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 <title>Almac & Queens Belfast ‘oncology hub’</title>
 <pubDate>Thu, 18 Mar 2010 14:48 +0000</pubDate>
 <description><![CDATA[Almac, an international drug development organisation, today opens a high-level, invitation only, Washington DC event – ‘From Science to Society: A Northern Ireland Showcase in Cancer Genomics and Personalized Medicine’ – highlighting the capabilities and exceptional work of Northern Ireland’s established ‘oncology hub’. ]]></description>
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 <pubDate>Thu, 18 Mar 2010 14:45 +0000</pubDate>
 <description><![CDATA[Ambry Genetics and RainDance Technologies today jointly announced at the Annual CHI Next Generation Sequencing Conference in San Diego, CA their partnership utilizing the RDT 1000 for sequence enrichment and resequencing validation. ]]></description>
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 <pubDate>Thu, 18 Mar 2010 14:43 +0000</pubDate>
 <description><![CDATA[A new preparation of an omega-3 polyunsaturated fatty acid found naturally in fish, offers hope for thousands of patients at risk of developing an inherited form of bowel cancer, a new study shows.]]></description>
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 <pubDate>Thu, 18 Mar 2010 14:41 +0000</pubDate>
 <description><![CDATA[Agilent Automation Solutions has produced a new reference guide for life scientists tasked with labeling microplates, who wish to become more familiar with the fundamentals of automated laboratory barcode labeling.]]></description>
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 <title>Sophion’s QPatch Expands Program</title>
 <pubDate>Thu, 18 Mar 2010 14:39 +0000</pubDate>
 <description><![CDATA[Sophion Bioscience, Inc. announces the installation of a QPatch system at the Johns Hopkins Ion Channel Center (JHICC) in Baltimore, MD, the premier academic screening center dedicated to high throughput screens and bioactive lead discovery of drugable ion channel targets.]]></description>
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 <pubDate>Thu, 18 Mar 2010 14:34 +0000</pubDate>
 <description><![CDATA[Trophos SA, a clinical stage pharmaceutical company developing innovative therapeutics from discovery to clinical validation for indications with under-served needs in neurology and cardiology, announced today the completion of patient enrolment with over 500 patients recruited into the pivotal phase 3 efficacy study of olesoxime in Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (Lou Gehrig's Disease).]]></description>
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 <pubDate>Thu, 18 Mar 2010 14:29 +0000</pubDate>
 <description><![CDATA[Uppsala‐based genomics company, has recruited Fredrik Dahl as company CTO. Dr. Fredrik Dahl will lead the company R&D efforts, with focus on developing the Selector Technology™ and related products. Fredrik Dahl has a track record in inventing, developing, and transferring molecular biology concepts into production scale products.]]></description>
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 <title>Forbion Leads $12 Million Financing</title>
 <pubDate>Thu, 18 Mar 2010 14:23 +0000</pubDate>
 <description><![CDATA[Forbion Capital Partners today announces that it has led the Series C investment of Promedior with a syndicate of leading life science investors. ]]></description>
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 <pubDate>Thu, 18 Mar 2010 14:21 +0000</pubDate>
 <description><![CDATA[Leading Indian stem cell companies are in the UK this week to seek top tips on how to build links with the UK stem cell sector. Beginning in London, the firms will go on a whistle-stop tour to Cambridge and Edinburgh with UK Trade & Investment (UKTI).]]></description>
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 <title>Tests Provide Hope For Stomach Cancer</title>
 <pubDate>Thu, 18 Mar 2010 14:17 +0000</pubDate>
 <description><![CDATA[Dako announced today that two of its products have obtained a CE-mark as diagnostic tests for selecting patients with metastatic stomach (gastric) cancer who may benefit from Herceptin(TM) treatment. Dako's HercepTest(TM) and HER2 FISH pharmDx(TM) enable physicians to identify the unique group of cancer patients that might benefit from the drug.]]></description>
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 <title>Sigma Further Expands In Vivo Biology</title>
 <pubDate>Thu, 18 Mar 2010 14:14 +0000</pubDate>
 <description><![CDATA[Sigma-Aldrich today announced it has signed an agreement to acquire Ace Animals Inc., a Berks County, PA.-based provider of high quality research rodents to the biomedical industry. ]]></description>
