Recent Biotechnology Articles page 8

Daily Telegraph - During the hearing Mr Yates is expected to assert that Sir Christopher's diaries contained evidence seen as vitally important to his investigation. They are thought to refer to alleged conversations between the biotechnology tycoon, who loaned Labour ...

New York Times - BRIAN HARRIS makes a 30 percent annual return on his Roth individual retirement account, but his money is not invested in a soaring biotechnology stock or a hot currency fund. Instead, Mr. Harris, a music teacher from Tucson, owns about 25 marimbas ...

San Francisco Gate - Outside the Bay Area, the report found that Southern California, strong in biotechnology and medical devices, was one of the brightest spots for startups, with $961 million flowing into 78 deals for that region's "greatest quarterly deal volume since ...

Baltimore Sun - ... Andrey Bundley said he thinks the city could be doing more to get Baltimore residents involved in major construction projects like the one set to bring 1,100 new homes to the Uplands community in Southwest Baltimore, or the $800 million biotechnology ...

Wall Street Journal - Consider Carl Icahn, who has targeted companies in industries as diverse as media and biotechnology. Admitting that he was plunging into the unknown, the billionaire investor recently snapped up shares of software maker BEA Systems Inc. and challenged ...

Boston Globe - It looked like a done deal the day it was announced. At an international biotechnology conference in South Boston last May, Governor Deval Patrick proposed investing more than $1 billion in the industry, a colossal initiative intended to secure the ...

Boston Globe - Peter Abair, director of economic development for the Massachusetts Biotechnology Council, described Project Magellan as a 700,000-square-foot biotech manufacturing plant that would have cost $500 million and potentially have created 400 jobs ...

Boston Globe - But while software and biotechnology remained the top two sectors for venture financing, both attracted fewer dollars in the third quarter than in the previous quarter. That shortfall was offset by gains in clean energy, Internet, and media and ...

Seattle Times - Shrugging off credit-related economic woes, venture capitalists bet heavily on new companies in the third quarter, driven by opportunities in clean technologies, software and biotechnology. But Washington companies didn't attract as much cash as in ...

Miami Herald - Still, it was the third consecutive quarter in which VC funding topped the $7 billion mark. The most lucrative sectors nationally were Internet, software and biotechnology companies, which saw $1.1 billion in deals each. Close behind was the clean ...