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b3c newswire
CEVEC Licenses its Proprietary Human Cell Lines to Paragon Bioservices, Inc.

Cambridge Research Biochemicals Signs Deal with LI-COR Biosciences for Infrared Dye Labelled ...

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

BioSpace
Memory Improves for Older Adults Using Computerized Brain Fitness Program, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) Study

Drugmaker Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Limited Subpoenaed by Over Antibribery Compliance

Perreault Will Move Up to CEO of CSL Behring

Could Compact Fluorescent Bulbs Pose Skin Cancer Risk Study

Nile Therapeutics, Inc. Promotes to Chief Executive Officer and Director

BioSpace - Breaking News
TranScrip Critically Reviews and Supports the GAIN Act (Generating Antibiotic Incentives Now), IMI (Innovative Medicines Initiative) 6th Call and Other Recent Initiatives that Could Kick-Start Much Needed Antibiotic Development and are an Important Step in the Right Direction

Proteros biostructures GmbH Announces Successful Close of 5 Million Euros

Astellas Pharma Inc. Shutting Down

2-Color Kinetic Live Content Imaging: Launches New IncuCyte ZOOM and Associated CellPlayer Assay Reagents

Genomatica, Inc. Raises $41.5 Million From Strategic and Existing Investors

Biotech News - Business Wire
SWOG Selects Sequenta's LymphoSIGHT Platform for Use in 180-Patient Mantle Cell Lymphoma Clinical Trial

GlobalNet Services Receives Award on $20.0 Billion NIH CIO-SP3 Small Business GWAC

Ares Capital Corporation Closes First Venture Finance Transaction with Respicardia, Inc.

Exelixis Announces Proposed Concurrent Public Offerings of Common Stock and Convertible Debt

Murgitroyd Expands in Munich, Patent Capital of Europe

Biotech News - PR Newswire
Bion Announces Approval of New Canadian Patent

New BioMAP® Systems Website Highlights Predictive Assay Platform's Ability to Enhance Drug Discovery Success, Chemical Safety

Qforma Appoints New VP, Business Development

Glencoe Software and 'The Journal of Cell Biology' Pioneer Publishing of Massive, Ultra-Resolution Images

Antibiotics and Biotechnology Take Center Stage at Food Dialogues Event

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
Bioethics Commission Readies Privacy Advice

Customized Therapy

Biorenewables Companies Make Headway

Globus Medical Prices IPO at $12 per Share

Bristol-Myers Bet on Hepatitis C Drug Takes Major Hit

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
CPRIT's Governing Board Ratifies $114 Million in New Cancer Awards

UPenn Doses First Two Dogs in ADXS-HER2 Canine Osteosarcoma Study

NTRR Evaluates Bio-Energy Infusion of New Male Enhancement Pill

Telcare Signs Licensing Agreement to Market GlucoDynamix-ADMS

Conventus Orthopaedics Completes Enrollment in Multi-Center European Clinical Study of Novel Fracture Implant

Clinical Trials - PR Newswire
Health Robotics' i.v.STATION Robot Saves $233,000 Since its April 2012 "Go-Live" at Premier's St. Joseph's Hospital

Curemark To Enroll Children 9-12 Years Of Age Into Medical Trial Of CM-AT For Children With Autism

Leap in Detection and Diagnoses of Eye and Other Disorders

Research Proves: PSA Test Saves Lives

Medical College Of Wisconsin To Study New Incontinence Device

CNN Top Stories
Federer bummed, then 'very proud'

Phelps: I'm done

See Hillary Clinton dance in Malawi

Syria's PM leaves regime, officials say

Medalist accused of stabbing attempt

Contract Pharma
XOMA, Servier, Boehringer in Bio-Manufacturing Pact

Accenture to Acquire Octagon Research Solutions

Adimab, Mersana in ADC Pact

PAREXEL Adds Outcomes Research Expert

Financial Report: West

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
Amneal Pharmaceuticals Bucks Trend and Adds U.S. Manufacturing Jobs with Major Expansion

PerkinElmer Announces Financial Results for the Second Quarter of 2012

Furiex Pharmaceuticals Amends Current Loan and Security Agreement, Adding an Additional $30.0 Million

