s Oragene®•DNA family of products in Spain. Abyntek Biopharma is one of Spain’s leading distributors of biological products.Abyntek will offer DNA Genotek’s complete line offor the collection, stabilization, transportation and preparation of DNA from saliva on an exclusive basis for customers in Spain. Oragene•DNA enables easy, reliable and cost effective collection of samples from large…

Stock markets were buoyant Wednesday despite concerns over Japan's nuclear crisis, as investors turned their attention towards a raft of upcoming U.S. economic data.After focusing for weeks on Japan's devastating earthquake and tsunami as well as the uprisings in the Arab world, traders are turning their attention to fundamental economic indicators, such as the pace…

Taiwan Premier Wu Den-yih confirmed Tuesday that the United States is likely to help the island upgrade its F-16 A/B fighters as it is reluctant to arm Taipei with more advanced jets.Taiwan has been pressing for the more powerful F-16 C/Ds, saying it badly needs the weaponry as a bargaining chip against its former bitter…

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) – "I Am Number Four," the action thriller from director D.J. Caruso, will be released this Friday on Imax screens, it was announced Tuesday.The film, starring Alex Pettyfer, Dianna Agron and Teresa Palmer, lands on 228 Imax screens domestically, day-and-date with its North American opening.Internationally, "I Am Number Four" will play…

Smartphones are still selling in record numbers. Vendors shipped 100.9 million smartphones in the fourth quarter, according to IDC's Worldwide Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker. That's up 87.2 percent from the 53.9 million smartphones sold in the year-ago period.The numbers are almost as dramatic for the whole of 2010, during which vendors shipped a total of…

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) – Zach Galifianakis is finally ready to join the dead.The comedian has been circling "R.I.P.D.," a supernatural action comedy about a ghost-busting police force, since the fall.This week, the actor took a step toward the light, entering serious talks to star opposite Ryan Reynolds in Universal's adaptation of the Dark Horse…

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. – Sixteen months ago, a near-fatal auto accident had left rising soccer star Charlie Davies fighting for his life.He had two broken bones in his right leg, dislocated his left elbow, broke bones in his nose, forehead and eye socket. He ruptured his bladder. There was bleeding on the brain.Soccer was just…

NEW YORK – Deresse Mekonnen has won the Wanamaker Mile, becoming the first person other than Bernard Lagat to win the Millrose Game's marquee event since 2004.The 23-year-old from Ethiopia finished in 3 minutes, 58.58 seconds Friday night, holding off Lagat's challenges in the final two laps.Mekonnen, the two-time defending world indoor 1,500-meter champion, had…

HOUSTON – Former Texas billionaire and financier R. Allen Stanford, awaiting trial on charges he bilked investors out of $7 billion in a Ponzi scheme, was ordered by a judge on Wednesday to undergo detox for a drug addiction that has helped render him incompetent to stand trial.U.S. District Judge David Hittner's ruling comes after…

LONDON – Beware unhappy asthmatics: Italian doctors warn that Facebook could trigger an attack in some susceptible users.Gennaro D'Amato and colleagues treated an 18-year-old man whose asthma attacks were apparently sparked by logging into Facebook and seeing how many men his ex-girlfriend had friended.The man had been taking two inhaled steroid drugs several times a…