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b3c newswire
Sartorius Stedim Biotech and Bosch Packaging Technology Announce Global Collaboration

Sistemic Announces Customer Agreement with Cytori Therapeutics

CellCentric and ZoBio Enter into Partnership to Develop Lead Compounds Against Epigenetic Drug ...

Sartopore® Platinum: Sartorius Introduces a New Generation of Sterilizing-Grade Filters

Nuevolution A/S Raises 11 Million in New Financing Round

BioSpace
Alnylam Pharmaceuticals Gets Orphan Status for Neurodegenerative Disease Drug

First Example of a Heritable Abnormality Affecting Semantic Cognition Found, University College London Study

New Moms Who Blog May Feel Less Alone, Penn State University Study

Bristol-Myers Squibb Company Hep. C Trial Change Has Big Implications

New Genetic Discoveries Related to Male Pattern Baldness Found, 23andMe, Inc. Reveals

BioSpace - Breaking News
QUMAS Announces Appointment of as Chairman

CytoSorbents, Inc. Announces Departure of CFO

AspenBio Pharma, Inc. Announces Pricing of Public Offering of 6,100,000 Shares of Common Stock

Cytokinetics, Inc. Announces Proposed Public Offerings of Common Stock and Warrants and Series B Convertible Preferred Stock and Warrants

Cytokinetics, Inc. Receives Notice of Minimum Bid Price Non-Compliance

Biotech News - Business Wire
New Coalition Brings Life Science Education, Workforce Training and Entrepreneurship to the National Stage

Biotechnology Institute Leads Effort to Bring Life Science Education, Workforce Training and Entrepreneurship to the National Stage

Dr. Margaret Foti Receives 2012 Biotech Humanitarian Award

VG Energy to Launch First Commercial Product, LipidMax for Palm and Algae Oil Production

Retinalyze, LLC Signs Licensing Agreement for Vision Plan Reimbursement

Biotech News - PR Newswire
PRA Experts to Present at DIA Annual Conference

Healthpoint Biotherapeutics To Create State-of-the-Art Cell Sciences Manufacturing Facility

Thomson Reuters registriert Anstieg neuer Forschungsaktivitäten bei vernachlässigten" Tropenkrankheiten

Thomson Reuters constate une augmentation du nombre de recherches portant sur les maladies tropicales négligées

University of North Texas Health Science Center Advances Forensic Research by Investing in Semiconductor DNA Sequencing Technology

Biotechnology - Moreover
Analysis of Relative Performance in the Biotechnology Industry for Shares of Incyte (INCY, ONXX, ALKS, SPPI, MITI)

Top 5 Companies in the Biotechnology Industry with the Best Relative Performance (CPHD, IMGN, HGSI, SGEN, RIGL)

NIH Translational Center Should Raise All Boats, BIO Says

Immunogen, inc. reports second quarter fiscal year 2012 financial results and provides quarterly update

Biotechnology to be 21st-century industry: Life Tech CEO

Burrill Report
The July 2012 Issue of The Burrill Report

Mapping the Single Cell World

A Gentleman's D for Mitt

Startups raise $786 million in June's First Half

A Drug by Any Other Name

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
Research and Markets: Celiac Disease Global Clinical Trials Review, H1, 2012

CEL-SCI Corporation to Raise $5.60 Million in Registered Direct Offering

Bioscience Industry Adds Jobs Over the Last Decade, Despite Economic Setbacks for the Nation

ALung Technologies Presents Positive Clinical Trial Results of the Hemolung Respiratory Assist System

The Gateway for Cancer Research Revamps Website to Help Patients Find Clinical Trials and Researchers Apply for Grants

Clinical Trials - PR Newswire
Novelos Therapeutics Announces Positive Initial Imaging Results In Brain Cancer Trial With I-124-CLR1404 (LIGHT) Cancer-Targeted PET Imaging Agent At UW Carbone Cancer Center

Less Than 50% of Asthmatic Children Control Their Symptoms, Despite Available Treatments

New study fuels already heated debate - Avastin vs Lucentis

Alma Lasers, Inc. Partners With Henry Schein Medical To Offer Latest Breakthrough In Nail Fungus Treatment

A Vascular Cause For Alzheimer's Is Revealed With The Backing Of Science Investor, Jeffrey Epstein

CNN Top Stories
No charges for dad in beating death

Samaras sworn in as new Greece PM

Obama: 'Executive privilege' shields Fast and Furious docs

Man finds machete lodged in car

Romney shows his lighter side

Contract Pharma
EMD Millipore Launches Provantage Solutions

Clinigen CTS To Distribute Accord Drugs in EU

AMRI Expands Discovery Capabilities in India

Vetter Expands PFS Services

Unilife Gets PFS Contract

FDA Drugs- What's New
Comunicado de la FDA sobre la seguridad de los medicamentos: Recomendaciones modificadas para observación cardiovascular y uso del medicamento Gilenya (fingolimod) para la esclerosis múltiple

