Roger Stone, Trump confidant, acknowledges ‘innocuous’ Twitter conversation with DNC hackers

But on Friday, during a brief conversation with conservative newspaper Washington Times , Stone admitted to exchanging complimentary direct messages – i.e. palling around with Guccifer 2.0. “It was so perfunctory, brief and banal I had forgotten it”, the political consultant told The Times on Friday with respect to a private Twitter exchange he had with “Guccifer 2.0”, a pseudonymous entity explicitly tied to the DNC hack. Stone told The Times in an email Thursday evening.

Correcting and Replacing Biocad: The first ever biosimilar of interferon beta-1a approved in Russia

The Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation has awarded Biocad marketing authorization for its interferon beta-1a biosimilar, a knockoff of Merck’s RebifA that is a key component in treatment of relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis and included in all international recommendations and protocols. BIOCAD started the development program for interferon beta-1a biosimilar in 2012 and it took almost 5 years to run all the development phases, including pre-clinical/clinical studies and registration.