News Archive of Nature Biotechnology

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High-efficiency TALEN-based gene editing produces disease-resistant rice--
Recasting natural product research--
A work in progress--
Drug pipeline: 1Q12--
Biotech equities heat up in 1Q12--
Industry trial bias refuted--
Fifth time's the charm for infant respiratory distress drug--
Hypoxia-activated prodrugs forge ahead in cancer--
UK biotech's shot in the arm--
Texas legitimizes path around FDA oversight--
Blood test for Down syndrome--
1000 genomes on Amazon's cloud--
Affymax poised to challenge Amgen--
Industry reels as Prometheus falls and Myriad faces further reviews--
JAK pot for Galapagos--
Stromedix acquisition signals growing interest in fibrosis--
Shining a light on trial data--
Biomarkers unbound--
Use of genome-wide association studies for drug repositioning--
The art of the alliance--
Addgene provides an open forum for plasmid sharing--
Tensha Therapeutics--
Positive signals from Washington--
National prescription for drug development--
Hemacord approval may foreshadow regulatory creep for HSC therapies--
India's GM clamor mounts--
Amgen swallows Micromet to BiTE into ALL market--
Biologics inch toward cholesterol-lowering market--
Corn rot. 1090--
First HEV vaccine approved--
Biotech innovators jump on biosimilars bandwagon--
Anti-nerve growth factor drugs exonerated--
Biosimilar fees plug FDA deficit--
Oxford Nanopore announcement sets sequencing sector abuzz--
Pharma incubates without strings--
Reforming accelerated approval--
Know before you go--
Confronting the Gordian knot--
Agbiotech 2.0--
Tiptoeing around transgenics--
Mission Therapeutics--
Existing agbiotech traits continue global march--
BASF moves GM crop research to US--
HIV neutralizing antibodies reignite interest in vaccine--
RNAi patent win--
Hedgehog hopes lifted by approval... and stung by failure--
NCATS launches--
Cystic fibrosis drug Vertex's latest triumph--
Check a patent at WIPO--
Companies in rapid pursuit of Btk immunokinase--
One patent for Europe--
Diabetes once-weekly drug--
Agnostic about agriculture--
Another nail in the biosimilar coffin?--
OpenVigil?free eyeballs on AERS pharmacovigilance data--
The blinded buyer--
Planning for the exit--
PRIDE Inspector: a tool to visualize and validate MS proteomics data--
2011?Big biotechs gorge on debt--
Fresh from the pipeline 2011--
UK government unveils innovation booster--
Life Technologies promises $1,000 genome--
India's innovation czar--
Toll-like receptor blocker slows beta cell death in type 1 diabetes--
Enbrel patent surfaces--
Ablynx drops lead nanobody--
Gilead's $11 billion HCV bet--
Affymetrix sued for fraud--
Amyloid disease drug approved--
Sangamo's lead zinc-finger therapy flops in diabetic neuropathy--
Why genies don't go back into bottles--
Big pharma upheavals cast shadow across biotech sector--
Approval on a knife edge--
Bringing business risk into sharp focus--
The NIH's role in accelerating translational sciences--
Building stem-cell genomics in California and beyond--
Foundation Medicine--
Drug pipeline: Q411--
Embryonic stem cell pioneer Geron exits field, cuts losses--
Russian fund steps up investments in innovative biotechs--
Monsanto to face biopiracy charges in India--
Spinal device cancer risk--
$352 million into microRNA--
Obama urges translation speed--
Pivotal FDA/Exelixis dispute--
Safety profiles come to fore as more drugs approach MS market--
Eylea approval transforms Regeneron--
Avastin loses breast cancer indication--
What happened to personalized medicine?--
Incyte comes of age with JAK inhibitor approval--
Access to human embryonic stem cell lines--
Sarbanes-Oxley overburdens biotech companies--
Generation of the potent anti-malarial drug artemisinin in tobacco--
Relative potential of biosynthetic pathways for biofuels and bio-based products--
Re-evaluating PARP1 inhibitor in cancer--
Newsmaker: Zafgen--
Shape shifting--
Near-record drug approvals--
New startup models emerge as investor landscape shifts--
