Science/ Research News

Anacor Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ:ANAC) announced today that David Perry, the company’s Chief Executive Officer, will provide a company overview at Deutsche Bank’s 38th Annual Healthcare Conference on Thursday, May 30, 2013 at 2:10 p.m. ET in Boston, Massachusetts. The event ... read more

Cubist Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NASDAQ: CBST) today announced that Mike Bonney, Cubist’s CEO, will present at Jefferies 2013 Global Healthcare Conference on Monday, June 3, to discuss the company’s business activities, financial outlook, and current news. ... read more

RTI Biologics Inc. (RTI) (Nasdaq:RTIX), a leading provider of orthopedic and other biologic implants, is pleased to announce that the company has passed the five million mark in distributing implants sterilized through its patented, validated tissue sterilization processes, BioCleanse®, Tutoplast® ... read more

UNIBEST International, a Washington based agriculture technology company, has developed a resin capsule technology for soil and water analysis in agricultural, turf care, and home and garden environments. This new resin technology has been paired with other agronomic technology at WinField, a Land O’Lakes company, to ... read more

Kona Medical announced that three and six month results from the WAVE I study were presented today at the late-breaking clinical trials session of EuroPCR in Paris by Robert Whitbourn, MD, of St. Vincent’s Hospital in Melbourne, Australia. WAVE I is a first-in-man study evaluating the ... read more

Senior Scientific, LLC, a unit of Manhattan Scientifics (OTCQB: MHTX) and a developer of molecular imaging and nanobiotechnology for the early detection and localization of cancer and other human diseases, today announced that the United States Patent Office (USPTO) has issued U.S. Patent No. 8,447,379 entitled ... read more

Students, staff and researchers at college campuses throughout the nation, and participating institutions through regional, national and global research and education partner networks will benefit from a faster and more secure connection, thanks to a new peering arrangement between Microsoft Corp. and Internet2, the nation’s premier ... read more

Baxter International Inc. (NYSE: BAX) announced today that it will present at the Goldman Sachs 34th Annual Global Healthcare Conference on Tuesday, June 11, 2013 at 4:40 p.m. (CT). The live webcast of Baxter’s presentation can be accessed from the ... read more

Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. (NYSE: TMO), the world leader in serving science, today announced that its board of directors has declared a quarterly cash dividend of $0.15 per share. The dividend will be paid on July 15, 2013, to shareholders of record as of June 17, 2013. ... read more

Biogen Idec (NASDAQ:BIIB) today announced that Spyros Artavanis-Tsakonas, Ph.D., has been named the company’s Chief Scientific Officer (CSO). Dr. Artavanis-Tsakonas had served as interim CSO while on sabbatical from Harvard Medical School. He will now continue in this role in a permanent ... read more

Servier, a privately-run French research-based pharmaceutical company and a major player in Europe and emerging markets having expertise in the development of treatments for cardiovascular diseases, and miRagen Therapeutics, Inc., a biopharmaceutical company developing innovative microRNA-based therapeutics, announced today that Servier has elected to ... read more

WibiData, a pioneer developing and servicing Big Data Applications, announced today it has raised $15 million in a Series B funding round led by Canaan Partners with participation from existing investors like NEA and Google Chairman Eric Schmidt. This investment demonstrates a shift in the Big ... read more

St. Jude Medical, Inc. (NYSE:STJ), a global medical device company, today announced that the company’s EnligHTN™ Multi-Electrode Renal Denervation System provides a safe, rapid and sustained reduction in blood pressure measurements after one year. The new one year study data from the EnligHTN I trial was ... read more

Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE: A), the Glyco-MEV laboratory at the University of Rouen, in France, and the Bioprocessing Technology Institute at the Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR), in Singapore, have signed a memorandum of understanding to work together in order to develop tools to ... read more

LABS, Inc., an FDA-registered laboratory nationally recognized for its expertise in providing donor eligibility testing for solid organ and bone marrow transplants, and regulated testing on human cells, tissues, and cellular and tissue-based products (HCT/Ps), announced today that Sara ... read more

GE Global Research, the technology development arm of the General Electric Co. (NYSE: GE) today announced that it has won a prestigious Manufacturing Leadership 100 award in recognition of its work to build a new, cloud-based, software platform that enables a global community of experts to ... read more

Square 1 Bank, the premier banking partner to entrepreneurs and the venture capital community, announced today it has provided a term loan and revolving line of credit to new client Advanced Liquid Logic, Inc., a life science technology company providing unique workflow solutions to laboratories and ... read more

Navidea Biopharmaceuticals, Inc. (NYSE MKT: NAVB), a biopharmaceutical company focused on precision diagnostic radiopharmaceuticals, today announced that data from its Lymphoseek® (technetium Tc 99m tilmanocept) Injection studies in patients with breast cancer, melanoma or head and neck cancer are being presented at the Joint International ... read more

Partek Incorporated is pleased to announce that in collaboration with the Kennedy Krieger Institute it has been awarded $1.8M by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to develop commercial software to analyze human genetic changes that will illuminate chromosomal abnormalities ... read more

Syros Pharmaceuticals, a newly launched company harnessing breakthroughs in gene control to revolutionize the treatment of cancer and other diseases, announced today that Eric R. Olson, Ph.D., has joined the company as its Chief Scientific Officer. Dr. Olson has over ... read more