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b3c newswire
BrainStorm Announces Clinical Data for Safety and Supporting Efficacy of NurOwn(TM) Based on ...

AMSilk is Proud to Announce the Addition of Jeff Davis to its Advisory Board

BioInvest Israel 2012: Local & Global Pharma , Medtech and Finance Companies Meet to ...

NovAliX Enters into Multi-Target Integrated Drug Discovery Collaboration with Teijin Pharma

Special Issue: Transforming Growth Factor Beta as a Target in Oncology

BioSpace
Scientists Shed New Light on Link Between "Killer Cells" and Diabetes, King's College London Study

ArQule, Inc. Says Tivantinib Meets Primary Endpoint; Stock Rises +0.8699(14.60%) @ 10:55AM EST

Genentech Pours $95 Million into Constellation Pharmaceuticals Epigenetic Drug Platform, Deal Includes M&A Terms

Scientists Uncover the Mathematics of Serial Killers, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) Study

Sugar for the Brain: Mechanism to Prevent Programmed Cell Death of Nerve Cells Deciphered, McMaster University Study

BioSpace - Breaking News
BrainStorm Cell Therapeutics Inc. Announces Clinical Data Supporting Safety and Efficacy of NurOwn Based on Initial Patient Results

Scil Proteins GmbH to Manufacture Reteplase for Actavis

Enzymicals AG and Herbrand PharmaChemicals GmbH Cooperate for Biotechnological Production of Pharmaceuticals and Intermediates

Celldex Therapeutics, Inc. Announces Initiation of Phase 1 Clinical Trial of CDX-301

InVivo Therapeutics Corporation, Geisinger Health System to Conduct Preclinical Study of Injectable Scaffold for Peripheral Nerve Injury for FDA Submission

Biotech News - Business Wire
Pozew Mirus Biosciences przeciwko spóce Fugent oddalony za porednictwem kancelarii Haus, Roman and Banks, LLP

Demanda de Mirus Biosciences contra Fugent Rechazada

Mirus Biosciences Suit against Fugent Dismissed

Klage von Mirus Biosciences gegen Fugent abgewiesen

Non-lieu prononcé dans le procès Mirus Biosciences contre Fugent

Biotech News - PR Newswire
Johnson & Johnson to Host Analyst Meeting to Discuss Fourth-Quarter and Full-Year 2011 Financial Results

Nano Mask Opens Office in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia Due to Strong Demand for Company's Products

Veran Medical Technologies Announces Initial Shipment of SPiN Drive® Platform to Customers

First Preclinical Proof-of-Concept of Mutation-Based Individualized Cancer Vaccine

Roka Bioscience Awarded AOAC-RI Certification for Roka Listeria Detection Assay

Biotechnology - Moreover
Taiwan: Launch of new textile industrial cloud production equipment

BASF Plant Science Moves Headquarters to U.S.,  Plans to Halt Development of GM Crops for Europe

BASF to move plant science HQ to RTP

APOGENIX BIOTECHNOLOGY

BASF to focus on plant biotechnology in America

Burrill Report
Novartis to Ax 2,000 jobs after Tekturna Development Halted

Genentech Partners with Xenon Pharmaceuticals in $646M Pain Pact

Forma Therapeutics Inks Alliance with Janssen Biotech

Bristol-Myers Squibb Buys Inhibitex for $2.5 Billion

Flagship Ventures Launches $270 Million Fund

CenterWatch - Clinical Trials
Sanofi's $20 billion Genzyme buy could fuel a big pharma-biotechnology acquisition trend

New Quintiles initiative saves investigative sites the time, and cost, of patient recruitment advertising

Technology companies adapt interactive video concepts for clinical trial informed consent

CRI buys Lifetree, combining investigative sites on both coasts and across all trial phases

New $1b NIH center will tackle early-stage drug development to ease industry risk of failure

Clinical Trials - Business Wire
Theorem Clinical Research Appoints Bollwage as Vice President of Global Regulatory Affairs

Acurian expands its market leading position in the direct-to-patient arena; clinical trial recruitment database now over 70 million and growing

Data from St. Jude Medical's ASSERT Implantable Device Monitoring Study Published in New England Journal of Medicine

Endosense Launches TactiCath® 75 Force-Sensing Catheter, Announces New Results of EFFICAS I Clinical Study

Research and Markets: Emerging Market for Clinical Trials in Poland - Cost Advantages of Nearly 30% as Compared to the US

Clinical Trials - PR Newswire
Novelos Therapeutics Enrolls First Patient in Phase 1b Trial in Solid Tumors With (131)I-CLR1404 (HOT) Cancer-Targeted Molecular Radiotherapeutic

