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Volume 6 - Number 20 | May 15, 2008

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Insilicos Partners with LabKey, ISB to Port Proteomics Software Tools to Amazon’s Cloud

Don’t Call it Workflow: Accelrys, InforSense Tout Products as Business Intelligence Tools

Genostar Expands Deal with Biopharma Merial To Help Hunt Pathogenic Virulence Factors

BioInform’s Licensing Roundup: April’s Software Deals

BBSRC, DNAStar, Xennex, Japan Patent Office, University of Washington

NextGENe, HIV Data Browser, UCSC Genome Browser, Expressionist 5.0

Features
MicroRNA Drugs Startup Miragen Nears Close of Series A, Begins Defining Pipeline
While specific details of Miragen’s planned pipeline are being kept under wraps, a company official said that the initial indication pursued would likely be heart failure, a condition one of the firm’s co-founders has linked to several microRNAs.

Nastech Confirms Change in Focus While Alnylam Addresses Partnering Concerns
Although Nastech had said in an SEC filing that it would refocus on RNAi, the company’s CEO said that it would not continue developing non-RNAi programs after ongoing clinical trials are completed. Meanwhile, Alnylam’s CEO said that the firm’s track record of alliances speaks for itself.

RNAinsider
Harvard’s Carl Novina Discusses Function Of microRNA and Their Role in Cancer
Recently, Novina and colleagues published a paper suggesting that microRNAs repress the initiation of translation by preventing a specific ribosome component from joining to targeted mRNAs.

IP Update
USPTO Publishes One Patent, Four Patent Applications Related to RNAi


Strands
Isis Pharmaceuticals, Novosome, Calando Pharmaceuticals


Products & Services
Asuragen, Oxford Gene Technology


People in the News
Thomas Haag, Mark Tilley, James Hamilton, Robert Brown



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