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RegeneRx Biopharmaceuticals, Inc. (RGRX) TB4 Treatment Shown to Provide Both Neuroprotection and Neurorestoration after Traumatic Brain Injury in Rat Model

RegeneRx Biopharmaceuticals stated that data regarding their novel, therapeutic peptide, Thymosin beta 4 (TB4), was published in the May 2012 edition of the Journal of Neurosurgery, 116:1081—1092. The data shows that TB4 “provides both neuroprotection and neurorestoration after traumatic brain injury (TBI).”

The aims of the study were to test if TB4 treatment decreases brain damage and improves functional recovery in rats if the treatment is initiated 6 hours after traumatic brain injury. The research team states, “Compared with saline administration, TB4 treatment initiated 6 hours postinjury significantly improved sensorimotor functional recovery and spatial learning, reduced cortical lesion volume and hippocampal cell loss, and enhanced cell proliferation and neurogenesis in the injured hippocampus. Thymosin B4 treatment initiated 6 hours postinjury provides both neuroprotection and neurorestoration after TBI, indicating that TB4 has promising therapeutic potential in patients with TBI.”

“These results are extremely encouraging and are consistent with results of TB4 administration in other Central nervous system injuries, as well as in cardiovascular injury models. Moreover, the reduction of brain damage, improved motor function, and regeneration of injured brain tissue, when TB4 is administered 6 hours after TBI, suggest that it could potentially be useful for the treatment of brain traumas seen in the military, the workplace and in contact sports,” stated Dr. Allan Goldstein, Professor and Chairman Emeritus, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, The George Washington University School of Medicine, Washington, D.C. Dr. Goldstein is also chairman of and chief scientific advisor to RegeneRx.

The research team consisted of Xiong Y, Zhang Y, Mahmood A, Meng Y, Zhang ZG, Morris DC, and Chopp MJ. The researchers are from the Departments of Neurosurgery, Neurology, and Emergency Medicine at the Henry Ford Hospital System (HFHS), in Detroit, Michigan, and Department of Physics, Oakland University, in Rochester, Michigan, in accordance with a material transfer agreement between the RegeneRx Biopharmaceuticals, Inc. and Henry Ford Hospital.

For more information, please visit www.regenerx.com

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Unwired Planet, Inc. (UPIP) Captures Silicon Valley Airspace with Branded Zeppelin Promoting Pioneering Role Inventing the Mobile Internet

Unwired Planet (formerly, Openwave Systems, Inc.) has an impressive Intellectual Property (IP) track record, assembling a portfolio of over 200 issued U.S. and foreign patents (plus some 75 pending applications), with many of these key technologies being essentially foundational to mobile communications. The company practically invented the Mobile Internet and today announced a new pioneering breakthrough with the launch of a company-branded Zeppelin to take flight in the skies over Silicon Valley.

The flight plan calls for a month of airtime, driving awareness of the company’s rebirth as Unwired Planet, the founder of the Mobile Internet. Additionally, this endeavor will help to promote the company and industry itself by underscoring the important role that UPIP inventors/innovators have played, not only improving perception of the significant economic value created by UPIP’s tech pioneers, but their tremendous impact on the mobile communications industry as a whole.

Brilliant move for UPIP, which is focused on a core strategy emphasizing a multi-faceted, IP-amassing approach centered on deriving substantial shareholder value through aggressive licensing/partnering (and enforcement if necessary).

This announcement marks the first time a B2B technology company like Airship Ventures has thrown in on a sponsorship for a branded Zeppelin over Silicon Valley. The branding partnership between UPIP and Airship Ventures is a spectacular move that should really turn heads throughout the insular and extremely cohesive Silicon Valley community/culture. The company clearly knows what they are doing with this strategy and the anticipated attention this campaign will bring to both the change over in company branding and the core IP portfolio that spans mobile/smart device, cloud technology, and unified messaging platforms, will likely result in amplification of their monetization capacity.

