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Novel Antitoxin Strategy Developed Using 'Tagged Binding Agents', Tufts University Study

Novel Antitoxin Strategy Developed Using 'Tagged Binding Agents', Tufts University Study

New Hope For Javelin Pharmaceuticals's Pain Candidate But Safety Concerns Remain

KV Pharmaceutical Company Unit to Pay $25.8 Million in Settlement

William Ringo, Pfizer Inc.'s Senior Vice President, Worldwide Business Development, Strategy And Innovation, To Retire

BioSpace - Breaking News
Thermo Fisher Scientific May Increase Millipore Corporation Takeover Bid

Cleveland Biolabs Inc. Raises $5 Million From Institutional Investors Through Private Placement

TRANSGENE Investors Expect Partner to Help Develop Cancer Drug

Barry Buckland Joins Ancora Pharmaceuticals Board

National Institutes of Health (NIH) and FDA Join in Bid to Speed Drug Development

Biotech News - Business Wire
Alnylam to Webcast RNAi Roundtable on Thursday, March 4, 2010

Cytori Therapeutics Announces Spring 2010 Conference Schedule

Change of Number of Stock Units and Votes in Artimplant AB

Geron Corporation Reports Fourth Quarter and Annual 2009 Financial Results and Highlights

Orthovita to Present at the Roth Capital Partners 22nd Annual OC Growth Stock Conference
Biotech News - PR Newswire
Pharmacyclics to Present at the RBC Capital Markets Healthcare Investor Conference

Fate Therapeutics Named One of the 50 Most Innovative Companies in the World by MIT's Technology Review

Amicus Therapeutics Announces $18.5 Million Registered Direct Offering of Common Stock

Idenix Pharmaceuticals Reports Fourth Quarter and Year End 2009 Financial Results

ERT Reports Fourth Quarter and Full Year 2009 Results

 Biotechnology - Moreover
Moratorium stays, but need to set time frame

Ag biotechnology rises globally

Form 6-K PRANA BIOTECHNOLOGY LTD For: Feb 25

Biotech Crops Are Top Choice for World's Farmers

BIO Invites Nominations for the 2010 George Washington Carver Award for Innovation in ...

 CenterWatch - Clinical Trials
Chiltern, Charles River Labs Partner on Early-phase Studies

Kendle Cutting Staff to Offset Drop in Sales

PPD Opens First Office in Philippines, Expands Operations in India

INC Research Launches Alliance Partnerships Program

Quintiles Adds Anatomic Pathology Services to China Lab
Clinical Trials - Business Wire
Research and Markets: This Contract Research Organizations in Asia 2010 Report Provides a Comprehensive List of Clinical Research Organizations Throughout Asia

Over 2000 Patients Treated Globally with DFine's RF Kyphoplasty Procedure

EKOS Corporation Announces a Groundbreaking Study for the Treatment of Intracerebral and Intraventricular Hemorrhage Using Ultrasound Presented at the American Heart Association International Stroke Conference 2010

Five Prime Therapeutics, Inc. Announces Milestone for Therapeutic Program

Acute Study Demonstrates Safety of Vertos Medical's mild® Procedure; Findings Appear in Pain Physician Journal

 Clinical Trials - PR Newswire
Groundbreaking Study Using Ultrasound for the Treatment of Intracerebral and Intraventricular Hemorrhage Stroke Shows Promise

Coalition for Pulmonary Fibrosis and American Thoracic Society Continue Commitment to Pulmonary Fibrosis Research

Good Parenting Triumphs Over Prenatal Stress

More Reliable Biomarkers Needed for Early Detection of Liver Cancer

Children Can Have Recurrent Strokes

 Contract Pharma
iBio to License Green Vax Technology to G-Con

Regulus, GSK Enter HCV Development Pact

Executive Moves: Pfizer

Pharma Services Network Launches PharmaTours

Pfizer’s Prevnar 13 Gains Approval
FDA Drugs- What's New
Non-Inferiority Clinical Trials

Submission of Documentation in Applications for Parametric Release of Human and Veterinary Drug Products Terminally Sterilized by Moist Heat Processes

FDA Drug Safety Communication: Ongoing safety review of Invirase (saquinavir) and possible association with abnormal heart rhythms

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

 FDA News - Business Wire
Fresenius Medical Care Publishes Form 20-F for the Fiscal Year 2009

Introducing PharmaTours: Helping BioPharm Executives Select FDA Audited Service Providers in India for CMC and Clinical Research

