Ruling is a blos to drugmakers, could benefit consumers

Johnson&Johnson hopes to develop treatment for prostate cancer

In unanimous ruling, justices declare that human genes are a product of nature and cannot be patented and held for profit.

By David G. Savage, Los Angeles Times

High hopes for Arena's Belviq

S.D.-based pharmaceutical company must compete in crowded market and overcome skepticism about effectiveness of its weight-loss drug

Belviq

Researchers elucidate how precise chemical modifications across the genome turn genes on and off during early human development—and how those mechanisms are disrupted in cancer

Loss of some of San Diego County's biggest life science companies shifts attention to those that remain

SOURCE : U~T SAN DIEGO

By Bradley J. Fikes8:11 A.M.APRIL 15, 2013Updated12:31 P.M.

Apr 5, 2013-- Researchers of the Max Delbruck Center for Molecular Medicine(MDC) and the Leibniz Institute of Molecular Pharmacology(FMP) in Berlin-Buch, Germany, have now detected a substance that can prevent the accumulation of fluid in body tissue and thus edema formation.

Magazine ranks 2 area facilities among top 10 places for researchers

GARY ROBBINS-U-T San Diego

By Bradley J. Fikes6:30 A.M.APRIL 1, 2013