Monthly Archives: September 2009
Gene therapy for blood disorder patient advances
BEIJING, Sept. 16 — A 21-year-old patient, who needed monthly transfusions to survive since 3, has made “remarkable” progress after receiving treatment to correct faulty DNA, media reports said Thursday. The unnamed patient, suffering from beta-thalassemia, was treated in Paris … Continue reading
Yahoo board member Icahn trims stakes with sale of 12.7m shares
BEIJING, Sept. 1 — Carl Icahn, one of Yahoo Inc.’s largest stockholders, has already sold 12.7 million shares, reducing his holdings to a 4.5 percent stake, according to media reports Tuesday. Icahn made the sale in the stock market’s last … Continue reading
Service outage hits “majority” of Gmail users
BEIJING, Sept. 2 — Gmail, Google’s popular free e-mail service, failed for more than an hour Tuesday in many places, affecting a “majority” of its millions of email users. The outage affected “a majority” of Gmail users, the company said, … Continue reading