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Coca-Cola takes $1.25 billion stake in Green Mountain

2014-02-06 01:38:13| Beverages - Topix.net

Green Mountain Coffee Roasters Inc, maker of the popular Keurig single-cup coffee brewer, said on Wednesday that the Coca-Cola Co bought a 10 percent stake in it for $1.25 billion and would help launch Green Mountain's new cold drink machine planned for next year.

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Apple faces $2.1 billion patent damages claim in Germany

2014-02-05 15:46:26| InfoWorld: Top News

German patent licensing firm IPCom has accused Apple of infringing a patent on 3G technology and wants 1.57 billion ($2.1 billion) in damages, the Mannheim Regional Court said Wednesday.

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Did the genesis of life occur just after the Big Bang, almost 14 billion years ago?

2014-02-05 15:07:05| Extremetech

After last night's Bill Nye vs. Ken Ham (evolution vs. creationism) debate, it seems fitting to start the day with new research from a Harvard astrophysicist that suggests the first life in the universe may have emerged just 10-20 million years after the Big Bang. This is a few billion years before most scientists believe that the universe had suitable conditions for the genesis of life. If life really did emerge way back then, and then continued to travel through space on the back of asteroids and other interplanetary debris, it would seem almost certain that a) Earth was not the home of the universe's first life, and b) life on Earth arrived on the back of an asteroid.

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X-Chem First Biotech To Exceed 100 Billion Compounds With Its Unique And Proprietary Small Molecule DNA-Encoded Library

2014-02-05 07:33:58| drugdiscoveryonline News Articles

X-Chem, Inc., a privately held biotechnology company focused on applying its powerful product engine to the generation of novel small molecule therapeutics, recently announced that the company has created the first biotech-owned screening library of DNA-encoded small molecules to ever surpass 100 billion compounds

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Ablynx agrees Merck cancer deal worth up to 1.7 billion euros

2014-02-04 08:05:11| Biotech - Topix.net

Belgian biotech company Ablynx has signed a deal with Merck & Co worth up to 1.7 billion euros to develop ways of triggering the body to fight cancer by itself.

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