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BIO Asks Congress to Support Deployment of Biotech ... - Earthtimes

WASHINGTON - (Business Wire) Federal tax policies should incentivize commercial deployment of advanced industrial biotechnologies, which can create jobs, reduce reliance on petroleum, and achieve greenhouse gas reductions. The Biotechnology Industry ...

Federal regulators launch probe of big agriculture - AG Week

ST. LOUIS — Some Obama administration officials have made clear their unease with the increasing control a handful of corporations have over the nation’s food supply, and this week in Iowa they could show whether they are serious about changing ...

Thursday, March 11 - Kaiser Health News

A shirt-sleeved President Barack Obama took his closing arguments for health care reform to the St. Louis area Wednesday. The Washington Post : "He spoke with evident anger about 'political gamesmanship' in Washington leading to 'terrible ...

Abbott to pay $450 million for Facet Biotech - Batavia Sun

ABBOTT PARK -- Abbott Laboratories said it will buy Facet Biotech Corp. for about $450 million in cash, expanding the company's access to biotechnology drugs, including a potential treatment for multiple sclerosis. Facet, based in Redwood City, Calif ...

Pharmaceutical group spent $6.3M lobbying in 4Q - WRAL

WASHINGTON — The pharmaceutical industry's main trade group spent $6.3 million in the fourth quarter lobbying Congress, the White House and multiple government agencies on health care provisions and related issues, according to a quarterly ...

Monsanto Draws Antitrust Scrutiny - Wall Street Journal

Crop biotechnology giant Monsanto Co. has the most at stake in the first of an unprecedented series of public meetings that the antitrust wing of the Justice Department is holding across the Farm Belt. In January, the Justice Department launched a ...

Medical device entrepreneur Joe Eichinger dies - Seattle Times

To Joe Eichinger, there was nothing a determined mind couldn't conquer. Hard work bred success — simple as that. As a businessman, he lived by this law. As a father, it was what he most wanted to impart to his teenage sons. That's why, late last ...

Pharmaceutical industry group spent $6.3M lobbying in ... - Chicago Tribune

WASHINGTON (AP) — The pharmaceutical industry's main trade group spent $6.3 million in the fourth quarter lobbying Congress, the White House and multiple government agencies on health care provisions and related issues, according to a quarterly ...

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US STOCKS-Wall St up on economy bets; banks, tech lead - Reuters

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Resolved Question: Would you become a rebel against the law if required you to receive a mark or implantable chip under the skin?

The Word of God speak against receiving of the mark of the beast but soon it will be made manditory for all to receive in order to buy or sell! Will you receive it and doom your own soul or will you be a rebel? Verichip is now called PositiveID! Roll up your sleeve for the implantable human microchip, it’s now Positive? Greg Nikolettos Op Ed News Wednesday, February 3rd, 2010 As sure as the sun rises, so Verichip keeps spawning and shape shifting to gain market acceptance as people from across the globe unite and reject the IBM seed-funded, Raytheon-manufactur ed Human Implantable microchip company. To “mark’ a new year, Verichip is now called PositiveID!. If you have followed this company’s progress as we have and cited the damning evidence showcasing a casual link between microchipping and cancer⁴, Verichip is certainly not positive. But in this world of semantics and double speak, no doubt a CEO meeting along with other top execs decided that throwing the word “Positive” in the title would make Alzheimer patients who get microchipped without their consent less hesitant as their sleeve was rolled up in the name of “wander protection’. “Was that a needle?” asks the patient? “No! It was a mosquito bite, you have Alzheimer’s, remember?” What has changed in 2010? Well, Verichip/PositiveID has a new marketing and media relations company! Just as all actors in Hollywood require an agent to handle their image as they enter the market, so Verichip/PositiveID has decided to do the same. The company taking over Verichips/PositiveI D media relations and corporate communications is Gibraltar⁵. A company who has close ties with the Clinton administration, expertise in biotech, energy and of course as a company who has excellent inroads into government, Gibraltar even has the mandatory Washington office!⁷ Why this recent appointment? Verichip/PositiveID has been pummeled on the NASDAQ , having been delisted in March 2009, but staging a comeback to have their stock regain NASDAQ Compliance⁸ in October 2009. Verichip/PositiveID stock has been crushed from a high of just over $10 down to a humiliating low of $0.24 cents.9 Why this backlash? It’s a human implantable microchip and that does not sit well with the Ma and Pa investor. Who in their right mind invests in a company whose product causes tumors? Who in their right mind invests in a company that microchips Alzheimer patients without their consent? As Verichip/PositiveID’s stock price today indicates, not many individuals and certainly not investment companies who are minimizing risk in the current economy. Regardless of what happens on the stock market, the fact is Verichip is not going away. Why? Because their seed funding originates from the information giant IBM who has over 407,000 employees worldwide. Nothing like having a Big Blue Sugar Daddy watching over you in this financial climate, especially one that writes off a $60 million dollar loan to ensure the human microchipping agenda is in place for “future’ generations. $60 million is chickenfeed to a company who turns over 100 billion US dollars a year. Yes sir, the IBM Hollerith Machine Punch Card system was very profitable in WWII, cleverly “leased” to the Nazi regime to create enabling technologies to identify and catalog non-compliant peoples. IBM custom-designed and constantly updated the Hollerith Machine using the punch-card system and thus Hitler was able to automate his persecution of the undesirables. But let’s remember Hitlers Mantra “Jews are evil, Negros are despicable, Gypsies simply could not stay put, wandering all over the place and homosexuals, well we all know what filthy acts they get up to!! Hitlers remedy? Zyklon B, the brand name of the cyanide-based pesticide used in the Holocaust gas chambers !⁴ The Zyklon B patents were owned by a little company called IG Farben who was also in bed with John D. Rockefeller’s United States based Standard Oil Co. During the reign of the Third Reich, but that’s another story altogether. ⁵ Agfa, BASF, and Bayer continue today after the buyout of IG Faben Western Assets, showing that you can’t keep a good criminal company down. But let’s remember, we all need to be more forgiving as BASF manufactured excellent magnetic recording cassette tapes in the 80s-90s as acid house music merged and fused into techno. A crash course in Verichip/PositiveID ! Buckle Up! Verichip/PositiveID is manufactured by Raytheon Microelectronics España/ECLAN from Tomahawk Missile fame thus creating a synergy between the fifth largest defense government contractor and the human implantable microchip. VeriChip Corporation acquires Steel Vault Corporation to Form PositiveID Corporation thus creating a synergy between identity theft and the human implantable microchip⁷ VeriChip Corporation acquires credit monitoring company, NationalCreditRepor t.com, thus creating a synergy between credit monitoring and the human implantable microchip⁸ Verich more

