Researchers from Rockville biotech company Sanaria Inc. and the National Institutes of Health (NIH) are making progress in the development of highly protective malaria vaccines.

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Biotech firm Regenxbio Inc. plans to double its workforce and will receive assistance from Maryland and Montgomery County for its previously-announced headquarters expansion in Rockville.

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ABL Inc., a biomedical contractor based in Rockville, is working to advance the development of a new vaccine platform.

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Circulomics Inc. recently launched a new kit that it said would let scientists more rapidly perform high-molecular-weight DNA extraction.

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The success of a Maryland fund dedicated to supporting research and commercialization around stem cells could help the state position itself for a biotech boom. The Maryland Stem Cell Research Fund has helped the state’s drive to be a biotechnology ...

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Neuralstem Inc., a biopharmaceutical company, recently received a grant worth up to nearly $1 million from the National Institutes of Health. The Germantown company received the research grant, to evaluate over two years the ability of its small molecule compound, NSI-189 to prevent and ...

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Novavax Inc., a Gaithersburg-based biotechnology company, on Tuesday announced that it had seen positive data from its phase 2 trial of its respiratory syncytial virus F-protein nanoparticle vaccine candidate. There is no approved vaccine for the virus, which is the most common ...

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Federal health officials on Friday approved the first lower-cost copy of a biotech drug in the U.S., a long-awaited milestone that could save billions for insurers, doctors and patients.

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Google's ambitious health startup is teaming up with biotechnology drugmaker AbbVie in a $500 million joint venture that will try to develop new ways to treat cancer and other diseases such as Alzheimer's.

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The National Cancer Institute is terminating its contract with a Frederick, Maryland supplier of hundreds of thousands of genetically engineered laboratory mice.

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