We also remain fully committed to Technology and will continue to invest in our Networkers brand, including in the subsectors within Telecoms which meet our strategic criteria.

Stat: FDA Approves Akcea’s Rare Disease Drug With A Black Box Warning Akcea Therapeutics finally earned a U.S. drug approval. The Food and Drug Administration announced Friday it had approved the company’s drug, inotersen (Tegsedi), which aims to treat a rare and fatal condition known as hATTR. It’s a major win for Akcea, after the FDA declined to approve another of the company’s drugs, Waylivra, based on the same technology. But Tegsedi was approved with a black box warning — the strongest type the FDA can put on a prescription drug. (Sheridan, 10/5)

OUTLOOK ’17: Tight US styrene market poised for turnarounds The US styrene market is entering 2017 with tight supply and high prices, amid unexpected shutdowns in late 2016 and upcoming planned turnarounds in the first quarter. US styrene spot prices began to firm on 13 October, and by early December prices hit the highest level since August 2015.

Sales & Marketing trading for Winter 2018/19 (which is low season for most markets) is at a relatively early stage, with around one third of the programme sold. Performance is positive overall, with customer volumes up 2%. Bookings in most markets are ahead of prior year and tracking in line with capacity. In Nordics, we are seeing a later booking profile this Winter, in line with the market, against strong prior year comparatives and as a knock-on impact from the prolonged hot Summer in Scandinavia. Average selling price overall for Sales & Marketing is down 1% on prior year. This reflects a proactive remix of capacity, enabling us to capitalise on the returning popularity of North Africa and Turkey, and also to reduce our capacity to the Canaries where demand is normalising.

By combining proven Fizeau etalon technology with automatic calibration, the reliable accuracy needed for the most meaningful experimental results is ensured. What’s more, a sustained measurement rate of 1 kHz enables the wavelength characterization of every single pulse for most lasers.

"We will provide the molecule at a cost-competitive price compared to existing oil-based materials and substantially below the traditional chemical-based route," he said.

fig. S5. Quantitation of relative tube area of hMVECs cocultured with B16F0s precultured on torus-patterned and representative immunofluorescence images for each condition.

OUTLOOK ’17: US mid-cut fatty alcohols face feedstock pressure Feedstock pressures will continue to push on US mid-cut detergent range fatty alcohols moving into the first quarter of 2017. Benchmark lows marked the first quarter of 2016 as C12-14 natural fatty alcohols were broadly oversupplied and at least one new importer entered the US market with aggressive pricing.

Polarized Polyvinyl Alcohol (PVA) Films Market By Application – LCD Panels – Others (sunglasses, optical fibers)

The Washington Post: Good Memory Can Be Trained These Wizards Find Let’s start with a number that many have come across in math class: pi, the ratio of a circle’s circumference to its diameter. It begins with 3.14159 . . . and carries on forever. It is infinite and irrational, never ending and never repeating, and people are drawn into its orbit. To some, the attraction is spiritual; to others, the pull may be explained by the “because it’s there” reasoning of mountaineers. Memory athletes — so called because of their intensive training in games of the mind — in particular are drawn to the endlessness of pi. (Hooper, 10/7)

The New York Times: Why Half A Degree Of Global Warming Is A Big Deal Half a degree may not sound like much. But as the report details, even that much warming could expose tens of millions more people worldwide to life-threatening heat waves, water shortages and coastal flooding. Half a degree may mean the difference between a world with coral reefs and Arctic summer sea ice and a world without them. (Plumer and Popovich, 10/7)

By Junmin Lee, Amr A. Abdeen, Jamila Hedhli, Kathryn L. Wycislo, Iwona T. Dobrucki, Timothy M. Fan, Lawrence W. Dobrucki, Kristopher A. Kilian