Comunicado de la FDA sobre la seguridad de los medicamentos: Recomendaciones modificadas para observación cardiovascular y uso del medicamento Gilenya (fingolimod) para la esclerosis múltiple

Comunicado de la FDA sobre la seguridad de los medicamentos: Informe actualizado sobre la seguridad del medicamento Revlimid (lenalidomida) para el cáncer y el riesgo de nuevos tipos de neoplasias (nuevos tipos de cáncer)

Comunicado de la FDA sobre la seguridad de los medicamentos: Informe actualizado sobre la seguridad del medicamento Revlimid (lenalidomida) para el cáncer y el riesgo de nuevos tipos de neoplasias (nuevos tipos de cáncer)

FDA Drug Safety Communication: Revised recommendations for cardiovascular monitoring and use of multiple sclerosis drug Gilenya (fingolimod)

FDA News - Business Wire
Medgenics Receives Orphan Drug Designation from FDA for INFRADURE Biopump to Treat Hepatitis D

Aptiv Solutions Showcases State of the Art Advances in the Design and Implementation of Adaptive Clinical Trials

Furiex Pharmaceuticals Announces First Patient Dosed in Phase III Clinical Trials of MuDelta in Diarrhea-Predominant Irritable Bowel Syndrome

Lantheus Selected to Receive $300,000 Massachusetts-Israel Innovation Partnership Grant

Furiex Confirms Takeda's Announcement on the Acceptance of the EMA Submissions for Two Fixed-Dose Alogliptin Combination Therapies for the Treatment of Type 2 Diabetes

FDA Press Releases
Updated FDA Statement on Compounded Versions of hydroxyprogesterone caproate (the active ingredient in Makena)

FDA approves new combination vaccine that protects children against two bacterial diseases

FDA urges that oysters, clams, mussels, and some types of scallops from Korea should be removed from the market

FDA approves Perjeta for type of late-stage breast cancer

U.S. Marshals seized misbranded drugs in Maine

FDA Vaccines, Blood and Biologics - What's New
Draft Guidance for Industry: Amendment to Guidance for Industry: Revised Preventive Measures to Reduce the Possible Risk of Transmission of Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease and Variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease by Blood and Blood Products

Procleix Ultrio Plus Assay

Moon Marine USA Corporation voluntarily recalls frozen raw yellowfin tuna product Nakaochi Scrape associated with a multistate outbreak of Salmonella Bareilly infections

Multi-Center Fellowship in Regenerative Medicine

FDA Webinar on Safety of the Blood Supply

FierceBiotech
Booming Alexion blueprints new HQ, plans for 300 new hires

Biotech employment, salaries weather a stormy economic downturn

Biopharma companies pledge cash and cooperation on neuroscience research

Tesaro insiders pledge support for $86M IPO gamble

Investors offer grim odds of success for two big Alzheimer's programs

FierceBiotech IT
Parexel trumpets unified tech for clinical trials software

Africa goes mobile to tackle drug safety woes

Harvard IDs key human-hosted bugs with computer systems

Third Rock fuels $41M launch of Bay Area biotech

Sequoia-backed startup enters race to make sense of the genome

FierceBiotech Research
Alzheimer's and diabetes may be connected by a single gene

Pluristem's placental stem cells spur bone marrow growth

BIO: In life sciences R&D, China is reaching for the stars

Genetic markers uncovered for rare children's brain tumor

In life sciences R&D, China is reaching for the stars

FiercePharma
Icahn comes back at Forest with 4 board nominees

Spanish drugmakers hold out their hats to government

Pharma herd faces hurdles with pricey new drugs

Roche slashes MabThera price in S. Africa to drive sales

Beware: Patent losses climb back to $56B by 2015

FiercePharma Manufacturing
$400 million to boost bioterror vaccine manufacturing

Track and trace dies in final FDA reauthorization bill talks

Amneal Pharmaceuticals quadruples manufacturing

No new cuts to manufacturing in final Merck Serono reduction

Just about everyone agrees: drug shortages are a complex puzzle

FierceVaccines
Grass pollen allergy vaccine not to be sneezed at

Vaccine, radiotherapy combo shows hints of prostate cancer efficacy

New HPV vax could treat cancer rather than prevent it

Chlamydia vaccine protects in animal studies

GeoVax: Meeting the HIV vaccine challenge

Health News - BizJournals.com
HealthSouth plans to buy Texas inpatient rehab unit

