How Life Technologies will sequence the human genome for $1,000 (video)

The biggest new healthcare product unveiled at CES this week was undoubtedly Life Technologies Corp.’s (NASDAQ:LIFE) new Ion Proton Sequencer, a bench-top machine that the company says will be able to sequence the entire human genome for $1,000 by the end of the year. (A side note: Illumina Inc. announced the release of a similar [...]

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Schering-Plough launches schizophrenia, bi-polar disorder drug after buying maker

Sometimes acquiring other drugmakers is the way to fill your company’s development pipeline with new drugs. On Tuesday, Schering-Plough Corp. CEO Fred Hassan, a speaker at the Cleveland Clinic’s ongoing Medical Innovation Summit, flew to Texas to launch Saphris, an anti-psychotic drug acquired in 2007.

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