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 <title>Biotech 09 in Milan  features partneringONEâ„¢ </title>
 <pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2009 16:55 +0000</pubDate>
 <description><![CDATA[EBD Group today announced that Biotech 09, to be held at the Milan Fair Center-Rho, November 25â€“27, 2009 will feature partneringONEâ„¢ to facilitate partnering between event participants. ]]></description>
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 <title>Label Free Symposium comes to Baltimore</title>
 <pubDate>Thu, 18 Jun 2009 11:01 +0000</pubDate>
 <description><![CDATA[GE Healthcare will host â€˜Current Trends in Microcalorimetry & Biacore Symposium 2009â€™, on October 18-21 at the Renaissance Harborplace Hotel, Baltimore, USA. The symposium offers delegates an exciting opportunity for exchange and discussion on all the latest developments in label-free molecular interaction analysis.<br/>]]></description>
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 <title>454 Celebrates a Revolution in Genomics </title>
 <pubDate>Thu, 11 Jun 2009 17:52 +0000</pubDate>
 <description><![CDATA[In September 2005, a paper published in the journal Nature introducing a novel, highly parallel sequencing system capable of producing 100-fold greater throughput than the state-of-the-art capillary electrophoresis instrument. ]]></description>
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 <title>Fast Pandemic Detection Tool Ready to Fight Flu</title>
 <pubDate>Thu, 11 Jun 2009 17:28 +0000</pubDate>
 <description><![CDATA[Agilent Technologies Inc announced researchers are developing new tools for rapidly characterizing biological pathogens that could give rise to potentially deadly pandemics such as Influenza A (H1N1). This is part of a joint effort by national laboratory-, university- and private-sector institutions.<br/><br/><br/><br/>]]></description>
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 <title>Illumina Offers Personal Genome Sequencing </title>
 <pubDate>Thu, 11 Jun 2009 15:33 +0000</pubDate>
 <description><![CDATA[Illumina, Inc. has unveiled a service program to provide high-quality personal genome sequencing for consumers. This is the first service to offer complete coverage of the human genome sequence for under $50,000. ]]></description>
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 <title>Sigma Introduces Services Network</title>
 <pubDate>Thu, 11 Jun 2009 15:10 +0000</pubDate>
 <description><![CDATA[Customers can now conveniently access a collection of support services that can be used on a short or long term basis to accelerate their research<br/><br/>  <br/>]]></description>
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 <title>Microsoft Signs Agreement With Merck & Co. Inc.</title>
 <pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2009 10:24 +0000</pubDate>
 <description><![CDATA[Multifaceted agreement enhances Microsoft Amalga Life Sciences to accelerate basic research and drive personalized medicine.<br/><br/> ]]></description>
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 <title>Asia welcomes New Array Centre</title>
 <pubDate>Wed, 03 Jun 2009 14:24 +0000</pubDate>
 <description><![CDATA[Affymetrix, Inc. today announced the earlier-than-anticipated achievement of two key milestones in its plan to consolidate array manufacturing, set a new standard in reagent capabilities, and relocate US product distribution. ]]></description>
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 <title>Anagnostics smart multiplex diagnostics sets new standards </title>
 <pubDate>Thu, 07 May 2009 14:53 +0000</pubDate>
 <description><![CDATA[Since 2005 an ambitious team around the molecular geneticist Dr. Bernhard Ronacher have been developing a new multiplex diagnostics technique. Hybcell Tchnology is capableof analysing hundreds of features highly paralleled from samples like blood or saliva.<br/><br/>]]></description>
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 <title>Albumin Fusion Technology</title>
 <pubDate>Thu, 07 May 2009 14:20 +0000</pubDate>
 <description><![CDATA[ Human Genome Sciences, Inc.  and Novozymes Biopharma, a part of Novozymes, today announced that they have amended an existing license agreement to allow both companies to expand application of their proprietary albumin fusion technology.<br/><br/>]]></description>
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 <title>Simcyp enhances flagship Simulator </title>
