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BioSpace
TopoTarget A/S Announces New CEO to Prepare Commercialization of Belinostat

Thermo Fisher Scientific in $6 Billion Bid for Millipore Corporation According to Source

Forest Laboratories, Inc. Receives Decision from FDA for Supplemental New Drug Application for Bystolic(R); FDA Does Not Approve Additional Indication

FDA Approves Gilead Sciences, Inc.'s Cayston(R) for the Improvement of Respiratory Symptoms in Cystic Fibrosis Patients with Pseudomonas Aeruginosa

Genentech (South SF)'s Phase III Study of Avastin Plus Chemotherapy in Advanced Stomach Cancer Did Not Meet Primary Endpoint

BioSpace - Breaking News
ReNeuron Announces Fundraising of 5.7 Million (7.3M USD)

Galapagos NV Delivers Third Candidate Drug In GlaxoSmithKline Alliance, Receives 5.7 Million

Alnylam Pharmaceuticals Initiates Phase IIb Clinical Trial of ALN-RSV01 in Adult Lung Transplant Patients Infected with Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV) Infection

Watson Pharmaceuticals, Inc. Files FDA Application for Generic Aplenzin(TM) ER

Star Scientific , Inc. Files Application with FDA for Ariva-BDL(TM) Approval as First Modified Risk Tobacco Product

Biotech News - Business Wire
BIO Invites Nominations for the 2010 George Washington Carver Award for Innovation in Industrial Biotechnology

QualTex Laboratories Expands to Gwinnett County, Georgia

Developers Target Ukraine for Integrated Feedstock and Biofuel Refinery

UTEK Partners with Leading Life Science Organizations, MEDEC and MedilinkUK

Life Technologies Launches First Capillary Electrophoresis Sequencing System Designed for Forensic Laboratories
Biotech News - PR Newswire
Longhorn Vaccines & Diagnostics LLC Receives FDA Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) for the First 2009 H1N1 Influenza Assay to Include a Molecular Transport Medium (MTM)

Barnes-Jewish Hospital to Provide Gamma Knife Surgery to Additional Patient Groups With New Elekta Technology

Advanced Instruments Signs License and Sensor Development Agreement With Cantimer, Inc.

Sysmex America Intensifies Environmental Protection Initiatives With ISO Certification

Chimerix CEO George Painter, Ph.D., to Speak on Improving Biodefense Product Discovery and Development Strategies at Institute of Medicine Workshop

 Biotechnology - Moreover
Biosafety platform provides boost to biotechnology innovators

SA to become one of top three emerging biotechnology nations

Lescarden Inc receives regulatory approval for new Catrix Wound Dressing packaging partner

Form 8-K LIXTE BIOTECHNOLOGY HOLD For: Feb 22

Simian Immunodeficiency Virus Vaccines: Research from Advanced BioScience Laboratories, Inc. provides new data about simian immunodeficiency virus vaccines

 CenterWatch - Clinical Trials
Quintiles Adds Anatomic Pathology Services to China Lab

ResearchPoint Global Continues to Grow, Add CRO Partners

German CRO Clinicalprojects Plans to Open First Foreign Office

Chiltern Opens Office in Argentina

Biologics to Manage Cancer Study for National Marrow Donor Program
Clinical Trials - Business Wire
Top Doctors to Present Results of FDA Clinical Trial of Guided Therapeutics Cervical Cancer Detection Technology at Scientific Meeting

VertiFlex®, Inc. Announces Appointment of William H. Duffell, Ph.D. Vice President, Global Clinical Research

Atrium Medisch Centrum Parkstad en GI Dynamics starten klinisch onderzoek EndoBarrier Gastrointestinal Liner voor de behandeling van diabetes type 2

Nature Publishing Group Partners with Worldwide Innovative Networking (WIN) in Personalized Cancer Medicine

Carolinas Medical Center NorthEast Selects Premier Healthcare Alliance Quality Improvement Solution to Improve Patient Care, Reduce Costs

 Clinical Trials - PR Newswire
Breath Test for Pulmonary Tuberculosis

Adamas Pharmaceuticals Announces In Vitro Data Demonstrating TCAD Therapy is More Potent Than Double Combinations or Monotherapy Against Drug-Resistant Flu Strains

Watson Files FDA Application for Generic Aplenzin(TM) ER

NOVAVAX Presents Positive Clinical Results at The World Health Organization Conference, Geneva, Switzerland

Novartis Drug Tasigna(R) Receives FDA Priority Review for Newly Diagnosed Patients With Early-Stage Chronic Myeloid Leukemia

 Contract Pharma
Chiltern, Charles River Enter Radiolabelled Drug Pact

Executive Moves: PPD, Inc.