CEO of UPIP, Mike Mulica, threw a spotlight on the primary role played by the company and its historical inventors in building the modern wireless internet environment, confident that this roll out will spark the imaginations of Silicon Valley goers, driving brand awareness for the new identity that is firmly grounded in the vital role played by UPIP. Mulica noted how the Unwired Planet name/concept revivifies that incredibly visionary period of the nascent mobile space, back when the foundational mobile patents were first issued, before any of the convenience we today take for granted was even realized.

Bold moves and statements, but then again we are talking about the company that did the planet’s first ever Wireless Access Protocol (WAP) deployment and has developed technology that plays a critical infrastructural role in the operations of high-profile massive players like AT&T, Comcast, Deutsche Telekom, Time Warner Cable, T-Mobile, Virgin Mobile, Vodacom, and Vodafone (to name just a few).

In a new analytical breakdown by Morgan Stanley, this robust space, dominated by devices like the Kindle, iPhone, Android, other smartphones, wireless tablets, wireless gaming systems, and even more advanced GPS devices (all of which are constantly improving as hardware/software improves), is projected to exceed desktop internet use by 2015. This means that the mobile space will be the new primary venue for activity and thus UPIP is well-positioned with its IP portfolio for the growth that will inevitably result from the burgeoning mobile pipeline.

In fact, with so much traffic migrating to mobile, UPIP’s multi-pronged patent monetization strategy (empowered by hard line moves like their recent International Trade Commission complaint filing, requesting that AAPL and RIM imports of smartphones into the U.S. be barred by the agency, as the company posits their patents are infringed thereby) should reap increasingly generous rewards for the company’s shareholders (the company filed a similar complaint in a federal district court in Delaware). The company believes it has a strong legal position to aggress the massive revenue generated by these large companies that have profited off of technology created by Unwired Planet.

A decade and a half on the front lines of the war to unify the world through internet connectivity, UPIP looks ready to re-emerge with a strong IP hand in the mobile space.

For more information on this Redwood City, California-headquartered mobile tech pioneer, head on over to the Unwired Planet, Inc. website at: www.UnwiredPlanet.com

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Quasar Aerospace Industries, Inc. (QASP) Brings Together the Best

Quasar Aerospace is a Florida-based holding company comprised of strategic subsidiaries in the aerospace industry, with a current focus on aircraft pilot training and aircraft services. Their goal has been to pursue a synergistic business strategy that combines carefully chosen aviation/aerospace business into an integrated and self-supporting network, which will have the ability to operate in a more complex strategic environment and to achieve greater success than would have been possible if they were operating individually.

Quasar targets companies with a proven track record and significant consolidated cash flow. The company does not intend to take over the operation of these already successful companies, but rather to have them retain their operational independence and unique corporate cultures. Quasar will simply provide them a supportive network from which they will all gain, through things like scalable economies and cooperative agreements.

To date, Quasar has brought together the following:

• Atlantic Aviation operates a flight school at Herlong Airport in Jacksonville, Florida, and plans to develop and operate flight schools nationwide to train aviation professionals around the country.

• Corporate Air Repair in Jacksonville, Florida, is categorized under Aircraft and Heavy Equipment Repair Services.

• A-Cent Aviation is the #1 flight training facility in Colorado Springs, with a safety record showing no accidents or incidents since opening in 2001.

A-Cent Aviation, as an example, has what some consider to be the best general aviation flight simulator of its kind in its home state of Colorado, a fully enclosed aircraft cockpit simulator with a 120-degree ultra-high resolution visual presentation. The company’s FAA testing center is strategically located in areas where demand is high and supply is low.

As aviation expands in developing countries, the anticipated worldwide pilot shortage is increasing the need for qualified flight training facilities, and Quasar is aggressively positioning itself to take advantage of that demand.

For more information, see the company website at www.QuasarAero.com

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SunOpta, Inc. (STKL) to Divest Its Canadian Natural Health Products Business

SunOpta is a leading global company in its sector, focused on natural, organic, and specialty food products. Its core operations focus on value-added grains, fiber, and fruit-based products, supported by its global infrastructure with integrated operations, from seed through to the final packaged products.

The company announced today that it has signed a definitive agreement to sell its Canadian natural products distribution business, operated as Purity Life Natural Health Products, to an affiliate of Banyan Capital Partners. The transaction is valued at C$14.7 million and is expected to close, subject to certain conditions, early in June 2012.