Roche's GS Junior Sequencing System Used in Research on Personalized Tumor Treatment

Results From Pilot Trial of PLC's RenalGuard® Published in International Journal of Cardiology

Miramar Labs Launches miraDry® System to Treat Excessive Underarm Sweat

Ventana Medical Systems, Inc. to Collaborate with Bayer on Companion Diagnostic Test for New Biological Cancer Therapy

CNN Top Stories
Romney hits back at critics after debate

Beyonc wonderful mom, pals say

Huntsman hurt by mini-Romney image

Five more bodies found in cruise ship wreckage

Opinion: Why Huntsman fizzled

Contract Pharma
Evotec, Harvard Expand Alliance

Myoderm Adds International Director

Parexel Adds FDA Vet to Compliance Team

Almac, MGB Biopharma Collaborate on Manufacturing

Carbogen Amcis Acquires Creapharm Parenterals

FDA Drugs- What's New
FDA Drug Safety Communication: New Boxed Warning and Contraindication for Adcetris (brentuximab vedotin)

FDA Drug Safety Communication: Update: Preliminary findings from ongoing investigations of CardioGen-82

FDA Statement on recently terminated clinical trial with Doribax (doripenem)

Questions and Answers: FDA approves a class Risk Evaluation and Mitigation Strategy (REMS) for transmucosal immediate-release fentanyl (TIRF) medicines

FDA Alerts Pharmacists and Health Care Professionals to Potential for Injury when Dispensing the Similar-Sounding Drugs Durezol and Durasal

FDA News - Business Wire
TRADE NEWS: Agilent Technologies Lists LC and Mass Spec Systems as Class I Medical Devices with FDA

BlackBox Logic Exhibiting Comprehensive RMBS Solutions at American Securitization Forum Jan. 22-25

Antares Pharma Enters Licensing Agreement with Daewoong Pharmaceuticals Co. Ltd. for Oxybutynin Gel 3% in South Korea

BIO Urges Congress to Promptly Reauthorize PDUFA to Promote the Development of Innovative Therapies and Speed New Medicines to Patients

Torax Medical's LINX® Reflux Management System Receives Unanimous Recommendation From FDA Advisory Panel

FDA Press Releases
FDA to protect important class of antimicrobial drugs for treating human illness

FDA: Chicago-area sandwich manufacturer agrees to stop production

FDA expands use of HIV drug Isentress to children and adolescents

FDA: Do not use ShoulderFlex Massager

FDA collaboration to monitor rare eye condition associated with cataract surgery

FDA Vaccines, Blood and Biologics - What's New
Cord Blood Banking Information for Consumers

Cord Blood Banking – Information for Consumers

Cord Blood Banking ââ¬â Information for Consumers

Influenza Virus Vaccine for the 2011 - 2012 Season

Fluzone, Fluzone High-Dose and Fluzone Intradermal

FierceBiotech
Astex terminates epigenetics collaboration with GSK

Pfizer writes off $725M Dimebon pact after final Phase III failure

Fledgling Verastem outlines investor strategy behind high-risk $50M IPO

The 10 biotech IPOs of 2011

Constellation inks $95M discovery deal, buyout option with Genentech

FierceBiotech IT
AB Sciex, Indigo BioSystems join forces on mass spectrometry software

DecisionView updates clinical trial enrollment software

Entelos stages comeback bid with funding

PerkinElmer CEO arranges marriage between informatics, lab service biz

Cannabis company launches Jane-Ome app

FierceBiotech Research
Altering intestinal bacteria with probiotics improved rats' heart health

Sugar molecules betray precancerous cells in esophagus

PARP inhibitors could aid larger ovarian cancer patient population

Vitamin D helps (more than) 3 (nearly) blind mice see

Hormone irisin eyed as possible weight loss drug ingredient

FiercePharma
Bit by bit, Lundbeck trims fat from production costs

J&J whistleblower testifies in TX Risperdal case

It's final: Tasigna in, Sprycel out in NICE guidelines

Will last year's buybacks morph into more M&A for 2012

Numbers hint that Pfizer's Lipitor strategy may work

FiercePharma Manufacturing
B.S., M.S. manufacturing jobs grow with R&D cutbacks

Abbott dodges excise tax at Indian plant

Roche pilots direct shipments to Europe

FDA: Novartis plant shows patterns of problems

USP has credibility as pedigree driver

FierceVaccines
Oncothyreon awaits pivotal data on Stimuvax

Aeras, CNBG team on TB vaccine deal

Microtest to manufacture ImmusanT's celiac vaccine

As India nears polio eradication, researchers ponder new vaccines

ImmunoCellular starts Phase II trial of brain cancer vaccine

Health News - BizJournals.com
Adventist HealthCare moving headquarters to Gaithersburg

CPAs see better prospects for Ohio than U.S.

