Discovery Closer to Going Public
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The parent company of Discovery Communications said yesterday that it was in preliminary talks to buy out shareholder Advance/Newhouse Communications, another step toward taking Discovery public.
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The initiative is evidence that U.S. companies and universities are searching for ways to be less hampered by legal wrangling about who holds the patents to research.
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Scientists believe they are close to a significant breakthrough in the treatment of spinal injuries.
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Researchers get a new tool to determine protein structures.
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New technologies will shed light on how beneficial bacteria might help our health.
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The social networking site that's more networking than social wants to go public.
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Helicos BioSciences Corp. of Cambridge, a 71-person firm trying to develop a faster way to analyze genes, is planning to go public in a $100 million stock offering.
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Interactive, detailed maps of the human brain and genome will spur new discoveries.
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Big Blue's decision to open patents to public scrutiny could spur innovation.
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Pedestrians in major cities are familiar by now with Discovery Communications' oversize outdoor ad presence. It frequently uses phone kiosks and other so-called "street furniture" to help brand its TV networks with still shots of dinosaurs, exotic locales or the latest high-tech weaponry and other fare from its stable of original programming.
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Genetics pioneer Craig Venter has news from the frontiers of biology.
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The $73.5 billion global biotech business may soon have to grapple with a discovery that calls into question the scientific principles on which it was founded.
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Companies selling stock to the  American public would be allowed to talk much more freely about  it, and even advertise, under a proposal given preliminary  approval on Tuesday by federal regulators.
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Blog: With that purpose in mind, space agency plans to share info with private industry.
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Users will be able to choose whether their pages are revealed to outside search engines.
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NASA&#39;s space shuttle Discovery moved a step closer toward launch Monday as engineers worked to join the orbiter with the twin rocket boosters and fuel tank that will aid its flight into space next month.
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Officials at EarthLink&#39;s (Quote, Chart) R&amp;D facility have quietly released a proof-of-concept file-sharing application based on the Session Initiated Protocol (define).