Pew: Georgia retirement benefits 85% funded

TN companies receive $136M in electronic health record incentives

Hate ObamaCare Youll like this

WakeMed opens new diagnostic center

Health News - CNBC
UBS starts coverage on hospital operators

Polio eradication drive imperiled by funding shortfall

Celsion ThermoDox cancer drug approval seen in 2013: CEO

Life Sciences Gives 'Life' to Job Boom in Massachusetts

Analysis: Healthcare sees emerging future in frugal innovation

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
Oxford Immunotec Scores $28M to Ramp Up Commercialization of TB Test

Valeant Picks Up OraPharma for $312M to Expand into Oral Health

NCATS' Drug Repurposing Program Grows to Eight Pharmas, 58 Compounds

Third Rock Ventures Sets Up New Firm Global Blood Therapeutics with $40.7M

Upsher-Smith Takes Over Proximagen for CNS Disease Therapeutics

Marketwire - Pharma and Biotech
MichBio Leads Effort to Bring Life Science Education, Workforce Training and Entrepreneurship to the National Stage

Rapid Micro Biosystems to Host Hands-On Workshops Showcasing the Growth Direct(TM) Systems for Sterility and Environmental Monitoring

Sirona Biochem Announces Primate Results for SGLT Inhibitor for Type 2 Diabetes

Knovel Adds Manufacturing Engineering Subject Area

Stellar Biotechnologies to Present at ICAAC 2012 Conference on September 9 - 12, 2012

MassBio News
MassBio Releases 2012 Complete Guide to the New England Life Sciences Industry at BIO

CB Richard Ellis N.E. Partners, LP Brings MassBio to Alexandria Real Estate Equities, Inc.'s 300 Technology Square

500 Massachusetts High School Students Spend a Day in Biotech Laboratories

Xenetic Biosciences moves drug development program to Massachusetts following Governor Patrick's Trade Mission to the UK

Breaking: MassBio Applauds House for Passage of PDUFA

Medical Pharma - PR Newswire
Pacific Medical Centers Expands Versus Advantages RTLS to Totem Lake Clinic

Hospitals and Health Systems Moving Ahead on EHR Deployment But Many Are Doubtful on Funding, KPMG Poll Finds

Bronstein, Gewirtz & Grossman, LLC Announces That A Class Action Has Been Filed Against St. Jude Medical, Inc.

LUNGevity Announces Partnership With CaringBridge

Getinge Infection Control Honored with Gold 2012 Value Chain Award

National Center for Biotechnology Information
GTR News

GEO Series Releases

ClinVar News and Announcements

Behind The Headlines - Health News from NHS Choices

PubMed Health Featured Reviews

Nature Biotechnology
European agricultural policy goes down the tubers

The need for innovation in biomanufacturing

Should preclinical studies be registered

Reaching across the table

The gatekeepers of effectiveness

New York Times- Biotechnology
Human Genome Sciences Rejects A $2.59 Billion Bid From Glaxo

Craig Venter’s Bugs Might Save the World

Study Backs Continuous Prostate Cancer Treatment

DEALBOOK; Human Genome Sciences Rejects A $2.59 Billion Bid From Glaxo

White House Promotes a Bioeconomy

New York Times- Pharmaceuticals
Roche and Seaside Team Up to Develop Autism Drugs

Move to Restrict Painkillers Founders in Congress

Genentech Breast Cancer Drug Wins Approval

Justices Back Drug Industry on Overtime

Texas Medicaid Overhaul Means Pain for Some Pharmacists

OnBioVC
Stemgent, Inc.: Series C $6.3M

Genalyte, Inc.: Series A $11.8M

Relievant Medsystems, Inc.: Series D $30M

ImaginAb, Inc.: Series A $12.5M

BiO2 Medical, Inc.: Series B $13.7M

Outsourcing-Pharma
Wockhardt targets CMO space for diversification

Overhaul of EU health systems good opportunity for outcomes data providers, says Quintiles

Home visits = regulatory thumbs up ResearchNurses.co thinks so

Home visits are the key to patient retention, says ResearchNurses.co

Kemwell and Boehringer set to finish biologics plant in India

Pharma News - Business Wire
DIA 2012 Annual Meeting Features Life Science Entrepreneur Pavilion

Americans and Biotechnology Executives Remain Optimistic About Future of Biotechnology Despite Serious Industry Concerns Over Increased Regulatory Burdens and Weak Economic Conditions

Samenvatting: DaTSCAN SPECT Imaging beïnvloedt diagnoses en klinisch beheer van patiënten met 'Clinically Uncertain Parkinsonian Syndrome'