Slideshow: Top 7 Bay Area Hospitals

Hemispherx wants to use genital warts treatment in flu prevention

Adventist HealthCare to move headquarters to Gaithersburg

Health News - CNBC
Forest Labs 3Q profit slips, 2012 forecast rises

Pfizer, Medivation end drug development deal

Exclusive: Union targets dual chairman-CEO roles

Exclusive: U.S. union targets dual chairman-CEO roles

BrainStorm sees positive data in ALS stem cell trial

Health News - Fox Business
Employers Grateful for Proposed Tax Breaks, But Still Scared

Employers Grateful for Proposed Tax Breaks, Still Scared

Insmed Shares Drop as FDA Halts Study After Rat Test Results

Week Ahead: A Flood Of 2Q Earnings

Pfizer Drug Raises Heart Attack Risk: Study

Inside Industry - Gen
Poll on the IPO Market This Year Has Voters Nearly Evenly Split

Life Technologies, DaAn Establish Chinese Diagnostics Joint Venture

Janssen's Starts Open Innovation Lab in San Diego

Novartis Plans $450M Cost Cuts to Shoulder Diovan Patent Loss, Aliskiren Safety Concerns

M&A Activity in 2012 Will Surpass Last Year's Pace, GEN Online Readers Predict

Marketwire - Pharma and Biotech
Physicians Interactive's Mobile Healthcare Professional Community Passes Two Million Users

Kane Biotech Renews Investor Relations Agreement With Pure Advertising and Marketing for 2012

Biomedical Structures Introduces Novel Absorbable BIOFELT(R) Scaffold for Breakthrough Surgical Applications

Miraculins Files with Health Canada for PreVu Medical Device License

Galderma Announces Availability of New Metrogel(R) 1% Pump Dispenser for the Treatment of Papulopustular Rosacea

MassBio News
Local students explore Biotech Futures

A Note from the President: Looking Forward to a Busy 2012 at MassBio

BIO International Convention Returning to Boston in 2012

The Blogs MassBio Reads

2012 Futures in Life Sciences Sessions Scheduled

Medical Pharma - PR Newswire
PCMA Launches New Ad Campaign: 'That's What PBMs Do'

Waters and Tecan Sign Agreement for Clinical Assay Platform

BHI Urges People with Heart Disease to Get Their Hearing Checked During American Heart Month

"Smash" Star Katharine McPhee Teams Up With Malaria No More To Launch the "Dream Big" Campaign

Reliv and Soy Labs Launch LunaRich, a Healthier Soy

National Center for Biotechnology Information
GEO Series Releases

ClinVar News and Announcements

Behind The Headlines - Health News from NHS Choices

PubMed Health Featured Reviews

SRA News

Nature Biotechnology
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

New York Times- Biotechnology
Amgen and Watson to Work Together on Generic Drugs

A Genome Deluge

Drew Endy: Better Computing for the Things We Care About Most

DNA Sequencing Caught in Deluge of Data

China’s New Economic Plan Focuses on Raising Standards of Living

New York Times- Pharmaceuticals
U.S. to Tell Drug Makers to Disclose Payments to Doctors

DEALBOOK; Bristol-Myers Agrees to Buy Inhibitex for $2.5 Billion Cash

CVS Caremark Settles Charges Over Prescription Prices

CVS Settles Charges Over Prescription Prices

Oxycodone Prescriptions Rose Sharply in New York, Schneiderman Report Says

OnBioVC
Verastem, Inc.: Series B $32M

Transcend Medical, Inc.: Series B $16M

NABsys, Inc.: Series C $10M

Horizon Discovery, Ltd.: Series C $18.6M

OPX Biotechnologies, Inc.: Series C $36.5M

Outsourcing-Pharma
Parexel discusses transdermal drug delivery techs

Sponsors and CROs differ on perception of service quality, says the Avoca Group

Recipharm CEO talks CMO sector recovery and Asian plans

Covance adding mass spec for biosimilars

Embedded service providers are future of the industry, says RPS

Pharma News - Business Wire
Research and Markets: Dystonia Therapeutics - Pipeline Assessment and Market Forecasts to 2018

Research and Markets: Paget's Disease of Bone (PDB) Therapeutics - Pipeline Assessment and Market Forecasts to 2018

ImageIQ Offers Innovation in BioScience Imaging Scholarship

Take Care Clinics at Select Walgreens Now Offering Real-Time Appointment Scheduling Option

Edison Expands European Biotech Presence with Initiation of Research Coverage on Transgene

Pharma News - PharmiWeb
Thomson Reuters Announces Top Health Systems

Nephros Receives Euro 750,000 Payment from Bellco S.r.l.

