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The Capital Fund Backs Stem Cell Innovators, UK - Plasticell Secures £690,000 Including First Institutional Investment
Stem cell technology pioneer, Plasticell, has secured an investment of £250,000 from The Capital Fund. Established in 2002, The Capital Fund is a £50 million venture capital fund that backs fast growing small and medium-sized companies in the Greater London area, and is the largest of the nine UK regional venture capital funds. This investment follows on from a recent injection of £440,000 into the Company by existing Plasticell shareholders and a £1.1 million grant from the DTI's Technology Programme in January to support the development of stem cell robotics. Plasticell will use the new funding to develop its innovative stem cell and drug screening products.
Plasticell is a biotechnology company that has developed and holds exclusive intellectual property rights for two complementary systems in the fields of stem cell research and regenerative medicine.
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Boost Mobile, a wholly-owned division of Sprint Nextel, has launched its wireless calling plan in Mississippi and Louisiana that provides unlimited local and nationwide long distance calling and text messaging from a large home calling area for a fixed monthly price. The unlimited local and long distance wireless voice service is $55 a month. The unlimited local and long distance wireless voice service, and unlimited text and picture messaging is $60 a month. Customers are charged 15 cents a minute to make or receive calls outside their home calling area. - From staff reports .
Emotional trek to Sierra crash site for man who lost legs at age 10
Donnie Priest pulls off his left leg and tinkers with his prosthetic ankle as casually as another hiker might tighten his bootlaces. He can see the crash site now, but it's still a thousand vertical feet above him and the route up the mountain is about to get dicey. As Priest uses an Allen wrench to adjust the angle of his carbon-fiber foot for the steepening terrain, he's beginning to have doubts. "That mountain already tried to take me once," he says, squinting up at 12,057-foot White Mountain. "Why give it the opportunity to do it twice?" On Jan. 3, 1982, a small plane carrying Priest, his mother and stepfather crashed into the peak during the deadliest winter storm to pound Northern California in a generation. Priest, then 10, was the only survivor.
Business: Martin's easy way to bleed radiators
A COVENTRY-BASED inventor is promising to revolutionise an ageold domestic task with the launch of his latest eco-friendly product. Martin O'Donnell, managing director of Green Innovations, has designed the Easybleed valve, which allows people to bleed radiators quickly and safely by simply pushing a button. The former environmental marketing specialist has already secured agreements with several major DIY chains, builders and plumbing merchants to stock the product and now aims to strike similar deals with European distributors. Mr O'Donnell, who is based at the Coventry Techno Centre, in Puma Way, said: "Air locks are very common in the home and for a radiator to work efficiently, you should really bleed it several times a year. "Traditionally, this meant unscrewing a small bleed valve with a square-headed tool and this posed several problems, from mislaying the tool to the likely scenario of rusty water spraying all over the much cherished carpet." .
Investment in employee skills training is boost for business
The Government has outlined how a massive extension of the Train to Gain scheme will offer bespoke skills brokerage and high quality responsive training to enable all employers to identify and then meet their skills needs. The doubling of funding in the Train to Gain Service is part of a massive investment programme announced this month by Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills John Denham, which will see more than £11 billion a year invested in education, employment and training. Since its launch in 2006, Train to Gain has helped more than 52,000 employers and enabled over 240,000 employees to undertake training. Just one call to the Train to Gain helpline gives employers access to an impartial and independent skills broker to help them identify their skills and other business needs, and source training from a range of available skills solutions to best meet those needs.
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