Pfizer Statement Regarding Prevnar 13® Receiving ACIP Recommendation for Prevention of Pneumococcal Disease in Adults With Immunocompromising Conditions

PSE Releases Major Update of gCRYSTAL Process Modelling Software

Pharma News - PharmiWeb
Clinigen CTS signs EU-wide clinical trial distribution agreement for Accord Healthcare's injectable oncology drugs portfolio

Healthcare Futurist: Supreme Court Can't Stop Healthcare Reform

U.S. News University Directory Highlights Explosive Growth of Allied Health Careers

Echo Therapeutics Announces Patents for Symphony® tCGM System and Prelude® SkinPrep System

Merck Serono Announces Final Efficiency Program for Switzerland

Pharma News - PR Newswire
New CSS program helps PartD sponsors meet CMS drug overutilization requirements

Takeda Anuncia la Aceptación a Trámite por parte de la EMA de Dos Terapias para Diabetes Tipo 2

SCOLR Pharma Announces Unaudited Net Sales of Nutritional Products

Canada's leading health care organizations launch new app and electronic initiative to promote the safe and smart use of medicines

NovaRx Completes Enrollment in Lucanix Pivitol Phase III Therapeutic Vaccine Trial for Post Frontline Maintenace Therapy in Non Small Cell Lung Cancer

Pharmaceutical - Moreover
: Pharmaceuticals look to cure pipeline concerns

Drug firms sign up to new tropical disease fight

Cannabis Science Presents Newest Photographs From 3rd Cancer Patient That Show Cancer Tumors Dying and Areas That Are No

Micro Labs attracts private equity and pharma interest: VCCircle

Novartis net dips by 5.3% to Rs.38 crore in Q3

PR Leap - Biotech
Romer Labs Launches New Website

SHEL LAB Introduces the Bactrox Chamber

Abcam Launches Potent, Novel Dynamin Inhibitor Licensed from the University of Newcastle and Children's Medical Research Institute

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

PRWeb - Biotechnology
Traumatic Brain Injury the Focus of American Headache Society...

2012 American Business AwardsHonors SynCardia with Two Gold...

Cambridge Healthtech Associates Co-Sponsors BIO Debrief Networking...

Laboratory Equipment Marketplace LabX.com Receives Fresh Look and...

November Research Group to Exhibit at the 2012 DIA Annual Meeting:...

PRWeb - Pharmaceuticals
Intrinsic Imaging Awarded Phase II Trial of Novel Therapy for Patients...

Nutricap Labs Dominates the 2012 American Business Awards, Wins 13...

RxLogix Corporation to Exhibit at DIA 2012

Lucintel Estimates Global Retail Drug Industry to Reach US $1,420...

CRC Health Group's Camp Recovery Center Recently Announced a New and...

Scientific American
Pollution, Poverty and People of Color: Asthma and the Inner City

Could the Supreme Court's Health Care Ruling Kill Patient Safety Reforms

Head Start: Scientists Trace a Wiring Plan for Entire Mouse Brain

Bright Idea: New "Tractor Beam" Proposal Relies on Light's Negative Radiation Pressure

Pollution, Poverty and People of Color: Falling into the Climate Gap

Sports - ESPN Basketball
Georgia State coach: We're an 'independent'

Notre Dame announces 10-year deal with Brey

Prospect Melo explains problems at Syracuse

Brey says he has new 10-year deal with ND

Bobcats host workouts for Beal, Kidd-Gilchrist

Sports News - ESPN
Updyke confesses to poisoning Auburn trees

Updyke confesses to poisioning Auburn trees

Russell Athletic new sponsor for Champs bowl

Ohio court rules for Ohio State in ESPN suit

Ex-Auburn player Goodwin gets 15 years in jail

Xconomy Life Sciences
Context Matters Helps Pharma Execs Make Sense of Drug Data

Bullhorn, Seaside, Sand 9, & More in the Boston Deals Roundup

Biotech Wasnt Immune to Job Loss in Great Recession, BIO Report Says

Join Us Today for a Tweetchat at Noon ET/9 am PT With Katrine Bosley

Qualcomm Expands its Power Efficiency Prowess in Summit Micro Buyout

Yahoo Biotech News
Slow, costly process stymies generic biotech drugs (Reuters)

Analysis: Slow, costly process stymies generic biotech drugs (Reuters)

Waves Break Coral Embryo into Identical Twins (LiveScience.com)

Autoinjector Version of MS Drug Approved (HealthDay)

Fake Avastin had salt, starch, chemicals: Roche (Reuters)