GE Healthcare to Acquire Diagnostics Company Clarient
General Electric announced Friday that its healthcare unit will acquire molecular diagnostics company Clarient in a deal worth approximately $580 million.
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Adventrx Pharmaceuticals Seeks to Improve Current Cancer Drugs
The San Diego-based company seeks to improve upon existing cancer therapeutics with its reformulations of the chemotherapy drugs Navelbine and Taxotere.
TapImmune Taps Into Cancer Defense
How do cancer cells evade the immune system, growing undetected until they’re discovered as a tumor?
Clarient Acquires AGI In All-Stock Merger
Clarient, a provider of comprehensive anatomic pathology and molecular testing services, will acquire Applied Genomics in an all-stock merger worth up to $17.6 million.
Positive Phase II Data for Peregrine’s Lung Cancer Treatment
Peregrine Pharmaceuticals reported positive Phase II data in a clinical trial of bavituximab in patients with a deadly form of lung cancer.
New Approval, Clinical Trial for YM Biosciences’ Cancer Drug
The company announced that it has enrolled the first two patients in a clinical trial evaluating nimotuzumab in patients with brain tumors from non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC).
FDA Approves First Maintenance Therapy Drug for Lung Cancer
Two pharmaceutical companies are eager to advance a different approach to treating lung cancer.
Clarient Launches New Gene Mutation Test for Lung Cancer
Clarient has launched a new gene mutation test to help physicians select the appropriate therapy for non-small cell lung cancer.