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1,2,4-Benzothiadiazine derivatives

Friday, July 31st, 2009 Posted in Biotech Licensing | Comments Off

1,2,4-benzothiadiazine derivatives useful for the treatment of endocrinological system diseases such as hyperinsulinaemia and diabetes. Read more..

Metabolic profiling methods and compositions to control Warfarin therapy: personalized medicine for control of coagulation therapy (09-26)

Friday, July 24th, 2009 Posted in Biotech Licensing | Comments Off

Metabolomic assessment of the different Cytochrome P450 and UDP-Glucuronosyltransferase contributions to Warfarin Metabolism in individual patients Read more..

Two Pharmas: Better than One

Thursday, July 23rd, 2009 Posted in Biotech News | Comments Off

Bio-IT World | Best Practices | Two years ago, Merck and Abbott agreed to explore a consortium approach to building the robust IT infrastructure for registering biological materials. Biological materials require ... Read more..

Health Care vs. Biotech

Wednesday, July 22nd, 2009 Posted in Biotech News | Comments Off

CNN Money | Obama's health care reform plan may affect biotech -- driving stock prices up. Read more..

Boosting Adaptive Clinical Trials

Wednesday, July 22nd, 2009 Posted in Biotech News | Comments Off

Bio-IT World | Best Practices | Wyeth Research and partners are developing trial simulation software to streamline the process of designing and running adaptive clinical trials (ACTs).  Read more..

PULSYS® drug delivery technology

Wednesday, July 22nd, 2009 Posted in Biotech Licensing | Comments Off

PULSYS enables the pulsatile delivery, or delivery in rapid bursts, of certain drugs, potentially prolonging the release and absorption of medicine. Our lead PULSYS product, based on the antibiotic ... Read more..

BMS to Acquire Medarex

Tuesday, July 21st, 2009 Posted in Biotech News | Comments Off

CNN Money | Bristol-Myers Squibb has agreed to buy Medarex and the company's cancer treatments in a $2.1 billion deal. Read more..

Miglustat Shows Promise in Treatment for Cystic Fibrosis

Tuesday, July 21st, 2009 Posted in Biotech News | Comments Off

Bio-IT World | Twenty years after the discovery of the cystic fibrosis gene, French researchers report that a drug called miglustat could restore function to cells harboring the most commonly ... Read more..

Jumping on Next-Gen Sequence Data Analysis

Tuesday, July 21st, 2009 Posted in Biotech News | Comments Off

Bio-IT World | Best Practices | In 2007, the National Center for Genome Resources (NCGR) in Santa Fe, New Mexico, established the Schizophrenia Genome Project. Taking Illumina GA sequence data, ... Read more..

Carpenter Builds Open Source Imaging Software

Monday, July 20th, 2009 Posted in Biotech News | Comments Off

Bio-IT World | Best Practices | Anne Carpenter trained as a traditional cell biologist specializing in microscopy with no intention of writing image analysis software. “It wasn’t until I needed software ... Read more..