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when does the change take effect??
when does the change take effect??
who do you think will put out the PR...SIb Almaz..most probably????
LOL!! the transaction is not guaranteed and so it could be neither!! But base on todays PR, looks like Sib is in the process of taking over!! hope to see aPR on the 13th!!!
SOURCE Global Diamond Exchange
Alex Livak, +1-347-813-4664, info@fortuneir.com, for Global Diamond Exchange; or Andre Rumiansev of Sib Almaz, +7903 549 5906 (Beginning Wednesday, June 13, 2007)
yep, it is there in my brokerage account news!!! expecting a PR announcing grand opening of Sib Almaz in Moscow!!
I heard Grandfather clause going bye bye on June 13th!!! Probbaly that's why Don waited so long!! Can anyone confirm about grandaddy??
grand daddy clause going bye bye on 13th June!! That'll be terrific.
I checked Yahoo but did not find the contact details!!!! If that is true then we can expect another on the 13th of June!!!
where did that come from???
gubbly, can you explain further?? I don't know what you are talking about and the connection between the two!
IS that a McSub?LOL.
between 9.50 and 11.20..just shows 3 trades.......
5K, 6K and 5K blocks~~
I don't know what he is talking but mine shows.....
Vol:37,050
B/A 1.05/1.08
1.04 1.09
1.04 1.10
0.88 1.10
my L2 shows different!!!!
I meant just Flucide, Hivcide, etc....yes, even though the probability is high that it will work in humans, a successfull human model validation will do wonders!!!
Capital is the key ingredient, and of course validation in human models. IMO
that's 50,000, unless ofcourse you have your 10X loupe on!
negger, I hope it becomes the great wall of china!!! last time a few feathers blew it down!!
LOL!! will that be sweet June??
LOL!! how true!
Bull trap!! LOL!!
Mikie, so you don't believe in the buyout or you think it is going to take that long???LOL!
OT. one biotech that was touted to be a $250 stock is VION which has a potentially great drug delivery technology called TAPET. In 'in vivo' tests it has shown, without API, to have cleared cancerous lesions. It uses a mutated salmonella bacteria to target the cells. Unfortunately it (TAPET) is in cold storage on the shelf!! They decided to go the straight drug route but their phase 3 trials were disappointing and its share price is languishing at $1!!
great pics.
Cabel, thanks a lot for taking the initiative and sharing the info. I very grateful.GLTA.
must be having a suite number...like the bldg in NY?? looks like ALrosa, GBDX and other diamond businesses in the same block.
the price should allow the company to raise financing at decent levels. jmo
Surprise, surprise!! What was the reason?? I did not think any of your posts violated the TOU. Cash, do you know if Hazeltine has left for Russia??
Now, how did you arrive at that conclusion???
In humans, CMV is found throughout all geographic locations and socioeconomic groups, and infects between 50% and 80% of adults in the United States as indicated by the presence of antibodies in much of the general population.
anything that is a shape based receptor a viricide should be able to attach itself and devour!! I believe the MCD is a protein (without a nucleic acid core) with 125 amino acids or more with a lot of folds and so I think there should be plenty of receptors to host the viricide but lets first get something into the market first!!
LOL!! I don't fall into that statistical range!!!
today was definitely a drama!!LOL! this stock never ceases to give me the fits and laughter!!!
CMV is same as Herpes and I sure hope that I never get it!!!
A Viricidal????
that statement of mine is wrong....they use antivirals for HIV but may use antivirals along with antibiotics to ward of any bacterial infection that may arise.
I was thinking of antibiotics and antivirals as Drugs (classification)and hence any micro organism can learn to be resistant against drugs but your points are well taken.
What the Heck is an Antibiotic
The definition most of us use for an antibiotic is: any substance produced by a microorganism which harms or kills another microorganism. However, antibiotics DO NOT harm viruses. The reason that physicians sometimes prescribe antibiotics when you may have a viral infection, is because of the possibility that you may also acquire a bacterial infection because you are so ill with a virus - being ill places a person at risk for certain bacterial infections that are normally handled without any problem.
The overwhelming majority of antibiotic substances are natural products that certain bacteria and fungi (molds) produce and send outside of their cells. About 90% of the antibiotics in use today, are isolated from bacteria. There are a few antibiotics, however, which are completely synthetic... that is, are made from scratch in the laboratory. These particular antibiotics are designed to inhibit some process previously identified to be completely unique to bacteria, and necessary for the bacterium to remain alive.
For a bacterium or a fungus living out in the wild, if they can make something that removes or drastically "slows-down" the competition for the available nutrients, then they'll have an advantage. So, even though these microorganisms don't have the ability to decide what to make... through mutations and other events, it is possible for them to acquire such an ability to compete.. then, it is these organisms which survive more readily within the environment. We use antibiotics for a different reason, of course, that is, to help us kill harmful bacteria that cause infection and disease. To determine which antibiotic works best against a given bacterium, tests are done in the laboratory, just like the one below:
My special thanks to Raymond Lin for his permission to use the antibiotic sensitivity-plate image you see to the left of this text. A drop of liquid is removed from a culture of the bacterial cells in suspension, and the drop is placed on a Petri dish containing agar and nutrients. A sterile glass rod, bent at a 90-degree angle, is then used to spread the drop all over the surface of the agar (a spread plate). Then,small, circular, sterile discs, each saturated with a different antibiotic are dropped on the plate, equi-distant from one another. The plate is then incubated at an appropriate temperature, and one looks for zones around each disc where no growth is occurring (bacteria sensitive). If the bacterium is resistant to a given antibiotic, growth will occur all around the disc.