Jackson's $1.1 billion makeover--
Cold-tolerant trees win--
Industry continues dabbling with open innovation models--
GlaxoSmithKline malaria vaccine phase 3 trial heralded--
Interest groups jostle to influence PDUFA V--
Conflicts of interest go online--
Shutdown by auction--
Tilting toward secrecy--
European court bans embryonic stem cell patents--
A label we don't need--
Biotech plummets in 3Q11--
Hepatitis C: move over interferon--
In vogue with venture--
Hemophilia market awaits next-generation therapies--
The R&D partnership universe--
China eyes Western biologics--
Bispecific biologics rush--
Academia's $1,000 genome--
Industry leaders cite barriers to sequencing in trials--
NIH tightens conflict rules--
Priority voucher flops--
European ruling raises specter of mandatory GM pollen tests on honey--
1,000 pediatric genomes--
Hedgehog inhibitor single arm--
Larger companies dominate cancer companion diagnostic approvals--
Transatlantic PML--
America Invents Act receives cautious welcome--
Big ideas and grand challenges--
Recent patent applications in drug screening--
New fluorescent probes for super-resolution imaging--
Wanted: bioprospecting consultants--
Evergreening: a common practice to protect new drugs--
A methodological framework to enhance the clinical success of cancer immunotherapy--
Pharmacogenetics and the immunogenicity of protein therapeutics--
Drug pipeline: Q311--
Attacks on asthma--
Headwinds into opportunity--
Gilead donates patents for generics--
South Korea's stem cell approval--
ATM cash for biotechs--
Pertuzumab to bolster Roche/Genentech's breast cancer franchise?--
Engineered T-cell therapy shows efficacy in blood cancer--
9,000 tumors for stratified medicine--
Chinese inventors catch up--
Seattle Genetics rare cancer drug sails through accelerated approval--
HIV drugs made in tobacco--
Enlightened engineering--
Why an abbreviated FDA pathway for biosimilars is overhyped--
Clarity and claims in variation/mutation databasing--
Reply to Clarity and claims in variation/mutation databasing--
The Isis manifesto--
Shaping the future of safer innovative drugs in Europe--
Biotech on pace for record year--
Trends in biotech literature 2009?2010--
More than insulin--
Money pot for SMEs--
China's $300 billion goal--
13,000-biomarker deal--
Patent reform on the brink--
Drugmakers use real-world patient data to calibrate product development--
BIO marches to Congress with growth package in hand--
Myriad decision reassures biotechs but diagnostics still murky--
GM grass eludes outmoded USDA oversight--
New models emerge for commercializing university assets--
Outbreak genomics--
Reply to: IMI moves forward--
Commercializing a disruptive technology--
IMI moves forward--
Newsmaker: Lycera--
Drug pipeline: Q211--
Move over ZFNs--
Cisgenic crop exemption--
EU tolerates GM--
Supreme Court ruling prompts universities to tighten employee contracts--
FDA panel votes to pull Avastin in breast cancer, again--
Novel schemes skirt NICE barrier--
FDA approves first cell therapy for wrinkle-free visage--
FDA inspections online--
Australian biotechs rejoice--
Swiss food giant enters diagnostics--
US court bolsters biotech patent protection--
Pushing the envelope--
E. coli crisis opens door for Alexion drug trial--
TNF-? blockers and tumors--
Scant evidence supports EPA's pyramided Bt corn refuge size of 5%--
Industry access to the literature--
Sequencing technology does not eliminate biological variability--
Anti-galactose-?-1,3-galactose IgE from allergic patients does not bind ?-galactosylated glycans on intact therapeutic antibody Fc domains--
Psoriasis: from bed to bench and back--
Granting you success--
Teva hits bull's eye with Cephalon--
Amgen's Brazilian buying spree--
Biologic Indian detour adds value--
French bioethics turmoil--
Life sciences firms cheer unlocking of National Health Service--
Gates eyes biotechs as for-profit investments--
Alkermes, Elan in $960 million merger--
Avastin as good as Lucentis--
Optimer resurrects C. difficile antibiotic to win approval--
