Biogen May Pay $271M for 2nd Isis Pact; BioInvent Cuts Jobs - June 29, 2012

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(Massachusetts) (BIIB) May Pay $271 Million for 2nd Isis Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (ISIS) Pact More... •  BioInvent (BOVNF) Cuts Jobs More... •  FDA Approves Astellas Pharma Inc. (YPH.BE) Drug for Leaky Bladder More... •  FDA Sends Closeout Letter to Cephazone More... •  Redx Pharma to Create 119 New Jobs in Liverpool More... •  GlaxoSmithKline (GSK), UCB, Inc. (UCBJF.PK) and Eisai Inc. (ESALF.PK) in Unique National Health Service Joint Working Pact More... •  FDA Approves Actelion Pharmaceuticals US, Inc. (ATLN.VX)'s SNDA for Second Generation VELETRI for Injection More... •  Roche (RHHBY) Wooed by States That Want Its New East Coast R&D Center More... More Top News Fast and Simple RNA Sequencing by Invitrogen The Ion PGM™ Sequencer puts RNA-Seq within reach of any lab, providing a fast, affordable, easy-to-use system for expression analysis of miRNA and mRNA. 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