Purity Life Natural Health Products distributes a wide range of natural health products, including dietary supplements, vitamins, natural body care, and environmentally-friendly household goods throughout Canada, and also manufactures a number of natural health care products. It is believed the company is the biggest stand-alone distributor of these types of products in Canada, with annual revenues of approximately C$60 million.

The sale of Purity is part of SunOpta’s strategy to focus on its core integrated natural and organic foods sourcing and processing platform. The company had sold its US food distribution assets in mid-2010 and this transaction now completes its exit from the distribution business. SunOpta’s president and CEO, Steve Bromley, said, “This transaction further simplifies and focuses our business model while strengthening our balance sheet and positioning our company for future growth opportunities.”

For additional information about SunOpta and its business, please visit the company’s website at www.sunopta.com

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ThermoEnergy Corp. (TMEN) System Assists Airports in Meeting New EPA De-Icing Regulations

ThermoEnergy announced that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s final regulations regarding airport de-icing operations offer an opportunity for the company to assist airports in protecting the environment and saving money.

New regulations were put in place to protect the nation’s water, and they call for a more stringent permitting process for the collection of used aircraft de-icing fluids (ADF) and for removing chemical oxygen demand (COD) agents such as propylene glycol. The new rules also require the use of best available technology standards (BAT) at every airport that directly discharges wastewater in U.S. waterways. In addition, the new standards call for a minimum COD effluent removal rate of 97%.

ThermoEnergy’s ADF Recovery System can meet and exceed BAT performance standards and boasts a recovery of glycol of 99% purity that meets ASTM standards for recovered glycol. This elevated purity of the recovered glycol allows airports to sell it to recyclers and generate revenue to offset de-icing operational costs. This is a potentially huge benefit to airports, as new EPA rules are expected to cause a significant increase in de-icing operational costs.

“We can reduce the cost of de-icing operations by up to 50% by recycling the spent glycol in the aircraft de-icing fluid,” said ThermoEnergy Chairman and CEO, Cary Bullock. “We look forward to providing airports and the environment with the benefits our technology.”

Inland Waters of Ohio has been successfully operating a ThermoEnergy ADF Recovery System for five years at Cleveland Hopkins International Airport. To view a video of that glycol recovery system, visit http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KJjnmns.

For further information, please visit www.thermoenergy.com

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Beacon Enterprise Solutions Group, Inc. (BEAC) and Executive Stock Purchases

The purchase of stock by a company’s own executives has always drawn the attention of investors. There are a number of different reasons that one or more members of a company’s management team may choose to purchase the company’s stock, and there are associated limitations regarding when they are, or are not, allowed to do it. Correspondingly, every investor seems to have their own ideas about why such purchases may be significant.

Perhaps the main reason investors want to know about in-house stock purchases is the perceived possibility, even though there are obviously restrictions on dealing shares based upon insider information, that a company’s executives may know something outsiders do not. These are the people, after all, who are running the company every day, who must have an intimate knowledge of its strengths and weaknesses, and who should have a vision of where the organization is headed. Although there are studies that suggest insider purchases may indeed signal an upward movement in share price, there are many variables to consider. Is the purchase being made by an outside director or an inside executive? Is it just one executive or many? Is the purchase mostly for PR reasons, or based upon a real confidence in the company’s future? And just how long term is that confidence?

When Beacon Enterprise, a global provider of Information Technology infrastructure solutions, recently announced that their senior management and directors will be making voluntary open-market purchases of the company’s common stock at various prices, and that the company will establish a formal Executive Stock Purchase Program, it carried some weight. The reason was that it involved a number of executives who had expressed a personal desire to engage in such purchases, following a required waiting period after the filing of Beacon’s 10Q. The statement suggested that there was a general feeling that the company’s share price was a bargain based upon its market value and growth prospects.

