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Volume 8 - Number 20 | May 13, 2008

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In This Week's Issue

MicroRNA Drugs Startup Miragen Nears Close of Series A, Begins Defining Pipeline

Nastech Confirms Change in Focus While Alnylam Addresses Partnering Concerns

Harvard’s Carl Novina Discusses Function Of microRNA and Their Role in Cancer

USPTO Publishes One Patent, Four Patent Applications Related to RNAi

Isis Pharmaceuticals, Novosome, Calando Pharmaceuticals

Asuragen, Oxford Gene Technology

Thomas Haag, Mark Tilley, James Hamilton, Robert Brown

Features
Tecan, MDS Debut Next-Gen Scanners To Keep Up With High-Density Chips
For both companies, the introduction of the new scanners heralds a renewed period of competition in the market for flexible, sensitive, and affordable scanners after years of selling well-established systems.

Arrayjet Launches Ultra-Marathon System to Take Advantage of Spotting ‘Renaissance’
The debut comes a week after the company released its Array Multiplier software to allow users to print multi-pad or mini-arrays, and coincides with a season of structural expansion at Arrayjet, which aims to increase headcount, move into larger facilities, and ink more distribution deals before the year is out.

Lab Report
Applied Microarrays CEO Discusses Future Of Codelink, Including Tapping New Markets
According to Alastair Malcolm, AMI is trying to take advantage of the technical capabilities developed and improved under Codelink’s previous owners GE Healthcare, Amersham, and Motorola, to reach markets that those owners never addressed.

Patent Watch
Wyeth, Agilent Technologies

BioArray Briefs
Almac Diagnostics, Biogen-Idec, Affymetrix, University of Utah, Vanderbilt University, LineaGen, Nanogen, Applera, Celera, Applied Biosystems, Gentel Biosciences, PriTest, Lumera, Plexera Bioscience, Fluidigm, AME Bioscience, Stanford University School of Medicine, Pathwork Diagnostics

New Product Watch
Oxford Gene Technology, ExonHit Therapeutics, Asper Biotech

People in the News
Jai Nagarkatti, David Harvey, Lee McCollum, Avi Nash, Steven Paul, Pedro Reinhard, Timothy Sear, Dean Spatz, Barrett Toan, Rebecca Bergman, William O’Neill, Mimi Torrington, David Norwood, Riccardo Pigliucci, Trevor Nicholls, Hagan Bayley


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