Similar Articles

Browse Main Topics:

Business
Computers & Electronics
Education & Reference
Entertainment & Leisure
Family & Home
Finance & Investment
Health
Internet
Pets & Animals
Science & Technology
Society, Politics & Culture
Sports & Recreation

Similar Articles

The Motley Fool November 18, 2010 Travis Hoium	Alnylam Pharmaceuticals Shares Plunged: What You Need to Know Roche Holding AG announced it would end its partnership with Tekmira Pharmaceuticals, dragging Alnylam down in the fray. This move affects research for RNAi therapeutics, a focus for Alnylam.
The Motley Fool September 24, 2010 Brian Orelli	So Long and Thanks for All the Drug Candidates Alnylam and Novartis end their five-year partnership.
The Motley Fool November 6, 2006 Ralph Casale	Validation for a Biotechnology Firm? How Merck's bid to buy a competitor could affect Alnylam Pharmaceuticals. With the recent run-up in share price due to the Merck offer for Sirna, investors should wait for a better price before speculating on Alnylam.
The Motley Fool May 28, 2008 Brian Orelli	A Partnership of Habitual Deal Makers A partnership between these two companies gives Alnylam another $150 million to pad its coffers with and Takeda a call option on an unproven but promising set of drugs.
The Motley Fool February 26, 2010 Brian Orelli	A Risky Deal, but at Least It's Cheap Glaxo licenses a preclinical compound from Regulus.
The Motley Fool June 9, 2009 Brian Orelli	Alnylam Lays Down a Sacrifice Bunt RNAi is still an unproven technology, and there's plenty of chances for it to strike out.
The Motley Fool November 15, 2007 Brian Orelli	Slowing the Cash Burn Bloody Nose Nastech plans to cut costs following Proctor& Gamble's drop of their osteoporosis drug. Investors, take note.
The Motley Fool January 9, 2009 Brian Orelli	Alnylam Holds Hands With a New Fella Is big pharma turning up its nose at RNAi drugs?
The Motley Fool September 28, 2007 Brian Orelli	RNAi Doesn't Kill Mice After All From Merck, to AstraZeneca, to Novartis, big pharma continues to pump hundreds of millions of dollars into unproven RNAi technology. Investors, take note.
The Motley Fool October 4, 2007 Billy Fisher	Isis Keeps Cholesterol Down, Stock Prices Up Isis Pharmaceuticals reports positive phase 2 results for a cholesterol treatment. The company continues to show progress with its impressive pipeline of 17 other development-stage drugs. Investors, take note.
The Motley Fool March 24, 2008 Brian Orelli	Alnylam Authorizes Again The pharmaceutical's latest patent-licensing deal won't be immediately lucrative.
The Motley Fool November 30, 2010 Brian Orelli	RNAi Is On Sale The novel technology looks more promising at these prices.
The Motley Fool July 11, 2007 Brian Orelli	Everybody Loves RNAi Roche is the latest firm to (over)pay for the hottest new drug technology. Alnylam announced that it licensed some of its intellectual property to Roche for $331 million. Investors, take note.
The Motley Fool August 15, 2006 Ralph Casale	Sirna Battles Genes Gone Bad Pharmaceutical start-up Sirna Therapeutics tests drugs to silence rogue genes. Investors, while drugs based on RNA interference may have the potential to become the next big thing in biotechnology, they're still a long, long way from becoming FDA-approved, marketable entities.
Bio-IT World November 2006 Kevin Davies	Merck's $1.1 Billion Bet on RNAi As if the 2006 Nobel Prize in Medicine or Physiology wasn't validation enough, Merck's acquisition of biotech firm Sirna for $1.1 billion last month offered evidence of the commercial implications of RNA interference gene-silencing technology.
The Motley Fool August 1, 2007 Brian Orelli	RNAi Gets Pumped Up Is a collaboration between RNAi expert Alnylam Pharmaceuticals and medical-device maker Medtronic something investors can endorse?
Bio-IT World March 2006	News Blast Merck/Phase Forward... Curbing a Pandemic... Focused Trials... Collaboration...
The Motley Fool February 9, 2006 Jason Mac Gurn	RNA: Rule Breaker Nucleic Acid Investors, new RNA-based technologies may be the next revolution in biopharmaceuticals. ISIS Pharmaceuticals... Sirna Therapeutics... Alnylam Pharmaceuticals...
The Motley Fool December 29, 2006 Brian Lawler	Sirna Decides to Take the Cash and Run Shareholders vote to approve Merck's buyout offer. Investors in shares of Merck really have to trust management to have done its due diligence on Sirna and to have faith in its technology.
The Motley Fool September 10, 2007 Brian Orelli	Double Your RNA Pleasure Alnylam and ISIS join together to work on microRNAs. Their joint venture, called Regulus Therapeutics, combines their intellectual property in an effort to advance this new technology. Investors should take note.
The Motley Fool May 18, 2007 Mike Havrilla	Ample Opportunities for Alnylam The biotech's RNAi pipeline and cutting-edge technology make it a prime takeover candidate. Investors, take note.
The Motley Fool June 22, 2004 Charly Travers	Merck Pays Up for a Cancer Drug As demonstrated this morning with the announcement of a major deal with Vertex Pharmaceuticals, Merck is now in the midst of a strategic push to build out its oncology pipeline.