Furiex Reports Second Quarter 2012 Financial Results

Exelixis Announces Second Quarter 2012 Financial Results

FDA Press Releases
FDA approves first generic versions of Singulair to treat asthma, allergies

FDA approves Zaltrap for metastatic colorectal cancer

Food Safety Guides for Groups Most Vulnerable to Foodborne Illness Now Available

FDA warns consumers not to eat cantaloupes from Burch Equipment LLC of North Carolina

FDA approves Tudorza Pressair to treat chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

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
AstraZeneca faces fresh questions over MedImmune deal

Astellas Pharma axes Durham R&D site amid generics threat

K-V Pharma travels bankruptcy route after suing FDA

Novartis backs UPenn's pioneering cancer immunotherapies

Industry Voices: Microbiome Therapies - Coming to a Clinic Near You

FierceBiotech IT
Timeline: Qsymia approval process

Accelrys keeps pace with 13% jump in revenue

Bayer boosts diabetes message with new blog

Accenture snaps up pharma software outfit Octagon

AstraZeneca adopts search engine for scientists

FierceBiotech Research
Teva's MLK inhibitor blocks aggressive breast cancer in MSU study

Celgene and Eisai drugs jointly killed kidney and breast cancer cells

New white blood cell variation is provocative cancer vaccine target

Another shot at treating Alzheimer's with Dimebon

CIRM favors teamwork with $150M in new stem cell grants

FiercePharma
Generics posse threatens to overwhelm Singulair sales

Escalating problems culminate in K-V Pharmaceutical bankruptcy

Aenova will aim for M&A under new private-equity owner

SEC ropes Teva into pharma bribery probe

J&J acknowledges what everyone knows, it settled with DoJ

FiercePharma Manufacturing
Teva touts new manufacturing exec, closes sale of Canada plant

Lonza exec gets Visp plant 'challenge': Find $100 million

Hospira CEO Ball says it's getting 'gators' under control

CMC nabs Xoma's Bay Area plant

Rexam eyes factory growth, despite lagging healthcare sales

FierceVaccines
FDA lifts hold on Allergy Therapeutics' grass pollen allergy vax

UPDATED: In U.K., Pneumovax trumps Pfizer's Prevnar 13

Alnylam gets $3.2M milestone from GSK for vax tech

Old whooping cough vax more effective than new one

Old whooping cough vax more effective than new

Health News - BizJournals.com
Missouri hospitals predict pain if state doesnt expand Medicaid

Durham drug firm shutting down

HCA posts 2Q earnings gain

Sunrise Senior Living profits better from property sale

Earnings: National Health Investors up 6% in Q2

Health News - CNBC
Getting a Deal on Debt

Omaha health firm will be called Alegent Creighton

Ahead of the Bell: Analyst upgrades WellCare

Mylan subsidiary starts operations in India

Sunshine Heart receives conditional approval for heart device component

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
Genta Pursues Liquidation

A Blow Against Biowarfare: Elusys Awarded $50.2M More for Inhalational Anthrax Treatment

Rat Studies Reveal Unexpected Autism Gene Function

Pharming Sharpens Ax as Layoffs Loom

Covidien Opens $45M R&D Facility in Shanghai

Marketwire - Pharma and Biotech
Celsion Corporation to Hold Second Quarter 2012 Financial Results Conference Call on Tuesday, August 14, 2012

MYOS Issues Special Letter to Shareholders: Company Committed to R&D, Developing Innovative Products and Formulations

Positive Clinical Trial Results for Immunovaccine's DPX-0907 Published in Journal of Translational Medicine

Keranique: Hair Care System Can Re-Grow Thinning Hair

Cellceutix Reports Its Very Novel Anti-Cancer Agent, Kevetrin, at Dana-Farber for Start of Clinical Trials

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
Medical Alarm Concepts Cancels 61.5 MM Warrants Significantly Strengthening Balance Sheet

Bausch + Lomb and Technolas Perfect Vision Receive 510(k) FDA Clearance from FDA for VICTUS Femtosecond Laser Platform

Health Revenue Assurance Associates Hires Valerie Rinkle as Vice President of Revenue Integrity Informatics

Zondan Partners with Masimo to Incorporate Signal Extraction Technology® and rainbow® Across Entire Portfolio of Patient Monitors

Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan designates record number of physician practices to nation's largest patient-centered medical home program

