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Hunt for Life on Saturnian Moon Heats Up

The plumes of gas and ice shooting from the south pole of the Saturnian moon Enceladus contain sodium salts, which is the best evidence so far that the satellite harbors a liquid water ocean.

Shares of Osiris Therapeutics Inc. fell in Wednesday trading after the biotechnology company reported a stem-cell drug has failed to show improvement in patients with lung disease.

The Columbia-based company said the drug, Prochymal, met its primary goal of demonstrating safety among patients enrolled in the clinical trial.

-> someone close to me was in a double blind study through Osiris Theraputics... but turned out to only receive a placebo. The drug was specifically targeting Crohn's disease.