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2. Laupheimer Zelltage Attracts Top Scientists to Discuss Recent Advances in Biomanufacturing

Antisense Pharma Receives FDA Orphan Drug Designation for Trabedersen to Treat Malignant Melanoma

Sartorius Stedim Biotech Recognized as Innovations Honoree for FlexMoSys

New Campaign for Rentschler's 'Facility of the Year'

Berthold Awards Marlene DeLuca Prices

BioSpace
Scientists Reveal New Clues to Alzheimer's Risk Gene, University of Southampton Study

Mutation Rates in Cancer Cells Strongly Linked to How Chromatin is Organized, Reveals

Where You Look Predicts What You're Going to Say, University of Edinburgh Study

BioCon Limited Close to Oral Insulin Deal With Bristol-Myers Squibb Company

Position of Merck Serono Concerning the Recommendation Made by of Geneva

BioSpace - Breaking News
Novogen Limited Announces Merger Agreement With and Distribution of MEI Pharma (MEIP) (Formerly known as Marshall Edwards, Inc.) Shares

ViroPharma Incorporated's Cinryze® (C1 esterase inhibitor [human]) Open Label Prophylaxis Study Showed Up to 2.6 Years of Effectiveness in Majority of Subjects With Hereditary Angioedema

Velos, Inc. Unveils eResearch Version 9

Roche and AREVA Med LLC Join Forces in the Fight Against Cancer and Create a Novel Radio-Immunotherapy

NSF International Acquires a Leading Clinical, Regulatory and Scientific Consulting Firm Specializing in the FDA-Regulated Medical Devices, Pharmaceuticals and Biologics Industries

Biotech News - Business Wire
Supersonic Imagine annuncia la produzione del suo 500o ecografo Aixplorer® nel mondo

ArthroCare Announces Date for Second Quarter 2012 Financial Results Press Release and Conference Call

Supersonic Imagine kondigt de productie aan van haar 500e Aixplorer®-ultrasoundsysteem in de wereld

Supersonic Imagine meldet die Herstellung seines weltweit 500. Aixplorer®-Ultraschallsystems

Research and Markets: US Biotechnology Industry: Sector Report - Market Size and Key Trends

Biotech News - PR Newswire
Clinical Research on Accuray's CyberKnife® and TomoTherapy® Systems to Be Presented at Key Industry Event for Medical Physicists

AMRI Renews Shareholder Rights Plan

Medical Affairs Plays Important Role in the Success of New Product Planning Programs

Absorption Systems announces novel test platform for interactions with the BCRP transporter

Novogen Announces Merger Agreement With Kai Medical And Distribution Of Mei Pharma Shares

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
India Preparing to Introduce Price Controls

Amarin Wins FDA Approval of Vascepa

Hyperion Therapeutics Goes Public

Supreme Court Ruling on Healthcare Reform Will Lower Costs

California's Stem Cell Agency Approves $150 Million Grants

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: Bronchiectasis Global Clinical Trials Review, H1, 2012

Research and Markets: Global Genetic Testing Market Forecast to 2015

Research and Markets: Thromboembolism Global Clinical Trials Review, H1, 2012

Pri-Med's Integrated Approaches to Cardiometabolic Care Conference Demonstrates Strong Demand for Case-Based Learning Between Specialists and Primary Care Teams

Study Highlights Need for More Access to Most Effective Birth Control Methods

Clinical Trials - PR Newswire
Expanded Analysis of HPTN 052 Study Results Show Cost-Effectiveness of Early Treatment of HIV

Once-Daily Dolutegravir is Non-Inferior to Twice-Daily Raltegravir in Treatment-Naive Adults with HIV-1

Expanded Analysis of HPTN 052 Study Results Reveal Additional Benefits of Early HIV Treatment

Parkinson's Disease Foundation Invites Community to Join Research Advocates In Speeding New Treatments

Great Lakes Pharmaceuticals, Inc. announces initiation of clinical trial of the catheter lock solution, B-Lock

CNN Top Stories
Cops: Man set head on fire after bet

Romania votes on president's fate

Syrian official: Rebels will fail in Aleppo

What's up with Spain's uniform

Opinion: Cheating is as old as Olympics

Contract Pharma
Ricerca Launches Preclinical Assays

Onyx Expands Capabilities

Bio-Rad, Myriad RBM To Commercialize Biomarker Kits

Dalton Helps Duke-NUS Achieve Clinical Milestone

Financial Report: Alexion

FDA Drugs- What's New
Comunicado de la FDA sobre la seguridad de los medicamentos: Riesgo de convulsiones en pacientes con esclerosis múltiple que toman Ampyra (dalfampridine)

Comunicado de la FDA sobre la seguridad de los medicamentos: Riesgo de convulsiones en pacientes con esclerosis múltiple que toman Ampyra (dalfampridine)

FDA Drug Safety Communication: Seizure risk for multiple sclerosis patients who take Ampyra (dalfampridine)