When taking an antibiotic, it is very important to follow all instructions from your physician and pharmacist, to the letter. While at the proper dosage most antibiotics will not hurt us, there can sometimes be harmful side-effects. Some people are allergic to a given antibiotic - allergies to penicillin or its derivatives, are relatively more common. In this case, there are other antibiotics - like cephalosporin, for example, which may be used as a substitute. And, sometimes certain types of antibiotics, like streptomycin, can cause damage to the nerves involved with balance and hearing (8th cranial nerve - vestibular and auditory branches, respectively). Therefore, after taking an antibiotic, if you experience any one of the following symptoms: feel sick to your stomach, acquire a rash, feel dizzy, or hear "ringing" in your ears, call your physician right away. Any children taking an antibiotic, should therefore be carefully monitored for any of the above symptoms.
One of the major problems we now face, is that many of the disease-causing bacteria that we know of (like staphylococcus - "staph"), have become resistant to the effects of different antibiotics. This resistance appears when a member of the bacterial population (need be only a single cell) genetically acquires the ability to destroy the antibiotic. Then, although all other members of the bacterial population may be killed, this one resistant cell will divide (as often as every 20 minutes in some cases) and produce a population that is now no longer harmed. This concern is great, because certain strains of disease-causing bacteria now have only one antibiotic remaining which will kill them. Because of this concern, there are significant efforts to find new natural sources of antibiotics, or to make completely synthetic ones in the laboratory. It is for this reason that physicians may hesitate to prescribe a certain antibiotic until it is clear that it is absolutely necessary. One of the reasons this problem now exists, is because of our prior, indiscriminate use of antibiotics in human and domestic animal health (particularly cattle and pigs). In some countries of the world, one still does not need a prescription to use an antibiotic - one may purchase them just as one may purchase aspirin.
Sometimes, we can determine exactly what an antibiotic looks like, and we can chemically add or remove some things from the original structure, and produce an altered form of the original material. This new, altered, substance is called a semi-synthetic antibiotic. These chemical changes are sometimes made to make the antibiotic last longer in our bodies. I'm sure that you are familiar with the antibiotic, penicillin, and the semi-synthetic form called Ampicillin. Penicillin is produced by a particular kind of fungus (Penicillium - a kind of fungus that can grow on bread). However, penicillin is very sensitive to stomach acid, and will be broken-down before it can do any good. It is for this reason that penicillin is given with a shot. A semi-synthetic derivative, called Ampicillin, has therefore been made, because this form is resistant to stomach acid - is why one can take Ampicillin in tablet form (better, huh?).
Back in 1929, penicillin was re-discovered by a Scottish researcher named Alexander Fleming (penicillin was originally discovered by a French medical student by the name of Duchesne). An article about penicillin and its action on bacteria can be accessed from "What the Heck Is...", or, you can access directly via this link:
What the Heck Is Penicillin?
It wasn't until 1941 in England, that an Australian (Howard Florey) and an Englishman (Ernst Chain) developed commercial methods to produce penicillin for human use. The TOTAL amount of penicillin available for use in the clinical trial on humans at that time, was LESS THAN the amount one would receive in a single shot, today! At that time, of course, World-War II was in progress, and there was a major effort to try to make penicillin available to all of the British, U.S., and other allies involved with fighting Germany, Japan, and Italy. Because England did not have the industrial capacity necessary for large-scale production, nor protection from bombing raids, the entire process was moved to the United States. It is for this reason primarily, that the pharmaceutical industry became so well-established in the U.S. Initially, only military personnel were allowed access to this life-saving material. Eventually, prior to the end of World-War II, penicillin was made available to the general public.
Luckily for me, on my death-bed suffering from measles (a virus) and from bacterial pneumonia as a child in 1944, I was allowed to have penicillin because my father was in the Army - saved my life. Thank you, Drs Fleming, Florey, and Chain for your wonderful science.
You may wish to look at the action of this antibiotic. Please see Jim Sullivan's Cells Alive! information and look at the effect penicillin has on a dividing bacterium:
http://people.ku.edu/~jbrown/antibiotic.html
that is indeed informative, thanks. probably still under research or probably given for certain viruses. I was not comparing antibiotics against viruses but rather Viricides against Viruses....Penicillin against Bacteria. Generally speaking Doctors advise pencillin(and its derivatives) for bacteria. But coming to think of it they may be currently doing it for HIV virus (I don't know).
good points Doc. Only thing I would point out is that antibiotics are not used against viruses.