For additional information, visit the company’s website at www.AskBeacon.com

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Thwapr, Inc. (THWI) Joins Forces with Asian Marketing and Branding Company Shyalala to Expand into Asia Pacific

Mobile video sharing company Thwapr announced it has signed an exclusive agreement with Shyalala, a leading marketing and branding company in Asia, to develop new business opportunities by introducing Thwapr as a new Asian visual communication channel through which brands and personalities can engage their communities.

Delivering end-to-end marketing and branding solutions for multi-national companies, award-winning agency Shyalala has worked with such brands as Pepsi, Esprit, Calvin Klein, BHP Billiton, and ExxonMobil and has rolled out campaigns in Singapore, Hong Kong, Beijing, and Shanghai. Through the partnership, Shyalala will work closely with Thwapr in delivering a strategy for building community engagement services using Thwapr’s proprietary mobile video sharing technology. Shyalala will additionally leverage its business relationships and alliances to integrate Thwapr as part of its current offering. Thwapr will provide technical support and the resources needed to service the Asia Pacific marketplace.

Marketers in Asia sell mobile as an integral extension of traditional brand marketing techniques; furthermore, Asia will continue dominating the global mobile advertising space with an anticipated 33.6% share of the $20.6 billion mobile ad revenue forecasted for 2015. Shyalala projects that the next growth market will be creating a perpetual mobile community for brands to deliver and share mobile video. Through the partnership with Shyalala, Thwapr will be positioned to fill a void in Asia in delivering solutions to marketers for a broad variety of mobile devices – not just smartphones.

Thwapr, a mobile video sharing platform company, has engineered a proprietary technology to deliver optimum mobile video quality and the best possible user experience regardless of a user’s device, network, or carrier. The company’s seamless, device-indifferent process enables users to socialize video content and provides a solution for monetizing the mobile community. Thwapr was founded by digital video pioneers from Apple, Avid, and MTV, and the company’s patent-pending technology provides brands and marketers with a new visual communication channel to engage hundreds of millions of consumers with Web-enabled mobile devices.

For more information, visit the company’s Web site at www.thwapr.com

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Texas Gulf Energy, Inc. (TXGE) Reports on Exceptional Q1 Performance, Including Revenues Up 60% to $9.1M

Texas Gulf Energy, via its wholly-owned subsidiaries, like the company’s primary operating arm, International Plant Services (IPS), provides a broad spectrum of integrated energy services, from oil/gas production and project management, to professional consulting for both domestic and international refinery, chemical, construction, mining, and power concerns.

Chairman and CEO of TXGE, David Mathews, reported on results from operations today, in conjunction with release of the company’s full 10-Q (available on their website) for Q1, underscoring the whopping 60% increase in revenues from last year, as TXGE has pulled in some $9.1M in the first quarter of this year (largely due to increased utilization at IPS and the improved underlying market conditions). Mathews expressed the great confidence management has in the overall business model’s performance, explaining that operations have already significantly exceeded expectations.

The job they have done building this company since its inception in 2003 is indeed remarkable, bringing together a family of subsidiaries who have become widely known and trusted throughout the energy markets as providing exemplary construction capabilities and the skilled person to execute. As the company enters its tenth year of operations, things are really looking up, with the earned reputation really paying off amid continued increases in domestic hydrocarbon activity, and the company’s subsidiaries providing everything from wellhead services to consulting.

The U.S. has truly re-emerged as a frontline in the global energy resource production sector and taking a look at Q1 data coming out of TXGE, we have a good barometer of this resurgence. Comparing the figures for Q1 to the same period last year, we see:

Revenues (consolidated) – up 60% to $9.1M
Gross Profits – up 16% to 21.6%, or $1.96M on improved utilization/rates
Employee Utilization – up 19% to a very healthy 95%
Customer Rates were improved across the board, as well as Vendor Rates

Additionally, there were three large, one-time expense items associated with the acquisition of three companies by TXGE, for which the company incurred fees and non-cash compensation expenses totaling $414k. Thus, SG&A Expense (expressed as a percentage of revenue) was up roughly 9% to $1.9M, closing the quarter at around 21% (when compared to last year’s figures), due in large part to the higher operating costs associated with new units being brought online that were not yet producing (as well as certain other costs associated with becoming a fully reporting public company and other ancillary acquisitive/strategic efforts). This expense is projected by management to drop sharply as new business units bring more projects on board, with the associated revenues offsetting SG&A, in accordance with the company’s plan for 2012.

