Newstream.com digest: First DVD Rear Seat Entertainment System, New Search to Uncover Genes Linked with Diseases and more free multimedia story packages for journalists

Business Wire, Nov 8, 2000

Business Editors

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 8, 2000

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Introducing First DVD Rear Seat Entertainment System

Visteon Corporation (NYSE: VC) and General Motors Corporation are taking in-vehicle entertainment to the next level with the introduction of the auto industry's first DVD rear seat entertainment system.

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A New Search to Uncover Genes Linked with Human Diseases

Two companies are joining forces to find the sets of genes associated with common human diseases. Rosetta Inpharmatics and Gemini Gemomics will focus their initial research on RNA, the translator of the DNA code, to identify the connections between the most active genes and the risk or presence of diseases. Tens of thousands of genes will be screened during the collaboration.

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PMC-Sierra Further Extends Comprehensive 2.5 Gigabit Per Second

POS-PHY Level 3(TM) Product Portfolio

The highly integrated PM5358 S/UNI(R)-4x622 and the PM5382 S/UNI(R)-16x155 enable high-speed, high-density backbone connections for next-generation routers and multiservice switches.

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Amelia Island's 'Victorian Seaside Christmas'

Recently named one of the South's "Favorite Scenic Drives," Florida's Amelia Island is celebrating the first holiday season of the new century "southern style". A Beaujolais Nouveau Celebration, with the newest French wines arriving via skydivers, kicks off festivities. Giant, brilliantly lit Christmas trees, decorated Victorian mansions, Florida's largest gingerbread house and historic churches, Civil War recreations at Fort Clinch, and New Year's Eve galas are just part of what visitors will enjoy. Get details here.

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FDA Approves Marketing Of Checkmate(TM) System for Coronary Artery

Disease

Until now, no development has been able to overcome the obstacle of recurrent blockages, in treated coronary artery lesions. Cordis Corporation -- the Johnson & Johnson company that pioneered the cardiovascular stent -- announced U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval to market the CHECKMATE(TM) System, the first intravascular brachytherapy (radiation) system for recurrent blockages in coronary arteries previously treated with coronary artery stents, the tiny mesh braces used to prop open narrowed heart vessels.

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