July 3, 2003 Comments Off on Can Your Genomics Work Contribute to Biodefense Posted in: General Biotechnology Can Your Genomics Work Contribute to Biodefense Three years ago, Luis Villarreal, a virologist at the University of California, Irvine, came up with the idea of using in vitro gene activation by PCR to study the proteome of a virus in hopes of developing a high-throughput platform for identifying new vaccines. Villarreal and his collaborators […]
Biogen/Idec: still a matter of size The merger of Biogen and Idec Pharmaceuticals, announced June 23, is likely to help the two relatively isolated companies increase presence in their disease areas. The annual R&D budget for the new pharmaceutical entity, to be called Biogen Idec Inc, will be $500 million, according to company reports.