 <pubDate>Thu, 07 May 2009 14:04 +0000</pubDate>
 <description><![CDATA[Simcyp Limited, the leader in the simulation and prediction of clinical drug-drug interactions, has expanded the capabilities of its world-class Population-based ADME Simulator. <br/><br/>]]></description>
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 <title>Evotec Acquires Zebrafish Screening Operations</title>
 <pubDate>Thu, 07 May 2009 13:46 +0000</pubDate>
 <description><![CDATA[Evotec today announced that the Company will acquire the zebrafish screening operations of Summit Corporation plc, including operations in Abingdon, UK, and Singapore, for Â£ 0.5 million in cash. <br/><br/> <br/><br/>]]></description>
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 <title>Genomatix NextGen Sequencing Analysis </title>
 <pubDate>Thu, 26 Mar 2009 11:47 +0000</pubDate>
 <description><![CDATA[Genomatix Software, a leading provider of complete solutions for the analysis of Next Generation Sequencing data, announced today that the Center for Translational Pathology at the University of Michigan installed a Genomatix Mining Station & a Genomatix Genome Analyzer at its labs in Ann Arbor, MI.<br/><br/>                                                                    ]]></description>
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 <title>BioTek Receives Supplier of Choice Award </title>
 <pubDate>Wed, 18 Mar 2009 18:14 +0000</pubDate>
 <description><![CDATA[BioTek Instruments, a leader in microplate instrumentation technology, recently received an award from Fisher Scientific Canada, part of Thermo Fisher Scientific. The 'Supplier of Choice' award was presented to BioTek in Toronto, Ontario at Fisher Scientific's annual sales meeting on January 20, 2009. ]]></description>
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 <title>Aushon BioSystems Acquires SearchLightÂ®  </title>
 <pubDate>Tue, 17 Mar 2009 12:21 +0000</pubDate>
 <description><![CDATA[Aushon BioSystems, Inc., the leading provider of advanced microarray instrumentation and laboratory services for biomarker analysis, announced today that it has acquired the SearchLightÂ® Protein Array business and technology assets from Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., the world leader in serving science. SearchLight assets will be integrated into Aushon, but its offerings will continue to be marketed under the SearchLight brand. The combined business will operate under the name Aushon BioSystems, with headquarters in Billerica.<br/> ]]></description>
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 <title>ProImmune leads in Antigen Discovery   </title>
 <pubDate>Wed, 11 Mar 2009 17:19 +0000</pubDate>
 <description><![CDATA[ProImmune Ltd, has launched the REVEALâ„¢ B Cell Epitope Discovery System, a service designed to accelerate the development of biological therapies & understanding of diseases at a structural level.<br/><br/> <br/><br/> <br/> ]]></description>
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 <title>Thermo Fisher Scientific Introduces Connects </title>
 <pubDate>Tue, 10 Mar 2009 16:41 +0000</pubDate>
 <description><![CDATA[Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. launches a new program aimed at bridging the gap between laboratory generated data & the enterprise level information necessary for mission critical management decisions.  ]]></description>
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 <title>Chantest acquires Applied Cell Sciences</title>
 <pubDate>Thu, 05 Mar 2009 18:33 +0000</pubDate>
 <description><![CDATA[ChanTest, the leading provider of ion channel testing services & validated cell lines, announced that it has acquired Applied Cell Sciences. ]]></description>
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 <title>Novozymes & Upperton Granted Patent</title>
 <pubDate>Sun, 22 Feb 2009 07:05 +0000</pubDate>
 <description><![CDATA[The European Patent Office has confirmed the official decision to grant a European patent for targeted drug delivery joint patent application ]]></description>
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 <title>A 454 Sequencing Study Reveals New Insights</title>
 <pubDate>Sun, 22 Feb 2009 06:54 +0000</pubDate>
 <description><![CDATA[New data from studies presented last week at the 16th CROI in Montreal,  demonstrate that ultra-deep sequencing with the Genome Sequencer FLX System from 454 Life Sciences may provide a deeper understanding of baseline viral resistance and tropism. ]]></description>
