Life Sciences

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• Sermo Changes Strategy to Gain More Pharma Business, CEO Declines to Discuss Layoff Talk

  
  Xconomy — Authority: 651
  Internet , Life Sciences , Layoffs Ryan McBride wrote: Sermo , provider of the nation’s largest online community of doctors, has had a tough year in getting financial services firms to pay for access to its physician network and has decided to shift its strategy more toward serving drug and medical ...
  6 hours ago

• WSU, Startups Get $2M Algae Grant

  
  Xconomy — Authority: 651
  Biotech , Biofuels , algae Luke Timmerman wrote: Washington State University will receive a $2 million federal grant to develop algae-based biofuels in a collaboration with a couple of Seattle-based startup companies. The grant , secured with help of Washington Sen. Patty Murray, will support what’s ...
  7 hours ago

• Homosexual selection: The power of same-sex liaisons

  
  OK4me2 — Authority: 154
  NOT long ago, the news was full of reports about two male Humboldt penguins at a zoo in Germany that adopted an egg, hatched it and reared the chick together. It seems like every time you turn around, the media spotlight has fallen on another example of same-sex liaisons in the animal kingdom. Homosexual ...
  12 hours ago

• Hollywood Sees Corruption in Pharma, and Suddenly Scientists are the Bad Guys

  
  Xconomy — Authority: 651
  Biotech , Drugs , people Stewart Lyman wrote: A recent article in the journal Science described a significant gene-therapy based advance in the treatment of two boys with adrenoleukodystrophy (ALD), a rare and lethal genetic disease. This was wonderful news for those who have affected family members. ...
  18 hours ago

• Hutch Snaps Up $7M in Donations

  
  Xconomy — Authority: 651
  Biotech , Finances , cancer Luke Timmerman wrote: The Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, the Seattle-based nonprofit, said yesterday it raised more than $7 million at its annual Hutch Holiday Gala on Saturday night. Most of the money, $6.4 million, was directed toward research to boost people’s ...
  21 hours ago

• Supercharged Herceptin Nears Pivot Point, as ImmunoGen, Roche Await Data on Breast Cancer “Smart Bomb”

  
  Xconomy — Authority: 651
  Biotech , cancer , Drugs Luke Timmerman wrote: ImmunoGen has been in business for 28 years without developing a single FDA approved drug. This week, after all those lean years, the Waltham, MA-based biotech (NASDAQ: IMGN ) and its partner, Roche, are getting ready to show the world they have something ...
  21 hours ago

• Stephen Meyer is named Daniel of the Year for 2009 by World Magazine

  
  Wintery Knight — Authority: 473
  Dr. Stephen C. Meyer There can be only one . (H/T Evolution News ) Excerpt: From his office Meyer has ventured forth to debate at least nine prominent Darwinians on CNN, NPR, FOX, the BBC, and other venues. In it he has written numerous newspaper and magazine columns in defense of Intelligent Design (ID), as ...
  2 days ago

• Vertex Snags Extra $58M

  
  Xconomy — Authority: 651
  Biotech , Finances , Hepatitis C Luke Timmerman wrote: Cambridge, MA-based Vertex Pharmaceuticals said today that the underwriters of this week’s $442.8 million stock offering have agreed to buy an extra 1.5 million shares of stock at $38.50. That means the company has pulled in another $57.8 ...
  3 days ago

• Hutch Wins $55M Federal Contract As Cancer Info Hub

  
  Xconomy — Authority: 651
  Biotech , Finances , cancer Luke Timmerman wrote: The Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center just brought home some big federal bucks. The Seattle-based nonprofit research center said today it has been awarded a multi-year, $55.4 million contract from the National Cancer Institute to be the only ...
  3 days ago

• By Feeding the Birds, You Could Change Their Evolutionary Fate

  
  OK4me2 — Authority: 154
  Blackcap (Sylvia atricapilla) male at a bird feeder. Feeding birds in winter is a most innocent human activity, but it can nonetheless have profound effects on the evolutionary future of a species, and those changes can be seen in the very near term. (Credit: iStockphoto/Andrew Howe) ScienceDaily (Dec. 4, 2009) ...
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• Poisonous Catfish Described

