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Acorda has deal with Danish drugmaker

April

Acorda Therapeutics Inc. of Hawthorne said a Danish drug company will manufacture a key molecule in a substance that Acorda is using in toxicology studies and early phase clinical trials.
Acorda said the company, CMC ICOS Biologics of Copenhagen, will produce the molecule, GGF2, for Acorda’s neuregulin program. Terms of the deal were not announced. Neuregulins have the potential to be helpful in treatments for multiple sclerosis and stroke, Acorda said.

Posted by Jerry Gleeson on Wednesday, April 9th, 2008 at 12:44 pm |
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IBM researchers build tiny switch to route data

March

Researchers at IBM Corp’s Yorktown Heights research center have developed technology that allows information within a computer chip using light pulses instead of electrons, the company said today.

In building the world’s tiniest nanophotonic switch, researchers have added an important building block to control the flow of information inside future chips and can significanty speed up chip performance while using less energy, IBM said.

Posted by David Schepp on Monday, March 17th, 2008 at 4:30 pm |
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IBM researchers build tiny switch to route data