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- Baby supernova seen right in our neighborhood
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A baby supernova, just over a century old, has been found in the middle of our own Milky Way galaxy and provides an unprecedented opportunity to watch a star dying, astronomers said on Wednesday.
 - Russia and Europe may team up for moon flights
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia and Europe are teaming up to build a spaceship which will fly astronauts to the moon, Russia said on Wednesday, although the European Space Agency struck a more cautious note.
 - Volcano shuts Chilean town for three months
SANTIAGO (Reuters) - Chile's town of Chaiten, until recently home to 4,500 people, will be shut for three months until it is no longer endangered by a cloud of hot ash from an erupting volcano, the government said on Wednesday.
 - Vatican scientist says belief in God and aliens is OK
VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - The Vatican's chief astronomer says there is no conflict between believing in God and in the possibility of "extraterrestrial brothers" perhaps more evolved than humans.
 - Research links common chemicals to obesity
GENEVA (Reuters) - Exposure in the womb to common chemicals used to make everything from plastic bottles to pizza box liners may program a person to become obese later in life, U.S. researchers said on Wednesday.
 - Bird flu pandemic seen needing multiple drugs
LONDON (Reuters) - Governments need to stockpile different sorts of flu drugs -- not just Roche Holding AG's Tamiflu -- to counter the danger of resistance in a pandemic triggered by bird flu, British experts said on Wednesday.
 - Experts move closer to identifying best embryos
HONG KONG (Reuters) - Scientists in Australia and Greece appear to be moving closer to identifying genes that determine which test-tube embryos stand the best chance of implanting in the womb and growing into healthy babies.
 - Gene therapy shows promise in rare brain disease
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - An experimental gene therapy treatment appears to have helped eight children with a rare and incurable neurological disorder, although it may have been responsible for the death of one, researchers reported on Tuesday.
 - Shrimp can see beyond the rainbow
LONDON (Reuters) - A giant shrimp living on Australia's Great Barrier Reef can see a world beyond the rainbow that is invisible to other animals, scientists said on Wednesday.
 - NASA probe closing in on Mars, but will it land?
CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) - Nine months ago, NASA's Phoenix probe blasted off for Mars with an unprecedented mission to sample water on another world.
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- STEMCELL Technologies, Inc. Licenses Geron Intellectual Property for the Development of Media and Matrices for Stem Cell Growth
VANCOUVER & MENLO PARK, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--STEMCELL Technologies, Inc. and Geron Corporation (Nasdaq:GERN) today announced that Geron has granted a license to STEMCELL Technologies (
- Celera to Webcast Presentation at Seventh Annual JMP Securities Research Conference
ALAMEDA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Celera (NYSE:CRA), an Applera Corporation business, today announced that it will webcast its presentation at the Seventh Annual JMP Securities Research
- VioQuest Pharmaceuticals Announces First Quarter 2008 Financial Results
BASKING RIDGE, N.J.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--VioQuest Pharmaceuticals (OTCBB: VOQP) today reported its financial results for the first quarter ended March 31, 2008.
- Conceptus to Present at the 7th Annual JMP Securities Research Conference
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Conceptus, Inc. (NASDAQ:CPTS) announces that Mark Sieczkarek, president and chief executive officer, will present at the JMP Securities
- QwikLite Awarded Federal Laboratory Consortium's Excellence in Technology Transfer Award
VISTA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The Federal Laboratory Consortium (FLC) awarded “QwikLite”, an Assure
- U.S. Artificial Disc Replacement Market to Reach $440 Million by 2013
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- Tower Cancer Research Foundation Releases Findings of New National Survey, 'Delayed Cancer Diagnosis: Why?'
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- BakBone's NetVault: Backup Helps The Mind Research Network Hold That Thought
SAN DIEGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--BakBone Software® (Pink Sheets:BKBO), the leading provider of heterogeneous integrated data protection
- Cellceutix Obtains Initial Funding to Advance Its Head and Neck Cancer Drug
WILMINGTON, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Cancer and anti-inflammatory drug developer Cellceutix (OTCBB: CTIX) completed a $400,000 9% Secured Convertible Debenture financing. The Debentures and
- Vybion Signs Agreement in Principle to Sell Line of Recombinant Proteins to Meridian Bioscience, Inc.
ITHACA, N.Y.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Vybion, Inc., an Ithaca-based biotechnology company, today announced that it has executed a letter of intent to sell its recombinant protein business to
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