“Almost 40% of small and midsize public biotechnology companies in the U.S. are in danger of running out of cash within a year and government help is needed to encourage investment, industry leaders say.
“We’re at the most difficult time in the history of our industry,” says James Greenwood, chief executive of the Biotechnology Industry Organization.
More than a quarter of the 370 publicly traded U.S. biotech companies with market values below $1 billion had less than six months of cash on June 30, he says.”
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A colossal black hole nestled in the center of a distant galaxy controls its own growth and the growth of surrounding stars by pumping out energy at regular intervals, a new study says.
“It looks like a beating heart,” said study team member Mateusz Ruszkowski, an astronomer at the University of Michigan.
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Astronauts Heidemarie Stefanyshyn-Piper and Steve Bowen completed the first of four spacewalks scheduled for Endeavour’s mission to the International Space Station yesterday.
This spacewalk was the 115th in support of ISS construction. The majority of the six hour and 52 minute spacewalk was spent focusing on one of the station’s Solar Alpha Rotary Joints (SARJ).
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Combining refurbished machinery and modern day technology, NASA was able to take a restore photographs of the Earth rising above the lunar surface in 1966. This time with better resolution.
“The Lunar Orbiter Image Recovery Project, located at NASA’s Ames Research Center at Moffett Field, Calif., is taking analog data from original recorders used to store on tape and 1,500 of the original tapes, converting the data into digital form, and reconstructing the images. The restored image released Thursday confirms data from the original tapes can be retrieved from the newly-restored tape drives from the 1960s when combined with software from 2008.”
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Astronomers were able to capture, for the first time ever, planets that were outside the solar system.
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Instead of global warming, some experts are now warning that the world may soon plunge into the next Ice Age. They predict most of Scotland, Northern Ireland and England to be covered in ice 3,000 feet thick. These same experts blame global warming on falling greenhouse gas levels. Read more…
The Phoenix Mars Mission is officially over. The lander was powered by solar panels, and the approaching Martian winter has basically cut off its power supply. The craft is not expected to last through the winter. But Phoenix lasted two months longer than anticipated, so the $475 million was worth it - it discovered water on the planet. Read more…
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“She has been seen by every junior doctor and nurse in paediatrics at St Mary’s Hospital, London.
She has had breathing difficulties, meningitis, malaria, head trauma and asthma.
Thankfully baby Gertrude is not real, but a simulated nine-month-old baby used to train medical staff how to deal with a seriously ill baby.
The clever simulation can run a series of conditions to train staff.
Baby Gertrude can move, breathe, cry, cough or gurgle.
Her skin colour can change to blue and even her fontanelle (the soft spot on a baby’s head) can bulge and go tense to simulate meningitis.”
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…and the winner is Einstein!
In Forbes’ latest ranking of the highest earning dead celebrities, Albert Einstein beat out the likes of John Lennon, Andy Warhol and Marilyn Monroe to take the fourth spot behind Elvis Presley, Charles Schultz and Heath Ledger.
Greenlight says they receive 400 applications a year to use Einstein’s image, but they only approve about 40 of them. These products include, but are not limited to, mugs, jigsaw puzzles, and action figures.
Looks like you can make more money in science than in the music and movie industry!
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The long and short of this story is scientists can now grow diamonds that are bigger and better than natural ones. If you’d like to read about the scientific processes used for this feat, I suggest you read this. Otherwise, just sit back and wait for diamond prices to drop dramatically.