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Free access to Elaprase
Government to fund Genzyme's Elaprase for Hunter syndrome patients [ + ]
Electronic underpants revealed
The SimPAD wetness monitoring devices to feature on New Inventors [ + ]
Dengue vaccine study
Hawaii Biotech's dengue vaccine program to be supported by Walter Reed [ + ]
Women in Science Fellowship winner
A L’Oreal Australia For Women in Science Fellowship has been awarded to WEHI immunologist Dr Erika Cretney. The fellowship is designed to assist women to consolidate their careers and rise to leadership positions and can be used to defray childcare costs in addition to research costs.
[ + ]Modified viruses bring malaria vaccine hope
An international collaboration of researchers has created a promising malaria vaccine based on pox and cold viruses.
[ + ]Progen gets strategic advice
Independent advisory firm to help Progen with planning following termination of PI88 study. [ + ]
NeuroDiscovery has teeth
NeuroDiscovery demonstrates effectiveness of NSL-101 in dental surgery [ + ]
Generic partners India pharma
Indian pharma Lupin invests in Generic Health [ + ]
Biota records small year-end loss
Biota’s long-running legal battle with GSK has taken its toll, with the company recording a $20 million loss for the year. [ + ]
Horses for courses for Bioeffectives
Bioeffectives show promise as effective treatment of equine gastric ulcers and as a replacement for antibiotics in poultry feed. [ + ]
No pain for Xenome
Synthetic venom peptide shows promise in trials [ + ]
Spine fusion for Mesoblast
Mesoblast's stem cells effective method for cervical spine fusion [ + ]
QRXPharma writes off
QRxPharma reports $36 million deficit [ + ]
Market in sight for Pharmaxis
Pharmaxis concludes Phase 3 trial of Bronchitol [ + ]
Happy as a pig
Imugene reports early PRRS vaccine trial results [ + ]