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Regulus recently published some very intriguing data with miR-21 in cancer and fibrosis models (the subject of their earlier deal with Sanofi), as well as miR-33 in lipid biology.
FORBES: Two (Micro) Reasons to be Excited About RNA Therapeutics
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The United States has pressed Russia to retire Mir as soon as possible because delays in building the living quarters of the new station have already put the arrival of the first crew back to January 2000, a year and a half later than planned.
CNN: Russia reluctant to let Mir die
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As a result, Mir has lost half its electrical power.
ECONOMIST: Mir today, gone tomorrow?
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It will be also be in roughly the same orbit as the Russian space station Mir.
BBC: By BBC News Online Science Editor Dr David Whitehouse
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The Soyuz will dock with Mir this weekend as the shuttle is scheduled to land at the Kennedy Space Center.
CNN: The View from Space
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We believe it has power-generating capacity which, based on the two sets of panels, that probably makes it comparable to the old Mir space station as opposed to simply the Soyuz capsule.
NPR: China Launches Manned Spacecraft
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Khatami has openly sided with the challenger, Mir Hossein Moussavi, as has the reformist Grand Ayatollah Montazeri.
CNN: Zakaria: 'Fatal wound' inflicted on Iranian regime's ideology
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Pakistan also sent as an observer senior police investigator Mir Zubair Mahmood, who led the investigation into the murder of US reporter Daniel Pearl in Karachi.
BBC: Cricket coach's body is released
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He had said either he or former Iranian Prime Minister Mir Hossein Mousavi would run as the reformist candidate in June.
CNN: Top Iranian reformer to challenge Ahmadinejad, reports say
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Helen Sharman flew to the Mir space station in 1991 as part of a venture known as Project Juno, which was organised with the help of a number of British companies.
BBC: Honour given to 'UK astronauts'
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When Mir was launched in February 1986 it was seen as a major symbol of the Soviet Union's prestige and technological advancement.
BBC: UK will spy Mir in night sky
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The plan as of now is for the first piece of station hardware, which looks like the central core of Mir, to be launched from Baikonur in June, with the first U.S. piece, called Node 1, to be launched on the shuttle in early July.
CNN: The View from Space