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BBC News
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A South Korean company says it has taken its first order for the cloning of a pet dog.
A woman from the United States wants her dead pitbull terrier - called Booger - re-created.
RNL Bio is charging the woman, from California, $150,000 (�76,000) t..
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BBC News
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A court in Paris has convicted French oil company Total of "maritime pollution" over France's worst oil disaster in 1999.
The tanker Erika sank 75km (45 miles) off the coast of Brittany, leaking 20,000 tonnes of oil into the sea.
Fuel contaminated 4..
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SF Gate
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It's like a James Bond film come to life. A company based on a tiny island in the British archipelago parachuted into San Jose on Thursday to become the first private team to enter a race to reach the moon by 2014 and thereby pocket most of a $30 million..
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BBC News
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Insulin produced by genetically modified plants - with a human gene added - could be on the market in three years, a Canadian company has claimed.
Sembiosys said it has made scientific breakthroughs and found a short cut through current drug regulation..
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BBC News
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The first private manned mission to the International Space Station (ISS) is set to go ahead in 2011, a US space tourism company has announced.
The mission has been agreed between the company Space Adventures and the Russian federal space agency.
A..
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BBC News
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The Sea Launch company has returned to flight with a mission to loft a telecoms satellite to serve the Middle East and the Asia-Pacific region.
The firm's Zenit 3SL rocket lifted off from its converted oil rig platform stationed in the Pacific at 1149..
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BusinessWeek
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With the company facing billions in lost sales, its research chief is set on doing things differently
During Martin Mackay's 12-year stint as a research executive at Pfizer, he felt suffocated by what he calls "a morass of committees." Megamergers with..
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CNN
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A San Francisco company said Friday it plans to build the world's largest solar power farm near Fresno, California. The 80-megawatt farm is to occupy as much as 640 acres and upon completion in 2011 will be 17 times the size of the largest U.S. solar farm..
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BBC News
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A US company plans to dump iron filings into the sea off the Galapagos Islands in an experiment to remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.
But the plans have alarmed the US government and conservationists.
The firm Planktos intends to sell carbon..
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Yahoo News
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When a billionaire who keeps company with Martha Stewart goes into space, he can't be expected to eat freeze-dried spaghetti and wash it down with powdered orange drink.
Space Adventures Ltd., the company that will be sending software mogul Charles Sim..
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