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US pharmaceutical company Amphastar Pharmaceuticals is to receive $59.9 million in a settlement agreement with two of its competitors, Sandoz and Momenta Pharmaceuticals. 20 June 2019
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A US congressman and senator have asked the country’s audit institution, the Government Accountability Office to review the management of government-owned IP in the health sector. 19 June 2019
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Pharmaceutical companies Merck & Co, Eli Lilly, and Amgen are suing the US Department of Health and Human Services over proposed rules which would force companies to disclose the list prices of drugs in TV advertisements. 19 June 2019
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US-based gene sequencing company Sequenom was handed a win yesterday after a UK court ruled that The Doctors Laboratory and Ariosa Diagnostics, which is owned by Roche, had infringed its patent. 18 June 2019
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US biopharmaceutical company Pfizer has entered agreed to acquire Array BioPharma, a biotechnology company which develops small molecule drugs for the treatment of cancer. 17 June 2019
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The US Food and Drug Administration has chosen Merck & Co, IBM, KPMG, and Walmart to form a pilot project aimed at evaluating the use of blockchain to protect pharmaceutical product integrity. 17 June 2019
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British-based pharmaceutical company GSK has entered into a five-year collaboration with the University of California to explore how gene mutations cause disease and accelerate drug discovery. 14 June 2019
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Software company Dassault Systèmes has targeted the life sciences sector with the $5.8 billion acquisition of Medidata Solutions, a US-firm firm focused on clinical trials. 13 June 2019
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BASF Plant Science, the plant biotech-focused subsidiary of BASF, has asked the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit to overturn a finding that certain claims of a transgenic plant technology patent were invalid. 13 June 2019
Biotechnology
A Russian scientist is planning to create CRISPR-edited babies, despite the widespread condemnation levelled at the first scientist who created ‘edited’ twins. 12 June 2019