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Treating Fat with Fat

By Edyta Zielinska | May 1, 2012

Is brown fat ready for therapeutic prime time?

GOING PUBLIC: Gajus Worthington, founder and CEO of Fluidigm, and the rest of the California-based biotech team in Times Square on February, 10, 2011, the day the company went public, raising $75 million.NASDAQ Stock Exchange

Braving the IPO Drought

By Megan Scudellari | March 1, 2012

Despite nervous investors and a volatile market, a courageous few biotechnology companies are taking their chances on Wall Street.

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Bioterrorist Battles

By Fran Hawthorne | January 1, 2012

A Swiss-based firm may have a back-door way to thwart a bioterrorist attack—by fighting the flu.

Pediatrician Sam Pejham uses  the AsthmaMD app to look at a graph of a patient’s lung function. Copyright Salim Madjd 2011 for AsthmaMD

New Tech Boosts Science

By Tia Ghose | October 1, 2011

From iPhone apps to cloud computing, everyday digital technologies are helping advance drug discovery, conduct clinical trials, and improve medical care.

Researchers at the Basel, Switzerland, branch of the Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research develop therapies for rare diseases, then work to extend those treatments to more common ailments.Courtesy of Novartis

Make Mine Rare

By Megan Scudellari | August 1, 2011

With mounting interest from biotechs, Big Pharma, and the federal government, research on rare diseases is burgeoning.

A tuberculosis patient in Cape Town, South Africa, receives a dose of the standard four-drug treatment regimen.Eric Miller (Panos)

Take Two of These

By Bob Grant | May 27, 2011

Drugmakers are teaming up to test the disease-fighting power of combination therapies earlier in the development cycle than ever before.

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Teaching an Old Drug New Tricks

By Megan Scudellari | April 1, 2011

Biotech companies hope to turn the practice of finding novel uses for existing compounds into big business.

Genetically modified soybean plants in a petri dish Bayer Cropscience AG

Alternative Agriculture

By Vanessa Schipani | February 1, 2011

The debate over genetically engineered crops rages on, but other technologies offer new hope for sustainable farming.

Victoria Hale, founder of the Institute of OneWorld Health, the first nonprofit pharmaceutical company in the US POPTECH

The Profits of Nonprofit

By Megan Scudellari | January 1, 2011

The surprising results when drug development and altruism collide