WASHINGTON — Ownership of a patent for technology to detect HIV levels in patients' blood was correctly split between Stanford University and th...
Carla Leitao | Posted 04.16.2012
In our office we are interested in creating a framework by which the word 'technology' can indeed be engaged through its practical corollaries -- communication and material -- in the creation of architectural and urban space.
AP | Posted 05.25.2011
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court will decide whether patents on inventions that arise from federally-funded research must go to the university where t...
New York Times | ROBERT PEAR | Posted 05.25.2011
Statements by more than a dozen lawmakers were ghostwritten, in whole or in part, by Washington lobbyists working for Genentech, one of the world's la...
Richard Chin | Posted 05.25.2011
Diarrheal diseases, which kill approximately 2 million children under the age of five in every year continue to receive less attention than diseases like the swine flu virus.
Ben Sherwood | Posted 05.25.2011
Are there enough antiviral medicines to keep us safe? Do face masks protect against swine flu? Is the world ready for a new pandemic?
AP | ALEXANDER G. HIGGINS | Posted 05.25.2011
GENEVA — Swiss pharmaceutical giant Roche agreed to pay $46.8 billion to buy the 44 percent of biotech pioneer Genentech that it doesn't already...
Robert Weissman | Posted 05.25.2011
In keeping with our tradition of highlighting diverse forms of corporate wrongdoing, we included only one financial company on the 10 Worst list.
Reuters | Ben Hirschler | Posted 05.25.2011
Three of Europe's top drugmakers have backed a new public-private scheme to use stem cells for safety testing of experimental medicines, signaling "bi...
AP | Posted 08.06.2011