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> Dental laser maker Biolase ($BIOL) has landed a $35 million private placement with a group of investors, including Oracle ($ORCL) affiliate Oracle Partners. More

> Baylor University has created an app that can detect rare eye cancers in babies by scanning the photos that were taken of them. Report

> Using an fMRI machine, researchers at the national Kapodistrian University of Athens in Greece, counted the number of parallel processes running in the brain. Story

Biotech News

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> Threshold shares surge as PhIII cancer program enters FDA's fast track. News

> AbbVie vies for the hep C spotlight on the eve of its Gilead battle. More

Pharma News

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> Take as directed? U.K. health service teams with academics, pharmacy on drug adherence. News

> Merck's head-to-head Vytorin trial might be surprisingly flattering. More

Biotech Research News

> Small human study will test a new approach to fighting diabetes. More

> Research team points to Sestrin 3 as a potential new target in diabetes. Article

> Harvard investigators prep an animal study of CRISPR Cas tech for HIV. Story

> Swiss team at ETH spotlights potential of a new antibiotic found in nature. More

> Genentech R&D team fixes a flawed approach to Alzheimer's. Report

Pharma Manufacturing News

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> Dr. Reddy's, Endo benefit from Ranbaxy manufacturing shortfalls. Item

> Plant power outage zaps the juice from AMRI's earnings. More

> Dendreon, done in by expensive, complex manufacturing, files for bankruptcy. Story

> Fresenius expansion plans in Russia sidelined by political turmoil. Article