market in the fall.
Online networking companies may take center stage. So far, the company [...]
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AT&T ends sponsorship agreement with Tiger Woods
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AT&T ends sponsorship of Tiger Woods
NEW YORK — AT&T Inc. said Thursday it would no longer sponsor Tiger Woods, joining Accenture and Gillette in dropping support for the golfer after numerous allegations of infidelities.
The phone company hasn’t used Woods’ image extensively in advertising, but its logo appeared on his golf bag, and he was the [...]
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Companies with international operations expected perform best in new year as economy recovers
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International growth seen boosting stocks in 2010
NEW YORK — Companies with international operations are set to take advantage of a global economic recovery in 2010, continuing the rally that began in 2009.
As the new decade begins, industrial and material companies could be set for the biggest yearly gains as the world’s emerging markets rapidly build [...]
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TSA subpoenas bloggers who wrote about security memo issued after attempted Christmas attack
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TSA subpoenas bloggers, demands names of sources
WASHINGTON — As the government reviews how an alleged terrorist was able to bring a bomb onto a U.S.-bound plane and try to blow it up on Christmas Day, the Transportation Security Administration is going after bloggers who wrote about a directive to increase security after the incident.
TSA special [...]
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How does website update affect Google Page Rank
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There are several misconceptions regarding how a updating a website could affect the Page Rank. Essentially Page Rank for any page on a site determines its relevance or importance in Google. This is one of the factors that determines, which page will appear first in Google search results. Page Rank is a specific metric [...]
Human Gene Therapy , Vol. 0, No. 0. (Source: Human Gene Therapy)
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Nature Reviews Drug Discovery 9, 22 (2010). doi:10.1038/nrd3085
Gene therapy (Source: Nature Reviews Drug Discovery)
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Adeno-Associated Virus Mediated Gene Therapy in Ischemic Stroke
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Gene therapy offers a novel approach for the treatment of experimental stroke. The adeno-associated virus (AAV) mediated vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) gene transfer into the ischemic brain is described in detail in this chapter. Other methods are also illustrated here, including the generation of mouse middle cerebral artery occlusion (MCAO) model, injection of viral [...]
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Use of Mesenchymal Stem Cells for Gene Delivery to Intracranial Glioma
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Virus-mediated gene therapies against brain tumors have been limited by the difficulty in tracking glioma cells infiltrating the brain parenchyma. Mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) are particularly attractive cells for clinical use in cell-based therapies because they have tumor-targeting properties, can be easily isolated and expanded to the numbers required for use, and can be genetically [...]
Limitation of drug delivery to the central nervous system (CNS) is a major problem in development of successful treatment of CNS disorders. Concepts of blood–brain barrier (BBB), its role in transport of various substances from the blood to the brain, as well as strategies to deliver drugs across the BBB have evolved over the past [...]
In the treatment of central nervous system diseases, therapeutic particles need to breach the blood–brain barrier (BBB) to reach their intended target, and it has long been known that this is a difficult barrier to breach. The barrier is both passive with tight junctions hindering passage of even rather small molecules, as well as active [...]
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The atomic structure of baculovirus polyhedra reveals the independent emergence of infectious crystals in DNA and RNA viruses [Biochemistry]
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Baculoviruses are ubiquitous insect viruses well known for their use as bioinsecticides, gene therapy vectors, and protein expression systems. Overexpression… (Source: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences)
