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Fish-Skin Medical Company Completes Funding Round

Kerecis to Use US$2 Million Investment to Further Develop Its Tissue-Regeneration Technology REYKJAVIK, ICELAND and ISAFJORDUR, ICELAND–(Marketwired – Feb 21, 2014) – Kerecis Limited, the emerging tissue-regeneration company, today announced that it has secured US$2 million in series A3 funding. All existing investors participated in the investment round with the addition of two new investors. The money will be spent to further develop MariGen Omega3, the company’s tissue-regeneration technology. MariGen […]

91 million Americans aren't looking for jobs

The unemployment rate isn’t always the best measure of the job market, because it only includes people who have actively searched for work within the last four weeks. Many Americans just aren’t looking for jobs. In fact, about 91 million adult Americans don’t work, and aren’t looking for jobs. They make up 37% of the population — the highest level on record since 1978. Yes, some of them are workers […]

Winter storm leaves 25 dead in US East Coast, more than 2,100 flights cancelled

People help push a stranded motorist stuck in deep snow Philadelphia:  A winter storm that brought snow and ice to the US East Coast moved off-shore today, leaving at least 25 people dead and hundreds of thousands without power and causing a large pileup in Pennsylvania that injured 30 people. The deaths included a pregnant woman struck by a mini-plow in New York City whose baby was then born by […]

From bean to bar: Why chocolate will never taste the same again

More than a third of the world’s cocoa is grown in Ivory Coast, West Africa. STORY HIGHLIGHTS CNN’s Freedom Project returned to Africa’s cocoa plantations to look for progress in fight against child labor Ivory Coast produces more than one third of all the world’s cocoa, but many farmers live in poverty The cocoa industry supports about six million people in the West African nation Growers’ position at the bottom […]

Global Illness

A look at diabetes prevalence and diabetes-related expenditures around the world     Please follow and like us:

 
 
 

Domestic pets funniest videos

  Squirrel hides nuts in a Bernese Mountain dog (as seen on Ridiculousness) English Mastiff and Bernese Mountain dog play with baby Squirrel. BABY MONKEY and BERNESE MOUNTAIN DOG playing   Please follow and like us:

Volcanic ash smothers part of Indonesia, kills 15

STORY HIGHLIGHTS Hot ash up to 700 degrees raced down the mountain’s slope in just a few minutes Jakarta Post: This is the first time Mount Sinabung’s eruptions have resulted in deaths A recovery operation was scheduled for Sunday The 15 victims simply couldn’t outrun the searing debris that billowed out of Indonesia’s Mount Sinabung. Plumes of ash had spewed more than a mile into the sky Saturday and descended […]

Top food to improve your eyesight

Spinach is rich in lutein antioxidant that makes your eyes look young. Also it is located in carrots, kale and pumpkin, and fulfilling the health maintenance of your vision combined with bilberry extract. Carrot are rich in beta-carotene, which the body converts into vitamin A ~ particularly important nutrient for good vision at night. Nuts and avocados – These fruits are a great source of vitamin E, which is an […]

Hundreds of living, dead pythons found in California home

A schoolteacher was arrested on Wednesday after hundreds of living and dead pythons in plastic bins were found stacked floor to ceiling inside his stench-filled suburban California home. As investigators wearing respirator masks carried the reptiles out of the house by the score and stacked them in the driveway, reporters and passers-by gagged at the smell. Some held their noses or walked away from the five-bedroom home to get a […]