Comunicado de la FDA sobre la seguridad de los medicamentos: Nueva información sobre la prolongación del intervalo QT con ondansetrón (Zofran)

Comunicado de la FDA sobre la seguridad de los medicamentos: Nueva información sobre la prolongación del intervalo QT con ondansetrón (Zofran)

FDA News - Business Wire
Salix and Progenics Receive Complete Response Letter from FDA for RELISTOR® sNDA

Furiex Confirms Takeda's Resubmissions of Alogliptin and the Fixed-Dose Combination Alogliptin and Pioglitazone NDAs to the U.S. FDA

Samenvatting: ARIAD start fase 3 studie van Ponatinib bij patiënten met chronische myeloïde leukemie

USFDA Lifts Import Alert from Dr. Reddy's Chemical Manufacturing Facility at Cuernavaca, Mexico

Neurotez., Inc. Announces Grant of U.S. Patent 8,227,408  around Its Leptin Therapy for Alzheimer's Disease

FDA Press Releases
FDA approves Tudorza Pressair to treat chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

FDA: More than 150 antiretroviral drugs available through PEPFAR for worldwide HIV/AIDS relief

FDA warns consumers not to eat shellfish from Oyster Bay Harbor, Nassau County, NY

FDA approves Afinitor for advanced breast cancer

FDA approves Kyprolis for some patients with multiple myeloma

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

Package Insert - Twinrix

Direct Recall Classification Program

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

FierceBiotech
FDA denies Otsuka and Lundbeck's antipsychotic drug

UPDATED: FDA OKs Amarin's blockbuster heart drug contender AMR101

Analysts: Ailing Elan casts buyout bait for Biogen Idec

ThromboGenics wins FDA panel nod for eye drug

EU nod expands market for Vertex's CF drug Kalydeco

FierceBiotech IT
Complete Genomics, Ingenuity combine forces to understand genomes

China, low-cost markets lead future eClinical tech growth

New York Genome Center finds new digs

10 Reasons Why Biotech Needs Big Data

WorldOne takes over Sermo social network for docs

FierceBiotech Research
New eye injection drug helped blind mice see (for a while)

Yale team develops drug-targeting method for once-untouchable proteins

Cancer gene found to propel metastasis of breast cancer stem cells

Novel class of Alzheimer's drugs looks promising in animals

A handful of genetic mutations drive acute leukemia transformation

FiercePharma
EU OKs Vertex cystic fibrosis drug Kalydeco

Analysts see sale of Elan to Biogen Idec as likely

With FDA panel nod, ThromboGenics closer to first potential drug

Regeneron expanding as its sees higher sales with Eylea

Amarin prepared for aggressive launch of billion-dollar fish oil

FiercePharma Manufacturing
EU counterfeit drug seizures surge; most fakes from China

Production jobs to be hot for next 5 years

California county orders drugmakers to pay for drug disposal

Sun Pharma standardizing manufacturing globally

FDA to Congress: Agency can't dodge plant problems to avoid shortages

FierceVaccines
In U.K., Sanofi Pasteur's Pneumovax trumps Pfizer's Prevnar 13

FDA wags finger at Sanofi for no-nos at vaccine plants

GE, iBio unite on plant-based production of vaccines and biologics

Sanofi vaccine combats most viral causes of dengue

Vaxil BioTherapeutics debuts on Tel Aviv Stock Exchange

Health News - BizJournals.com
Two Valley hospitals notfiy patients in hepatitis case

Insurers join with Obama to battle health care fraud

Kansas City University of Medicine and Biosciences hires new dean

New pharmacy school dean focuses on accreditation

United Seating & Mobility acquires division of Active American Mobility

Health News - CNBC
10 Things Your Pool Guy Didn't Tell You

Ebola outbreak in Uganda kills 13: official

India's Dr Reddy's says U.S. regulator lifts ban on Mexico plant

What's Obama's Economic Solution

Catholic business owners win temporary halt to Obama birth control mandate

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
Vertex Cystic Fibrosis Drug Wins European Approval

Vertex CF Drug Wins European Approval

BMS Awards Grants Focused on Combatting HBV and HCV in China and India

Life Science Tool Providers Boast Impressive Sales

Nuvo Gets $5.4M for Immune-Modulating Drug

Marketwire - Pharma and Biotech
Premier Diagnostic Health Services Inc.: News Release-Private Placement Extended

Acura Pharmaceuticals Announces Update on AVERSION Products

Sarepta Therapeutics Regains NASDAQ Compliance

MMRGlobal to File Anti-CD20 Antibody and B-Cell Vaccine Patents Targeting Cancers

Insulet Corporation to Report Second Quarter 2012 Financial Results on August 8, 2012

MassBio News
State, Local and Industry Officials Join KeraFAST to Open New Headquarters in Boston, MA

MLSC 2012 Capital Program Announcement

2012 Tax Incentive Program Announcement

Q&A With Jonathan Thomas

Policy Update

Medical Pharma - PR Newswire
Harvard and MIT Students Rally Boston to Join Global Guinness World Record Attempt on World Hepatitis Day

