Drug giants including Roche, Pfizer, and AstraZeneca have taken their own steps toward embracing stem-cell-based research.
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But, eventually, braking feel returned and the beauty of a load cell-based system came through.
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And they say that their focus on old-fashioned medicines, not newfangled cell-based therapies, is a big advantage over previous stem cell firms.
Its role in lymphocyte signaling was characterized and explored through lots of cell-based and in vivo models, including RNAi and other target validation approaches.
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Personally, I still think embryonic stem cell-based treatments are a decade or more away, but the cells are invaluable in other ways right now.
Continuous monitoring of the differentiation process of stem cells is of great importance for the development of cell-based regenerative medicine therapies and is extremely novel.
The U.S. government lists 2, 496 clinical trials of stem cell-based medicines.
Last year Dr Benenson's team developed one of the most complex cell-based molecular circuits created so far, though it is still much simpler than systems built in test tubes.
Background location data, both with live GPS for backgrounded turn-by-turn, and cell tower-based for lower power draw.
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The project aims to establish cell-phone based carbon micro-credit systems, using a simple message service to allow families to monetize the carbon offsets they produce.
ReliOn, a fuel-cell manufacturer based in Spokane, WA and focused on emergency-generation applications, reported that one of its customers hit by Hurricane Irene had 56 cell towers with fuel cells installed for backup power.
The council's vice-chairman, Dr Hew Mathewson, said he gave "no credence" to links between the khat trade and the funding of al-Shabaab, the Somali-based cell of al-Qaeda.
"Africa has the most advanced cell-phone-based payment systems using simple text, " Mr. Palella says.
He was also determined to use a stem-cell based approach: By marrying what he did in industry with what he wanted to do in pure research, to pursue drug discovery and small molecules.
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Such big projects make sense for large solar-cell producers like SunPower and Arizona-based First Solar, since they provide reliable demand with which to keep their manufacturing plants running at peak efficiency.
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The GPS-based cell phone technology that appears to have helped track down the alleged Boston Marathon bombers is pretty common.
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The operating system is also on products from TiVo (nasdaq: TIVO - news - people )--and Motorola (nyse: MOT - news - people ) recently announced that it would offer a Linux-based cell phone.
Hydrogenics, an Ontario-based fuel cell equipment manufacturer, inked a deal with E.
These three U.S.-based solar cell makers went out of business because they could not lower their costs enough to make a profit when faced with competition from Chinese companies.
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That is not great compared with the 20% and more achieved by a silicon-based solar cell, the 40% managed by a solar-thermal turbine, or even the 18-20% of one of the new generation of cheap and cheerful thin-film solar cells.
The Zevco fuel cell uses an efficient, silver-based catalyst to promote the electricity-producing reaction, instead of a traditional platinum one.
On the contrary, start-up companies like Westwood, MA-based Acumentrics are similarly pursuing a solid-oxide fuel cell technology tailored to the needs of the military.
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Google Voice users in the US can place outbound calls from their cell phone app, from the web-based application, or by dialing their Google Voice number.
Travellers will have to wait until this autumn to get their hands on the most anticipated fuel cell-powered charger, when US-based retailer Brookstone unveils its micro-USB power charger.
In research published in tomorrow's issue of Cell, scientists at Salt Lake City-based Myriad Genetics (nasdaq: MYGN - news - people ) and the University of Utah identify exactly which protein the virus appropriates in this microscopic hijacking.
As a result, neither scientists nor the FCC nor cell phone manufacturers have been able to confirm their studies based on even one generation of long-term cell phone users.
The Z-Park-based companies on display at CES hawk wares like candlelight-powered solar cell phones.
The Massachusetts-based company earlier this month announced Nectar, a portable fuel cell for recharging phones and e-books.
The flexibility brought by the dye-based approach makes this sort of cell particularly useful indoors.
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As satellite-based GPS becomes more ubiquitous in cell phones, the idea is that by figuring out the position and speed of a person's cell phone as it travels in a moving car, traffic data could be made available faster, cheaper, and in areas where it's hard to measure, like on rural roads or city streets, for example.
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