Keyword: Biotechnology

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U.S. Appeals Court Reconsiders Myriad Gene Patent Ruling

21.07.2012 - Myriad Genetics illegally patented acts of nature when it claimed ownership of two genes linked to cancer, the federal government told an appeals court on Friday. Lawyers from...

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The Long Way Back

19.07.2012 - Business in Great Britain - Since 2008, the UK chemical industry has gone through one of the biggest downturns in production of all the world's leading producers of chemicals. Now...

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Cost Cuts Help Actelion Lift Earnings View

19.07.2012 - Actelion raised its earnings outlook for 2012 on Thursday as cost cuts helped Europe's biggest biotech company to post a first-half profit despite its most important drug facing...

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Surge in Biotech Deals to Unlock Big Investor Profits

18.07.2012 - Large investors in U.S. biotech companies are likely to capture serious windfall profits as deal activity picks up in the sector. A Reuters analysis of investors' average cost...

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DSM, Recepta Announce Contract Manufacturing Agreement

18.07.2012 - DSM Pharmaceutical Products, the custom manufacturing and technology business of Royal DSM, announced that it has signed a biologics contract manufacturing agreement with its first...

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AstraZeneca Tries New Tack in Brain Research

12.07.2012 - AstraZeneca has clinched two new deals in neuroscience, underlining the drugmaker's increasing reliance on external projects to refill a sparse pipeline as it tests a new low-cost...

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Celgene Mulls Human Genome Sciences Bid

07.07.2012 - Celgene is one of two companies discussing whether to bid for Human Genome Sciences, which seeks an alternative to a hostile offer by British drugmaker GlaxoSmithKline, a source...

Books

Pharmaceutical Biotechnology: Drug Discovery and Clinical Applications

04.07.2012 - This second edition of a very successful book is thoroughly updated with existing chapters completely rewritten while the content has more than doubled from 16 to 36 chapters. As...