PAREXEL Opens Early Phase Unit in South Africa

Recipharm Acquires Cobra Biomanufacturing

Novartis’ Menveo Vaccine Gains Approval
FDA Drugs- What's New
FDA Drug Safety Communication: Ongoing review of Avandia (rosiglitazone) and cardiovascular safety

Potential Signals of Serious Risks/New Safety Information Identified from the Adverse Event Reporting System (AERS) between July - September 2009

Potential Signals of Serious Risks/New Safety Information Identified from the Adverse Event Reporting System (AERS) between January - March 2008

Potential Signals of Serious Risks/New Safety Information Identified from the Adverse Event Reporting System (AERS) between April - June 2008

Potential Signals of Serious Risks/New Safety Information Identified from the Adverse Event Reporting System (AERS) between October - December 2008

 FDA News - Business Wire
Advanced Cancer Therapeutics Receives Final $250,000 Investment From Commonwealth Seed Capital

ArQule to Report Fiscal 2009 Financial Results on March 2, 2010

Forest Laboratories Receives Decision from FDA for Supplemental New Drug Application for Bystolic®

BSD Medical Reports Publication of Chinese Study Using the BSD-2000 Hyperthermia System to Treat Lung Cancer

Aradigm Doses First Patient in Its Second Phase 2b Clinical Trial of Inhaled Liposomal Ciprofloxacin in Bronchiectasis Patients

 FDA Press Releases
U.S. Attorney New Release: Miami Prescription Drug Diverter Sentenced To 70 Months In Prison

U.S. Attorney New Release: SK Foods former owner charged with RICO violations

FDA Cancer Drug Approval Rate Highlighted in JNCI

FDA Announces New Safety Controls for Long-Acting Beta Agonists, Medications Used to Treat Asthma

FDA Warns about Serious Side Effects from Maalox Product Mix-Ups
FDA Vaccines, Blood and Biologics - What's New
Biologic Product Shortages

Cord Blood Licensure: A Workshop

Field Correction of Influenza A (H1N1) 2009 Monovalent Vaccine Live, Intranasal Expiration Dating

COBAS TaqScreen MPX Test

Influenza A (H1N1) 2009 Monovalent Vaccine Live, Intranasal Questions and Answers

 FierceBiotech
Pharma giants create Asian cancer R&D group

Novartis venture arm inks $200M deal with tiny Viamet

Cephalon pays $250M to snare Ception Therapeutics

Salix braces for harsh panel review of Xifaxan

Gilead wins FDA approval of new cystic fibrosis drug

 FierceBiotech IT
Cite competitive plus to justify informatics

Mitigate risks in clinical trials

Reg system targets data, user issues

Marketing, multimedia aid recruitment

Cyber-attacks target pharma
FierceBiotech Research
Scorpion venom compounds used to kill pain

Mouse/human chimera will aid hepatitis research

The roller coaster ride of melanoma drug development

Pharma giants join forces behind Asian cancer research group

Pfizer's old Ann Arbor complex recruiting researchers

 FiercePharma
Philly jury awards $9.45M in Prempro case

Fewer med schools take pharma support

Nissen recorded 2007 meeting with GSK

Obama plan may resurrect reform

Which drugs get the most-expensive crown

 FiercePharma Manufacturing
Roche envisions China as generics-maker

Sea option becoming viable for drug shipments

VaxGen story goes beyond manufacturing

CMO deal has U.K. bioprocess focus

Vaccine process shuns the cold
FierceVaccines
Peptide could be clue for cancer vax

Study: No hard evidence that flu vaccine protects the elderly

Novartis VC arm backs fledgling universal flu vax

Dehydration process could eliminate the vax cold chain

WHO to update its pandemic alert

 GEN News Highlights
Roche's Avastin Fails to Improve Survival of Advanced Gastric Cancer Patients in Phase III Trial

Rumor Mill Churns with Thermo Fisher Scientific $6B Takeover Bid for Millipore

Researchers Provide New Evidence for Role of FGFR1 Amplification in Tamoxifen Resistance

ReNeuron Raises £4.7M to Fund Phase I Study with Stem Cell Therapy for Ischemic Stroke

