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<title><![CDATA[iiBIG: Strategic Buyers, Investment Groups Vie for Opportunities in Managed Care, More at iiBIG Forum]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[NEW YORK, NY (MARKET WIRE)  iiBIG presents the Investment and M&A Opportunities in Managed Care conference, scheduled for November 17-18, 2008 in New York City. &nbsp; <a href='http://www.feedzilla.com/'>Free RSS news feeds on Feedzilla</a>]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jul 2008 16:32:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Green Mountain Development Corp: GMND Issues Term Sheet for Acquisition of EcoCover California, Inc.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[CARLSBAD, CA (MARKET WIRE)  Robert Brehm, CEO of Green Mountain Development Corp (PINKSHEETS: GMND), an incubator of green technology companies, announced today that the company has issued a term sheet for the merger/acquisition of Ecocover California, Inc. (ECI), a startup manufacturing company of organic mulch products manufactured from recycled waste paper for agricultural, landscaping, horticultural and land management use. &nbsp; <a href='http://www.feedzilla.com/'>Free news widgets on Feedzilla</a>]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jul 2008 15:23:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Takeda President: Japan Biotech Indus Growth Potential Limited]]></title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jul 2008 06:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Emergent BioSolutions partners with University of Oxford]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Emergent BioSolutions Inc. has partnered with the University of Oxford to develop a new tuberculosis vaccine expected to enter the second phase of clinical trials next year. (EBS) &nbsp; <a href='http://www.feedzilla.com/'>Free RSS news feeds on Feedzilla</a>]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jul 2008 15:03:36 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Advanced Cancer Therapeutics licenses technology to develop HPV vaccine]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Advanced Cancer Therapeutics has reached two collaborative agreements to bring a vaccine for the human papillomavirus to market. &nbsp; <a href='http://www.feedzilla.com/'>Free content on Feedzilla</a>]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jul 2008 14:26:42 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Biogen Idec And Elan Celebrate Second Anniversary Of TysabriŽ For The Treatment Of Multiple Sclerosis]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[TYSABRI's Benefits Continue to Drive Product's Growth with More Than 31,800 Patients Receiving Treatment -   -  Cambridge, MA and Dublin, Ireland - July  2008 - Biogen Idec (NASDAQ: BIIB) and Elan Corpora... [WebWire - Wednesday, July 23, 2008] &nbsp; <a href='http://www.feedzilla.com/'>Free content on Feedzilla</a>]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jul 2008 06:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Jazz Pharmaceuticals Announces Closing Of Registered Direct Offering]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[PALO ALTO, Calif., July  -- Jazz Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Nasdaq: JAZZ) announced today that it has completed the previously announced registered direct offering of 3,848,289 units (the ''Units''), with e... [WebWire - Tuesday, July 22, 2008] &nbsp; <a href='http://www.feedzilla.com/'>Free news widgets on Feedzilla</a>]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jul 2008 06:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Bioinformatics Pioneer Will Lead New Initiatives at Emory University]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Joel H. Saltz, MD, PhD, a pioneer in the fields of high-performance computing and biomedical informatics, will join Emory University's Woodruff Health Sciences Center in September as director of the C... [WebWire - Monday, July 21, 2008] &nbsp; <a href='http://www.feedzilla.com/'>Free content on Feedzilla</a>]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jul 2008 06:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[When is a Startup No Longer a Startup?]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Yesterdays news that pharmaceutical-maker Roche is bidding to increase on it's already majority share of San Francisco-based Genentech leads me to wonder at what point do we stop calling a... &nbsp; <a href='http://www.feedzilla.com/'>Free content on Feedzilla</a>]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jul 2008 06:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Oil Giants Investing in Ethanol]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[I was surprised to learn this week that oil giant Royal Dutch Shell owns 50% of one of North America's leaders in biofuel technology. The company owns half of Iogen... &nbsp; <a href='http://www.feedzilla.com/'>Free RSS news feeds on Feedzilla</a>]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jul 2008 06:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Is Preemption Good For Patients?]