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PARIS (AP) -- French drug maker Sanofi-Aventis SA has agreed to buy Genzyme Corp. in a sweetened all-cash deal that values the U.S. biotechnology company at $20.1 billion, ending months of corporate haggling....

(Cancer Research Institute) The Cancer Research Institute, a nonprofit organization, has partnered with the biotechnology company Oncovir, Inc., to produce clinical grade poly-ICLC (Hiltonol), a powerful immune stimulant, for testing in trials of cancer vaccines and other immunotherapies.

(Yates Public Relations) Avila, a biotechnology company developing novel targeted covalent drugs, has published research in Nature Chemical Biology demonstrating the first-ever selective irreversible inhibition of a viral protease using a targeted covalent drug.

In the paper titled "Selective Irreversible Inhibition of a Protease by Targeting a Non-Catalytic Cysteine," Avila designed covalent irreversible protease inhibitors whose unique pharmacology yields performance superior to conventional protease inhibitors with respect to selectivity, potency and duration of action.

SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. (AP) -- Biotechnology company Genentech Inc. says the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved its new drug to treat rheumatoid arthritis....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Federal health regulators have found tiny particles of trash in drugs made by Genzyme, the second time this year the biotechnology company has been cited for contamination issues....