New self-reporting for GM crops--
Members need only apply--
New Merck and Vertex drugs raise standard of care in hepatitis C--
Biotechs follow big pharma lead back into academia--
In this issue--
Recurrent copy number variations in human induced pluripotent stem cells--
Is silence still golden? Mapping the RNAi patent landscape--
Quantitative analysis demonstrates most transcription factors require only simple models of specificity--
Jury remains out on simple models of transcription factor specificity--
US attitudes toward human embryonic stem cell research--
Raising hairs--
What mergers can do for you--
Intranasal delivery to the brain--
Spat over IMI funding and intellectual property--
Monsanto dips into algae--
Bayer's GM rice defeat--
Blue skies ready for investors--
Chinese vaccine developers gain WHO imprimatur--
GM bananas--
Stem cell funding resumes--
Debate re-ignites on contribution of public research to drug development--
Supreme setback for pharma--
First cystic fibrosis drug advances towards approval--
Pfizer's JAK inhibitor sails through phase 3 in rheumatoid arthritis--
The sequence is dead: long live the genome--
Mandating race: how the USPTO is forcing race into biotech patents--
Interaction databases on the same page--
PathSeq: software to identify or discover microbes by deep sequencing of human tissue--
Reforming direct-to-consumer advertising--
Peering inside Alzheimer's brains--
Safe and sound--
Overhauling the reimbursement system for molecular diagnostics--
Around the world in a month--
Q1 strong out of the gates--
Drug pipeline: Q111--
OncoTrack tests drugs in virtual people--
Sequencing firms eye pathology labs as next big market opportunity--
Flawed arithmetic on drug development costs--
$1.3 billion to translate--
Pharma wins vaccine case--
Chinese biotechs wrestle with transparency, cultural hurdles--
PARP inhibitors stumble in breast cancer--
Melanoma antibody approved--
Human iPSC and ESC translation potential debated--
Inadequately met needs--
Karyotypic abnormalities in human induced pluripotent stem cells and embryonic stem cells--
Intellectual property rights in publicly funded biobanks: much ado about nothing?--
Recent patent applications in gene expression--
Acceptable changes in quality attributes of glycosylated biopharmaceuticals--
Karotypic abnormalities in human induced pluripotent stem cells and embryonic stem cells--
EU legitimizes GM crop exclusion zones--
GM crop cultivation surges, but novel traits languish--
Mixed messages from Washington--
For the records--
Open access consortium--
Researchers cut loose as Pfizer and Merck shutter European sites--
Architects meet stem cells--
p38 kinase inhibitor approved for idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis--
Irish bioprocessing school--
Pharma interest surges in antibody drug conjugates--
Benlysta makes history--
Amylase corn sparks worries--
Amgen spikes interest in live virus vaccines for hard-to-treat cancers--
Large drugs outdo small--
Sharing secrets--
Genzyme-Sanofi buyout is second largest biotech deal ever--
Elias Zerhouni--
Edison Liu--
Anthony Coyle--
Paul Keckley--
Merv Turner--
Video games played with live organisms--
Gary Pisano--
Stelios Papadopoulos--
Alzheimer's genetic map--
Industry exhales as USDA okays glyphosate-resistant alfalfa--
Yardsticks for R&D--
DuPont swallows Danisco--
Biosimilars encircle Rituxan, US debates innovator exclusivity--
NCI revamps trials--
Dreamboat sinks prospects for fast approval of inhaled insulin--
Courts back Prometheus IP--
Accelerated approvals examined--
Realigning interests--
Fate of novel painkiller mAbs hangs in balance--
Novel agents combined get own guidance--
The 2010 Eurobarometer on the life sciences--
Balancing open source stem cell science with commercialization--
2010?bumper year for big biotech--
Natural-born eaters--
Something new under the skin--
Streamlining your business for success--
First public-private vaccine--
Mobile vaccine factories--
Drug pipeline: Q410--
