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This week's headlines were:
La Jolla Pharmaceutical Scientists Tolerize B Cells That Thwart
Xenotransplantation
FDA Approves First Home Test for Hepatitis C Virus
Metra Biosystems Reports Third Quarter Results
PE Biosystems Reports Sharply Higher Earnings And Celera Genomics Makes
Progress In Establishing Operations
Thermo Electron and Thermo Power Considering Merger Proposal
Pharmacia & Upjohn Reports First-Quarter Sales And Earnings
Targeted Genetics Reports First Quarter 1999 Financial Results
Genome Therapeutics Strengthens Business Development Team
Aurora Biosciences Reports First Quarter 1999 Financial Results
Dade Behring and HemoSense Agree to Collaborate On New-Generation
Point-of-Care and Home Coagulation Tests
Hyseq Announces First Quarter Financial Results
STERIS Reports Record Fiscal Fourth Quarter and Full Year Results
Perkin-Elmer Shareholders Approve Recapitalization Proposal
Maxygen Obtains Exclusive License to Caltech 'StEP' Directed Evolution
Technology
Steris CFO Resigns
Bio-Rad Reports Results for First Quarter 1999
PPL Therapeutics plc Preliminary Results
European Union to Adopt Common Framework for Electronic Document Signature
Becton Dickinson Announces Planned Acquisition of Clontech Laboratories
Trinity Biotech Announces Record First Quarter Profits; Net Profit up 100%
with 65% Growth in Earnings Per Share
Caliper Technologies CorpLaunches New Manufacturing Facility and Corporate
Headquarters
BIO Strongly Backs U.SSenBennett's Efforts To Protect Patient
Confidentiality
Gel Documentation System Wins UK Design Council Millenium Product Stats
Aronex Pharmaceuticals, IncReports First Quarter 1999 Results
Delsys Pharmaceutical Names Marty Kashef, Ph.D., Director of Engineering
Sciences
Goats Cloned by Tufts University School of Veterinary Medicine and Genzyme
Transgenics Corp
Radiation Missing Cell Nucleus May Still Cause DNA Changes
GlaxoWellcome Wins Queens Award for Technological Achievement
Megabios Acquires Angiogenesis Gene
Pharmacyclics Completes Enrollment in Phase I ANTRIN(TM) Trial For
Atherosclerosis
Beckman Coulter Announces First Quarter 1999 Results
Sarnoff & Mediscience Commercialize Light-Based Molecular Technology For
Cervical Cancer
Caliper Files Suit Against Aclara for Trade Secret Violations
Sequenom Obtains Patents for DNA MassArray Technology
Aclara Biosciences & PE Biosystems Sign Drug Screening Collaboration
Millipore Reports First Quarter Results
CombiChem Appoints Michael GRusnak to the Position of Vice President,
Business Development
TRANSGENE Announces First Quarter Results
Bailey to Head Health Industry Manufacturers Association (HIMA)
AmeriPath, IncAnnounces 1999 First Quarter Results
Coulter Pharmaceutical Reports 1999 First Quarter Financial Results
Abbott Announces Executive Promotions
Genset Reports First Quarter 1999 Financial Results
Genset Reinforces Its Obesity Program with the Creation of a New
Physiological Genomics Department and Publishes First Gene Discovery Results
Mettler-Toledo International IncReports First Quarter 1999 Results
Rohm and Haas Withdraws Tender Offer; Will Acquire Morton through Merger
Progenics Report on Novel HIV Inhibitor is Published in The Journal Of
Virology
Centaur Pharmaceuticals Announces First Quarter 1999 Financial Results
EG&G Announces 24% Increase In Diluted Earnings Per Share For The First
Quarter 1999
Human Genome Sciences Reports First Quarter Financial Results
