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Phase I clinical trials have begun for a vaccine that kills cancer cells and prevents disease relapse. I hope that this trial goes well and that the vaccine progresses...a cancer vaccine would be a huge benefit to society:
http://nextbigfuture.com/2012/01/phase-i-clinical-trials-for-dendritic.html
UCLA researchers used embryonic stem cells to treat 2 legally blind women, and both women appear to gain back some vision after the experimental treatment. This was the first test in humans for stem cells and the results are very preliminary, though promising:
http://www.rdmag.com/News/2012/01/Life-Science-Diseases-Genetics-Study-Stem-cells-may-aid-vision-in-blind-people/
The Supreme Court ruled that law enforcement agencies have to get a judge's approval before using GPS technology to track a suspect. The 9-0 ruling says that GPS surveillance violated constitutional rights, which is a game-changer for electronic surveillance in this country:
http://www.homelandsecuritynewswire.com/srlet20120124-supreme-court-rules-against-gps-tracking
Apple reportedly spent $100 mil on its first patent lawsuit against HTC--Apple started out with 84 claims based on 10 patents, but HTC was ruled to infringe on only 1 of those patents. That patent was for pressing on a phone number in an email or Web page to call of text that number. HTC can resolve their infringement by removing that feature or finding a different way to accomplish that basic task:
http://www.realdanlyons.com/blog/2012/01/23/rumor-apple-spent-100-million-in-its-first-case-against-htc-and-got-almost-nothing/
Verizon sold 14 million Android phones and 10.8 million iPhones during 2011, with Q4 sales of 4.2 million iPhones and 3 million Android/BlackBerry/Windows smartphones. The huge number of iPhone 4S sales reduced Verizon's wireless profits significantly due to the heavy subsidy that Verizon pays Apple, but they will make more than enough money back over time:
http://money.cnn.com/2012/01/24/technology/verizon_earnings/
http://nextbigfuture.com/2012/01/phase-i-clinical-trials-for-dendritic.html
UCLA researchers used embryonic stem cells to treat 2 legally blind women, and both women appear to gain back some vision after the experimental treatment. This was the first test in humans for stem cells and the results are very preliminary, though promising:
http://www.rdmag.com/News/2012/01/Life-Science-Diseases-Genetics-Study-Stem-cells-may-aid-vision-in-blind-people/
The Supreme Court ruled that law enforcement agencies have to get a judge's approval before using GPS technology to track a suspect. The 9-0 ruling says that GPS surveillance violated constitutional rights, which is a game-changer for electronic surveillance in this country:
http://www.homelandsecuritynewswire.com/srlet20120124-supreme-court-rules-against-gps-tracking
Apple reportedly spent $100 mil on its first patent lawsuit against HTC--Apple started out with 84 claims based on 10 patents, but HTC was ruled to infringe on only 1 of those patents. That patent was for pressing on a phone number in an email or Web page to call of text that number. HTC can resolve their infringement by removing that feature or finding a different way to accomplish that basic task:
http://www.realdanlyons.com/blog/2012/01/23/rumor-apple-spent-100-million-in-its-first-case-against-htc-and-got-almost-nothing/
Verizon sold 14 million Android phones and 10.8 million iPhones during 2011, with Q4 sales of 4.2 million iPhones and 3 million Android/BlackBerry/Windows smartphones. The huge number of iPhone 4S sales reduced Verizon's wireless profits significantly due to the heavy subsidy that Verizon pays Apple, but they will make more than enough money back over time:
http://money.cnn.com/2012/01/24/technology/verizon_earnings/