TOKYO, December 17, 2010 /PRNewswire/ -- Taiho Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd., and its parent company, Otsuka Holdings Co., Ltd., announced today that the Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (…

LONDON, December 17, 2010 /PRNewswire/ -- Diskeeper Corporation, innovators of performance and reliability technologies, today announced that its V-locity(R) 2.0, virtual platform disk optimizer, has…

This is the last of the four part series about the Edge discussion between Lee Smolin and Leonard Susskind. I previously discussed the physics and the philosophical issues. You will have by now…

BRISBANE, California, December 17, 2010 /PRNewswire/ -- -- Conference call and webcast today at 8:30 a.m. EST to discuss positive CHMP opinion -- InterMune, Inc. today announced additions to its…

TEL AVIV, Israel, December 17, 2010 /PRNewswire/ -- InspireMD, developer of the novel MGuard(TM), a combination of a coronary stent merged with an embolic protection specifically designed for Acute…

BRISBANE, California, December 17, 2010 /PRNewswire/ -- -- Esbriet to be the first medicine approved for IPF patients in the EU -- InterMune, Inc. today announced that the Committee for Medicinal…

While we’re on the joint subject of cars and security, I should dredge up this item that I’ve had hanging about for a few months. It’s from Ars Technica, and reports that researchers have hacked…

LONDON, December 17, 2010 /PRNewswire/ -- There are the first signs of a growing interest on the part of both Japanese institutional and private investors in finding the right channels to increase…

A million years is a blink of an eye in evolution but that doesn't mean newer genes matter less in life itself.     New genes that have evolved in species as recently as one million years…

A geophysicist has made the first-ever measurement of the strength of the magnetic field 1,800 miles underground - inside Earth's core. The magnetic field strength is 25 Gauss, they say, 50 times…