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Spectrum Pharmaceuticals has sold its abbreviated new drug applications for its injectable generic drugs, ondansetron, carboplatin, fludarabine, and mitoxantrone, to Sagent Pharmaceuticals
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Merck and Schering-Plough have jointly released the results of ENHANCE, an imaging trial in 720 patients with heterozygous familial hypercholesterolemia (HeFH)
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| | |  You are reading the most authoritative and influential source of information for lifesciences industry. BioSpectrum Asia is uniquely positioned as a specialized business-to-business information platform for life science articles in the Asia Pacific region. Updated every morning it brings to you comprehensive coverage and useful insights in the exciting areas of pharmaceuticals, biotech and medical devices.  | | | | |  |  |  |  |  |
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IT drives lifesciences
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| IT has made inroads into the hitherto closed lifesciences sector and now is making its presence felt. |
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Covance elects Mr Joseph Scodari to Board of Directors
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| Covance, with headquarters in Princeton, New Jersey and a comprehensive drug development services company has elected Mr Joseph C. Scodari to its Board of Directors. He has a distinguished 34-year career as a key leader in the pharmaceutical |
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Over 1200 firms attend API & INTERPHEX China
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| The event attracted over 1200 domestic and oversees enterprises and over 30,000 professional visitors to Dalian, ranked as the 7th top Chinese cities in terms of competitive strength and supportive government authority |
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China Medicine to represent Guangzhou at BIO 2008
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| China Medicine, a distributor and developer of ethical and OTC drugs in China was selected by the Guangzhou Technology Bureau to represent Guangzhou city's biotechnology industry at BIO International Convention |
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R & D |
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Scientists now link microRNA sequences to cancer
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| Invitrogen and BioServe announced that their technologies identified noncoding RNAs that were differentially expressed in healthy and diseased tissue. These micro ribonucleic acid sequences were either up or down |
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PRODUCTS |
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Enterix launches lab-based InSure FIT test
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| Enterix, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Quest Diagnostics and US-based biotechnology company announced the availability of the InSure Quik F I T fecal immunochemical test, a point-of-care version of the company's lab-based InSure FIT |
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