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CONTENTS 2008
We have organized the Content Archive by year. Each year’s list contains all the articles published in that year, organized by category (i.e., Articles, Buzz, Data Mining, Focal Point, Mayday, Recapping The Week, School Zone, Signals vs. Noise, Turn Signals and Trivia). To search by year, click the appropriate link on the left.

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Recapping The Week School Zone Signals vs Noise Turn Signal Trivia

Articles

12/19/2008M&As Are Blazing Hot
The financial crisis of 2008 has wreaked havoc in virtually every sector of the economy – including once-safe havens like biotech and big pharma. But adverse conditions have created an unprecedented opportunity for buyouts, and biotech M&As are hotter than ever.


8/28/2008Is Bigger Really Better?
Biotech and big pharma firms have inked 25 $1 billion-plus alliances since 2001, most of them in the last year or two. Are the sky-high prices mostly window dressing, or do they indicate a profound shift in partnering strategy?


6/27/200820 Compounds That Defined Biotech
In celebration of Recombinant Capital’s 20th year, we are recounting the storied history of 20 biologics that helped to define biotechnology – and continue to do so.


4/02/2008Much Ado About Biologics
Most big pharmas have been slowly building their stores of protein- and antibody-based medicines, but they picked up the pace in 2007 with a series of clever acquisitions.


2/29/2008FDA Deals Biotech A Winning Hand
While it’s true that product approvals lagged last year, the FDA still gave the nod to a number of important new drugs, biologics and vaccines – including two new classes of AIDS drugs and three more targeted cancer therapies. Nearly half of them have biotech origins.


1/06/2008Another Stellar Year
Despite a year-end slump, biotech and specialty pharma firms raised a whopping $26.5 billion in 2007 – mirroring the sector’s haul in 2006 and setting a new standard. It was a brilliant performance, but once again a handful of biotech’s brightest stars carried the show.

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Buzz

10/01/2008Drug Safety Watchdog Increases Vigilance

5/28/2008Biotechs & Big Pharmas Feel The Pain

3/14/2008Starter Drugs: Aggrastat

1/15/2008IPO Tracker
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Focal Point

10/24/2008Déjà vu All Over Again

7/24/2008Financing Slows to A Trickle

4/29/2008Allicense 2008: The Cream Of The Crop

2/05/2008Global Health Initiatives Gain Traction
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School Zone

1/23/2008Tech Transfer: Harnessing Innovation
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Signals vs Noise

10/17/2008Financial Snapshot For September 2008: The Sky Is Falling

4/16/2008Financial Snapshot For March 2008: Batten Down The Hatches

1/17/2008Financial Snapshot For December 2007: A Cautionary Tale
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Signals vs Noise

7/09/2008Financial Snapshot For June 2008: Dire Straits
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Turn Signals

11/14/2008Royalty Rates Revealed

9/23/2008Flu Season Nears: Be Prepared

5/01/2008Blockbusters Just Keep On Coming

3/05/2008Approval Times Stay On Track
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Trivia

12/31/2008Microbia

12/24/2008Ice Structuring Proteins

12/17/2008Episomes

12/10/2008Aflatoxins

12/03/2008Plasmodesmata

11/26/2008Personalized Medicine

11/19/2008Field Trial

11/12/2008Space Research

11/05/2008Blood

10/29/2008UBE

10/22/2008Annexins

10/15/2008Spidroin

10/08/2008Oncothyreon

10/01/2008Gulo

9/23/2008Chromosome

9/17/2008Janssen Award

9/10/2008Asthma

9/03/2008SIB

8/27/2008Toxic

8/20/2008Marfan syndrome

8/13/2008Posilac

8/06/2008Virusoid

7/30/2008Illumina

7/23/2008B12

7/16/2008Sirigen

7/09/2008Ulcers

7/02/2008Crystals

6/25/2008Dog Days

6/11/2008Calmodulin

6/04/2008Weird Animals

5/28/2008StemCo

5/21/2008Deal of the Year

5/07/2008Human Chromosome

4/30/2008Kinases

4/23/2008Screening

4/16/2008Mycometrix

4/09/2008HGH Recap

4/02/2008Big Dogs

3/26/2008Spin-Out

3/19/2008Zinc Fingers

3/12/2008Origins

3/05/2008AZT

2/27/2008Ubiquitin

2/20/2008Xtal

2/13/2008Tubulin

2/06/2008Aequorin

1/30/2008NAS Award

1/23/2008Bence-Jones

1/16/2008Name Game

1/09/2008Balancing Act

1/02/2008DNA Virus
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