This week, www.selectscience.net reported on 28 news stories the day they
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Andrew Smith (andrew at selectscience.net)
Editor, www.selectscience.net
This week's headlines were:
Hach Company Signs Definitive Merger Agreement with Danaher Corporation
CEM Releases 3rd Quarter Financial Results
Most effective treatment for hepatitis C may lie in body's own immune system
Monsanto Reports First-Quarter Earnings
SmithKline Beecham Announces U.S. Co-Promotion Agreement with Bristol-Myers
Squibb for Avandia®
Abbott Holds Annual Meeting of Shareholders
Vivendi Completes Tender Offer for United States Filter Corporation
Genzyme General Reports First Quarter EPS Increased 23 Percent to $.38
Novel Protein Discovery Provides Vital Clue to Cancer
BIO Honors Four "Outstanding Legislators of the Year"
BIO '99 To Explore Debate Over Financing Drug Benefits For Seniors
DEKALB Will Appeal Jury Ruling On Licensing Agreement With Rhone Poulenc
Agrochemie
Incyte CFO to Retire
DIANON Systems Reports Record First Quarter Earnings Results
Genset's co-founder Pascal Brandys Earns Outstanding Service to
Biotechnology Award from the European Life Sciences Partnering Foundation
Incyte Reports First Quarter Results
Rohm And Haas Announces Earnings for the First Quarter of 1999
The National Cancer Institute and Affymetrix Announce Agreement to Make
GeneChip Technology Accessible to the Academic Community
Beckman Coulter Announces Grand Opening Of Heritage Exhibit and Science
Center in Fullerton, California
Cerus Corporation Announces First Quarter Results
Genentech Confirms Settlement Agreement With U.S. Government
Consortium of Pharmaceutical Companies and the Wellcome Trust Fund Creation
of Public Database of Gene Markers
Gliatech Announces First Quarter 1999 Financial Results
MGI Pharma Reports First Quarter Results
Invitrogen Corp Announces Record First Quarter Results
CombiChem Reports First Quarter 1999 Financial Results
METTLER TOLEDO assumes control of its Chinese joint venture
SmithKline Beecham Reports Earnings Per Share Increase of 15 Per Cent for
First Quarter 1999, 13 Per Cent Excluding Currency