CoreLab Partners Opens Office in Tokyo, Japan

Endomagnetics Achieves CE Approval - Complete System Now Available for the First Time

Pen Injectors Becoming Commonplace in Self-Administration for Key Chronic Indications

Pharma News - PR Newswire
Niiki Pharma a annoncé la fin de lintensification des doses de lagent anticancéreux NKP-1339 pendant la Phase I des essais cliniques sur lhomme

AVT Developed and Integrated System Featured on KTLA News

Over 200 Community Leaders and Organizations Across the Nation Urge Express Scripts To Reach Agreement With Walgreens

Myoderm Expands International Capabilities

Medbox, Inc. Featured on KTLA News

Pharmaceutical - Moreover
Valeant boosts bid for ISTA Pharmaceuticals

WHO warns India over drug pricing data

Heninger Garrison Davis, LLC Names Two New Partners

DARA BioSciences (DARA) Acquires Oncogenerix, Gets Rights to Soltamox

In Response to Client and Industry Needs, Novum Appoints Vice President of Business Administration to Its Executive Staff

PR Leap - Biotech
Abcam Biochemicals is launched; the new name for Ascent Scientific products

AL-TAR Services, Inc. Adds Thermo-Scientific Product Line to its Online Lab Equipment Store

Ascent Scientific Launch Novel Dynamin Inhibitor Dyngo-4a™ with Children's Medical Research Institute and University of Newcastle

AL-TAR Services, Inc. Names Robert Nugent Director of Business Development

Ascent Scientific licenses novel clathrin inhibitors from Freie Universität Berlin, University of Newcastle and Children's Medical Research Institute

PRWeb - Biotechnology
TAKE Solutions Releases PharmaReady 5.0

ISPE Supports Pharmaceutical Industry with New Guide on Project...

"Infinity's" New Breakthrough Milestone Anti Aging and...

MSDSonline Offers GHS Guarantee Risk-Free MSDS Authoring for GHS...

LegUp LandinGear Motorcycle Stabilization Announces Year-end Results

PRWeb - Pharmaceuticals
Leading Trial Lawyer Joins Burg Simpson

The West Institute, Now Offering New Photodynamic Cosmetic Treatment,...

California's New Secure RX Pad Company - A Doctor's Choice - Offers...

In Response to Client and Industry Needs, Novum Appoints Vice...

CellepathicRx© Launches Hyper-targeted Retail Couponing for its...

Scientific American
Test Tube Yeast Evolve Multicellularity

EPA Sees Risks to Water, Workers in New York State Fracking Rules

EPA Sees Risks to Water, Workers In New York Fracking Rules

Jet Lag: What's Causing One of the Driest, Warmest Winters in History

How to Buy Time in the Fight against Climate Change: Mobilize to Stop Soot and Methane

Sports - ESPN Basketball
Branch transfers to St. John's from Texas A&M

Dominant No. 7 Kansas cools off No. 3 Baylor

No. 1 Cuse handles Pitt to set school wins mark

Dixon helps No. 5 Mizzou bury Texas A&M early

UNC's Williams: I apologized to five left on court

Sports News - ESPN
Maryland hires Stewart to turn around defense

Report: UCF to get former Missouri QB Gabbert

Washington grants QB Montana transfer release

Auburn's Trotter won't return for senior season

Iowa's Derby to transfer after position change

Xconomy Life Sciences
Medivation Fails Alzheimer's Trial, Pfizer Drops Out of Partnership

Sanofi CEO Viehbacher on Stirring Innovation in the Era of R&D Cutbacks

Genentech Pours $95M Into Constellation's Drug Platform

Reinventing the Board Part III: The Agenda

Genentech Pours $95M Into Constellation's Epigenetic Drug Platform

Yahoo Biotech News
BrainStorm sees positive data in ALS stem cell trial (Reuters)

Why Can't Mitt Romney Be Pro-Life About Corporations (ContributorNetwork)

Your Taste for Fat May Reside in Your Genes (HealthDay)

Cancer drug gets stronger label warning (Reuters)

FDA sends user-fee recommendations to Congress (Reuters)