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Venter Announces $500K Prize for Significant Advances Toward $1,000 Genome
“Just before lunch today at the GSAC conference, Craig Venter stood before the crowd and announced a mouth-watering proposition: a $500,000 Genomic Technology Prize to be awarded by the J. Craig Venter Science Foundation to a person or organization that develops technology ‘to significantly advance’ automated DNA sequencing toward making the $1,000 genome a reality.”

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The Odd Couple – CombinatoRx brings matchmaking to drug discovery and development – Archive
While almost everyone in the drug industry is looking for ways to speed new drugs to market, CombinatoRx has taken a particularly pragmatic approach: Rather than looking for new drugs, it is searching for novel combinations of existing drugs with synergistic effects.

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GlaxoSmithKline Reveals Ingenuity
In a further validation of Big Pharma’s acceptance of systems biology, GlaxoSmithKline has licensed part of the Ingenuity Pathways Knowledge Base to facilitate genome-wide computational analysis of biological systems underlying disease.

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The Best in Drugs and Biotech: “S&P’s Herman Saftlas and Frank DiLorenzo share some favorites in these resurgent sectors, including Barr Pharmaceuticals and MedImmune “

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What VCs Don’t Tell You: “To secure funding, an entrepreneur needs to appreciate the goals and strategies at work on the other side the table. Here’s a guide “

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Building a Better R&D Mousetrap: “By posting their scientific conundrums online, companies like Eli Lilly and Procter & Gamble have discovered a rich new source of brainpower.”

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A WTO deal on drugs
India and Brazil are good at making cheap copies of life-saving drugs. Now they are allowed to export them too…