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Illumina Board Rejects Roche's $5.7B Buyout Offer

Feb 8 | News

SAN DIEGO (AP) — Diagnostics company Illumina Inc. again rejected a $5.7 billion offer from Roche AG on Tuesday, saying the Swiss drugmaker's bid was "grossly inadequate."

Studies: Avastin May Fight Early Breast Cancers

Jan 26 | News

Surprising results from two new studies may reopen debate about the value of Avastin for breast cancer. The drug helped make tumors disappear in certain women with early-stage disease, researchers found.

Roche Makes $5.7B Hostile Bid for Diagnostic Company Illumina

Jan 25 | News

Roche has offered to acquire all outstanding shares of Illumina for $44.50 per share in cash, or approximately $5.7 billion, to strengthen its position in the diagnostics field.

2012 Facility of the Year Awards Winners Announced

Jan 25 | News

The Facility of the Year Awards Judging Panel has named five Category Award Winners and selected one project for Special Recognition in the 2012 Facility of the Year Awards (FOYA) program.

Constellation Pharmaceuticals and Genentech Enter Broad Epigenetics Drug Discovery Collaboration

Jan 17 | News

Constellation Pharmaceuticals, Inc., today announced that it has entered into a major strategic agreement with Genentech, a member of the Roche Group, to launch a broad collaboration based on the science of epigenetics and chromatin biology to discover and develop innovative treatments for cancer and other serious diseases.


Roche's Sequence Capture Technology Used to Identify SMPX Mutations Underlying Human Hereditary Hearing Loss

Jan 14 | News

Hereditary hearing loss is the most common sensory disorder in humans. A German research team led by Ingo Kurth from the Institute of Human Genetics at the University Hospital Jena, Germany, used a number of different methods, including Roche's NimbleGen Custom Sequence Capture 385K...

Xenon to Collaborate with Genentech on Discovery of Novel Targeted Pain Therapeutics

Jan 9 | News

Xenon today announced a strategic alliance with Genentech, a member of the Roche Group, to discover and develop compounds and companion diagnostics for the potential treatment of pain.

Roche NimbleGen and BGI Develop Advanced MHC Region Capture Technology for Human Disease and Biomedical Research

Dec 9 2011 | News

Roche NimbleGen, Inc. and BGI, the world’s largest genomic organization, announced that they have developed a Major Histocompatibility Complex (MHC) region capture technology based on NimbleGen SeqCap EZ Choice Library, a revolutionary process for the enrichment of the MHC region....

Roche signs agreement with PTC Therapeutics to advance treatment for Spinal Muscular Atrophy (SMA)

Dec 9 2011 | News

Collaboration offers new hope for a potential treatment for the leading genetic cause of death in infants and toddlers

Roche establishes external Academic Translational Centre in Zurich

Dec 9 2011 | News

Roche, together with ETH Zurich (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich), the University of Zurich (UZH) and the University Hospital Zurich (USZ) announced today the formation of an external academic translational research hub in Zurich.

Blogs

When Is Software The Answer To Regulatory Concerns About Your Investigations?

When Is Software The Answer To Regulatory Concerns About Your Investigations?

Jan 30 | John Ager, Technical Consultant, Life Science, Kepner-Tregoe, Inc

Document management software enables investigators to present the information used to reach conclusions clearly and concisely and it helps reviewers to track and approve investigations.

The Benefits of Professional Project Management

The Benefits of Professional Project Management

Jan 13 | Thorsten Vammen, Director at GEA Liquid Processing in Skanderborg, Denmark

Some companies feel that they can project manage new processing facilities themselves, bringing in sub-contracted help only when it’s needed. Self-managing is possible, but there may be a better way.

Multimedia

Battle over Birth Control

Battle over Birth Control

Feb 9 | Video

CNN’s The Situation Room discusses the current dispute over health care coverage for contraception. Will there be a contraception compromise?

Government Seeking $1T Campaign Against Alzheimer's

Government Seeking $1T Campaign Against Alzheimer's

Jan 18 | Video

Government advisors tried to set priorities for a national campaign to treat and manage Alzheimer's disease, which is projected to cost more than a trillion dollars in care by 2050. But as Dr. Jon LaPook reports, the plan does not include any funding.

ADHD Drugs in Short Supply

ADHD Drugs in Short Supply

Jan 11 | Video

Parents of children with attention deficit disorders are forced to travel from pharmacy to pharmacy in search of prescription medicines with no guarantees they will be available.

Study: Link Between Statins And Diabetes

Study: Link Between Statins And Diabetes

Jan 10 | Video

A recent study reveals that women who take statins may have a greate chance of developing diabetes.

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