Partnering with Regional Extension Centers Increases Provider Likelihood of Receiving EHR Incentive Payments

Texas Vascular Associates Vigorously Denies Allegations of Medicare and Insurance Fraud

Endovascular Therapy May Result In Significantly Better Outcomes Than Current Standard Treatment For Deadliest Strokes

CVS Caremark Corporation To Hold Second Quarter 2012 Conference Call

National Center for Biotechnology Information
GenBank Submission Tools Announcements

GTR News

GEO Series Releases

ClinVar News and Announcements

Behind The Headlines - Health News from NHS Choices

Nature Biotechnology
Incorporating biomarkers into clinical trial designs: points to consider

TAL effector RVD specificities and efficiencies

Gene therapy matures in the clinic

From academic solos to industrial symphonies

Reading cancer's blueprint

New York Times- Biotechnology
Novel Blood Treatment Lures Athletes in Pain to Germany

Athletes With Chronic Pain Turn to Novel Blood Treatment

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

New York Times- Pharmaceuticals
Imagine a World Without AIDS

Helping Patients in Need

The Long, Uphill Battle Against AIDS

Baldness Battle, Fought in the Follicle

For Big Drug Companies, a Headache Looms

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
Gilead Sciences gibt Finanzergebnis für zweites Quartal 2012 bekannt

AIDS Conference Long on Hope, Short on Action, Says AHF

Gilead Sciences anuncia resultados financieros segundo trimestre 2012

Forest Pleased with Delaware Court's Decision on Icahn Litigation

Covidien Divulga Resultados do Terceiro Trimestre

Pharma News - PharmiWeb
Aflac Incorporated to Webcast, Live, at RetailInvestorConferences.com on August 2nd

Metabolix Reports Second Quarter 2012 Financial Results and Provides Business Update

Kam Aims Uses Cloud Technology to Bring Affordable Solution to Freestanding Ambulatory Surgery Centers

Net Medical Xpress Announces Major Expansion and Upgrade for Growing Hospital Market

Texas Vascular Associates Sued in Dallas for Alleged Medicare, Insurance Fraud

Pharma News - PR Newswire
La EASL insta a las Naciones Unidas a unir sus esfuerzos para abordar la hepatitis vírica

À l'occasion de la Journée mondiale contre l'hépatite, l'EASL invite les Nations Unies à se joindre aux efforts pour s'attaquer au problème de l'hépatite virale

EASL ruft zum Welt-Hepatitis-Tag die Vereinten Nationen auf, sich auch im Kampf gegen virale Hepatitis zu engagieren

Family Research Council: Newland Family Offered Temporary Protection from Obama's Abortion Drug Mandate

Pharmaceutical Manufacturers Attempt to Safeguard Business Continuity from Potential Threats and Disasters to Production

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
RURO Introduces Version 5.3 of FreezerPro Software

New Compact Piezo Scanner Can Improve Infrared Camera Resolution by...

Advanced Cooling Technologies Continues Cold Plate Innovations

PI Offers Automatic Fiber Alignment System for 6 Degrees of Freedom

New High-Load, High Precision Rotation Stage from PI miCos

PRWeb - Pharmaceuticals
Non 12 Step Addiction Treatment Center is Set to Host Town Hall Event...

Doobons.com Sends Out Plea for Cannabis Oil Donations for...

Q1Medicare.com Simplifies the Medicare Part D Plan Selection Process...

Mar-Kov Dispensing and Blending Webinar for Process and Batch...

DePuy ASR Recall Hip Litigation Update: Trial Date Set For First...

Scientific American
Early HIV Treatment Might Save Livelihoods as Well as Lives

Tropical Parks Fail to Protect Animals and Plants [Slide Show]

Social Scientists Might Gain Access to Facebook's Data on User Behavior

Drought Devastates U.S. Maize and Soya Crops

Our Brains See Men as Whole and Women as Parts

Sports - ESPN Basketball
Iona recruit Haynes shot and killed in Chicago

Ex-Hoosier Reed, figure in Knight's firing, dies

Villanova, Purdue in 2K Sports Classic semis

Semifinals set for Legends Classic in Brooklyn

Tar Heels to tip off in Maui vs. Mississippi State

Sports News - ESPN
Penn St. considering changes to plain uniforms

Penn St. recruits meet, reaffirm decision to stay

PSU president says school covered for lawsuits

Report: Paterno statue leaves Beaver Stadium

USC's Kennard may miss season after surgery

Xconomy Life Sciences
Vertex Wins EU Approval for Cystic Fibrosis Drug

Siluria Attracts Paul Allen, Gets $30M to Turn Natural Gas Into Chemicals, Fuels

Lantos Raises $3.8M to Push 3D Ear Scanner Closer to Market

Allan Jones, the Force Behind Paul Allen's Vision for Brain Science

Bluebird Bio Snags $60M From Existing VCs and Newcomers Like Shire

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)