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...Services, the New Jersey company that produces the field-goal graphic and also projects some of the more viewer-friendly innovations--the digital line of scrimmage and first-down lines--onto the screen. (PVI is not the only company in the first-down business. Sportvision, of Chicago, holds the patent for the technology and provides the service for Fox, while Sportsmedia Technology Corp., of Durham, N.C., works with...
...molecular level, separating a substance into component parts - removing bacteria from blood, for example. But first they had to make it work. For a year, Grier and Dufresne had been trying out fancy glass splitters, but nothing had done the trick. On this day (to help protect his patent, Grier won't say exactly when it was), they tried a $5 piece of plastic as a joke. "It should not have worked," Grier says. Yet it did - where earlier optical traps could capture a maximum of two substances, this cheap plastic one split the laser beam into 16 parts which...
...ponder traps that could catch multiple substances and move them from one point to another. Since their plastic fantastic moment gave Grier and Dufresne 16 separate optical traps, that was enough for the University of Chicago to eventually showcase the duo to Lewis Gruber, a biotech entrepreneur and patent lawyer. Within months, he had invested in the technology, and Arryx was born, with Gruber as chief executive. Grier today is its chief scientific adviser, and a professor at New York University...
...test her theory in a lab dish, she needed to get around the problem that human cells die outside the body. She created a patent-pending process to keep them alive, and her efforts paid off. Mather hopes that the Food and Drug Administration in the U.S. will soon approve one of her drugs for human testing. The drug, called raag 12, is a protein that in the dish destroys another protein found in 90% of all gastrointestinal cancers and in 50% of of all breast, lung and prostate cancers. It works by crippling the cancer cell's surface...
...rare cancer. Unlike DES, however, progesterone has a long safety record. And it is not being used in the earliest days of pregnancy, when birth defects are more likely to occur. What progesterone doesn't have is a major manufacturer, because the drug is not protected by a patent. Instead it is usually produced in small batches at compounding pharmacies...