Barry Buckland Joins Ancora Pharmaceuticals Board

Full Line of Erythromycin Ophthalmic Ointment, USP Now Available from Fera Pharmaceuticals

imaGenes GmbH Adds Certification of Roche NimbleGen DNA Methylation Analysis to Service Portfolio

 FDA Press Releases
FDA Update on the Investigation into the Salmonella Montevideo Outbreak - February 25, 2010

U.S. Attorney News Release: Medical Technician Sentenced to 30 Years

FDA Approves Pneumococcal Disease Vaccine with Broader Protection

U.S. Attorney News Release: Woman pleads guilty to poisoning salsa at Lenexa restaurant

U.S. Attorney New Release: Miami Prescription Drug Diverter Sentenced To 70 Months In Prison
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
Arena gets 10/22 PDUFA date for lorcaserin

New Novartis chief scouting for 'bolt-on' buyouts

Rockwell shares plunge after renal drug fails IIb endpoint

Is Transgene closing in on a major collaboration

Thermo Fisher may sweeten offer for Millipore

 FierceBiotech IT
Oracle: analytics benefits to unfold in stages

EDC giving way to clinical software suites

Real-time data, analytics challenge IT

Cite competitive plus to justify informatics

Mitigate risks in clinical trials
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
Novartis eyes bolt-on deals in generics, vaccines

Biovail set to hire reps for new U.S. force

Jury rules for Pfizer in Prempro case

Summit is on, but it's tomorrow that counts

Pharma gets by with help from your friends

 FiercePharma Manufacturing
Ops job gains to offset exec losses

Tobacco may speed vax production

WuXi plant ok another notch for China

Genzyme paying big for GMP slips

FDA letter vetoes Lilly API test
FierceVaccines
Scientists easily create hybrid virus

Older women unlikely to benefit from HPV vax

Prevnar 13: Pfizer's next Lipitor

Decision to scrap HIV vax facility stirs controversy

DARPA providing $40M for tobacco vax project

 GEN News Highlights
Scientists Use shRNA to Remove Key HIV Co-Receptor

PerkinElmer Takes Over Danaher's Share of JV in Inductively Coupled Plasma Mass Spectrometry

Salmonella-Infected Mice Represent Potential Model of Hemophagocytic Lymphohistiocytosis

GSK and Regulus to Collaborate on miRNA-Based HCV Drugs

Paladin Gains Canadian Distribution Rights to BTG's Antidote for Digoxin Toxicity

 Health News - BizJournals.com
North Philadelphia Health to close Continuing Care Hospital

Jackson's Health loss worse than expected

Hawaii gets F for keiki dental care

Nashville-based ActivHealth bought by Connecticut's Nurtur

Report: Baptist trying for new Oxford, Miss., hospital
Health News - CNBC
Anthera Pharma shrinks IPO in weak market

NuVasive 4Q profit falls on expenses

Magellan Health 4Q profit jumps on revenue

NY Governor Paterson Won't Seek Election This Year

PerkinElmer buys rest of Danaher joint venture

 Health News - Fox Business
Drug Stocks Inch Higher; Cleveland BioLabs Sinks

Magellan Confirms Guidance As Profit Rises 85%

Daiichi Sankyo To Sell Generics In Japan: Report

California Subpoenas Records From 7 Health Plans

Obama, Republicans Clash Over Health-Care Reform Goals

 Marketwire - Pharma and Biotech
HemaCare Announces Share Repurchase Program

Cleveland BioLabs Raises $5 Million From Institutional Investors Through Private Placement

HemaCare Reports Ninth Consecutive Profitable Quarter

Insception Cord Blood Program Expands to Calgary

Genomic Health Announces Analysis Reinforcing Clinical Utility of Oncotype DX(R) Breast Cancer Test in Asia Pacific Patient Population
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
DUSA Pharmaceuticals, Inc.(R) to Host Fourth Quarter and Full Year 2009 Financial Results and Corporate Highlights Conference Call

Delcath Systems to Conduct Conference Call to Update Investors on Recent Progress

Cardiologists Comment on Aspirin Versus Resveratrol

Cord Blood America Names Shamoon Ahmad, M.D., Director of Its Medical Advisory Board

New CASA* Report Finds: 65 Percent of All U.S. Inmates Meet Medical Criteria for Substance Abuse Addiction, Only 11 Percent Receive Any Treatment

 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
A Drug Trial Cycle: Recovery, Relapse, Reinvention

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
OnBioVC
Flexion Therapeutics, Inc.: Series A $9M

