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Volume 8 - Number 34 | August 19, 2008

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In This Week's Issue

Alnylam Says Liver Cancer Drug Is Its First Systemic Candidate; Delivery Question Lingers

Expanding Suit, Nucleonics Co-Founders Say Chairman Sabotaged Their Employment Efforts

IDT Team Reports Chemical Modifications for Dicer-Substrates, Firm to Market as Evader

USPTO Publishes Eight RNAi-Related Patent Applications

Tekmira Pharmaceuticals, Bristol-Myers Squibb, MDRNA, Rosetta Genomics, MD Anderson Cancer Center, Benitec

Craig Mello, Marc Feldman, Ravinder Maini

Features
Febit Eyes Sequence-Capture Market With TGen Alliance; Plans Tool Launch in ‘09
It is the second time in as many years that Febit has looked to pair its array technology with second-generation sequencers. Last year, the firm joined with Prognosys Biosciences to offer a microbial genome-to-array service. Febit’s move into the nascent market for selective DNA capture also coincides with similar moves from Roche NimbleGen and Agilent Technologies.

Almac Says It’s on Schedule to Launch Colorectal, Lung Cancer Tests in ’09, ’10
The tests run on Affymetrix’s GeneChip platform to identify gene-expression signatures linked to colorectal cancer recurrence and early-stage lung cancer. A third test, for early-stage breast cancer detection, is also under development, though no launch date has been set.

CombiMatrix ‘Adequately Financed’ As It Awaits $36M Judgment, CEO Says
CEO Amit Kumar said CombiMatrix has “cash enough to get us through several quarters” and he is aware that “one of the concerns that customers … corporate partners, and others have is with our limited capital.” CombiMatrix also said second-quarter revenues jumped 55 percent on a 421-percent surge in diagnostic services revenue.

Patent Watch
High Throughput Genomics, NGK Insulators


BioArray Briefs
Nanogen, Elitech Group, Agilent Technologies, Illumina, Isogen Biosolutions, Ocimum Biosolutions, BioForce Nanosciences, Aspera


New Product Watch
Asuragen


People in the News
Daryl Faulkner, Bruce Huebner, Alan Guttmacher, Francis Collins


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