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> A University of Maryland lab where some of the state's biggest names in biotechnology have developed early-stage drug candidates and other biologics is about to double in size and add staff. News
> Cannabis Science is pleased to announce that the company is currently raising working capital in the European market and pursuing listings on the Frankfurt and other major European exchanges. Cannabis release
> Testosterone booster Acrux this week stormed into the black for the first time, announcing a net profit of $46.6 million after earlier in the year signing one of the biggest ever multinational licensing deals for an Australian biotech. News
> Forest Laboratories and Gedeon Richter said Monday their potential bipolar depression treatment cariprazine did non meet key goals in a midstage study. Report
> Sanofi-Aventis experimental oral medicine teriflunomide significantly reduced the relapse rate in multiple sclerosis patients, meeting the goal of a late- stage study. News
> Bionor Pharma has reported preliminary findings of its Phase II trial that served to re-immunize, or "re-vaccinate" twenty five study volunteers from its original Phase IIa study conducted in 2002/2003. Previously, at the XVIII International AIDS Conference in Vienna in July 2010, the Company reported that about half of the study volunteers retained memory to Vacc-4x seven years after their initial immunization. Bionor Pharma researchers now report that this memory can be safely reactivated following re-immunization/re-vaccination resulting in improved anti-viral responses. Bionor release
And Finally... Adelaide biotech Bionomics has presented the results of preclinical and clinical data for its anti-anxiety compound BNC210, demonstrating that the drug is more effective in treating stressed rats than the current market leader valium (Diazapem). Story