Resolved Question: If Obama is so ethical why did he make it to the top ten most corrupt politicians list ?

Judicial Watch compiled a list of the top ten most corrupt politicians in Washington, 7 are Democrats including Hillary, Reid , Pelosi and Feinstien---------3 are Republicans including Huckabee and Giluani------------Obama came in number 8 while Hillary to took the number one spot. 8. Senator Barack Obama (D-IL): A “Dishonorable Mention” last year, Senator Obama moves onto the “ten most wanted” list in 2007. In 2006, it was discovered that Obama was involved in a suspicious real estate deal with an indicted political fundraiser, Antoin “Tony” Rezko. In 2007, more reports surfaced of deeper and suspicious business and political connections It was reported that just two months after he joined the Senate, Obama purchased $50,000 worth of stock in speculative companies whose major investors were his biggest campaign contributors. One of the companies was a biotech concern that benefited from legislation Obama pushed just two weeks after the senator purchased $5,000 of the company’s shares. Obama was also nabbed conducting campaign business in his Senate office, a violation of federal law. more

Voting Question: Advice for applying to a good college?

I'm going to be a junior in my high school, and I'm mainly interested in graduating from a top notch school and starting my own biotech company. First off, what colleges/universities would have good programs for this (please list the higher ones as well since they are in my reach)? Also, what are some good schools for prelaw/law nd medical (specifically for neuroscience)? Right now I want to apply to UCLA, UC Berkeley (my top choice), and other schools like Upenn, George Washington U, Jons Hopkins, as well as some other similarly rigorous schools. Lastly, I'm in a charter school with a 92% gpa, equivalent to 3.7 and I'm doing volunteer work so I can get into National Honor Society, and I'm in about 3 clubs, one of which I hold a high leadership position in. Would this be good enough for the schools I mentioned and similar ones? more

Resolved Question: Biomedical Engineering Careers?

I am going to be graduating in May 2008 (This school year) as a biomedical engineer. I am very interested in the Medical device industry but find that most device companies are looking for either a mechanical or electrical engineer. I have a great Mechanical and Electrical engineering foundation and am specializing more towards Computer Engineering for my focus area. What type of skills should are medical device companies looking for in the following occupations: Design, research and software engineer. I am also looking for biotech companies in the Seattle Washington or Chicago area. Would anyone have any good suggestions for companies around those areas. Thanks, Kevin more

Resolved Question: Biomedical Engineering Careers?

Resolved Question: "Rural Americans For Hillary".....?

