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This Week?s Biotech Highlights

By Jeremy Grushcow

This week was for introductions:

• At the Cross-Border Biotech Blog, we introduced a new science writer!  Richard Chan started off with his first Friday Science Review and he covered a lot of ground, from obesity to toucans to sushi.
• Direct-to-consumer genetic testing was introduced to Canada this week  and we’ll continue to follow the trend worldwide, all the way to Gattaca if neccesary.
• The Globe and Mail introduced its readers to Canada’s longest-running biotech takeover battle, the JLL-Patheon bid, which has been constant fodder for the blog’s Monday Deal Review since January.
• The Ministry of Research and Innovation launched the $250 million Emerging Technologies Fund, which will co-invest up to $50 million a year over the next 5 years in Ontario companies.

This coming week is a short one, but stay tuned to the Cross-Border Biotech Blog for all thing Canadian and biotech-y and good.  Also check out the tweeting @crossborderbio.

Full post as published by Slaw.ca on August 04, 2009 (boomark / email).