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 <pubDate>Thu, 18 Mar 2010 14:11 +0000</pubDate>
 <description><![CDATA[Seegene, Inc., a leader in multi-pathogen diagnostic testing, today unveiled a break-through technology called READ (Seegene Real Amplicon Detection) that marks a significant departure with current polymerase chain reaction (PCR) techniques that will enable an entirely new class of powerful molecular diagnostic tests with greater precision.]]></description>
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 <pubDate>Thu, 18 Mar 2010 14:08 +0000</pubDate>
 <description><![CDATA[Boston Scientific Corporation (NYSE: BSX) today announced that it has reached the milestone of 1000 European patients using its LATITUDE® Patient Management System.  The LATITUDE system remotely monitors patients with implantable cardiac devices, gathering information on both the device and a patient’s heart health status. ]]></description>
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 <title>Powell Gilbert Moves To Fleet Street</title>
 <pubDate>Thu, 18 Mar 2010 14:06 +0000</pubDate>
 <description><![CDATA[IP powerhouse, Powell Gilbert LLP, has taken new premises at 85 Fleet Street after outgrowing its space in the former Patent Office at 25 Southampton Buildings in its first three years.]]></description>
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 <title>Bridge4Bio Helps Life Science Companies</title>
 <pubDate>Thu, 18 Mar 2010 14:02 +0000</pubDate>
 <description><![CDATA[International business consultancy group, Bridge4Bio employs its ten-strong global consultant network to help life sciences and biotechnology companies progress their business growth plans faster, more efficiently and at a lower cost.]]></description>
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 <title>New Pharmaceutical Expert Advisory Panel</title>
 <pubDate>Thu, 18 Mar 2010 13:57 +0000</pubDate>
 <description><![CDATA[The Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain (RPSGB) today announced the establishment of the Pharmaceutical Science Expert Advisory Panel to serve as the key advisory resource for the professional body on scientific strategy, leadership, advocacy, assessment and review.]]></description>
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 <title>Ipsen Grants Rhythm Worldwide License</title>
 <pubDate>Thu, 18 Mar 2010 13:55 +0000</pubDate>
 <description><![CDATA[Ipsen, a global biotechnology specialty care group, and Rhythm Pharmaceuticals (Rhythm), a biotechnology company developing peptide therapeutics for metabolic diseases, announced today that they have concluded a license agreement for Ipsen’s proprietary peptide therapeutics targeting obesity, metabolic diseases, and gastrointestinal disorders.]]></description>
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 <title>Roche Purchases Microarray Assets</title>
 <pubDate>Thu, 18 Mar 2010 13:50 +0000</pubDate>
 <description><![CDATA[Roche Diagnostics has purchased assets from BioMicro Systems for all products associated with the Roche NimbleGen microarray workflow. These assets consist of key instrumentation in the comprehensive Roche NimbleGen microarray workflow including the NimbleGen Hybridization Systems (both 4- and 12-bay models).]]></description>
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 <title>ACM Appoints General Manager</title>
 <pubDate>Thu, 18 Mar 2010 13:42 +0000</pubDate>
 <description><![CDATA[ACM Global Central Laboratory, the global central lab that continually defines the customer-service standard with its flexible approach, today announced the newest member of its Clinical Trials team, Nandan Rao as the general manager, Asia Pacific located in Mumbai, India. Initially, Rao will have oversight of trials conducted with ACM Global’s partner lab in the region.  ]]></description>
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 <title>ClinTec & HCG Celebrate Partnership</title>
 <pubDate>Sun, 07 Mar 2010 18:34 +0000</pubDate>
 <description><![CDATA[Dr Rabinder Buttar, PhD. President & CEO of ClinTec International and Frank S. Kilpatrick, President of Healthcare Communications Group (HCG), El Segundo, C A will celebrate their companies’ successful collaboration at the upcoming 22nd Annual Drug Information Association (DIA) EuroMeeting in Monaco on March 8-10, 2010. ]]></description>
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 <title>BioLAGO Facilitates Cancer Therapy Project</title>
 <pubDate>Sun, 07 Mar 2010 18:29 +0000</pubDate>
