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  • Discarded kidneys could be recycled to produce replacement organs

    Textiles Industry News.Net

    Researchers have found that human kidneys discarded for transplant can potentially serve as a natural "scaffolding material" for manufacturing replacement organs in the lab using regenerative medicine techniques. According to the researchers at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center and colleagues, more than 2,600 donor kidneys are discarded each year in the U.S. "With about 100,000 people in the ...

  • Smartphone cloud based system to help detect counterfeits

    fibre2fashion

    A new London based system will allow consumers to verify directly with the brand if a product is real or fake before they buy, using their smartphone.The system, called Authicode, can even be set to share details like where and when a product was made or if the facility that made it was compliant. This in itself is a feature which in the wake of the horrific Bangladesh disaster is particularly ...

  • Richemont fashion and accessories head steps down

    Reuters

    ZURICH | Tue May 21, 2013 1:54am EDT ZURICH May 21 (Reuters) - Richemont said Marty Wikstrom is resigning as chief executive of its fashion and accessories businesses, the latest in a string of recent management changes at the world's second biggest luxury group. The maker of Cartier watches said Wikstrom, who had held the position since 2009, was resigning from the position with ...

  • Bangladeshi police attack garment workers’ protest

    wsws.org

    , Karl Johan Persson, the CEO of the Hennes & Mauritz (H&M), said that the company is looking for locations in Central and South America or in Africa. The Hasina government faces a massive political crisis as working class opposition deepens. It is desperately trying to deflect discontent among workers and maintain cheap labour conditions. About 3.7 million workers, mostly young women, ...

  • SanDisk Advances Its Industry-Leading Manufacturing Technology

    General Sources

    SNDK ), a global leader in flash memory storage solutions, today announced it has begun customer sampling of flash memory products based on its industry-leading 1Ynm process technology, which represents its second generation 19 nanometer (nm) manufacturing technology. SanDisk's achievement of this breakthrough in semiconductor manufacturing takes its memory cell size from ...

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  • Impax board steps in to oversee Hayward manufacturing issues

    Business Journal

    Larry Hsu is president and CEO of generic drug maker Impax Laboratories Inc. Stung by problems at its Hayward manufacturing plant that led federal regulators not to approve a treatment for Parkinson's disease symptoms, Impax Laboratories Inc. established a compliance committee on its board of directors. The FDA's citation of problems at the Hayward plant are important from the standpoint ...

  • E.Land and K-Swiss Inc. Announce Strategic Acquisition of OTZ Shoes Inc.

    CNW Group

    K-Swiss Inc., owner of the K-Swiss and Palladium brands, announced today the strategic acquisition of Malibu, California-based contemporary comfort footwear brand

  • Police remove 17 bodies from Modesto Calif. funeral home

    Middle East Times

    Seventeen bodies were removed from a Modesto, Calif., funeral home in a criminal and civil investigation of cremation delays, sheriff's deputies said. The business was identified as the McGuire Cremation and Funeral Service, the Los Angeles Times reported. The unusual move by the Stanislaus County, Calif., Sheriff's Department, at the request of the county coroner, came after the ...

  • How Is the Kardashians’ New Clothing Collection Not Called “Photoshop for Dorothy Perkins”

    Vanity Fair

    the Kardashian sisters' new line for Dorothy Perkins ? The one with the intro video with lower production values than my mother's sex tape? Because what I'm looking at here,

  • Miami County manufacturer expanding hiring 20 workers

    Business Journal

    Aerovent is building an 8,500-square-foot warehouse behind its 75,000-square-foot air handling system manufacturing facility in Covington. A manufacturing plant in Covington is expanding to accommodate a new product line and almost doubling its employment. Aerovent, a subsidiary of Minneapolis-based Twin City Fan Company, is building an 8,500-square-foot warehouse behind its 75,000-square-foot ...

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