The Motley Fool February 29, 2008 Brian Orelli	Merck's Complicated Partnerships Merck has decided to continue its complicated partnership with AstraZeneca for at least a few more years.
The Motley Fool June 23, 2010 Brian Orelli	A Novel Drug Technology Worth Watching Regulus signs up another microRNA partner.
The Motley Fool September 14, 2007 Brian Orelli	J&J's Expensive RNA Purchase Johnson & Johnson sets up a collaboration with Isis Pharmaceuticals to develop compounds to treat diabetes. Investors take note.
The Motley Fool May 13, 2008 Brian Orelli	Is Merck Keeping Its Enemies Close? The drugmaker strikes a deal with an Indian generic company.
The Motley Fool September 21, 2006 Brian Lawler	Another Partner for Biogen The pharmaceutical enlists help to thwart a troublesome illness. After the market closed yesterday, Biogen added another collaboration agreement with Alnylam Pharmaceuticals to its long list of partners. Investors, take note.
The Motley Fool April 14, 2011 Frank Vinluan	Biogen Idec Inks Biotech Blood Products Research Deal With Amunix The exclusive, worldwide research collaboration agreement calls for both companies to jointly conduct preclinical research.
The Motley Fool February 28, 2011 Brian D. Pacampara	Next-Generation Drug Technologies Battle It Out Alnylam and Sangamo BioSciences have different ways to manipulate proteins to fight disease.
Chemistry World June 19, 2015 Rebecca Trager	Alnylam accuses Dicerna of stealing trade secrets The US biopharmaceutical company Alnylam has filed a 'trade secret misappropriation' lawsuit against fellow Cambridge-based firm Dicerna.
The Motley Fool May 18, 2011 Brian Orelli	If You Can't Beat 'Em, Use 'Em to Beat Your New Rival Merck is supposed to be a bitter rival to Roche in the hepatitis C space. Instead, it's extending the hand of friendship.
The Motley Fool June 5, 2009 Brian Orelli	Failure! Merck said today that rolofylline failed to show an effect in its phase 3 clinical trial in heart failure patients.
The Motley Fool September 18, 2007 Brian Orelli	Another Partnership for Personalized Medicine Celera gets a contract to design a companion diagnostic test for Merck. Investors, take note.
The Motley Fool June 22, 2010 Luke Timmerman	Regulus Therapeutics Forms $750M MicroRNA Deal With Sanofi The company has found its second big ally from Big Pharma.
Bio-IT World November 2005 G. Steven Burrill	Biotech Posts Strong Third Quarter Despite overall subpar numbers in September, as compared with the previous four months, this was another excellent quarter for biotech... A good quarter for collaborations... IPO windows open slowly... Biotech still attractive for big pharmaceuticals...
The Motley Fool December 12, 2007 Brian Orelli	What's Merck Doing? With a nice solid pipeline Merck is on its way to its goal of double-digit EPS growth through 2010.
The Motley Fool February 29, 2008 Brian Orelli	RNAi Works -- Maybe Alnylam presents the first proof of concept that RNAi works in humans, but where's the proof that it cures a disease?
The Motley Fool January 14, 2011 Brian Orelli	Don't Have a Stroke Over Merck's Heart Drug Welcome to pharma investing.
The Motley Fool April 21, 2009 Brian Orelli	Reworking the Broken R&D Model When it comes to drug development, it's becoming increasingly clear that competition isn't always the best thing for the industry. Collaborations will help bring drugs to the market more cheaply.
The Motley Fool January 9, 2008 Brian Orelli	Genzyme Buys Into Antisense RNA -- Big Time Genzyme buys a piece of Isis' mipomersen at a wowser of a price.
The Motley Fool May 15, 2007 Mike Havrilla	Eyeing ISIS A robust pipeline and a promising cholesterol drug could benefit this pharmaceutical firm. Investors, take note.
The Motley Fool May 17, 2011 Brian Orelli	$3 Million Here, $1.5 Billion There Isis makes progress in its pact with GlaxoSmithKline.
The Motley Fool January 31, 2011 Brian Orelli	Time to Buy Into Stem Cells? New developments bring this analyst a step closer to opening his wallet.
The Motley Fool October 23, 2008 Brian Orelli	Glaxo to Competitors: You're Cheaper Than We Are This big pharma has cash and it plans to use it.
The Motley Fool June 30, 2008 Brian Orelli	Merck and Schering Get Half a Divorce The lovey-dovey duo ends their respiratory partnership.
The Motley Fool May 20, 2009 Brian Orelli	Joining to Treat, and Beat, Diabetes Medical-device maker Medtronic and drugmaker Eli Lilly are teaming up to co-promote the companies' diabetes products to doctors and patients.
The Motley Fool May 22, 2008 Brian Orelli	Merck Can't Achieve Anything The pharmaceutical cancels a troubled clinical trial.
The Motley Fool April 22, 2008 Brian Orelli	Will Merck Make It? Merck releases first-quarter results and says it can meet its previous guidance.
Bio-IT World December 15, 2004 Nancy Weil	Running Interference The revolution in RNA interference has galvanized basic research. Now, some biopharmas are pushing the technology from the laboratory to the clinic.
The Motley Fool October 23, 2007 Brian Orelli	Old Merck on New Drugs It looks like the old Merck is back, with new drugs driving double-digit sales growth in the third-quarter.