June 2011 Volume 7, Issue 6

Volume 7, Issue 6 | June 2011

June 2011

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Research & Development

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One for the history books

In its largest acquisition to date, Johnson & Johnson acquires medical device maker Synthes for $21.3 billion, creating the world’s largest orthopedics business
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Right fit, right time

Alkermes and Élan Drug Technologies announce $960 million merger, creating leader in CNS therapeutics
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What's Next(erone) for Baxter?

Pharma giant acquires Ligand partner Prism to bring Nexterone, an anti-arrhythmic agent, to market
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BBB and beyond

Lilly, Medtronic collaborate on crossing blood brain barrier to combat Parkinson’s disease
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Striking a ‘cord’ with spinal injuries

InVivo, UMiami collaboration to combine SCI technologies for treatment

Instruments & Informatics

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Two’s a cloud

PerkinElmer acquires Geospiza, a leading developer of cloud computing software
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Imaging is everything

GE Healthcare to acquire cellular imaging company Applied Precision as part of its life-science expansion plans
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Avantor acquires POCH from Kulczyk Holding

Acquisition of Poland’s leading performance materials supplier will expand Avantor’s laboratory offering and manufacturing footprint in Eastern Europe
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License to drive

Sigma Life Science commercializes technology from King’s College London that eases miRNA target identification bottlenecks
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The future of work

Cognizant, Eagle Genomics work with Pistoia Alliance to develop cloud-based platform to streamline sequencing services

Omics & Systems Biology

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Playing by the Rules

Myriad acquires Austin-based Rules- Based Medicine for $80 million, boosting capabilities in biomarker discovery
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Taking the path of least resistance

Gene-editing collaboration to fight EGFR- targeted therapy resistance
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Surf’s up for microRNAs

Regulus Therapeutics, UCSD collaborate on angiogenic disease research utilizing microRNA technology
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Wet or dry, hope for the eye

Tufts researchers find protein CD59 is key to slowing age-related macular degeneration
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Creating cancer for the greater good

Researchers make normal stem cells into cancer stem cells and achieve important insights into triple-negative breast cancer

Editor's Focus

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Will open access open a Pandora’s box for scientific journals?

Should the content in scientific journals be made available to the public? There are unintended consequences to opening up copyrighted material, as evidenced by the many challenges facing the journalism business since Al Gore 'invented' the Internet.

Commentary

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New tools take time

It’s been a rough first half in 2011, but beneath the noise, much progress is being made, and the last five years have been a lot more productive than we take time to realize.
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Guest Commentary: Generating more knowledge from data and more value from studies

The nature of drug discovery and development remains an information-rich endeavor, and in order to increase success rates, we must make better use of our data—and our information science experts.

Global News

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Back to school

Swiss developer Debiopharm and Yale in licensing deal on inhibitor for autoimmune and inflammatory diseases
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Taking cancer to TASQ

Active Biotech and Ipsen partner on Tasquinimod TASQ compound in uro-oncology
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Once-in-a-decade breakthrough

Alnylam and Precision NanoSystems form RNAi delivery collaboration
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A helping hand in India

Swedish pharma Karo Bio and Indian pharma Alkem Laboratories Ltd. to develop eprotirome for dyslipidemia

Diagnostics

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Alzheimer’s disease: First steps to stem the epidemic

AD guidelines updated for the first time in decades; NIH-supported revision also proposes staging of disease, potential use of biomarkers
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A wide spectrum narrows

SynapDx licenses autism diagnostic discoveries from Children’s Hospital Boston
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Multiplex makes for a magnetic attraction

Applied BioCode announces strategic technology partnership, license agreement with EraGen Biosciences
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In NARMS way

Magellan Biosciences and miacom diagnostics partner to speed up identification of pathogens, streamline lab workflow and enable better treatment decisions

Contract Services

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Controlling their own destiny

Nautic Partners acquires Omnicare’s CRO arm
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Entrée into the Orient

Mitsui acquires MBS and expands geographic base
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Serving up ‘plate-to-patient’ fare

Quotient Bioresearch and KWS BioTest partner on end-to-end anti-infectives screening
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A public-private partnership

Paragon, UMB and Life Technologies to develop stem-cell therapies

Feature

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Look at what’s new in D.C.

Program for 2011 BIO International Convention seeks to provide attendees with a well-rounded knowledge base they can use to advance business objectives
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