BioSpace News Archive

BioCapital

GlycoMimetics Announces Pricing of Public Offering of Common Stock At $17 Per Share

GlycoMimetics, Inc. announced the pricing of its underwritten public offering of 7,000,000 shares of its common stock at a price to the public of $17.00 per share.

March 20, 2018
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Drug Development

Antibe Therapeutics Announces Successful Phase 2B Gastrointestinal Safety Study for Lead Pain Drug, ATB-346

The double-blind study was conducted in 244 healthy volunteers and was designed to demonstrate the superiority of ATB-346 in GI safety compared to naproxen.

March 20, 2018
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6 min read
FDA

Exactech’s Vitamin E Acetabular Polyethylene Liner for Hip Replacement Gains FDA 510(k) Clearance

Clearance from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to market the Novation XLE Vitamin E acetabular polyethylene liners for hip replacement surgery.

March 20, 2018
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Policy

U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Awards BioPharmX Patent Protection for Novel Tetracycline-class Topical Drug Compositions

Patent protects a new category of innovative drug delivery systems New patent is the second granted to BioPharmX in 3 weeks

March 20, 2018
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5 min read
Business

Monsanto and Pairwise Announce R&D Collaboration to Accelerate Innovation in Agriculture with Gene Editing

Partners’ Leading Expertise And The Potential Of Base Editing To Fuel Advancement

March 20, 2018
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7 min read
Business

Global Alzheimer’s Platform (GAP) Foundation Launches Partnership with Lyft to Transport Clinical Trial Participants to and from Clinical Research Facilities across North America

Lyft drivers will transport clinical trial participants to and from GAP-Net research sites

March 20, 2018
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7 min read
Pharm Country

Contagion® Outbreak Monitor Keeps Doctors Up-to-date on Recent Multistate Outbreak of Salmonella Infections

The outbreak has been linked to kratom, an opioid substitute

March 20, 2018
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2 min read
Business

Progress Continues for PrescribeIT

New EMR and PMS vendors on board with Canada’s national e-prescribing service

March 20, 2018
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2 min read
BioForest

New Report Shows States Fall Short on Policies to Help Reduce Burden of Rare Diseases Affecting 1 in 10 Americans

A majority of states are not measuring up on legislative solutions that reduce the burden of rare diseases affecting 30 million Americans, according to a new report released today by the National Organization for Rare Disorders Rare Action Network™ (NORD RAN).

March 20, 2018
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Biotech Bay

Pivot Bio Announces Pre-Commercial Launch of Nitrogen-Producing Microbes to Improve Crop Nutrition and Yields

Large-plot beta testing across the Corn Belt will validate Pivot Bio’s first-to-market, commercial-scale microbes

March 20, 2018
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2 min read