Skoda Rapid facelift might be launched in August this year

After recently introducing the new Superb, Skoda India is planning to launch the updated Rapid in India by August this year. The revised Rapid will get the long overdue exterior and the interior modifications that make it look sleeker. The

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KPI presents promising KPI-190 data at eye conference

KPI Therapeutics, a clinical stage biotechnology company presented promising pre-clinical animal results using drugs from its platform of novel Kv1.3 inhibitors as topical therapy for uveitis, an autoimmune eye disease. The results presented at the 8th Ocular Diseases Drug Discovery

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Angiogenesis factor found to promote three age-related diseases of the eye

A Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) investigator has found that increased expression of the angiogenic factor VEGF-A promotes three common aging-related eye conditions – both versions of age-related macular degeneration (AMD) and also cataracts – in an animal model. While VEGF-A

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Nintendo shares spike 8% on first smartphone app success

Nintendo shares spiked over 8 percent Tuesday after the company’s first mobile app, Miitomo, racked up a million users in three days. Miitomo was released last Thursday and over the weekend, the official Twitter account for the app announced the

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Microsoft Created a Twitter Bot to Learn From Users. It Quickly Became a Racist Jerk.

Damien Meyer | AFP | Getty Images Microsoft set out to learn about “conversational understanding” by creating a bot designed to have automated discussions with Twitterusers, mimicking the language they use. What could go wrong? If you guessed, “It will

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Human ‘hairless’ gene identified: One form of baldness explained

It’s not a hair-brained idea: A new research report appearing in the April 2014 issue of The FASEB Journal explains why people with a rare balding condition called “atrichia with papular lesions” lose their hair, and it identifies a strategy

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