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
Novartis and Penn Unite On Anticancer Approach

China Arrests 2,000 in Counterfeit Drug Crackdown

2,000 Arrested in China in Crackdown on Counterfeit Drugs

Bristol-Myers to Suspend Hepatitis C Drug Study

A Focus on AIDS, Past and Present

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
Accu-Break Pharmaceuticals, Inc. Enters into a Product Development and License Agreement with Alembic Pharmaceuticals Limited

Resumen: PharmaEngine y Nanobiotix suscriben acuerdo exclusivo de colaboración y licencia en Asia Pacífico para NBTXR3

Samenvatting: PharmaEngine and Nanobiotix tekenen Asia-Pacific exclusieve licentie en samenwerkingsovereenkomst voor NBTXR3

Resumen: La asociación profesional PhRMA elige las amplias bases de datos sobre costes del mundo real de Medidata Solutions para análisis de ensayos clínicos

Samenvatting: PhRMA Trade Association kiest Medidata Solutions' uitgebreide kostendatabase voor klinische procesanalyse

Pharma News - PharmiWeb
National Health Investors Sets Second Quarter Earnings Release and Conference Call Dates

Eliza Corporation Receives Notice of Allowance from United States Patent and Trademark Office for Next Generation Conversational Speech Recognition Engine

Welch Allyn Devices Become First Vital Signs Monitors Authorized for Wireless Deployment Within U.S. Federal Government Healthcare Agencies

Science Warehouse and NEP Shared System Group partner to deliver procurement savings across the NHS

Endomagnetics Awarded Funding to Explore

Pharma News - PR Newswire
Back to School Ideas: Vaccines for Kids Could Hurt Rather Than Help Fight Disease

Retinal Vein Occlusion Therapeutics - Pipeline Assessment and Market Forecasts to 2019

Mylan Launches Generic Version of Amidate® Injection

K-V Pharmaceutical Announces Planned Transition of Trading of Class A and Class B Common Shares to the OTC Markets

CVS Caremark's MinuteClinic Is First Retail Clinic Provider to Earn Gold Seal of Approval from The Joint Commission for Three Consecutive Accreditation Periods

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
R&D Systems Releases a New Interactive Pathways & Processes...

Eclipse Therapeutics Appoints Patrick M. OConnor, Ph.D. to Scientific...

A2LA Bolsters Social Media Presence with Addition of Twitter

Vanta Bioscience Preclinical Research Facility Achieves Good...

SPIE Honors Service and Career Excellence with Senior Member...

PRWeb - Pharmaceuticals
Infinata Launches Intuitive New Platform and User Interface to...

Rottenstein Law Group Heeds Order of DePuy ASR MDL Court Setting...

Relatives of Bladder Cancer Victims Who Took the Diabetes Drug Actos...

It's Time for an Actos Recall in the U.S., Says Attorney Michael J....

Corporate Whistle Blower Center Now Urges Medical Device Or Drug...

Scientific American
Avatar Officer Installed at Arizona-Mexico Border Station

NASA's Curiosity Rover Lands Safely on Mars

Can Facebook Show How to Reduce the Growing Energy Use of the Internet

Bites from Vampire Bats Might Protect People against Rabies

Major Breeder of Research Dogs Faces Closure

Sports - ESPN Basketball
UConn's Calhoun OK following hip surgery

UConn's Calhoun fractures hip in bike accident

Wolfpack freshman Purvis under NCAA review

Wolfpack freshman G Purvis under NCAA review

Elite recruit Nunn narrows to Illinois, 4 others

Sports News - ESPN
PSU practice opens with core players returning

Recruit decommits from PSU, off to Notre Dame

TCU QB Pachall won't face discipline from team

Former Trojans lineman Matua dies at age 28

Source: PSU's Brown will transfer to Oklahoma

Xconomy Life Sciences
U.S. Biotech Clusters Are Losing Their Anchor Tenants, and It Hurts

Life Sciences Roundup: Halozyme, Avalon Ventures, Auspex & More

Xconomist of the Week: John Reed on Sanford-Burnham's Drug Pipeline

Aveo, Mersana, Haemonetics, & More from the Boston Life Sciences Roundup

Aveo Shares Fall as FDA Questions Cancer Drug Survival Trend

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)