Clearly, TXGE has invested a great deal of time and effort assembling a portfolio of services companies, and made a name for itself among top industry players like Chevron, Conoco Phillips, and Exxon Mobil in the process. Results are reflected in the company’s Q1 bottom line and readily extensible as the domestic hydrocarbon area not only shows no signs of slowing down, but is in fact speeding up dramatically as new hydrocarbon resources are discovered right here at home and in emerging markets abroad as well. The company has continually sought to integrate its envelope of offerings and today stands atop an impressive foundation of some of the most skilled armies of engineering, construction, technical, skilled craft, and project management personnel anywhere.

With a guy like David Mathews at the helm, it’s not hard to see why TXGE has risen so meteorically into the skies over the Texas gulf (he took Inserv Construction Services in Houston from startup to industry powerhouse in just four years). So confident is Matthews in TXGE that he and a group of his assembled investors put $3M of their own money into the business, expressing the overwhelming confidence this industry giant has in the underlying business model. But it’s not hard to deconstruct this decision, after all the gulf region, and the domestic energy production market in general, look to have a very bright future where, if anything, a lack of such competent services/personnel to deliver them are in short supply.

For more information on this rapidly emerging energy services powerhouse, or to learn more about Texas Gulf Energy, Inc. subsidiaries, please start by visiting the company’s website at: www.TGNRG.com

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2012 Vehicle Satisfaction Awards Announced by Autobytel, Inc. (ABTL) and AutoPacific

Autobytel is an online leader offering consumer purchase requests and marketing resources to auto dealers and manufacturers. The company also provides consumers with the information they need to purchase new and used vehicles.

Today, the company and AutoPacific, an automotive marketing research and product consulting firm, announced the 16th annual Vehicle Satisfaction Awards. Based on the largest single-model year survey of vehicle owners, the Awards are designed to help consumers make informed vehicle purchase decisions with a true “word-of-mouth” survey.

More than 75,000 vehicle owners across all major manufacturers took part in the survey. New vehicle owners provide input on 48 individual attributes that objectively measure the ownership experience. Some of the attributes covered by the survey include power and acceleration, interior and exterior styling, cargo capacity, quietness of the vehicle, the ease of getting in and out of the car, and driver’s seat comfort.

The survey seems to indicate that overall drivers are satisfied with the autos they purchased. The president of AutoPacific, George Peterson, summed up the survey results. He said, “In today’s market, it’s difficult to find a low-quality vehicle. The quality of vehicles from all manufacturers has risen to the highest level in history.”

For specific survey results and more information about the company, please visit Autobytel’s website at www.autobytel.com

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InspireMD, Inc. (NSPR) Completes Enrollment in Acute Myocardial Infarctions Study

Medical device maker InspireMD said this morning that it has completed enrollment in its MASTER (MGuard™ for Acute ST Elevation Reperfusion) trial testing its stent platform technology for use in patients with Acute Myocardial Infarctions. The completion of enrollment has been achieved one month ahead of schedule, according to the company.

The MASTER Trial is a multinational randomized controlled trial being conducted in 50 centers across nine countries (Germany, Hungary, Israel, Poland, Czech Republic, France, Ireland, Brazil, and South Africa) designed to evaluate the MGuard™ and MGuard Prime Coronary Stents compared with the standard of care, bare metal stents (BMS), or drug eluting stents (DES) for acute ST-elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) patients. The trial has enrolled 432 patients in a two-arm, parallel design study.

The primary endpoint is complete ST segment resolution. Clinical follow-up will continue for one year and important secondary endpoints such as TIMI (Thrombolysis In Myocardial Infarction) flow, MBG (Myocardial Blush Grade) and MACE (Major Adverse Cardiac Events) will be measured. Sub-studies include infarct size measured by cardiac MRI, as well as restenosis by invasive angiographic follow-up at 13 months.

The company is on track to release preliminary top line results in the third quarter of 2012.