Imperial's £140 million boost--
Cephalon splashes out on mesenchymal stem cells--
Fabry drug march-in denied--
Trade secrets in balance as agencies issue new transparency rules--
Synthetic biology go ahead--
RNAi momentum fizzles as pharma shifts priorities--
ReNeuron and StemCells get green light for neural stem cell trials--
China calling--
Testing times for gene test regulators--
Industry gives cautious welcome to NIH translational center--
Is transgenic maize what Mexico really needs?--
Breaking the mold--
Battling infringement--
Essential information for synthetic DNA sequences--
Reply to Essential information for synthetic DNA sequences--
EU mAb biosimilars path--
Vatican panel backs GMOs--
Newsmaker: Biocentury Transgene--
Can cancer clinical trials be fixed?--
Temporary ban on clones--
Filipinos back GM eggplant--
Science snipes at Oxitec transgenic-mosquito trial--
European R&D buoyant--
Boehringer splashes out on bispecific antibody platforms--
Biogen Idec restructures, sharpens neurology focus--
Roche cuts Genentech jobs--
Company Bridge Awards--
Similarity trials--
Pfizer reaches out to academia?again--
Amgen's bone-metastasis win--
Wrong fixes for gene patents--
Reply to Wrong fixes for gene patents--
Stem cell clinics in the news--
Tracking and assessing the rise of state-funded stem cell research--
Towards a knowledge-based Human Protein Atlas--
Good ideas across borders--
Airlines ahead on algae--
Crossing the line--
New twists on proteasome inhibitors--
Around the block--
BARDA funds vaccine makers aiming to phase out eggs--
Vaccine makers' immunity questioned in court--
Singapore injects $12.5 billion--
Ethanol blend hike to jump start cellulosic investment--
Will J&J turbocharge Crucell's vaccine portfolio?--
Amylin's diabetes shock--
Synthetic DNA firms embrace hazardous agents guidance but remain wary of automated 'best-match'--
DNA not patentable--
USPTO's do-good vouchers--
Vive la différence?--
Making the leap into entrepreneurship--
Grant management skills are critical for young scientists--
Chinese hamster ovary cells can produce galactose-?-1,3-galactose antigens on proteins--
A policy approach to the development of molecular diagnostic tests--
What is the value of oncology medicines?--
Sanofi/Genzyme hostile--
Adverse-events fraud trial--
Newsmaker: Anaphore--
Biotech rallies in Q3--
When patients march in--
Joint inspections still cool--
Stimulus trickle--
CIRM spurs translation--
Irish bait--
Transgenic salmon inches toward finish line--
Novartis eyes oral MS drug as potential blockbuster--
Bristol-Myers Squibb reaps biologics in ZymoGenetics windfall--
Pharmacogenomics row--
Shire's replacement enzymes validate gene activation--
Conflicts and collaborations--
At the heart of genetic testing--
Why you need a lawyer--
Safe and effective synthetic biology--
Hungary eyes biotech jobs--
Monsanto relaxes restrictions on sharing seeds for research--
Newsmaker: Constellation Pharmaceuticals--
Drug pipeline: Q310--
Turning the tide in lung cancer--
Life swallows Ion Torrent--
Anti-anemics price hike--
Genzyme resumes shipping as Sanofi-aventis hovers--
Cancer research fund launches biologics pilot plant--
Wellcome partners with India--
China's $2.4 billion splurge--
US courts throw ES cell research into disarray--
Drug user fees top $1 million--
Sugar beets still in the game--
Roche backs Aileron's stapled peptides--
Teetering on the brink--
Geron trial resumes, but standards for stem cell trials remain elusive--
Global health or global wealth?--
Oncology's energetic pipeline--
Disclosing discoveries--
The Cartagena Protocol and genetically modified mosquitoes--
The FEBS Letters/BioCreative II.5 experiment: making biological information accessible--
Biofortified sorghum in Africa: using problem formulation to inform risk assessment--
Towards patient-based cancer therapeutics--
Brazil bans Bayer--
India's Cipla sets sights on Avastin, Herceptin and Enbrel--
Stem cell clinic patrol--
EC woos SMEs--
Cochrane meta-analysis on alpha-1 antitrypsin prompts furor--
