Cliffprf Mintz

Social media platforms like LinkedIn, Facebook and niche career development communities like BioCrowd are being used to identify job candidates by hiring managers, employers and professional recruiters.For those of you who may not have been paying attention, LinkedIn is the largest professional soci...
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Last December, Biogen Idec and Samsung Biologics who knew that Samsung makes proteins in addition to TVs and cell phones announced that they would form a joint venture to develop and manufacture biosimilar products. The name of the new venture was announced today and it is a mouthful Samsung Bioepis...
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As anyone who works in the drug development industry and they will invariably tell you how complex the environment has become in the past 10 years to get a new drug or medical device approved.While this increased regulatory scrutiny has been brought on by drug and device makers themselves has there ...
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New results by Jennifer F. Hughes and David C. Page from the Whitehead Institute in Cambridge MA published this week's in Nature Magazine suggest that the Y chromosome, despite it diminutive size, is a well conserved example of genetic parsimony that has evolved to the point where is should not get ...
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When most people think about Australia kangaroos and koalas the word bear is a misnomer immediately come to mind.While the kangaroo population is thriving and, in many places, rapidly growing out of control, Australias treasured koala population is being ravaged by Chlamydophila pecorum, a little kn...
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