FDA Sanctions Novartis Vaccine for Meningococcal Disease in Adolescents and Adults

 Health News - BizJournals.com
Levine Children's Hospital gets $5.7M for cancer research

Kindred profit falls in fourth quarter

Seahorse Bioscience secures $5 million

ACT receives more state funds to advance cancer research

Sitarik named new CEO of Orlando Health
Health News - CNBC
Henry Schein Q4 Profit Up 54%

Grassley on Jobs, Health Care

Medtronic 3Q profit rises 19 percent

Eli Lilly, Merck, Pfizer starting research center

Medco profit jumps 24 pct on clients, drug prices

 Health News - Fox Business
Drug Stocks Sluggish; Roche Falls

States' Rights at Risk with President's Plan

Watson Profit Up

Tenet Healthcare Posts Profit After Year-ago Loss

Medco 4th-quarter Net Up 24%, Outlook Affirmed

 Marketwire - Pharma and Biotech
Aldagen Announces Strategic Management Changes

Kane Biotech's Antibiofilm Technologies Published in Two New Scientific Books

IMA World Health Receives BD Donation of 1.2 Million Syringes for Democratic Republic of Congo

Corcept Therapeutics Initiates a Phase 1 Study of Its Lead Selective Cortisol Receptor (GR-II) Antagonist -- CORT 108297

S3 Investment Company Announces New Client for Redwood Capital Subsidiary
MassBio News
MassBio Thanks Millennium for Making Progress Toward Winning the War on Cancer

Check out the NEW & IMPROVED W.B. Mason contract for MORE SAVINGS!

MassBio and American Cancer Society present Symposium on Progress Toward Winning the War on Cancer

Policy makers, industry leaders gather to cement commitment to life sciences industry

Massachusetts Life Sciences Center Announces 2010 Internship Challenge Program

Medical Pharma - PR Newswire
Op-Ed: National Forum Calls for Collective Will and More Funding to Fight Hypertension

57 Million Americans Are on the Brink of Getting Diabetes: A Convenient Lab Test Can Help Pull Them Back

Elsevier's new Custom Publication Guidelines set new Standards for Publishing Pharma-Sponsored Content

Global Hospitals and Healthcare Suppliers Focus on Cutting Costs and Improving Quality at 2010 GHX Supply Chain Summit

1,000,000th WaveSense Blood Glucose Meter for Diabetes Shipped by AgaMatrix

 National Center for Biotechnology Information
Bookshelf News

dbVar News and Announcements

Genome Reference Consortium News

HomoloGene News

Library-LinkOut Announcements
Nature Biotechnology
Industry gains on moneyback schemes

$2 million rice verdict against Bayer

Biorefineries' stimulus win

Purpose-built chromosome

FDA balks on MedImmune's cell-grown flu vaccine

 New York Times- Biotechnology
After a Shooting, Colleagues Try to Regain Footing

Staggered by a Shooting, a Small Biology Department Tries to Regain Its Footing

A Previous Death at the Hand of Alabama Suspect

A Previous Shooting Death at the Hand of Alabama Suspect

A Previous Shooting Death at the Hands of Alabama Suspect

 New York Times- Pharmaceuticals
After Long Fight, Drug Gives Sudden Reprieve

Doctor Training Aided by Drug Industry Cash

Medical Residency Programs Said to Take Drug Industry Cash

A Protein That Fuels Cancer, and a Drug to Fight It

A Roller Coaster Chase for a Cure
OnBioVC
Alnara Therapeutics, Inc.: Series B $35M

TVA Medical, Inc.: Series A $2.6M

EyeGate Pharma, Inc.: Series D $22.6M

PhaseBio Pharmaceuticals, Inc.: Series B $25M

CeQur Ltd.: Series A $29.6M

 Outsourcing-Pharma
Informex companies hope for a brighter 2010

MDS' sites "perfectly dovetail" with Ricerca's capacity; VP

Trial sponsors and CROs must do more to recruit older people, says EU group

Intelligent packaging can cut cost of trials; Stora Enso

MENA emerging as trial destination says ClinTec CEO

 Pharma News - Business Wire
Free Statewide Rx Assistance Program Targets Non-Formulary Drugs

Eurofins AvTech Laboratories Adds Michael D. Barron to Team

Vitro Appoints Prominent Denver Investment Banker to Its Board of Directors

Simulations Plus Retains Hayden IR to Develop a Comprehensive Investor Relations Program

Curis to Present at the RBC Capital Markets Healthcare Conference
Pharma News - PharmiWeb
Recipharm Biologics and Cobra Biomanufacturing plc combine.