 <description><![CDATA[Hope for breast cancer patients – under the leadership of the Vorarlberg Institute for Vascular Investigation and Treatment (VIVIT), a cross border cooperation is to start between hospitals and bioanalytical laboratories of the Rhine Valley and Lake Constance region. ]]></description>
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 <title>Intellicig On Top Of The Research World</title>
 <pubDate>Sun, 07 Mar 2010 18:23 +0000</pubDate>
 <description><![CDATA[Leading electronic cigarette brand Intellicig has been accepted into one of the world's top centres for biomedical research.To make their products the healthiest and cleanest on the market, Intellicig has established a laboratory at Manchester’s Bioscience Incubator to perform their own clinical trials on their products.]]></description>
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 <title>New Biocitech CEO Jean-François Boussard</title>
 <pubDate>Sun, 07 Mar 2010 18:16 +0000</pubDate>
 <description><![CDATA[Biocitech SAS, the Paris life science technology park, today announced that its board has appointed Jean-François Boussard as CEO with effect from April 1st. Jean-François Boussard replaces Jacques Lhomel, who is taking retirement to pursue a number of personal projects.]]></description>
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 <title>Michael J. Fox Made Honorary Doctor</title>
 <pubDate>Sun, 07 Mar 2010 18:14 +0000</pubDate>
 <description><![CDATA[The renowned advocate and actor Michael J. Fox is to be made honorary doctor of medicine at Karolinska Institutet in recognition of his work raising funds and awareness for Parkinson’s disease as the founder of the Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson’s Research (MJFF).]]></description>
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 <title>International NanoMicroClub Launched</title>
 <pubDate>Sun, 07 Mar 2010 18:10 +0000</pubDate>
 <description><![CDATA[The Nanotechnology Knowledge Transfer Network (NanoKTN), and the Institute of Nanotechnology (IoN), has announced its collaboration that with the support of Technology Strategy Board funding, will encourage and support global business development for UK SMEs.]]></description>
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 <title>Integromics & TATAA Biocenter Collaborate</title>
 <pubDate>Sun, 07 Mar 2010 18:00 +0000</pubDate>
 <description><![CDATA[Integromics S.L., the leading provider of bioinformatics solutions to gene expression researchers, has announced an exciting collaboration with the TATAA Biocenters in Sweden and the Czech Republic, to provide expert training in qPCR data analysis using RealTime StatMiner. ]]></description>
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 <title>PA Consulting & ERBI Cambridge Seminar </title>
 <pubDate>Sun, 07 Mar 2010 17:58 +0000</pubDate>
 <description><![CDATA[A seminar and dinner held on 26 January at Clare College Cambridge for emerging companies and their investors focusing on Adapting to life in the new economic environment – the challenge for start-ups attracted full attendance, demonstrating that venture-backed companies may be ahead in planning for the future and leading the UK out of recession.]]></description>
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 <title>Almac Expands Radiolabelling Facilities</title>
 <pubDate>Sun, 07 Mar 2010 17:54 +0000</pubDate>
 <description><![CDATA[Almac, an integrated contract development and manufacturing organization supporting the international pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries, has further enhanced its radiolabelling capabilities with a significant facility expansion.]]></description>
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 <title>Hiroshi Uchida President & CEO of Magellan</title>
 <pubDate>Sun, 07 Mar 2010 17:48 +0000</pubDate>
 <description><![CDATA[Magellan Biosciences, Inc., an emerging leader in<br/>clinical diagnostics, announced that Hiroshi Uchida, Ph.D., has joined the company as president and chief<br/>executive officer. He will also serve as a company director. Dr. Uchida (50) has more than 20 years of<br/>leadership experience in the global medical technology and management consulting industries. ]]></description>
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 <title>imaGenes Roche NimbleGen Certification</title>
 <pubDate>Sun, 07 Mar 2010 17:32 +0000</pubDate>
 <description><![CDATA[Roche NimbleGen (SIX: RO, ROG; OTCQX: RHHBY) is pleased to announce that imaGenes GmbH, located in Berlin, Germany, has passed the certification process to qualify as a Roche NimbleGen Certified Service Provider (CSP) for DNA Methylation Analysis. ]]></description>
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