Medis is also working with Flextronics to manufacture power converters and with Eastman Kodak on design engineering for the fuel production line.

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Siemens signed an agreement with DONG Energy on Thursday to design and manufacture the 300 turbines, which would have a total capacity of 1, 800 megawatts, the engineering company said.

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This suggests that protein engineering might be used to treat, and perhaps even to prevent, amyloid diseases, by allowing the manufacture of drugs that stabilise the relevant parts of the protein at risk.

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While the direct labor required to manufacture such products is considerably lower, overall lower wage rates enable Chinese manufacturers to benefit from building, equipment, engineering and overhead costs that are substantially lower than those for their Western counterparts.

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Medis is also working with Flextronics (nasdaq: FLEX - news - people ) to manufacture power converters and with Eastman Kodak (nyse: EK - news - people ) on design engineering for the fuel production line.

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