The biotech segment has been growing well surpassing all expectations until Monday when shares slipped significantly. The NASDAQ Biotechnology Index ^NBI and NYSE ARCA BIOTECH INDEX ^BTK had gained 16.7% and 18.7%, respectively, til Apr 24 but both declined more than 4% on Monday after disappointing news from several biotech companies.Just when news of several mergers & acquisitions, product approvals […]
Source: Flickr user Simon & His Camera .Love is in the air. At least it is for three of our top Motley Fool healthcare contributors. Each has a crush on a different biotech stock darling, and they all find their pick attractive for different reasons. Read on to learn which biotech companies have caught the fancy of these three contributors, […]
Judging from the atmosphere at last week’s JP Morgan Healthcare conference in San Francisco – which industry veteran and long-time participant Henri Termeer described as the “most optimistic” he had every experienced – the industry’s well-documented problems are clearly behind us. After a decade in the doldrums, the biotech market is on a bull run stretching back more than a […]
Once again, deals and collaborations made news in the biotech sector with BioMarin (BMRN – Analyst Report) announcing its intention to acquire Prosensa (RNA – Snapshot Report) and Five Prime Therapeutics (FPRX – Snapshot Report) signing a second immuno-oncology focused deal with Bristol-Myers Squibb.Meanwhile, AbbVie (ABBV – Analyst Report) continues to progress with its hepatitis C virus (HCV) treatment with […]
Researchers at the University of Liverpool’s Institute of Infection and Global Health are building the world’s most comprehensive database describing human and animal pathogens, which can be used to prevent and tackle disease outbreaks around the globe.
The Enhanced Infectious Diseases (EID2) database has been developed by the Liverpool University Climate and Infectious Diseases of Animals (LUCINDA) team and is funded […]
Saul BrombergerBioinformatics expert Atul Butte leads a panel discussion on the diverse sources of data at the Big Data in Biomedicine Conference on the Stanford campus.Massive, ongoing advances in computational processing power and interconnectedness are already changing the way medical research is done. But even more-disruptive outcomes — including changes in the very practice of medicine at the day-to-day clinical […]
By Aaron Krol May 14, 2014 | More than a hundred companies set up booths at the 2014 Bio-IT World Conference & Expo to demonstrate their products, but it seems safe to say only one of them
could claim the Miami Heat as a customer.Ayasdi, whose eclectic client base also includes Merck, General
Electric, Citigroup, and the U.S. Department of Agriculture, […]
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