Trends in biotech literature 2009--
Avastin's commercial march suffers setback--
Sanofi-aventis snaps up microRNA maker--
Pfizer explores rare disease path--
Provenge twists again--
Lilly snaps up Alnara--
TTO patent swap--
The identity problem--
Waking up and smelling the coffee--
Reply to Waking up and smelling the coffee--
Genetic stability in two commercialized transgenic lines (MON810)--
Distances needed to limit cross-fertilization between GM and conventional maize in Europe--
Case study: India's billion dollar biotech--
EU states free to ban GM crops--
Food firms test fry Pioneer's trans fat?free soybean oil--
GM alfalfa?who wins?--
Biofuel 'Made in China'--
2Q10'spreading the wealth--
Drugmakers dance with autism--
At ground level--
Industry makes strides in melanoma--
Firms combine experimental cancer drugs to speed development--
Supremes rule on Bilski--
FDA transparency rules could hit small companies hardest--
Lawsuits rock Jackson--
Anti-CD20 patent battle ends--
Wrong numbers?--
MAQC-II: analyze that!--
Sunshine on conflicts--
Ask your doctor--
PeptideClassifier for protein inference and targeted quantitative proteomics--
Minimum information about a protein affinity reagent (MIAPAR)--
Merck ditches biogeneric--
Investors fight Charles River/WuXi merger--
Genzyme partners TJAB--
China's heparin billionaires--
Microcap public biotechs access new pool of VC funding--
Italian GM rebels--
Newsmaker: Agios Pharmaceuticals--
Drug pipeline: Q210--
Consortia and commodities--
Pharma embraces open source models--
New eyes on old drugs--
Genetic testing clamp down--
New tech transfer models gain traction with deal flow--
French IPO spate--
Industrial biotech to boom?--
Sequencing firms vie for diagnostics market, tiptoe round patents--
Why drought tolerance is not the new Bt--
Health impact in China of folate-biofortified rice--
Obama appoints bioethics panel to offer practical advice--
GSK's RNA splash--
Germany caps drug prices--
Biotech breeding goes bovine--
Up for grabs--
Beyond venture capital--
1 out of 27?European politicians score poorly in agbiotech--
Split approvals and hot potatoes--
Landmark approval for Dendreon's cancer vaccine--
Firms chase diabetic inflammation with anti-IL-1? antibodies--
African GM safety drill--
Burgeoning stem cell product market lures major suppliers--
GMP cell lines to order--
Open-access fermenter--
Glyphosate resistance threatens Roundup hegemony--
SBIR grants wax--
Relief over stem cell lines--
An empiric victory--
Above water in Q1--
How green biotech turned white and blue--
Drug marketing and the new media--
Avoiding capital punishment--
Natural variation in crop composition and the impact of transgenesis--
GM crops and gender issues--
BIO's track record on emerging companies--
South-South entrepreneurial collaboration in health biotech--
Open biotechnology: licenses needed--
Recent patent applications in fluorescent imaging--
Sitting up and taking notice--
Biomarker-led adaptive trial blazes a trail in breast cancer--
Biotechs adjust to new landscape as US healthcare reform takes off--
Genentech, UCSF discovery pact--
Abbott outbids Biogen for Facet's multiple sclerosis antibody--
FDA crackdown on Genzyme--
Ariad's NF-?B blow--
Orphan drug workshops--
Texas splurges on cancer--
Chinese green light for GM rice and maize prompts outcry--
Public companies get creative in raising finance--
ReNeuron first in stroke--
Erythropoietins locked into risk management program--
Stem cells to order--
EPA releases land-use rule for biofuels to mixed reception--
Shell's billions to convert Brazilian biomass into fuel--
2nd-generation GM traits progress--
Fresh from the biologic pipeline?2009--
Biotech in a blink--
Selling out--
Making the most of GM potatoes--
What health reform means for innovation--
Safety signal dampens reception for mipomersen antisense--
Bt brinjal splits Indian cabinet--
Orphans on the rise--
Pharma's Asian syndicate--
Roche plans for more convenient-to-use Herceptin and Rituxan--