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UPDATE 1-Norway's Clavis signs $380 mln cancer drug deal
Reuters - 5 Hours ago
* Development deal with U.S.-based Clovis Oncology * Deal value could rise due to royalties * Clavis stock up over 60 pct (Adds details, comments, share price) OSLO, Nov 24 (Reuters) - Norwegian pharmaceutical

SHARES IN NORWAY'S CLAVIS RISE 58 PCT AFTER IT SIGNS $380 MLN CANCER DEAL Forbes.com

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Cancer patients to sue hospital
BBC - 3 Hours ago
Eighteen women were wrongly told they did not have breast cancer Seven women are taking legal action against a hospital where they were wrongly given the all-clear for breast cancer following screening Add Comment

Quick Study: Breast cancer, smoking cessation
Washington Post - 5 Hours ago
BREAST CANCER Dense breasts may contribute to cancer's return. THE QUESTION After treatment for breast cancer, does the density of a woman's breasts affect whether the cancer will return. THIS STUDY analyzed Add Comment

Washington Sketch: Seeing a setback in the race against breast cancer
Washington Post - 12 Hours ago
She spent three decades keeping women abreast of the need for cancer detection with her pink ribbons and her Race for the Cure, and the percentage of U.S. women receiving mammograms nearly doubled, to Add Comment

UK cost body again rejects Roche bowel cancer drug
Reuters UK - 13 Hours ago
* Avastin deemed not cost-effective by NICE * Agency criticises 'complex' Roche subsidy scheme LONDON, Nov 24 (Reuters) - Britain's healthcare cost-effectiveness watchdog has again rejected Roche's (ROG.VX)

NICE again rejects Roche bowel cancer drug Reuters UK

UK's NICE Rejects Roche's Avastin In Bowel Cancer Morningstar.com

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Another cancer drug too dear for Britain: Bowel cancer victims denied life-prolonging
Mail Online UK - 5 Hours ago
Bowel cancer sufferers are to be denied a life-prolonging drug on the NHS which is available to patients across Europe and beyond. Trials show Avastin can extend life by almost two years. But the Government's

Another cancer drug too dear for UK: Bowel cancer victims denied life-extending Mail Online UK

Another cancer drug too dear for Britain: How bowel cancer victims are denied life-prolonging Mail Online UK

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Genetics

U.K. cops arrest people â??just for the DNAâ??
MSNBC - 3 Hours ago
LONDON - Britain has built the world's biggest DNA database without proper political debate and police routinely arrest people just to get their DNA profiles onto the system, the genetics watchdog said

Police arrests 'made to get DNA' BBC

British police arresting people â??just for the DNA,' watchdog warns Globe and Mail

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Worries over DNA tests done by police
BBC - 6 Hours ago
The database has helped solve 32,200 crimes - 0.7% of all crime Police should not routinely DNA test everyone they arrest, the government's genetic advisers have concluded. The Human Genetics Commission

Employer's DNA test rule raises legal concerns Business Insurance

DNA testing: call for new rules Channel 4 News

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DNA database now about suspects, not offenders
IT Pro UK - 106 Minutes ago
The DNA database has moved from a database of offenders to one of suspects, according to a . In a new report, the government's own genetics advisory board has said the DNA database must be debated in Add Comment

Introducing OmniSEC - The Most Flexible, Full-Featured GPC/SEC Software Available
Pharmaceutical Online - 3 Hours ago
A new on-demand presentation from Viscotek, a Malvern company, introduces OmniSEC, the company's highly flexible, powerful and easy-to-use software for gel permeation/size exclusion chromatography (GPC/SEC). Add Comment

75% of UK's black people's DNA held on criminal database?
Ghana Review International - 4 Hours ago
From schoolboy squabble to DNA database in one easy step - if you're black Tesfaye Smith, now 23, was arrested and had his DNA taken after a friend's father accused him of stealing Pokmon playing cards Add Comment

Using an RNA aptamer probe for flow cytometry detection of CD30-expressing lymphoma
Laboratory Investigation - 5 Hours ago
Laboratory Investigation 89, 1423 (December 2009). doi:10.1038/labinvest.2009.113 Authors: Peng Zhang, Nianxi Zhao, Zihua Zeng, Yongdong Feng, Ching-Hsuan Tung, Chung-Che Chang Add Comment

Biotech

Bayer CropScience in Research Cooperation with GVK Biosciences
Chemical Week - 5 Hours ago
Bayer CropScience says it has entered into a research cooperation with research services organization GVK Biosciences (Hyderabad, India) in the area of early discovery chemistry, and to speed up the search

Bayer CropScience Signs Agreement with GVK Biosciences on Early-Stage Research Projects RBC Dain Rauscher

Bayer Cropscience, GVK Biosciences agree on early-stage research projects Bio Spectrum Asia

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The Automation Partnership Collaborates With Major European Biotech
Reuters - 3 Hours ago
Providing a Custom Protein Purification and Concentration System to Reduce Timelines CAMBRIDGE, England--(Business Wire)-- The Automation Partnership (TAP), a world leader in the design and development Add Comment

