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LONDON Josh Jackson Limited Jersey , July 25 (Xinhua) -- British publisher and educational group Pearson Plc is in talks to divest its 50 percent stake in the Economist Group, who run the international news and business magazine Economist.


On the same day, Financial Times reported that the negotiation is focusing on selling Pearson's 50 percent stake holding in the group to other shareholders, including the investment vehicle of Italy's Agnelli family.


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Two days after selling the FT Group to Japan's Nikkei Inc., Pearson said in an email statement on Saturday that: "Pearson confirms it is in discussions with the Economist Group board and trustees regarding the potential sale of our 50 percent share in the group."


"There is no certainty that this process will lead to a transaction," noted the publisher.


Nikkei is agreed to acquire the FT Group from Pearson for 844 million pounds, or 1.3 billion U.S. dollars in cash. The deal comprises of the Financial Times newspaper Jaire Alexander Limited Jersey , FT and FTChinese, and titles such as The Banker and Investors Chronicle, but excludes the FT Group's London property in central London and the Economist stake, said Pearson on Thursday, or July 23.


FT reported that Exor, an Italian investment company run by John Elkann, scion of the Agnelli family Women's Brett Hundley Jersey , had commented its role in the talks may lead to the "possibility of increasing its investment in the group".


"Were it to proceed, Exor's increased investment would in any event represent a minority shareholding in the Economist ... also reflecting Exor's strong commitment to the editorial independence that lies at the heart of the Economist's ethos and success," said Exor.


The report, citing a person close to the potential deal, noted that Exor would not be seeking the full stake being sold by Pearson.


Elkann is on the Economist Group's board, holding five percent of stake of the group.


Other potential buyers include the three families that have long controlled most of the other 50 percent stake of the Economist Group. They are the Schroders, the Cadburys and the Rothschilds Women's Kyler Fackrell Jersey , said FT. Lynn Forester de Rothschild and her husband Sir Evelyn de Rothschild control about 22 percent of the group.


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Pearson's stake in the Economist Group would be worth around 400 million pounds, said FT citing two people close to the situation.


Besides the prestigious magazine, the Economist Group is also running information provider the Economist Intelligent Unit and CQ Rall Call. The group had operating profits of 60 million pounds in 2014, compared with the FT Group's 24 million pounds.


Pearson acquired half stake of the Economist Group in 1957, as part of its acquisition of the FT Group. But its stake, constituted of B shares, entitle it to name only six of the 13 members of the group's board.


The majority of the board are named by the holders of the A shares Women's Jason Spriggs Jersey , as well as some current and former employees. The Economist's editorial independence is safeguarded by the fact that the trustees must approve any transfer of A or B shares, and the appointment of each new editor, said FT.


And any deal would have to be approved by the four trustees of the Economist Group, including former Conservative minister Virginia Bottomley and former Cabinet secretary Augustine Thomas O'Donnell, added the report. (1 pound = 1.55 U.S. dollars)


WASHINGTON, June 17 (Xinhua) -- A new imaging technology can be used to help surgeons take out as much brain tumor as possible while keeping surrounding healthy tissue intact, an important technological advance that could improve survival time for brain cancer patients Women's Ty Montgomery Jersey , a U.S. study said Wednesday.


The technology, called quantitative optical coherence tomography (OCT), can do this by providing surgeons with a color- coded map of a patient's brain showing which areas are and are not cancer, according to the study published in the U.S. journal Science Translational Medicine.


"As a neurosurgeon, I'm in agony when I'm taking out a tumor. If I take out too little, the cancer could come back; too much, and the patient can be permanently disabled Women's Quinten Rollins Jersey ," said Alfredo Quinones-Hinojosa, a professor of neurosurgery, neuroscience and oncology at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and the clinical leader of the research team. "We think optical coherence tomography has strong potential for helping surgeons know exactly where to cut."


First developed in the early 1990s for imaging the retina, OCT operates on the same echolocation principle used by bats and ultrasound scanners, but it uses light rather than sound waves, yielding a higher-resolution image than ultrasound does.


For the past decade, research groups around the globe Women's Kenny Clark Jersey , including a group at Johns Hopkins led by Xingde Li, a professor of biomedical engineering, has been working to further develop and apply the technology to other organs beyond the relatively transparent eye.


Li's research first built on the idea that cancers tend to be relatively dense, which affects how they scatter and reflect lightwaves, but eventually they found a second special property of brain cancer cells -- that they lack the so-called myelin sheaths that coat healthy brain cells -- had a greater effect on the OCT readings than did density.


Based on the characteristic OCT "signature" of brain cancer, the team devised a computer algorithm to process OCT data and, nearly instantaneously Women's Vince Biegel Jersey , generate a color-coded map with cancer in red and healthy tissue in green.


"We envision that the OCT would be aimed at the area being operated on, and the surgeon could look at a screen to get a continuously updated picture of where the cancer is -- and isn't," Li said.


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