> After laboring for 10 long years, Eli Lilly says it's wrapped a massive, $1 billion expansion program for its new research hub. Release | Report
> Revance Therapeutics says it has rounded up $8 million in its Series C. Report
> In its quarterly report SGX Pharmaceuticals says that it discontinued an early-stage program for SGX523 after seeing unexpected toxicity in the data. Release
> Hopes that painkillers might help stave off Alzheimer's disease were dampened by a large new study. Report
> Sidney Wolfe, M.D., of the consumer group Public Citizen, will be "temporary voting member" of the FDA's advisory committee. Report
> That little legal argument known as preemption is back in the news. Report
> Vaptans are a new class of drug that target a wide variety of conditions by inhibiting vasopressin, which regulates the circulatory system. Report
> Stem cell researchers at Cornell have genetically engineered a human embryo, a pioneering development that was immediately condemned as a big step toward designing babies. Report
And Finally… Imagine employing a legion of gaming fanatics to channel their obsession into finding solutions to some of the thorniest problems in protein chemistry. That's what biochemist David Baker and a small group of colleagues did in creating Foldit, which challenges gamers to see if they can improve the 3-D structures of proteins. Report