IntegenX Inc. will buy a wholly owned subsidiary of GE Healthcare Bio-Sciences, a move that the Pleasanton-based company said will help its DNA identification system get to market sooner.

Financial terms of the deal around the intellectual property and the patent portfolio held by General Electric Co. subsidiary SV Corp. were not disclosed.

IntegenX, which late last year raised $40 million in a Series C round of funding, plans to start selling its RapidHIT 2000 system later this year. The system,…

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University of California, San Francisco Chancellor Susan Desmond-Hellmann M.D., will introduce a $100 million fundraising campaign on Tuesday designed to offset state spending cuts, UCSF said Monday.

The effort will be highlighted during an April 24 address, officials said, calling it a first-of-its-kind philanthropic effort. It seeks $80 million to pay for new scholarships and fellowships and $20 million to help fund curriculum innovations, “inter-professional education” and teaching facilities.

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MIT and Boston University researchers have discovered that while antibiotics attack many parts of bacteria cells, it is the damage they cause to their DNA that inflicts the fatal blow. They write about their findings in a paper published online on 20 April in the journal Science…
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On Friday, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) proposed two new draft guidelines for the evaluation and use of nanomaterials in food and cosmetics The documents are available for public comment for 90 days…
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The Kentucky General Assembly ended its special session this evening after passing a two-year road plan and legislation to address prescription-drug abuse in the state.

A bill to fund the $4.5 billion Kentucky Transportation Cabinet’s operating budget for the next two years was approved by the Senate today on a 37-1 vote, according to a news release from the Legislative Research Commission. It had cleared the House on Wednesday by a vote of 96-2.

The legislation contains more than $1 billion…

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There are 113 medical technology and bioscience companies in the Sacramento region, a 10 percent increase from 2011, a new report shows.

The figure includes 21 new companies and removal of 11 from the list because they moved, went out of business or did not meet criteria for the Sacramento Area Regional Technology Alliance report.

The number of med-tech and bioscience jobs in the region declined slightly, to 4,712 from 4,740, but 91 of the companies have headquarters here, suggesting promise of…

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Breast cancer is at least 10 different diseases, each with its own genetic signature and pattern of weak spots, according to a new landmark study that promises to revolutionize diagnosis and prognosis, and pave the way for individualized, tailored treatment…
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Gov. Neil Abercrombie has released more than $34.2 million for capital improvement projects at schools, hospitals and communications facilities around Hawaii, including $9.3 million to build a new eight-classroom building at Waipahu Elementary School on Oahu.

The new building at Waipahu Elementary School will include six general education classrooms, a special education classroom and a computer resource classroom.

The funds also include $8 million for the design, construction and/or relocation…

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HCA Holdings Inc. said Thursday it has named a former longtime Colorado hospital executive, Sylvia Young, as president of its Continental Division, which oversees the Denver area’s seven HealthOne hospitals as well as two hospitals in Kansas.

Young will succeed Jeff Dorsey, who announced in March he plans to retire May 31.

Young, 50, is a 27-year veteran of hospital administration, said Nashville-based HCA (NYSE: HCA). From 1998 to 2007, she was CEO of the Medical Center of Aurora and Centennial…

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Two-thirds of adults support single-dose packaging to avoid accidental poisoning, according to U-M’s National Poll on Children’s Health Unintentional poisonings from medicines cause more emergency room visits for young children each year than do car accidents…
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