Pharma Giant Buys Anadys for $230M Cash - Oct. 17, 2011

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More Industry News •   Sofinnova Ventures Raises $440 Million for Biotech-Only VC Fund More... More Finance News Building Novel Applications with Pipeline Pilot to Drive Next Generation Sequencing This case study shows how scientists are streamlining the process of analyses of DNA sequence information. Enabled by new DNA sequencing technologies, many more scientists and informaticians are interrogating larger and more complex data sets and are expanding the range of problems that can be addressed through sequencing... Request Now! •   Merck & Co., Inc. (MRK) Ditches Bone Drug Deal with Japan Tobacco, Inc. More... •   Marina Biotech, Inc. (Formerly Known as MDRNA, Inc.) Announces a $15 Million Purchase Agreement With Lincoln Park Capital Fund, LLC More... •   Agilent Technologies, Inc. (Santa Clara, California) (A) and Oxford Gene Technology Ltd. Expand Microarray and Sequencing Partnership More... •   GE Healthcare Life Sciences Executes Recombinant Protein License from Affitech A/S More... •   Rapid Micro Biosystems Announces Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA) Exercises Second Year Option Under Three-Year Contract More... More Alliances News •   Sentrx Announces Resignation of Charles T. Saldarini As CEO More... •   Spinal Cord Injury Medical Leader Dr. Edward Wirth Joins InVivo Therapeutics Corporation as Chief Science Officer More... •   Reata Pharmaceuticals, Inc. Adds Executives to Management Team and Board of Directors More... •   Alan Pilgrim is Appointed Chairman of Synexus More... •   ICON-PLC (ICLR) Appoints Colin Stanley President of DOCS More... More Personnel News •   Ariad Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (ARIA) to Webcast Conference Call on Third Quarter 2011 Financial Results More... •   Auxilium Pharmaceuticals (AUXL) to Announce Third Quarter 2011 Results and Conduct Conference Call on Monday, October 31, 2011 More... •   BioClinica, Inc. to Release Third Quarter 2011 Financial Results on November 9, 2011 More... •   Enzo Biochem (ENZ) Reports Record Revenues of $102 Million for Fiscal Year 2011 More... •   FEI Company Announces Date for Earnings Release More... More Earnings Report News •   KV Pharma Sues Former CEO Over $37 Million in Benefits More... More Legal News •   Metabolon and Shanghai Jiao Tong University Open Metabolomics Lab in China More... •   PRC Clinical Announces Expansion of San Francisco Bay Area Offices More... 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