Roche Digs in for Long Fight for Illumina - Feb. 8, 2012

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Wednesday, February 08, 2012  |   |   |   |  Scottish Development International: The home of whisky and the bionic hand, we're the toast of the scientific community. Independent analysis shows that Scotland is a high quality, cost effective location to establish your business project. Enter your details to access our FREE Financial Times benchmarking reports on a range of industries that demonstrate Scotland's competitiveness. •   Roche (RHHBY) Digs in for Long Fight for Illumina, Inc. (ILMN) More... •   TrovaGene, Inc. Closes Acquisition of CLIA Laboratory Assets More... More Mergers and Acquisitions News •   Nervous GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) Pulls Cash Out of Eurozone to Avoid Crisis More... •   Pressure BioSciences, Inc. (BBII) Closes $800,000 Private Placement 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. 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Founder Passes Away More... •   Jürgen Frisch Appointed Chief Medical Officer of European Operations at Clinipace Worldwide More... •   Formula Pharmaceuticals Appoints Dr. Wolfgang Oster as Chairman, Board of Directors More... •   Ambit Biosciences Appoints Athena Countouriotis as Chief Medical Officer More... •   Lance Berman, M.D. Joins Relypsa, Inc. as Senior Vice President, Commercial Strategy & Medical Affairs More... More Personnel News •   Sanofi (France) (SAN.PA) Profit Faces 15 Percent Hit from Cheap Drug Copies More... •   AVANIR Pharmaceuticals (AVNR) Reports Fiscal 2012 First Quarter Financial and Business Results More... •   Amicus Therapeutics, Inc. (FOLD) to Announce Fourth Quarter and Full-Year 2011 Financial Results on February 13, 2012 More... •   Codexis, Inc. (CDXS) Reports Fourth Quarter and Full Year 2011 Results More... •   Curis, Inc. (CRIS) Reports Fourth Quarter and Year-End 2011 Financial Results More... 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