GRAND RAPIDS - The Critical Path Institute Predictive Safety Testing Consortium, which includes Grand Rapids-based ClinXus, has identified seven new tests to assess the safety of new drugs in development, specifically to monitor the drugs' effects on the kidneys. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration and its equivalent in Europe, the European Medicines Agency, recently
DALLAS - AT&T on Tuesday announced the global launch of a next-generation utility computing service with managed networking, security and storage. Synaptic Hosting is aimed at business. The new utility computing service combines technology acquired from USinternetworking with five "super Internet data centers in the United States, Europe and Asia. AT&T has a total of
GRAND RAPIDS - The West Michigan Science & Technology Initiative has expanded its membership program previously known as BioTech Connect. Now it's called Connect2, a collection of more than 100 companies, corporations and organizations. WMSTI officials said the new name was selected to better reflect the wide range of industries served by the program, and
DETROIT - Automation Alley members will soon have the opportunity to rent 5000 square feet of dedicated space at TechTown, the Wayne State University research and technology park - in a new partnership that could redefine what entrepreneurial supports groups can do in Michigan. In exchange, Automation Alley will provide TechTown with what the technology
ANN ARBOR - Antivirus software on your personal computer could become a thing of the past thanks to a new "cloud computing" approach to malicious software detection developed at the University of Michigan. Cloud computing refers to applications and services provided seamlessly on the Internet. Traditional antivirus software is installed on millions of individual computers
SAN FRANCSICO - Twitter's time has finally come. The microblogging service, once the playground of the Web 2.0 digerati, is now mainstream enough to be targeted by online criminals. Kaspersky Lab has uncovered a fake Twitter profile created solely for the purpose of infecting people's computers, CNET News.Com reported. The profile, with an alias that
DETROIT - After a rash of negative publicity, biofuels backers say that advanced technologies will reshape the industry, making ethanol from sustainably grown sources cost-effective within a few years. General Motors on Friday convened a panel of experts from cutting-edge ethanol companies that described different technologies--acid hydrolysis, specialty microbes, and genetically engineered energy crops--which they
WASHINGTON DC - The Federal Reserve, on Tuesday held overnight interest rates charged its largest customers - primarily banks - at 2 percent, while indicating it had continued worries about weaker economic growth ahead. In a statement accompanying its decision, the Fed sought to straddle the line between continuing inflation concerns and the risk of
LANSING - Saying Michigan's automakers would not have to "beg and plead" to be heard at the White House, presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama urged a Lansing crowd to support his proposal to change the nation's energy system so that in 10 years it no longer needs imported oil from the Middle East and
LANSING - Processing an initiative petition to amend the Constitution is essentially a ministerial duty that does not include having the state review a proposed amendment to see if it is constitutional, the state said in its reply to the lawsuit attempting to stop placement of the Reform Michigan Government Now! proposal on the November