Neomend, Inc.: Series D $30M

Elevation Pharmaceuticals, Inc.: Series A $30M

Alnara Therapeutics, Inc.: Series B $35M

TVA Medical, Inc.: Series A $2.6M

 Outsourcing-Pharma
SAFC preparing for inevitable shift to cell culture vaccines

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

 Pharma News - Business Wire
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Thermo Fisher Scientific Completes Acquisition of Ahura Scientific

Synta Presents STA-9090 NSCLC data at the IASLC 10th Annual Targeted Therapies of the Treatment of Lung Cancer Meeting

Greer Appoints Terrance C. Coyne, M.D. as Chief Medical Officer and Expands Clinical and Medical Affairs Programs

Researchers Report Novel Biological Properties of Fragments of Thymosin Beta 4
Pharma News - PharmiWeb
Retacrit(TM) to be the 1st Biosimilar Epoetin to Achieve Subcutaneous Licence in Renal Patients

HOKUSAI VTE - Largest Single Phase III Trial for the Treatment and Prevention of Recurrent VTE Started in Europe

NICE to Hear Bayer's Appeal on the Institute's Decision not to Recommend NHS Funding for Nexavar(R) in Patients With the Most Common Primary Liver Cancer

2010/019 New NICE guideline aims to promote consistent safety standards for donor breast milk

The search for future scientists begins

 Pharma News - PR Newswire
SCAI Statement on the CREST Study Findings: Carotid Stenting is as Safe and Effective as Carotid Surgery in Patients at Risk for Stroke

Watson to Present at CLSA/Asia USA Investor's Forum

Special Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology (JACI) Supplement Highlighting Role of the Small Airways Available at Leading Respiratory Conference

Arena Pharmaceuticals Receives PDUFA Date for Lorcaserin NDA

Savient Pharmaceuticals Reports Fourth Quarter and Year-End 2009 Financial Results

 Pharmaceutical - Moreover
Research and Markets releases 2010 pharmaceutical regulatory report on India

Best Practices for Architecting a Lustre-Based Storage Environment

Special Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology (JACI) Supplement Highlighting Role of the Small Airways Available at Leading

Phenolic Constituents of the Aerial Parts of Cimicifuga simplex and Cimicifuga japonica

Polyhydroxysteroidal Glycosides from the Starfish Anthenea chinensis
PR Leap - Biotech
SourceSolution Launches Client Portal Software, PlanIt, for CMOs/CROs and their Biotech and Pharma Clients

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

 PRWeb - Biotechnology
Riemer Named President of Medical Device Manufacturer MRPC

Riemer Named President of Medical Device Manufacturer MRPC

Advans Survey Reveals that 75 Percent of Executives Prefer Domestic Outsourcing vs. Offshore

invivodata Opens Registration for 3rd Annual Patient Reported Outcomes Conference

Introducing the NEW Oakton® pH 700 Benchtop Meter from Cole-Parmer

 PRWeb - Pharmaceuticals
Florida Personal Injury Law Firm Achieves One of the Largest Jury Verdicts in St. Lucie County in a case of 'Profits before Safety'

Florida Personal Injury Law Firm Achieves One of the Largest Jury Verdicts in St. Lucie County in a case of 'Profits before Safety'

Centice Corporation Presents Latest Technology at PittCon 2010

Actenum Corporation Extends Capabilities with Microsoft Project 2010 Integration

New Cancer-Fighting Strategy Focuses On Signaling Molecules
Scientific American
Are Pesticides from Plants Dangerous to Humans

Wild Ride: Comet Sample May Help Constrain the Early Evolution of the Solar System

Internet Ideology War: Google's Spat with China Could Reshape Traditional Online Freedoms

Wired Waters: Bacterial Electric Circuits Facilitate Chemistry in Marine Sediments

Test-Tube Babies May Face Greater Health Risks Than Naturally Conceived Children

 Xconomy Life Sciences
Arena Gets October FDA Deadline

Avila Aims to Trump Vertex With Drug that Hits Hepatitis C Virus and Wont Let Go

FDA Says Novalar Brochure for Dental Drug is Misleading

Under the Radar in January: A Baker's Dozen of New England Startup Financings Worth $1M or Less

La Jolla Pharmaceutical: Going, Going, But Not Quite Gone

 Yahoo Biotech News
Genes Behind Tooth Development Discovered (HealthDay)

Heart Stem Cells Move Closer to Human Treatments (HealthDay)

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)


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