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Definiens Expands Large Data Analytics Functionality to Accelerate Image-based Research and ...

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

BioSpace
Boosting Blood System Protein Complex Protects Against Radiation Toxicity, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center and University of Ulm Study

Shire plc Hit as US Approves New Generic ADHD Drug

Lexicon Pharmaceuticals, Inc. Diabetes Drug Meets Trial Goal, Shares Up

Most Commonly Mutated Gene in Cancer May Have a Role in Stroke, Stony Brook University Medical Center Study

Baxter International, Inc. Announces FDA Approval for GAMMAGARD LIQUID as a Treatment for Multifocal Motor Neuropathy

BioSpace - Breaking News
Discovery Laboratories to be Added to Russell 2000® and Russell Global® Indexes

MEDA: Zyclara Receives Positive Opinion from the in the European Union

The Hastings Center Release: Is the Mandate Fair The Bioethics of the Affordable Care Act

RainDance Technologies and Collaborate on Sequence-Based Analysis of Myeloid Malignancies

CogState Ltd Signs Licensing Deal With

Biotech News - Business Wire
TRADE NEWS: Agilent Technologies Microwave Plasma-Atomic Emission Spectrometer Among R&D Magazine's R&D 100

First Ever Allen Brain Atlas Hackathon Unleashes Big Data API to Push Neuroscience Forward

Pathway Genomics forma parceria com a DASA, a maior empresa de diagnósticos médicos do Brasil

Repligen Added to the Russell 2000 Index

NextBio and Cancer Care Institute Form Strategic Partnership Focused on Clinical Use of Genomics

Biotech News - PR Newswire
Veracyte Announces Study Results Published Online in New England Journal of Medicine Which Suggest that Its Afirma® Gene Expression Classifier Can Reduce Unnecessary Thyroid Surgeries

InspireMD to Present at Harvard Investors Group on June 27 in New York

Sinovac Reports Progress in EV71 Vaccine Phase III Clinical Trial and Commercialization Preparation Status

Pivotal Therapeutics Announces $5,000,000 Institutional Private Placement

Instrumentation Laboratory Now Distributing Hemostasis Product Line In North America

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
Celgene Withdraws EU Application for Revlimid

Celgene Withdraws EU Application for Revlimed

BGI and Hospital Plan to Sequence 1,000 Rare Diseases

BIO Study: Bayh-Dole Shows Big Returns

The Biotech Story You Wont Read in your Local Newspaper

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: Clinical Research Updates - Ethical and Legal Aspects of Clinical Research - US, Europe and Asia - Updated for 2012

New Findings from REPLACE Study Support Potential of Natpara(TM) to Treat Adult Hypoparathyroidism

Tocagen to utilize ClearPoint® Neuro Intervention System for MRI-guided Delivery of Toca 511 in a Study of Patients with Brain Cancer

CFS Clinical Launches New, State-of-the-Art Technology Platform

Trifecta Multimedical Unveils New "Industry IQ-Raising" Technology at DIA

Clinical Trials - PR Newswire
Boosting Blood System Protein Complex Protects Against Radiation Toxicity

La insulina en investigación degludec de acción ultra lenta reduce la incidencia de hipoglucemia nocturna en los pacientes con diabetes de tipo 2 en comparación con la insulina glargina

FDA-Beratungsausschuss spricht sich für die Zulassung des MarginProbe® Systems von Dune Medical Devices aus

FDA Advisory Panel Votes in Favor of Dune Medical Devices MarginProbe® System

Treating Orthostatic Hypotension Improves Function In Parkinson's Disease Patients, According To Braintree Rehabilitation Hospital Study

CNN Top Stories
Your teens' online secrets

Stalled Debby soaks, floods Florida

Kill at 14, parole must be an option

Venus crashes out at Wimbledon

Facebook quietly unveils 'stalking app'

Contract Pharma
Quotient, Capsugel in Formulation Pact

Daiichi Sankyo Packaging Facility Cleared by FDA

Compugen, Merck Serono Launch Biomarkers Unit

PharmaNet/i3 Launches Strategic Resourcing Offering

EMD Millipore Names Solutions Head

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
DIA 2012 News, Multimedia and Online Press Kits Available at Tradeshownews.com