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[There's a buzz in my inbox this week, about the FDA preemption issue, mainly because, as we draw nearer to the court's decision on Wyeth v. Levine people are beginning... &nbsp; <a href='http://www.feedzilla.com/'>Free news widgets on Feedzilla</a>]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jul 2008 06:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Sound Pharmaceuticals Receives Additional DoD Funding for Its Hearing Regeneration Product]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[[NEWS]  SEATTLE, July 21 /PRNewswire/ &#8212; Sound Pharmaceuticals (SPI) has received an R&amp;D contract award from the ONR for approximately $1.6 million to optimize its lead drug candidate for hearing regeneration. SPI has developed a proprietary technology for regenerating auditory sensory cells within the inner ear of mammals involving p27Kip1, a cyclin dependent kinase inhibitor or CKI. CKIs shut down cell division or proliferation in many developing cells and tissues and are often expressed in adult organs to&#8230; &nbsp; <a href='http://www.feedzilla.com/'>Free RSS news feeds on Feedzilla</a>]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 21 Jul 2008 10:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Precancerous Esophagus Disease Eliminated in 98.4% of Patients Treated With HALO Ablation System]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[[NEWS]  Long-term study confirms treatment could help 3.3 million U.S. sufferers      SUNNYVALE, Calif., July 21 /PRNewswire/ &#8212; BARRX Medical, Inc. today announced that 98.4 percent of patients having a precancerous condition of their esophagus called Barrett&#8217;s esophagus were free of the disease 2.5 years after non-surgical, endoscopic treatment with the HALO ablation system. The results were published this month in Gastrointestinal Endoscopy, a leading scientific publication for gastrointestinal physicians&#8230; &nbsp; <a href='http://www.feedzilla.com/'>Free news widgets on Feedzilla</a>]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 21 Jul 2008 04:01:00 -0400</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[BMP Sunstone Signs Letter of Intent to Acquire Shengda Pharmaceutical Co.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[[NEWS]  Proposed Acquisition to Strengthen Existing Therapeutic Focus Through                     Extending the Good Baby Product Line      PLYMOUTH MEETING, Pa., July 18 /Xinhua-PRNewswire-FirstCall/ &#8212; BMP Sunstone Corporation (Nasdaq: BJGP; &#8220;BMP Sunstone&#8221;; the &#8220;Company&#8221;) today announced that its wholly-owned subsidiary, Sunstone (Tangshan) Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. (&#8220;Sunstone&#8221;) has signed a non-binding letter of intent to acquire 75 percent of Zhangjiakou Shengda Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd (&#8220;Shengda&#8221;), Zhang&#8230; &nbsp; <a href='http://www.feedzilla.com/'>Free RSS news feeds on Feedzilla</a>]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jul 2008 13:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Trevigen Announces the First Standardized Comet Assay Electrophoresis System (ES) for Direct Detection of DNA Damage]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Trevigen, with funding from Phase 1 and Phase II SBIR grants, makes available a novel complete assay system which includes CometSlides , reagents, control cells and an electrophoresis unit. &nbsp; <a href='http://www.feedzilla.com/'>Free content on Feedzilla</a>]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sun, 13 Jul 2008 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Gary F. Reeves Honored by Cambridge Who's Who for Excellence in Laboratory Management]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Mr. Reeves is responsible for marketing, coordinating sales and providing laboratory testing services to both the correctional care and physician markets. &nbsp; <a href='http://www.feedzilla.com/'>Free RSS news feeds on Feedzilla</a>]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 12 Jul 2008 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Chilean Marine Megabacteria Could be the solution to Energy Crisis. ''If we find in Chile bacteria that can produce hydrogen, for example, they could be used as the gasoline we use now and it would be a very important contribution''.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[For the time being, the potential of the bacteria found in Chile is unknown, and are currently being tested in the United States. Gallardo has worked with Craig Venter (known worldwide for the Human Genome Project) &nbsp; <a href='http://www.feedzilla.com/'>Free news widgets on Feedzilla</a>]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 12 Jul 2008 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Monkeys control robotic arm with brain-machine interface]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Researchers report in Nature that that tiny sensors implanted in the brains of two monkeys allow primates to control a robotic arm with just their thoughts. &nbsp; <a href='http://www.feedzilla.com/'>Free content on Feedzilla</a>]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 28 May 2008 11:12:53 EDT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[British MPs keep path open for animal-human embryos]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[The House of Commons voted down an amendment to the Human Embryology and Fertilisation Bill that would have banned the embryos.  An amendment to ban ''savior siblings'' also went down. &nbsp; <a href='http://www.feedzilla.com/'>Free content on Feedzilla</a>]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 19 May 2008 10:03:46 EDT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Gene therapy shows promise for neurological condition]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Researchers report in the journal Human Gene Therapy that injections of adenovirus carrying corrected forms of a gene associated with Batten's Disease have slowed the progression of the condition.  The researchers say the results provide hope that gene therapy could be used to treat other neurological diseases. &nbsp; <a href='http://www.feedzilla.com/'>Free content on Feedzilla</a>]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 15 May 2008 09:31:46 EDT</pubDate>
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