This week in biotech was pretty mellow, fellow denizens (and residents) of Slaw.
Health Canada is taking a “relaxed approach" to direct-to-consumer genetics tests, saying that personal test kits are… [more]
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With Fall in the air, this week in biotech was full of change, as Canadian biotech advocates converged on Ottawa and new priorities were the order of the day:
A report… [more]
For those who think "tiff" is a file format for quantitative gel scans, I hardly need to point out that we are in the midst of National Biotechnology Week here in Canada… [more]
Actually, it's this fortnight's biotech highlights as we catch up from the long weekend. Like everything else in this feels like 35° summer, the biotech market freeze is melting a bit.… [more]
This week, as Quebec moved towards paying for in vitro fertilization with the goal of reducing expensive and risky multiple births (which may or may not work), it was hard to… [more]
This week in biotech was the same all over the world. E&Y brought their "Beyond Borders" roadshow to Toronto and walked a crowd at MaRS through a retrospective of 2009's biotech… [more]
Canadian biotech funding came from diverse sources this week.
Even deals that looked traditional, such as Aquinox's $25 million raise, included corporate venture capital funds (in this case J&J and Pfizer). These pharma-backed venture… [more]
This week in biotech, regulators ran amok.
On the plus side, the FDA approved two new drugs this past week, including one — prostate cancer drug Jevtana — months ahead… [more]
This week in biotech, indirect effects were predominant.
The generally poor performance of most recent biotech IPOs has indirectly boosted M&A activity. Only 1 of 8 U.S. biotech IPOs in… [more]
It was a slimming week in the world of biotech.
Orexigen's obesity drug, Contrave, was accepted for FDA review. Contrave joins weight-loss medicines from Arena and Vivus in the FDA hopper.… [more]
This week, a deal far away from home helped bring closer to home one of the challenges facing the biotech industry. Abbott labs bought a unit of India's Piramal healthcare,… [more]
This week in biotech, everyone was taking up a challenge.
Grand Challenges Canada was launched this week to spend $225 million of the Canadian government's money on 5 "grand challenges" over… [more]
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