GLEN BURNIE, Md. -- Cyto Pulse Sciences, a leading producer of electric field based, intradermal DNA Vaccine delivery systems, today announced approval by Swedish regulatory authorities to begin a Phase I/II study of DNA vaccination in patients with recurring prostate cancer. The trial will investigate the safety of a xenogenic...
Helicos BioSciences is collaborating with Uppsala University to utilize its True Single Molecule Sequencing technology to investigate changes in the cell nucleus that occur in the presence of growth factors.
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- Helicos BioSciences Corporation (NASDAQ:HLCS) today announced a scientific collaboration with a respected genomics research group at Sweden's Uppsala University aimed at gaining new insights into how genome structure plays a key role in the ways genes are regulated within cells. The Uppsala team, led by Claes...
NORDIC BUSINESS REPORT-5 August 2008-RaySearch Laboratories AB develops proton therapy system for Uppsala University HospitalC1994-2008 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD http://www.m2.com Swedish medical technology company RaySearch Laboratories AB (OMX Stockholm: RAY B) announced on Tuesday (5 August) that it has landed a new consulting contract from Uppsala University Hospital in Sweden....
Researchers at Uppsala University, Sweden, have demonstrated an atomistic mechanism of hydrogen release in magnesium nanoparticles-a potential hydrogen storage material. The findings have been published in the June 11 online edition of Proceedings of the National Academy of Science. The hydrogen fuel cell is an attractive alternative energy technology, primarily...
WITH THE HELP OF COMPUTERIZED image analysis and a haptic pen, radiologists may one day feel the images they see on screen, according to an Uppsala University professor helping to develop the new technology. Computerized image analysis is just as the name implies. A...
NORDIC BUSINESS REPORT-20 February 2008-NCC builds new pedagogical department at Uppsala UniversityC1994-2008 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD http://www.m2.com Swedish construction group NCC said on Wednesday (20 February) that its unit NCC Construction Sweden has landed a SEK180m contract to build a new pedagogical institution, Pedagogikum, for Uppsala University in Uppsala, Sweden....
NORDIC BUSINESS REPORT-27 November 2007-FormPipe Software AB signs new software licence agreement with Uppsala UniversityC1994-2007 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD http://www.m2.com Swedish enterprise content management ECM solutions developer FormPipe Software AB said on Tuesday (27 November) that it has received a new licence order from its customer Uppsala University. The...
UPPSALA, Sweden AFP — Japanese Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko were the guests of honour Wednesday at festivities in Sweden marking the 300th birthday of Swedish botanist Carolus Linnaeus, who invented the current system of classifying organisms. The emperor, a marine biologist known for his interest in the goby...
STOCKHOLM AFP — "God created, but Linnaeus organised": those are the words of Swedish botanist Carl Linnaeus himself, the celebrated scientist who developed the modern classification of nature and who was born 300 years ago. To celebrate the tricentenary of Linnaeus' birth on May 23, 1707, festivities, exhibits, conferences...
One of the most significant scientists ever to emerge from Scandinavia was Carl Linnaeus, the Father of Taxonomy. This year, the 300th anniversary of his birth is being celebrated wherever people fathom the enormity of his contributions-not least in the city he made his home for a half-century. ...
STOCKHOLM AFP — Jane Goodall, renowned for her work on African primates, and naturalist David Attenborough will receive honorary doctorates commemorating Swedish botanist and zoologist Carl Linnaeus, Sweden's Uppsala University said. The pair will receive their distinctions at the university's spring conferment ceremony on May 26, it said. ...
Hennings et al. from the Uppsala University Hospital and Uppsala Imanet AB Sweden reported on January 10 ahead of print in the Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism on a study correlating ^sup 11^C-metomidate (^sup 11^C-MTO) PET in adrenocortical tumors with histopathologic findings. The retrospective study included a large pool...
Young girls with eating disorders whose growth is stunted by undernutrition can catch up in height over the course of several years if they regain weight soon enough, a Swedish study shows. 'Catch-up growth is achieved in underweight and growth-retarded girls with eating disorders once nutritional intake is sufficient to...
Byline: Nigel Wilson Nov 21, 2005 (The Australian - ABIX via COMTEX) -- There is no solution to the declining oil production. Professor Kjell Aleklett, of Uppsala University in...
Steffen et al. from Uppsala University Sweden reported in the June issue of Cancer Biotherapy and Radiopharmaceuticals (2005;20:239248) on in vitro characterization of a bivalent anti-human epidermal growth factor receptor (HER-2) with potential for radionuclide-based diagnostic applications in breast and ovarian cancers. The authors compared mono- and bivalent ligands when...
Viking Systems, Inc. (OTC: VKSY), a medical products company delivering integrated solutions for the digital surgical environment, today announced that surgeons at Uppsala University Hospital in Sweden have begun testing the company's new EndoSite 3Di Digital Vision System to perform laparoscopic radical prostatectomies and other complex minimally invasive urological procedures...
This paper examines the impact of prospectus information on Initial Public Offering IPO pricing. The prospectus is the primary document in communicating information about the quality and potential of the firm. A high disclosure level decreases information asymmetry between the firm and the investors potential investors and therefore leads to...
New York: I. B. Tauris 287 pp., $18.95, ISBN 1-86064-847-9 Publication Date: March 2003 Tsar Peter proclaimed the Russo-Swedish confrontation at Poltava on 28 June 1709 "a great and unexpected victory," for he could scarcely believe King Charles XII would risk annihilation under such...