One week ago, the InspireMD reported positive three-year results from the extended follow-up MAGICAL trial, a prospective, single arm, multi-center study conducted in 2008-09 that enrolled 60 STEMI patients, at a company-sponsored symposium at the EuroPCR conference in Paris. In that report, the company detailed that the safety and efficacy of MGuard™ observed in the trial were maintained for three years.

Shares of the Tel Aviv, Israel-based healthcare company are continuing to search for a bottom. Trading near dollarsignr3 one year ago, share value has slipped as low as 60 cents recently. A modest rise occurred in early trading today, with shares climbing 7.14% to 75 cents on today’s news.

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FluoroPharma Medical, Inc. (FPMI) Product Commercialization Plans

FluoroPharma, a developer of specialized molecular imaging pharmaceuticals used with positron emission tomography (PET) to help detect heart disease and other problems, has stated that it intends to develop its products through the completion of phase II and/or phase III studies, at which point it will seek to partner with organizations that may facilitate the further development and distribution of its products.

Phase I clinical trials have already been completed on the company’s two lead products, CardioPET and BFPET, with pre-clinical trials completed for VasoPET, all related to cardiovascular disease (CAD) detection. The company’s AZPET product for detecting amyloid deposits in the brain for Alzheimer’s disease evaluation is currently in the development stage. Over 12 million patients in the U.S. alone have some degree of acute or chronic CAD, and millions of patients undergo molecular imaging studies every year, often to detect and evaluate such heart disease.

Assuming CardioPET and BFPET are approved, their competition will be the current standard of care, and companies that are engaged in the development and commercialization of novel cardiac perfusion agents. However, FluoroPharma says it does not see competition coming from specific competitors for CardioPET and to some degree for BFPET. FluoroPharma’s technologies will be competing mainly on an indication-by-indication basis with the existing or coming standards of care.

FluoroPharma believes current experimental imaging agents are limited by their short half-lives (generally less than ½ hour), requiring faster image collection and/or an on-site cyclotron or generator to provide an additional supply. For this reason, they believe that these agents represent little or no potential competition to FluoroPharma products. In contrast, the imaging agent used in FluoroPharma products has a 110-minute half-life, and is more amenable to regional production and distribution to off-site nuclear medicine centers.

For more information, see the company website at www.FluoroPharma.com

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Morgan Creek Energy Corp. (MCKE) Set to Acquire Glob Media through Share Exchange Agreement

Morgan Creek Energy announced that on May 14, 2012, it entered into a share exchange agreement with Glob Media Works, Inc., a Washington based social search destination company, and all of the shareholders of Glob Media. Through the Agreement, Morgan Creek expects to obtain the rights of a 100% interest in the intellectual property rights and business operations of Glob Media’s online search and social media related cloud based software application.

Pursuant to the Agreement, Glob Media and its shareholders have agreed to sell all of the issued and outstanding shares of Glob Media to Morgan Creek. The cumulative price off all purchased shares is 9,075,734 restricted shares of common stock of Morgan Creek. The shares will be distributed on a pro rata basis in accordance with each vendor’s percentage of ownership in Glob Media.

The closing of the Agreement is contingent upon the satisfaction of conditions precedent to closing as set forth in the agreement, including, but not limited to: (i) the Company, Glob Media and the Vendors having obtained all authorizations, approvals or waivers that may be necessary or desirable in connection with the transactions contemplated by the Agreement; (ii) the Company, Glob Media and the Vendors shall have complied with all warranties, representations, covenants and agreements therein agreed to be performed or caused to be performed on or before the closing date; (iii) no action or proceeding in law or in equity shall be pending or threatened by any person, company, firm, governmental authority, regulatory body or agency to enjoin or prohibit any of the transactions contemplated by the Agreement; (iv) completion by each of the Company and Glob Media of an initial due diligence and operations review of the other’s respective businesses and operations; (v) no material loss or destruction of or damage to the Company or Glob Media shall have occurred; and (vi) the board of directors of the Company and Glob Media ratifying the terms and conditions of the Agreement.