SOCIETY REACTS TO HOUSE OF COMMONS SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY COMMITTEE REPORT INTO HOMEOPATHIC PRODUCTS

RNIB appoints Doctors.net.uk for GP education campaign

Retacrit to be the 1st biosimilar epoetin to achieve subcutaneous licence in renal patients

Elsevier is Meeting Today's Medical Students' Needs With Online, Mobile and Print Tools

 Pharma News - PR Newswire
Americans Living Longer, Healthier Lives Due to Medical Innovation and New Therapies

Emerging Oral Atypical Antipsychotics Will Garner Only Limited Uptake in the Schizophrenia Drug Market

Psychemedics Corporation Announces 2009 Year End Profits

Webcast Alert: Isis Pharmaceuticals' 2009 Financial Results and Highlights Conference Call

NCC and Pfizer Partner to Provide 10 Million Units of Hemophilia Medicines

 Pharmaceutical - Moreover
Dutch find no link between infant deaths and vaccine

Autism - Drug Pipeline Analysis and Market Forecasts to 2016

Dyslipidemia - Drug Pipeline Analysis and Market Forecasts to 2016

Analytical Chemist - Pharmaceutical

Health Economics Manager Major Organisation - UK
PR Leap - Biotech
Vivante GMP Solutions Enters into License Agreements with Crucell

Ascent Scientific Licenses Novel Columbia University Technology for High-Resolution Optical Imaging of Synaptic Activity in the Brain

World First - Green Cell Technologies' Extraction Process reduces plant & micro-organisms to a stabilised molecular level

SourceSolution Announced Today the Launch of New Website Features Designed to Support Biotechnology and Pharmaceutical Strategic Sourcing Decisions

New Vice President of Production Joins Vivante GMP Solutions' Team

 PRWeb - Biotechnology
Evonik Extends Long-term Research & Development Partnership with Genedata

MUSA Technology Partners Teams with Nexsan for Data Storage for the Life Sciences

New Online Tutorials for NCBI resources BioSystems and DCODE

US Fermenters Market to Reach $180 million by 2015, According to New Report by Global Industry Analysts, Inc.

Dalton Pharma Services and Boehringer Ingelheim (Canada) Ltd. Announce the Renewal of their Chemistry Services Agreement

PRWeb - Pharmaceuticals
Cleveland Medical Malpractice Attorney Obtains Settlement in Wrongful Death Case

FDA Approves Once-Daily Mirapex ER For The Treatment Of Early Parkinson’s Disease

Moravia Worldwide to Present Webinar on Life Sciences Translation 101

QualiTest Implements Exploratory Test Validation for a Class III Medical Device of a Leading Consumer Health Giant

US Anti-Migraine Drugs Market to Exceed $3.2 Billion by 2015, According to New Report by Global Industry Analysts, Inc.

Scientific American
Same Species, Polar Opposites: The Mystery of Identical Creatures Found in both Arctic and Antarctic Waters [Slide Show]

No Sex Needed: All-Female Lizard Species Cross Their Chromosomes to Make Babies

Kepler Spacecraft May Be Able to Spot Elusive Oort Cloud Objects

Germany Floats New Plans to Keep Hydrogen-Powered Cars in the World's Transportation Mix

In a Hurry New Battery Recharging System Promises Quicker Turnaround for Plug-In Hybrid Vehicles

 Xconomy Life Sciences
Aveo Sets IPO Price Range at $13-$15 a Share

Celldex CEO Treks From NJ to Massachusetts in Pursuit of Antibody Drugs for Cancer

Gilead Sciences Gets FDA Green Light To Sell Cystic Fibrosis Drug

LifeImage and EMC Planning New Cloud Storage Service for Medical Data

Arzeda CEO Resigns; Company Looks to Prove Technology, Conserve Cash

 Yahoo Biotech News
Genetic Mutation Linked to Prostate Cancer in Blacks (HealthDay)

US scientists warn of fraud of stem cell 'banks' (AFP)

Gene Therapy Shows Promise Against HIV (HealthDay)

U.S. "tweaks" stem cell policy (Reuters)

Long-Distance Runners May Have Endurance in Their Genes (HealthDay)


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