Biovitrum Completes Divestiture of Cambridge Biotechnology - Zibb...
Zibb - 6 Hours ago
- Biovitrum AB (publ) (STO:BVT) today announced that it has completed the divestiture of its wholly-owned subsidiary Cambridge Biotechnology Ltd (CBT), and the sale of certain drug development programs,

Biovitrum Completes Divestiture of Cambridge Biotechnology HUGIN Online

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Cephalon stock drops after trial data disappoint
Reuters Health - 11 Hours ago
-0400 (Reuters Health) * Reports disappointing results of esophagus drug trial * Cephalon shares drop as much as 10 pct * Cephalon delays decision on Ception acquisition By Toni Clarke BOSTON, (Reuters)

UPDATE 5-Cephalon stock drops after trial data disappoint London South East

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Biovitrum AB concludes sale of Cambridge Biotechnology Ltd
TradingMarkets - 2 Hours ago
(M2 EQUITYBITES via COMTEX) -- BIOVY | Quote | Chart | News | PowerRating -- Swedish pharmaceutical company Biovitrum AB (STO:BVT) declared on Tuesday that it has completed the sale of its wholly-owned Add Comment

Pharmaceutical Industry

Lightning Round: AT&T, Verizon, Novartis and More1...
CNBC - 11 Hours ago
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Drug firms raise prices ahead of reform
MSNBC - 5 Hours ago
Even as drug makers promise to support Washingtonâ??s health care overhaul by shaving $8 billion a year off the nationâ??s drug costs after the legislation takes effect, the industry has been raising

Drug prices hiked ahead of US medicare reforms Xinhua News Agency

Drug prices raised ahead of US medicare reforms Xinhua News Agency

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Bristol-Myers Squibb Up 15.1% Since SmarTrend's Buy Recommendatio...
Zibb - 6 Hours ago
SmarTrend, our proprietary pattern recognition system, called an Uptrend for Bristol-Myers Squibb (NYSE:BMY) on July 30, 2009 at $21.76. Since then, Bristol-Myers Squibb has returned 15.1% as of today's

Asterand Extends Agreement With Bristol-Myers Squibb FDA News

Asterand and Bristol-Myers Squibb extend compound profiling collaboration Proactive Investors.co.uk

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NICE again rejects Roche bowel cancer drug Reuters UK

UK's NICE Rejects Roche's Avastin In Bowel Cancer Morningstar.com

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Stockguru.com: Caleco Pharma Corp. is in the StockGuru Spotlight for November 24,
TradingMarkets - 3 Hours ago
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Caleco Pharma Corp. Provides Update on Delivery Of Sample Formulations by Cosmetic BioSpace

Stockguru.com: Dolat Ventures Inc. is in the StockGuru Spotlight for November 23, Individual.com

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CHMP issues negative opinion on Antigenics's MAA for kidney cancer drug Oncophage
PharmaBiz - 2 Hours ago
Antigenics Inc. announced that the Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP), the scientific committee of the European Medicines Agency (EMEA), has formally adopted a negative opinion on the Add Comment

Biological sciences

Chameleon species discovered in snake's mouth
Telegraph - 6 Hours ago
A new species of chameleon was discovered in an African forest living in the mouth of a snake. The tiny lizard came out of the mouth of a twig snake disturbed by Dr Andrew Marshall in Tanzania's Magombera

New species of chameleon discovered... after snake coughs one up in front of scientist Mail Online UK

New species of chameleon discovered in Tanzania Africa Leader

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Intersex fish in Potomac remains mystery
Washington Post - 13 Hours ago
In 2003, scientists discovered something startling in the Potomac, from which at least 3 million Washington area residents get their drinking water: Male fish were growing eggs. But six years later, a

Fish deaths remain mystery Witney Gazette

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Drug-resistant bacteria on increase in US
Times Live South Africa - 5 Hours ago
They found two new strains of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus MRSA for short were circulating in patients and they are different from the strains normally seen in hospitals. Ramanan Laxminarayan Add Comment

Prokaryotic transcriptomics: a new view on regulation, physiology and pathogenicity
Nature Reviews Genetics - 5 Hours ago
Nature Reviews Genetics. doi:10.1038/nrg2695 Authors: Rotem Sorek & Pascale Cossart Add Comment

Maize genome mapped - Premium content
Nature - 13 Hours ago
Hat off to these people working hard on the maize genome sequencing project. This is a great achievement. While the communities are celebrating this breakthrough, Science, Nature, and NSF should investigate Add Comment

Thermo Fisher Scientific (TMO) Introduces New Magnetic Particle Processor Software
BioSpace - 7 Hours ago
MILFORD, Mass. (23rd November 2009) - Inc., the world leader in serving science, today announced the new Thermo Scientific BindIt 3.1 software for use with all Thermo Scientific KingFisher magnetic particle

Thermo Fisher Scientific Introduces New Magnetic Particle Processor Software Select Science

Thermo fisher scientific reaches 50th-issue milestone of mass spectrometry e-newsletter Environmental Expert

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