Baxter Announces FDA Approval for GAMMAGARD LIQUID as a Treatment for Multifocal Motor Neuropathy

Stealth Peptides Initiates Patient Enrollment for Novel Treatment of Cardiovascular Disease and Reperfusion Injury

Teleflex Acquires Innovative Technology to Reduce Biological Formation on Medical Devices

USA Technologies Provides Fourth Quarter Fiscal 2012 Update

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
Price curmudgeons at NICE prep early-stage advice for VCs

Outspoken Avalon founder offers unvarnished opinions on biotech investing

Pfizer documents detail a deceptive case on Celebrex

Lexicon boasts of positive results in PhIIb diabetes study

BIO 2012: Immunotherapies make a comeback at Big Pharma

FierceBiotech IT
Why Microsoft's Yammer buyout matters in pharma

Shifting gears from $1,000 genome to big data analytics

Oracle rolls out cloud apps for clinical trial recruitment

FierceBiotech IT lands in Philly for DIA

Merck Serono, Compugen form startup to catch drug toxicity early

FierceBiotech Research
At long last, 2nd controversial look at bird flu virus finally published

U.K. researchers enhance tracking for stem cell injections

Isis drug achieves Huntington's breakthrough in rodents

Researchers engineer kidney scaffolding from entire pig organs

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

FiercePharma
Xarelto, Pradaxa find reprieve in Eliquis delay

Pfizer 'cherry-picked' Celebrex data, memos say

Witty: E.U. can avert drug-supply disaster in S. Europe

Teva's patent victory on Copaxone boosts franchise long-term

FDA hits Shire with early nod for Adderall XR copycat

FiercePharma Manufacturing
UPDATED: CSL confirms convulsions appear tied to Fluvax

FDA wants foreign drug and API makers for supply chain security program

Shasun cutting costs with Indian intermediates plant

Ranbaxy reportedly hits bump with Indian regulator

FDA wants foreign API makers for supply chain security program

FierceVaccines
Therapeutic cancer vaccines: Optimism for the future at BIO 2012

Anthrax vax to move into new Phase II trials

CSL flu shot fits linked to viral components

Controversy halts HPV vax trial in India

HPV DNA vax should enter the clinic in 2013

Health News - BizJournals.com
SwRI president elected United Way chairman

Nanocollege receives fed funds for 'dry mouth' research

Top Texas health care lawyers await Supreme Court ruling

Cited Raleigh nursing home laying off 90

Weinberg workers approve new deal

Health News - CNBC
Fiorina on Politics of Health Care Reform

Early ADHD treatment may ward off problems in school

Care for babies with food allergies lagging: study

Court backs Teva patents on MS drug Copaxone

FDA probes safety issues with metal hip implants

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
GEN Names Ian Slade as Its Advertising Sales Manager for U.K. and Europe

Ventrus Hemorrhoid Cream Bombs in Phase III

ProtoKinetix Creates Subsidiaries for AAGP Applications to Maximize Shareholder Value

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

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

Marketwire - Pharma and Biotech
Kaon Interactive Enhances 3D Product Marketing Applications

Veterinary Diagnostics Market Grows to $1.5 Billion: Kalorama

Stellar Biotechnologies to Present at ImVacS 2012 Summit on August 13-16, 2012

Nextrials to Offer Mobile Access to Clinical Trial Data and Study Metrics via Prism(R)'s New Apple(R) iPad(TM) Application

Flamel Technologies Announces Results of Annual Meeting and Election of Stephen H. Willard Chairman

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
Leading Treatmentwear Provider Expands Line with New Features

Erase Doubt Teams Up With Walgreens And Greater Than AIDS To Offer Free HIV Testing During HIV Testing Week 2012

Low Vitamin D Levels Linked to Weight Gain in Some Older Women

EffectiveUI Showcases Patient-Centric User Experience at Forrester Forum

Breast Cancer Detection and Treatment Recovers Slowly from Big Losses During Recession

