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A Baltimore county company’s just-patented tech could help protect your privacy rights

A Baltimore county company’s just-patented tech could help protect your privacy rights

A tech process that enables large-scale data privacy compliance earned Catonsville, Maryland-based Ardent Privacy its latest patent from the US Patent and Trademark Office.

The data security company earned the patent, the issuance of which Ardent Privacy announced today, for tech that a statement said allows clients to conduct “data minimization without reading data content. For those who aren’t data experts, this means that the data compliance tool allows companies to track, find and delete your data more easily without infringing upon data protection laws. ...  Read more

Celebrating 10 Years of Being Green

Celebrating 10 Years of Being Green

Maryland’s only hospital-based bioincubator making inroads

Maryland’s only hospital-based bioincubator making inroads

Celebrating its five-year anniversary the LifeBridge Health Bioincubator has landed nearly $60 million in funding from 36 grants and received 36 patents. Serving as the state’s only hospital-based bioincubator, the facility has launched several companies with potentially groundbreaking technologies, including gene therapy for cystic fibrosis, an ingestible capsule for the early detection of esophageal cancer, and an ultrasound-enabled bedside feeding tube. ...  Read more

Celebrating 25 Years of Satellite Internet

Celebrating 25 Years of Satellite Internet

The world looked very different 25 years ago – Blockbuster Video was still king of movie rentals, the Palm Pilot had just been introduced to the world, and the launch of the first generation iPhone was still a decade away. The connectivity landscape was sparse, and the world wide web was still just a novelty, not the necessity it is today. It was also the time when Hughes invented satellite internet to help improve the dial-up experience. Since then, satellite internet has become a staple for millions of homes and businesses in rural locations and has grown to support email, social media, web browsing, videos and more. ...  Read more

Emergent BioSolutions to Acquire from Chimerix its Exclusive Worldwide Rights to TEMBEXA® (brincidofovir), the First FDA-Approved Smallpox Oral Antiviral for All Ages

Emergent BioSolutions to Acquire from Chimerix its Exclusive Worldwide Rights to TEMBEXA® (brincidofovir), the First FDA-Approved Smallpox Oral Antiviral for All Ages

GAITHERSBURG, Md., May 16, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Emergent BioSolutions Inc. (NYSE: EBS) announced today that it has entered into a definitive agreement with Chimerix, Inc. (NASDAQ: CMRX), to acquire Chimerix’s exclusive worldwide rights to TEMBEXA® (brincidofovir), the first antiviral approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for all age groups for the treatment of smallpox. TEMBEXA was approved in June 2021 and is indicated for the treatment of human smallpox disease in adult and pediatric patients, including neonates. ...  Read more