The NY Times recently criticized cancer funding policies as being too risk-averse.

The Director of the National Cancer Institute has responded, but his response helps prove the point that funding is too risk averse:

A gene called Chd1 has been identified in a Nature study as crucial for embryonic stem cell pluripotency - the ability to differentiate into any type of cell.  Chd1 seems to act by keeping the genetic material open and there poised to express any gene. Chd1 is also shown to be fundamental when reactivating differentiated tissue cells in order to create new stem cells.

The discovery has implications, not only for a better understanding of stem cells unique characteristics, but also for the process of obtaining them from tissue-specific cells avoiding all the problems associated with embryonic stem cells.

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PARIS, July 8 --

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- Version 7.2 of Campaign Commander(TM) Further Increases Delivery Quality and
Campaign Effectiveness

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Marketers will now be able to achieve greater delivery quality with their email
marketing campaigns at no extra cost thanks to the new Emailvision software
service.

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Version 7.2 of the on-demand email marketing solution Campaign Commander(TM)
will prevent users from wasting money on non-delivered messages by monitoring
deliverability issues as standard. Identifying and fixing potential blockage
problems prior to sending, the latest version now allows all users to ensure
their messages reach every recipient’s inbox.

Twitter, the newest social networking sensation, can generate sales leads for your business faster than other social network, even with a slashed budget, says David White, Founder and Chief Executive of Weboptimiser and he says he can tell you how your company can benefit from it when he presents his webinars in July.   He says Twitter is generating up to half the hits on his company’s website.

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CHICAGO, July 8 --

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Modularis, Inc. today introduced its Accelerator 2009 R2 Business Application
Platform.

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Accelerator 2009 R2 accelerates the value of our client applications software
worldwide, said A.J. Singh, Modularis CEO. The Microsoft .NET Framework-based
platform helps Enterprise ISVs, Systems Integrators, OEMs, and Government
Enterprises achieve their business goals fast.

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He said Modularis clients’ definition of success includes
speed-to-market, rapid return-on-investment and best use of their IT talent.

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BERKSHIRE, England, July 8 -- IRIS Accountancy Practice Solutions has announced
the appointment of marketing veteran John Pattenden as Product Director.
Pattenden will lead the enhancement of the current product set which includes
IRIS, PTP and Drummohr solutions and develop a road map for the next generation
needs of accountancy practices.

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Pattenden joining the APS management team will provide added depth and
experience and further strengthens the development of the range of IRIS
Accountancy Products (http://www.iris.co.uk/practice).

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COPENHAGEN, July 8 -- The worldwide agreement between On-Net Surveillance
Systems (OnSSI) and Milestone Systems, the open platform company within IP video
management software, is expanded with the release of OnSSI’s NetEVS
solution. One of the recording offerings in the OnSSI Ocularis(TM) Physical
Security Information Management (PSIM) product line, NetEVS is using the
Milestone XProtect(TM) Corporate video recording engine which handles very large
surveillance installations.

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LONDON, July 8 --

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- Integration With NParchive Allows Structured Data to be Preserved and Queried
Directly on EMC Centera

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Clearpace, the data archive store specialist, http://www.clearpace.com today
announced it has completed integration between NParchive and EMC Centera content
addressed storage (CAS). EMC Centera is the world’s most simple,
affordable and secure repository for information archiving. It is a
purpose-built, software-driven storage platform that provides a myriad of new
capabilities for unlocking the business value from unchanging or infrequently
changing digital assets such as historical data from application databases.

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TAMPA, Florida, July 8 --

KISTA, Sweden, July 8 /PRNewswire/ -- Nanoradio today announced that they have
signed an agreement with two new investors, Viking Venture and Creandum, who
together with the current investors, Ferd Venture, Industrifonden, Innovacom,
Nordic Venture Partners, Teknoinvest will fund Nanoradio through its growth
phase.

The Nanoradio Always On WiFi(TM) solution - the NRX700/2 Wi-Fi chipset, which
offers fully tested 802.11b/g functionality, featuring ultra-low power
consumption, has won tremendous customer attraction. With the new investment,
Nanoradio will be well equipped to support its volume growth together with a
more ambitious launch plan of a new line of competitive products.