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When Omar F. Khawaja compiled his priority list for 2018, he didn’t include which security technologies he wanted or how many IT staff he hoped to hire.

Instead, the CISO at Highmark Health — a healthcare management and insurance provider whose portfolio includes Allegheny Health Network, United Concordia Dental and Visionworks, among others — articulated an overarching strategy on how the cybersecurity plan should fit within the national organization’s business…

Lyophilization is the clinical term for freeze-drying. In the simplest terms, it can be described as a technical process in which the moisture level of many materials is reduced, most times frozen, for the purpose of creating a new product or an ingredient.

When an injectable drug is freeze-dried -this is the process of lyophilization -its compounds are stabilized. This reconstitution process is…

Agriculture is under attack. Environmentalists label modern farming as unsustainable, blaming farming for polluting the planet and destroying the climate. But today’s food is abundant and nutritious—a modern agricultural miracle.

From 1961 to 2013, world population more than doubled from 3.1 to 7.2 billion. But agricultural output more than tripled over the same period, according to data from the United…

Last November, Joe Morris, a 31-year-old film-maker from London, noticed a sore spot on his tongue. He figured he’d bitten himself in his sleep and thought nothing more about it until halfway through the winter holidays, when he realised the sore was still with him. He Googled “cut on tongue won’t heal” and, after sifting through pages of medical information on oral cancer, he decided to call his doctor.

The cut was…

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – A wave of cyber attacks by criminals, spies and hacker activists should make these heady days for U.S. cyber security startups.

Instead, many in the crowded market are struggling to live up to their early promise. In some cases, the security products they developed have been overtaken by advances in cyber hacking, according to industry executives and venture capitalists. In others, larger competitors have come out with similar technology and locked down…