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• Commenting on: The Mission Bay Biotech Cluster: Antibodies, RNAi, Biofuels, & More

  Rebecca said: WC- The image was meant only to provide a little abstract eye candy, but point taken. Hope the new image... Read more »

• Sylvia Pagán Westphal Takes the Pulse of Life Sciences for Xconomy

  One of the things I’ve always enjoyed about technology journalism is how cozy a niche it is. There just aren’t than many folks who can geek out with the lab dwellers, put... Read more »

• $10M for Akorri, $52M for Dyax, A New Partner for Dicerna, & More Boston-Area Deals News

  The precipitation in New England may have reached near-biblical proportions this past week, but tech and life sciences deal making was more modest.

  —Investors poured $10.1 million into Littleton, MA-based software... Read more »

• Biogen Idec Reaches Deal With Icahn, Ironwood CEO Shares IPO Strategy, Luke Maps out the Genetics Institute Diaspora, & More Boston-Area Life Sciences News

  This week saw new leadership at a couple of New England’s life sciences companies, some wisdom from one of its newly public companies, and a new truce in one of its long-running power struggles.... Read more »

• Genetix Gets $35M for Gene Therapy, FDA Delays Decision on Alkermes/Amylin Drug, MedMinder and Vitality Tackle Medication Compliance, & More Boston-Area Life Sciences News

  The FDA added some suspense to one New England biotech firm’s week, while two others reached closure on nice-sized venture deals.

  —Genetix Pharmaceuticals raised $35 million in a Series B round of venture... Read more »

• Vertex Pursues Drug-Cocktail Strategy, Phase Forward Out To Expand Health IT Empire, Alkermes Awaits FDA Ruling, & More Boston-Area Life Sciences News

  Another week, another cadre of CEOs with big plans for growing their New England life sciences companies even bigger.

  —Diagnostics For All CEO Una Ryan talked about her multi-pronged effort to... Read more »

• Elliott Makes $2B Bid for Novell, Summit Partners Leads $23M Investment in Cloudmark, Stemgent Backs Scottish Startup, & More Boston-Area Deals News

  Deal flow was a bit slow among New England’s tech and life sciences firms this week. Perhaps folks were too distracted by the unexpected appearance of that warm glowing ball in the... Read more »

• Biogen Idec Seeks Science-Savvy CEO, LifeImage Partners With EMC, GenomeQuest Aims to be Genetic Google, & More Boston-Area Life Sciences News

  Another eventful week for New England’s life sciences companies, with big changes potentially in store for two of the biggest firms.

  —Biogen Idec’s new board chairman, Bill Young, told Luke that the... Read more »

• Luminus Devices Nabs $19M, Aveo Sets IPO Range, Thermo Fisher Scientific Reportedly Makes $6 B Move on Millipore, & More Boston-Area Deals News

  It was a good week for venture dealmaking among New England’s tech and life sciences firms.

  —Needham, MA-based Stata Venture Partners led a $7 million Series B financing round for NABsys, a Providence, RI-based... Read more »

• EveryScape Adds $6M, Eyes Asia

  EveryScape announced it has raised $6 million in a Series C funding round led by SK Telecom Americas, a division of Korean mobile operator SK Telecom (NYSE: SKM), and joined by return investors... Read more »

• MPM Collects $140M for Fifth Fund, NEXX Files for IPO, Nuance Advances on Mac Market, & More Boston-Area Deals News

  New England’s tech and life sciences firms inked lots of deals in the last week, with the software sector being particularly active.

  —Advanced RenewableEnergy Company of Nashua, NH, raised $5... Read more »

• Presidents Day

  Posting will be light today as Xconomy is closed for Presidents Day. We’ll be back tomorrow full force.  Meanwhile, enjoy the holiday!

• Zafgen Plans Weight-Loss Study, Infinity CEO Perkins Plans for Growth, Boston Scientific Cuts 1000+ Jobs, & More Boston-Area Life Sciences News

  This week we’ve got another crop of great interviews with the founders and executives of some of New England’s most fascinating life sciences companies.

  —Zafgen CEO Tom Hughes filled Luke in... Read more »

• ATG Banks $101M, Veracode Collects $12M, & More Boston-Area Deals News

  It’s only been a few days since I last rounded up the deals news from New England’s tech and life sciences companies, but there are still a few new transactions to report.

  —Irvine, CA-based Allergan... Read more »

• Ironwood Goes Public, Glasshouse and BG Medicine Aim to Do the Same, Vivox Collects $6.8M, & More Boston-Area Deals News

  For the first time in as long as I can remember, IPOs dominated the New England tech and life sciences deals news this week.

  —Glasshouse Technologies, an IT consulting firm in Framingham, MA,... Read more »

• Alnara Adds $35M, Harvest Power Teams Up with Waste Management, & More Boston-Area Deals News

  We spent some time this week looking at the data on last year’s venture deals, big and small, while New England’s tech and life sciences companies announced some of the first... Read more »

• Introducing Erin Kutz, Belatedly

  You know a new hire is a good fit when by the end of her first day you’ve already forgotten that she’s new. And that’s just what happened when our new assistant editor,... Read more »

• Vertex CEO on Building a Blockbuster, Genzyme Investor on Fixing Up the Firm, Cubist CEO on Pipeline and Patent Challenges, & More Boston-Area Life Sciences News

  If in-depth interviews with some of the heaviest hitters in the New England life sciences industry are your cup of tea, this was the week for you.

  —Ryan had a fascinating chat with... Read more »

• Time Inc. Scoops Up StyleFeeder, Ironwood Sets Sights on Potential $266.7 M IPO, FloDesign Reveals $34.5M Financing, & More Boston-Area Deals News

  It was a short week, but the list of deals that New England’s tech and life sciences firms inked in that span is a long one. Let’s dive in:

  —StyleFeeder, the Cambridge, MA-based personalized... Read more »

• IkaSystems Raises $120M, New CEOs of Qteros, Bind, and Quanterix Dish the Dirt, & More Boston-Area Life Sciences News

  This week Ryan and Luke had several great interviews with some of the newest CEOs in New England life sciences. Those and the rest of the week’s biotech, devices, and health... Read more »