  
  OK4me2 — Authority: 154
  ScienceDaily (Dec. 4, 2009) — In contrast to the exhaustive research into venom produced by snakes and spiders, venomous fish have been neglected and remain something of a mystery. Now, a study of 158 catfish species, published in the open access journal BMC Evolutionary Biology , has catalogued the presence of ...
  3 days ago

• $443 million for Vertex, $25.5M for Forma, $8M for Contour Semiconductor, & More Boston-Area Deals News

  
  Xconomy — Authority: 651
  Roundup , deals , VC Rebecca Zacks wrote: The dollar amounts ranged from the modest (FitnessKeeper) to the mammoth (Vertex) for New England tech and life sciences deals this week. —Boston’s FitnessKeeper, maker of the RunKeeper iPhone application, raised $400,000 from Cambridge, MA-based ...
  3 days ago

• Life Sciences Transactions on Rebound in Massachusetts?

  
  Law Links | Health Links — Authority: 100
  Attorney Mark Tarallo writes on mbbp.com that life sciences transactions may be on the rebound in Massachusetts. He points to recent M&A activity involving Massachusetts companies as a signal that the transaction activity may be on a come back. He cites transaction by Inverness Medical Innovation purchase of ...
  4 days ago

• Line Up for the New Lines

  
  Science Progress — Authority: 507
  Yesterday, the National Institutes of Health approved 13 new embryonic stem cell lines according to the rigorous ethical guidelines that went into effect July 7 th . The lines will now be eligible for use in federally funded research. The 15-point rules include requirements that cells must be derived with private ...
  4 days ago

• Biogen Fattens Offer to Buy Facet Biotech

  
  Xconomy — Authority: 651
  Life Sciences , deals , buyouts Ryan McBride wrote: Cambridge, MA-based Biogen Idec reports today that it’s upping its bid to buy Facet Biotech by 21 percent, after the smaller firm’s board rejected Biogen’s earlier buyout offer in October . Biogen (NASDAQ: BIIB ) said it would pay $17.50 per ...
  4 days ago

• ZymoGenetics Axes 52 Jobs, Quits Discovery of Immunology Drugs, to Conserve Cash

  
  Xconomy — Authority: 651
  Biotech , people , Layoffs Luke Timmerman wrote: Bad news today for employees of ZymoGenetics (NASDAQ: ZGEN ). The Seattle-based biotech company said today in a regulatory filing it is cutting 52 jobs, or about 15 percent of its workforce, and scrapping its group that seeks to discover immunology ...
  4 days ago

• Massachusetts to send six tech pioneer firms to World Economic Forum (Mass High Tech: The Journal of New England Technology)

  
  NanoTechBIZZ.com — Authority: 153
  Six New England companies — all based in Massachusetts and hailing from the life sciences, cleantech, energy and software industries — will head to Davos, Switzerland, in January as members of the list of 26 technology pioneers announced by the World Economic Forum today in advance of its 2010 annual meeting. ...
  4 days ago

• Alkermes Bets $10M on Long-Lasting Drug Technology from Startup Neighbor, Acceleron

  
  Xconomy — Authority: 651
  Biotech , deals , startups Luke Timmerman wrote: Cambridge, MA-based Alkermes said today it is betting $10 million on a crosstown startup that it hopes has found a way to make the world’s best-selling rheumatoid arthritis drug more convenient for patients. Alkermes (NASDAQ: ALKS ) has agreed to ...
  4 days ago

• Aura, MicroCHIPS, Boston-Power, & Other Hot Local Startups Join the World Economic Forum’s Technology Pioneers

  
  Xconomy — Authority: 651
  IT , energy , Life Sciences Ryan McBride wrote: A handful of startups from the Boston area are joining an exclusive club today. The World Economic Forum—the Swiss nonprofit that has previously honored such companies as Cambridge, MA-based biotech Alnylam Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ: ALNY ), PayPal, and ...
  4 days ago

• Secure Tracking and Tracing using GS1 and SAP OER - Leverage GS1 EPCIS in Healthcare -- EPISODE I

  
  SAP Developer Network SAP Weblogs — Authority: 152
  In this new blog series I will write about GS1 in Healthcare, what we did, how our prototype looks like and, most importantly, the benefits of this solution.
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