VeloNews (Free subscription) | 23/11/2009
Gabriele Bosisio pleaded his innocence at a hearing with the Italian Olympic Committee's Anti-doping prosecutor on Monday. The 29-year-old LPR rider underwent an out-of-competition test in September that detected traces of the blood-booster EPO. He denied using the banned substance. "I've never taken EPO and I repeat that I am innocent," said Bosisio. LPR was the team of Italian Danilo Di...
PLoS ONE (Free subscription) | yesterday
Background Signal Transducer and Activator of Transcription 5 (STAT5) plays critical roles in normal and leukemic hematopoiesis. However, the manner in which STAT5 responds to early-acting and lineage-restricted cytokines, particularly in leukemic stem/progenitor cells, is largely unknown. Methodology/Principal Findings We optimized a multiparametric flow cytometry protocol to analyze STAT5 phosphorylation...
Payment News (Free subscription) | yesterday
In an article titled "The Check is in the Email? Electronic Payments Orders Could Be An Opportunity for Banks" over on our sister site PaymentsViews.com, Glenbrook's Carol Coye Benson takes a look at the opportunity for banks with Electronic Payment Orders. Carol writes that "the EPO concept is a way for banks to leverage their existing investment in checking – and check imaging...
Patent Baristas (Free subscription) | 23/11/2009
“I really don’t think they have thought this through. A world without intellectual property rights would be a pretty horrible place to live. There would be no investment in new technologies.” ~Michael Taylor of CIED The European Patent Office (EPO) is studying the growth in eco-innovation since the introduction of the Kyoto Protocol on climate change. Although [...] Related posts:...
cyclingnews.com (Free subscription) | 21/11/2009
Christian Pfannberger has been given a life-long ban by the Austrian National Anti-Doping Agency, after his second doping violation in March this year. The Austrian, who has consistently denied ever having doped, has indicated he will challenge the ban. Pfannberger, 30, tested positive for EPO at an out-of-competition control in March. He had previously served a two-year ban from 2004 to 2006 after...
VeloNews (Free subscription) | 21/11/2009
Cyclist Christian Pfannberger has received a lifetime ban from sport for repeated doping offenses, the Austrian national anti-doping agency announced on Saturday. Pfannberger, 30, tested positive in March for the banned blood booster EPO as he prepared to start in the three-week Giro d’Italia as part of the Russian Katusha cycling team. He was subsequently suspended by the team. The two-time...
My Soof Folder (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
Tour de France cancelled The Tour de France is to be stopped a week early. Tour officials have said in an emergency statement today of a severe shortage of drugs for the cyclists this year and stocks are running dry. Stocks of 19-norandrosterone, EPO and a number of various steroids are not available in Europe or USA, a spokesman for the ‘back street laboratories inc’ said they were at...
IPKat—IP news and fun for everyone (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
In a recent hearing concerning a UK patent application , Ranger Services Ltd's application, BL O/362/09, 17 November 2009, Hearing Officer Lawrence Cullen was faced with a question relating to the status of cited prior art which had been obtained from an internet archive. Rejecting the application before him, which was for a system of using an automatic number plate recognition system to detect cloned...
IP Lab Blog (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
IP5, the five major intellectual property offices including the European Patent Office ("EPO"), the United States Patent and Trademark Office ("USPTO"), the Japan Patent Office ("JPO"), the State Intellectual Property Office of the People’s Republic of China ("SIPO"), and the Korean Intellectual Property Office ("KIPO"), announced that they are...
cyclingnews.com (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
Italy's Davide Rebellin promises to return to racing despite being stripped of his Olympic silver medal Tuesday. "Even if I am not believed and I will be blamed, I will return to race to show who Davide Rebellin is to everyone," Rebellin said in a statement given to La Gazzetta dello Sport . He finished second in the men's road race August 9 at the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing, but test...
Business Wire (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Yesterday, the European Patent Office (EPO) revoked previously granted claims of Cellectis’ European Patent No. EP 1485475 during an oral hearing in an opposition proceeding initiated by Precision BioSciences. As a result of the opposition, Cellectis’ previously granted claims to single-chain meganucleases, including those derived from I-CreI,...
cyclingnews.com (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
The International Olympic Committee (IOC) announced sanctions on Wednesday against five athletes, including two cyclists, who participated in the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing for having committed anti-doping violations. All five tested positive for CERA, a third generation of the endurance-enhancing hormone, EPO. Stefan Schumacher joined Davide Rebellin on the list of cyclists receiving sanctions....
cyclingnews.com (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
The International Olympic Committee (IOC) announced sanctions on Wednesday against five athletes, including two cyclists, who participated in the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing for having committed anti-doping violations. All five tested positive for CERA, a third generation of the endurance-enhancing hormone, EPO. Stefan Schumacher joined Davide Rebellin on the list of cyclists receiving sanctions....
Fox News (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
Bahraini middle-distance runner Rashid Ramzi was stripped of his 1,500-meter Olympic gold medal Wednesday and four other athletes were disqualified for doping at the Beijing Games. Fifteen months after the games, the International Olympic Committee took action against the five athletes who tested positive in April in retroactive tests for CERA, an advanced version of the blood-boosting drug EPO.
Fox News (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
Bahraini middle-distance runner Rashid Ramzi was stripped of his 1,500-meter Olympic gold medal Wednesday and four other athletes were disqualified for doping at the Beijing Games. Fifteen months after the games, the International Olympic Committee took action against the five athletes who tested positive in April in retroactive tests for CERA, an advanced version of the blood-boosting drug EPO.
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