Upon the closing of the Agreement, the shares of Morgan Creek will be issued to the Vendors and will not be registered under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, or under the securities laws of any state in the United States, and will be issued in reliance upon an exemption from registration under the Securities Act of 1933. The securities may not be offered or sold in the United States without registration under the Securities Act of 1933 or an applicable exemption from such registration requirements.

For more information, please visit www.morgancreekenergy.com

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GTSO Resources, Inc. (GTSO) Evaluates Tungsten Recycling Technology with Ambitions to Turn Waste into Wealth

Today before the opening bell, GTSO Resources said it is exploring innovative new techniques that are making tungsten recycling more profitable and environmentally sound than ever before. The emerging mineral exploration company continues preliminary discussions with tungsten miners and prospectors, as well.

Second only to diamond, tungsten is an extraordinarily hard metal. Its unique properties make the element critical to the manufacture of a wide array of indispensable items. As demand for the metal rises worldwide and available supplies tighten, a relatively simple new thermo-mechanical process allows recyclers to break down tungsten from alloys in drill bits, machine parts, and other products to produce a high-grade powder suitable for new manufacturing uses.

“We see incredible earning potential in tungsten recycling as this unique metal becomes more and more critical to modern life,” stated GTSO CEO Paul Watson. “In addition to profit potential realized through this technology, recycling also offers a much more environmentally friendly solution than mining to increase global supplies of this invaluable metal”

“GTSO will continue to pursue advantageous new agreements and potential partnerships with the emerging leaders in tungsten mining and exploration as we explore innovative ways to recycle waste and capitalize on the mineral’s soaring global demand,” he added.

GTSO isn’t the only company pursuing new opportunities in the booming tungsten market. IMC Group, a subsidiary of Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway, recently invested $70 million in the mining company Woulfe’s South Korean tungsten operations.

For more information on GTSO Resources’ aggressive growth plans, please visit www.gtsoresources.com/investors.html

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International Stem Cell Corp. (ISCO) Offers Stem Cells with Unmatched Advantages

International Stem Cell Corp., based in Oceanside, California, is a stem cell therapeutics company with a powerful new stem cell technology called “parthenogenesis,” which is expected to significantly advance the field of regenerative medicine by addressing the important issue of immune-rejection.

Parthenogenetic stem cells are derived from parthenogenetically activated human oocytes, where electrical or chemical stimuli replaces fertilization. Although not derived from fertilized eggs, these activated oocytes can be developed to the blastocyst stage which can give rise to a parthenogenetic stem cell line.

Of the several different types of stem cells, parthenogenetic stem cells (hpSCs) offer a unique combination of benefits. For one, parthenogenetic stem cells do not face the controversy associated with embryonic stem cells, which are derived from fertilized eggs (oocytes) that have the potential of developing into a human being. Neither do Parthenogenetic stem cells face the potential risks and regulatory scrutiny associated with induced pluripotent stem cells, which are differentiated cells that are chemically or otherwise driven back to earlier developmental stages requiring significant changes in gene expression that may have unknown biological impacts. Finally, parthenogenetic stem cells are not as limited in their ability to differentiate or proliferate as adult stem cells, which are difficult to obtain and work with.

In addition, different activation techniques applied to human oocytes allow the creation of either HLA heterozygous human parthenogenetic stem cell lines (hpSC), which are exactly HLA-matched/ histocompatible with the oocyte donors, or HLA homozygous hpSC, which may be histocompatible with significant segments of the human population.

The human parthenogenic stem cells pioneered by ISCO have the best characteristics of each of the other classes of stem cells. The ethical advantage of derivation from unfertilized parthenogeneticaly activated oocytes, combined with immune-matching advantage, makes hpSC a very promising source of pluripotent stem cells for cell-based transplantation therapy.

ISCO is the first company to have produced pluripotent human stem cell lines through the intentional use of parthenogenesis. To date ISCO has successfully derived and characterized 10 hpSC lines, including both HLA homozygous and HLA heterozygous lines. One of these lines (hpSC-Hhom-4) carries the most common HLA haplotype found across racial groups within the US population.

The company continues to make hpSCs available to academic and corporate research worldwide for their exploration of a wide range of disease targets.

For additional information, visit the company’s website at www.InternationalStemCell.com

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