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
In Documents on Pain Drug Celebrex, Signs of Doubt and Deception

Newswallah: Long Reads Edition

Former N.F.L. Quarterback Leaf Sentenced to Addiction Treatment

Roche and Seaside Team Up to Develop Autism Drugs

Move to Restrict Painkillers Founders in Congress

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
Rural California Hospital Saves $1.2 Million in First Year with the Premier Healthcare Alliance

Craig Metz of Zinfandel Pharmaceuticals Receives Outstanding Service Award from the Drug Information Association

Samenvatting: Medidata Solutions demonstreert nieuwe producten voor klinische cloudplatform op DIA jaarvergadering

RMi's IntelliScore Tracks Physician Response to Pharma Marketing Real-Time, Across All Channels

Certara Names University of Maryland School of Pharmacy's Center for Translational Medicine as newest Phoenix® Center of Excellence

Pharma News - PharmiWeb
Double Helix Joins McCann Health

Senate to Vote on Final FDA User Fee Bill As Early As Today

Fujifilm Is The Top Of Its KLAS

Cosmetic Bootcamp Adds Additional Topics to Summer Meeting

Daiichi Sankyo, Inc. Receives FDA Approval to Package Product at New Facility in Bethlehem, PA

Pharma News - PR Newswire
Berg Pharma and the Parkinson's Institute ink R&D collaboration to drive disease understanding and accelerate therapeutic and diagnostic development in Parkinson's Disease

National Registry Study Evaluating Utility of SPRIX® (ketorolac tromethamine) Nasal Spray, a Non-Narcotic Alternative for Pain Management after Emergency Department Care, Begins

Actavis Receives Approval of Generic Adderall XR® CII in the US

Developers: Deadline Approaching for Allscripts Million Hearts CDS Challenge

Generex Provides Update on Generex's Flagship Product Oral-lyn in India

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
invivodata President Selected as Finalist for Ernst & Young...

picoSpin-45 Benchtop NMR Spectrometer a Finalist in the European Life...

Novel Anti-Inflammatories May Offer a New Approach for the Treatment...

November Research Group Announces the Immediate Availability of...

San Diego Medical Director Wins Two Book Awards For Latest Medical...

PRWeb - Pharmaceuticals
Industry Leaders Join Capsugel to Explore Benefits of Added Value...

Millennium Administrators, Inc. has Been Selected by Scranton School...

Genedata Screener to Present at 10th Annual Ion Channel Retreat

Managed Care Approaches to Oncology More Stringent; Novel Tactics...

Diabetes Support Supplements, a New Product from ProactiveLife...

Scientific American
Species-Specific Microbes May Be Key to a Healthy Immune System

Astronomers Catch Video of "Near-Miss" Asteroid

Astronomers Catch Video of 'Near-Miss' Asteroid

Deadly Pandemic Bird Flu Details Finally Are Made Public

Are Fracking Wastewater Wells Poisoning the Ground Beneath Our Feet

Sports - ESPN Basketball
NC State guard Brown to have surgery on knee

Louisville, FIU schedule Pitino vs. Pitino series

Northwestern adds 7-2 cousin of Bulls' Deng

UConn, 9 others to sit out postseason for APR

Georgia State coach: 'We're an independent'

Sports News - ESPN
Auburn QB Pike arrested for public intoxication

Gov. defends pace of state's Sandusky case

Maisel: Playoff now in the hands of presidents

Gov. defends pace of state's Sandusky probe

Rams' Bradford gifts $500K to alma mater OU

Xconomy Life Sciences
NPS Rallies as Good News Flows for Two Rare-Disease Drugs

Clash of the BioPharma Titans Looms Over Biosimilars

Onyx Shares Boom on Positive FDA Panel for Myeloma Drug

SD Life Sciences Roundup: Ambrx Gets Big Partner, GenMark, & More

MitoStem Wins Big at GLEQ; Stays Hopeful About Future of Detroit Biotech

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)