Sentences with phrase «biotech giant»

The wheat was developed by agricultural biotech giant Monsanto, which says that the farm in question was not part of its original testing programme and that all GM material was destroyed in 2004.

Such ease of use will likely encourage the use of more animal models in the study of human diseases, says Rhonda Wiler, a geneticist at biotech giant Genentech in San Francisco, California, who co-chairs the Roundtable on Science and Welfare in Laboratory Animal Use (which organized the workshop).

Companies like U.S. biotech giant Gilead and the U.K.'s GlaxoSmithKline (the majority stakeholder in global HIV partnership ViiV Healthcare) have developed drugs that drastically lower the chance of HIV infection — or which simply lower the number of drugs you have to take to treat it, consequently curbing the risk of toxic side effects while simplifying medical regimens.

New Zealand is about to take a pioneering approach to fighting HIV / AIDS — by publicly funding pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) medication Truvada, manufactured by U.S. biotech giant Gilead.

From 2004 until 2009, Arthur Levinson, chairman of biotech giant Genentech, served on Google's board, during a period when he was also an Apple director.

The GM wheat was developed by Monsanto, an agricultural biotech giant based in St Louis, Missouri.

Current sponsors of the AHA include Subway and Cheerios as well as pharmaceutical company Bayer (who is now teamed with biotech giant, Monsanto).

The test makers range from Silicon Valley startups, such as Counsyl and Color Genomics, to biotech giants like Myriad Genetics.

Grail, a spinout from biotech giant Illumina, last year closed a $ 900 million round that included Amazon and Johnson & Johnson for its own early - stage cancer detection system.

Add biotech giant Celgene to the roster of companies chasing a new class of cancer immunotherapy treatments called «checkpoint inhibitors.»

In a fancy, heavily glassed building once owned by biotech giant Pfizer sits a room filled with 50 white bunnies in metal cages the size of large laundry baskets.

Eight years later he sold Velocity11 to biotech giant Agilent Technologies for more than $ 100 million.

Last week, a federal jury deadlocked on a claim by the University of California (UC) that South San Francisco biotech giant Genentech had infringed the university's patent on the gene for human growth hormone.

From Singularity Hub: In the world of genomics, Chinese biotech giant BGI is big and getting bigger.

It's a worldwide march similar to the global March Against Monsanto, where millions of people around the world gathered to successfully protest the big biotech giant and Genetically Modified Food (GMOs) over the past couple of years.

Already, biotech giant Monsanto has limited Crispr's applications until a decision is made.

The biotech giant projected Humira sales to reach $ 21 billion in 2020, in part thanks to a deal that will keep cheaper «biosimilar» versions off the market until at least 2023.

The biotech giant has a «casual intensity» vibe, says one staffer.

The news comes about a week after the biotech giant announced it would buy Impact Biomedicines for $ 7 billion.

Gilead subsidiary Kite Pharma (which the biotech giant scooped up ahead of the FDA's approval for Yescarta, a treatment that reengineers patients» immune cells to fight cancer) will have access to Sangamo's platform technology, which could be used to create various types of cancer cell therapies.

Gilead's therapy (which the biotech giant acquired after snapping up developer Kite Pharma for just under $ 12 billion at the end of the summer) is approved for certain types of the blood cancer non-Hodgkin lymphoma.

The prospects for a biotech giant and a struggling bookseller are also examined.

The biotech giant Valeant is now at the top of the heap in Canada.

Those sweeteners are subject to conditions that include Juno agreeing to partner on select Celgene programs, and the biotech giant owning up to a maximum 30 % of Juno's common stock.

Buying privately held cancer specialist Impact Biomedicines may help the biotech giant refill its pipeline after recent drug flops.

If the drug, ATryn, finally gets a nod from regulators, its approval will mark the culmination of a meandering 15 - year journey for GTC Bio therapeutics, a Framingham, Mass., spin - off of the biotech giant Genzyme.

In 2001 researchers at the biotech giant Geron Corporation isolated a molecule called TA - 65 from the herb astragalus, which they said boosted telomerase activity (its effect has not yet been evaluated in published, peer - reviewed studies).

C. Glenn Begley, who spent a decade in charge of global cancer research at the biotech giant Amgen, recently dispatched 100 Amgen scientists to replicate 53 landmark experiments in cancer — the kind of experiments that lead pharmaceutical companies to sink millions of dollars to turn the results into a drug.

She started her journalism career at The Day in New London, Conn., then moved to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, where she launched the «food beat,» covering agriculture, biotech giant Monsanto and the growing «good food» movement.

The winner of the Angry Mermaid Award 2009, announced by award - winning journalist Naomi Klein at the UN climate talks in Copenhagen is the biotech giant Monsanto with 37 % of the total vote.

Remember that the, while GMO ingredients are labeled throughout Europe and in most of the world's industrialized nations, they are not mandated to be labeled in the US — and their makers have lobbied heavily to prevent such labeling, biotech giant Monsanto being the most public of these but not the only one by far.