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 <title>RainDance  signs agreement with Sanofi & Louis Pasteur </title>
 <pubDate>Thu, 02 Oct 2008 16:45 +0000</pubDate>
 <description><![CDATA[RainDance Technologies announced today the launch of the dScreen Consortium, a research initiative conducted with sanofi-aventis, Paris, and Louis Pasteur University of Strasbourg, France, to develop the next generation of high-throughput screening (HTS) for drug discovery applications. ]]></description>
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 <title>New Enterprise Electronic Lab Notebook...</title>
 <pubDate>Thu, 02 Oct 2008 16:44 +0000</pubDate>
 <description><![CDATA[Symyx Technologies, Inc. has announced the availability of Symyx Notebook - a new, enterprise electronic laboratory notebook (ELN) that is configurable to meet the needs of biologists and analytical chemists out-of-the-box.<br/>]]></description>
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 <title>Disease diagnosis in just 15 minutes</title>
 <pubDate>Thu, 02 Oct 2008 16:43 +0000</pubDate>
 <description><![CDATA[Testing for diseases such as cancer and multiple sclerosis could soon be as simple as using a pregnancy testing kit. <br/><br/>  <br/>]]></description>
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 <title>ThromboGenics' Results in the Treatment of Acute Stroke </title>
 <pubDate>Thu, 02 Oct 2008 16:42 +0000</pubDate>
 <description><![CDATA[<br/>Results presented at World Stroke Congress in Vienna<br/>Leuven, Belgium â€“ September 29, 2008 - ThromboGenics NV, a biotechnology company focused on novel therapies for eye disease, vascular disease and cancer, announces positive results from its MITI IV Phase II trial to evaluate the safety and preliminary efficacy of microplasmin when administered intravenously to acute stroke patients.  ]]></description>
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 <title>Shionogi Extends Partnership with MorphoSys </title>
 <pubDate>Thu, 02 Oct 2008 16:41 +0000</pubDate>
 <description><![CDATA[MorphoSys AG announced today that Shionogi & Co., Ltd., Osaka, Japan, has elected to extend its current license agreement covering the use of MorphoSys's HuCAL technology in drug discovery, for three additional years.]]></description>
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 <title>Gender differences in rheumatism</title>
 <pubDate>Fri, 12 Sep 2008 17:07 +0000</pubDate>
 <description><![CDATA[Rheumatoid arthritis is often a more painful experience for women than it is for men, even though the visible symptoms are the same.  This and other findings are being presented at a congress currently in progress on gender medicine arranged by Karolinska Institutet. <br/><br/> <br/>]]></description>
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 <title>ART makes another Quantum Leap</title>
 <pubDate>Thu, 11 Sep 2008 17:07 +0000</pubDate>
 <description><![CDATA[The California NanoSystems Institute at UCLA Purchases Preclinical Optical Molecular Imaging System from ART Optix® system to be part of molecular imaging platform at UCLA's nanotechnology research labs to test novel nanometer-sized quantum dot probes <br/>]]></description>
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 <title>CO Based Therapies Take Giant Leap </title>
 <pubDate>Wed, 10 Sep 2008 17:32 +0000</pubDate>
 <description><![CDATA[Alfama, Inc. and hemoCORM Ltd announced today that they are combining their operations to create the world leader in the emerging field of CORMs Carbon Monoxide Releasing Molecules. ]]></description>
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 <title>Asterand Enter Into Agreement with Allergan </title>
 <pubDate>Wed, 10 Sep 2008 15:50 +0000</pubDate>
 <description><![CDATA[Asterand to Receive Upfront Payment of $6.25 Million from Allergan in a Pre-Clinical Licensing Deal for Select Compounds That Could Produce Value of up to $56.0 Million in Milestone Payments, Plus Royalties <br/><br/>]]></description>
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 <title>Syntropharma closes £1.25 million funding</title>
 <pubDate>Wed, 10 Sep 2008 10:20 +0000</pubDate>
 <description><![CDATA[Syntropharma, focussed on transdermal patch delivery of reformulated, commercially successful generics, has announced that it has raised £1.25 million  in a second round of investment funding. ]]></description>
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