Stem cell research is still too hot for most investors, but NeoStem is starting to change that, thanks to some unexpected events. Among them are the Catholic Church’s surprising embrace of NeoStem’s research and NeoStem’s footh…
The pharmaceutical industry is ready to fall off a cliff — a “patent cliff.” Over the next few years, some of the world’s most popular and lucrative medicines will go off patent, and generic competition will siphon an estimate…
Samsung Electronics is known for its smartphones, TVs and memory chips. Now it wants to tackle biopharmaceuticals, on Friday announcing a new joint venture to produce drugs to treat cancer and arthritis. Here’s why the move cou…
French drug company Sanofi-Aventis (SNY) has finally made a deal to buy biotech company Genzyme (GENZ) for $20.1 billion, about $74 a share. Genzyme shareholders will get a contingent value right that represents potential future payments if Lemtrada, t…
From October 2010 to February 2011, biotech Clinical Data’s stock doubled, mostly thanks to FDA approval of its novel antidepressant. But also pushing the stock up — and making it likely to perhaps double again — is speculati…