focus they developed and produced new drugs while the majority of their competitors only developed new drugs in collaboration with major pharmaceutical companies for producing and distributing the new drugs. Definitely Genzyme has set an example in biotech industry of handling the entire business of producing and distributing drugs but this is a risky and challenging target to sustain. Genzyme decided to walk alone because they thought collaboration would distract them from their strategic direction
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ALS Research Paper ALS is a disease that prevents muscles to work by attacking the nerve cells. Patients that have ALS live for about 2 to 5 years after they get diagnosed; 8% of ALS patients survived for more than 10 years. This disease can strike anyone‚ but is not contagious. 10% of the patients across U.S. that have ALS were inherited. The gene chromosomes’ are 21 neurons that send a message from the brain to the nerves and muscles. The prevention or cause of this disease as not been discovered
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Chromatography lab Purpose: To separate food colorings into their component dyes using paper chromatography. Materials: Chromatography paper‚ Food coloring‚ Ruler‚ Pencil‚ Solvent solution‚ Test tubes‚ Test tube rack. Safety precaution: wear aprons‚ to make sure that you don’t get any of the alcohol on your clothes‚ and if you break a test tube you don’t get glass on you. Procedure: See-attached handout. Results: See chromatography with Audrey’s lab report.
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Early in 1997‚ Genzyme Corporation began negotiations with Geltex Pharmaceuticals in an attempt to launch a joint venture to market Geltex’s first product‚ RenaGel. Geltex was a young biotech research company with only two products in its pipeline‚ and they didn’t have the resources necessary to launch RenaGel on their own. Genzyme‚ on the other hand‚ was a quickly growing company that experienced revenues of $518 million in 1996. They were attracted to the joint venture with Geltex because of the
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Fisheries‚ Quebec National Assembly. 1-30 Foster‚ Scott. (2001). BIOTECanada‚ Canada ’s Voice for Biotechnology. Ottawa Business – Four Perspectives. 1-6 Ho‚ Dr. Mae-Wan. Prof. Cummins‚ J.‚ (2004). Biotech Century Ending? Death Sentence on Cloning. 1-6 Dr. Isaac‚ G.E.‚ (2001). Regulating Biotechnology. A Biotech Bulletin. 9 (7)‚ 1-4 Jones‚ N.L.‚ Kilner‚ J.F.‚ (2004). Journal of International Biotechnology Law. Genetics‚ Biotechnology and the Future. 55-53 Lutzer‚ E.W.‚ (2003). Risk Controversy Series 2
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The Impact of the Temperature Performance of Thermal (PCR) Cyclers on the Generated Results‚ and the Obligation for Regular Validation of PCR Thermal Cyclers Tom Hendrikx**‚ Marc Verblakt*‚ Roger Pierik** * GENO-tronics BV‚ Landgraaf‚ The Netherlands ** CYCLERtest BV‚ Landgraaf‚ The Netherlands Abstract A fast‚ powerful‚ and extremely sensitive multi-channel temperature measurement system was developed for the dynamic temperature validation of thermal cylers. The results of temperature performance
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devastating threats we are in contact with today not only to our environment but to the health and very survival of future generations. Typically‚ the blame to get genetic engineering (GE) foods into the market place is placed on chemical companies or the biotech industries. However‚ the unseen nor unheard mystery of how genetically engineered foods were able to reach the dinner plates of millions throughout North America and several other parts of the world is revealed in the book‚ Altered Genes‚ Twisted
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The failure of the Philippine economy to achieve a full industrialized state is a confluence and a result of political and economic policies that can be traced back to as far as the post war period. The Philippine post war economic policy is said to have taken the trajectory of Import Substitution Industrialization (ISI) —which puts premium in strengthening the locally owned industries catering to a huge domestic market to contain dollar outflow and encourage domestic entrepreneurship (Kuruvilla
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MONTHLY M&A INSIDER OCTOBER 2012 A MERGERMARKET REPORT ON GLOBAL M&A ACTIVITY EDITION CONTENTS GLOBAL OVERVIEW AMERICAS: LATIN AMERICA NORTH AMERICA ASIA-PACIFIC EUROPE MIDDLE EAST & AFRICA ABOUT MERRILL CORPORATION 01 09 18 29 41 52 62 MONTHLY M&A INSIDER Part of The Mergermarket Group MERGERMARKET www.mergermarket.com 80 Strand London‚ WC2R 0RL United Kingdom t: +44 (0)20 7059 6100 f: +44 (0)20 7059 6101 sales@mergermarket.com 11 West 19th Street 2nd fl. New York‚ NY
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Cited: Martinez MR. 1984. A checklist of Blue-Green Algae of the Philippines. National Institutes of Biotechnology and Applied Microbiology (Biotech) UPLB. 1p. Humm‚ HJ‚ Wicks‚ SR. 1980. Introduction and Guide to the Marine Blue Green Algae. John Wiley & Sons‚ Inc. 2 p.
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