Honestly, here is the article...what are your opinions on this? So later this month, according to THIS INVITATION, the presidential campaign of Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-NY, is holding a "Rural Americans for Hillary" lunch and campaign briefing at the end of this month…. ..but she's holding it in Washington, DC…. …at a lobbying firm… … and specifically, though it's not mentioned in the invitation, at the lobbying firm Troutman Sanders Public Affairs… …which just so happens to lobby for the controversial multinational agri-biotech Monsanto. You read that right: Monsanto, about which there are serious questions about its culpability regarding 56 Superfund Sites, wanton and "outrageous" pollution, and the decidedly unkosher (and quite metaphoric) genetically-bred "Superpig." …A company that the website "Ethical Investing" labels "the world's most unethical and harmful investment." Holding an agri-summit in the plush halls of the lobbyists for Monsanto doesn't sound like the kind of "rural Americans" a presidential candidate would necessarily want to be photographed with. Particularly if Clinton's two primary opponents -- former Sen. John Edwards, D-NC, and Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill. -- don't take money from lobbyists and are trying to depict the frontrunner as too much a part of the corrupt Washington system, lobbyists, corporate America, et al…. But then again, it doesn't say Clinton will attend this luncheon -- just senior staffers and congressional endorsers! (Is that better or worse?) Response from the Clinton campaign to come…. Source: http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2007/10/yee-haw.html#comments It really makes me laugh...I mean rural Americans are not that stupid...I suppose since the word rural is there she must think we are though.....lol.... more

Resolved Question: "Nobel Prize"?

Nobel Prize winner Craig C. Mello smiling this morning at the UMass Medical School in Worcester. By Carolyn Johnson, Globe Staff A University of Massachusetts scientist won the Nobel Prize in Medicine today just eight years after he and a collaborator discovered a powerful new way to turn off genes. The discovery is revolutionizing medical research, allowing biotech researchers to rapidly zero in on possible genetic causes for HIV, Alzheimer's and dozens of other devastating diseases. Craig C. Mello, 45, is the first professor at the University of Massachusetts Medical School to received the prestigious award, which was announced this morning by the Nobel Assembly at Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm, Sweden. Mello won for his work with Andrew Fire, then a scientist at the Carnegie Institution of Washington. Fire graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology with a Ph.D. in 1983. The pair discovered that a particular form of ribonucleic acid, which they dubbed RNA interference, acts almost like a biological light switch, turning "off" specific genes within human cells. The cell uses RNA interference to regulate its genetic climate, but Mello and Fire showed that it could be manipulated to study genes' behavior. RNA interference -- named one of the top 10 science breakthroughs by the journal Science in 2002 and 2003 -- has already helped produce a possible treatment for macular degeneration. "The interesting thing about this prize is so short a time it's taken from the discovery to the Nobel," said Phil Sharp, an institute professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology who also has co-founded a biotech company called Alnylam that is working to develop RNAi therapies. "It's just been such a fundamental change in how we understand biological systems, and there's also more to come. Mello, who lives in Shrewsbury, told the Associated Press that the award came as a "big surprise." "I knew it was a possibility, but I didn't really expect it for perhaps a few more years," Mello said. "Both Andrew and I are fairly young, 40 or so, and it's only been about eight years since the discovery." UMass Medical School Chancellor and Dean Aaron Lazare said it was "an incredible day" for the school. "We are so very proud that Dr. Mello is the Medical School's first recipient of this illustrious prize," Lazare in a written statement. "His enthusiasm for scientific pursuits and innovation is an inspiration to his faculty colleagues, postdoctoral fellows, students and staff alike." Fire, 47, now at Stanford University, and Mello published their research in the journal Nature in 1998. Erna Moller, a member of the Nobel committee, said that their research helped shed new light on a complicated process that had confused researchers for years. The existence of RNA intereference helped them understand why genes that they added to cells sometimes did not seem to do anything. "It was like opening the blinds in the morning," Moller said. "Suddenly you can see everything clearly." Fire was awakened in his California home this morning by a call from the Nobel committee. "I thought I must be dreaming or maybe it was the wrong number," said Fire, who convinced himself of the good news by checking the Nobel website. "It makes me feel great. It makes me feel incredibly indebted at the same time," he said. "You realize how many other people have been major parts of our efforts." The Nobel Prize winners receive $1.4 million and will be honored in Stockholm on Dec. 10 at a banquet, which will include Scandinavian royalty. There are also Nobel prizes for physics, chemistry, literature, peace and economics. The namesake of the awards, Alfred Nobel, the Swedish inventor of dynamite, established the prizes in his will. The Associated Press contributed to this report. "Nobel Prize" from Boston Globe. more

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WASHINGTON, D.C. (Tuesday, March 09, 2010) - The U.S. Supreme Court will decide whether a lower court acted hastily and incorrectly by banning the cultivation of biotech alfalfa despite extensive scientific evidence documenting the safety of the crop. A coalition of agricultural organizations filed on March 8 a joint friend-of-the-court brief to the Supreme Court in support of the petitioners in ... more

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NEW YORK----Fast Company's annual Most Innovative Companies issue honors major brands including Facebook, Google, Cisco, Disney, and GE, along with such rising newcomers Intermap Technologies, Foursquare, and Clearwire. more

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