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News Analysis | 9 June 2014

Taiwan biotech buoyed by colossal financings

David Cyranoski

The latest signs of Taiwan's bourgeoning biotech industry came in May, when Medigen saw its market capitalization break the $2-billion mark, more than doubling its mid-March valuation, and PharmaEngine's stock price spiked on reports of successful phase 3 results in for its nanoliposomal formulation of the cancer drug irinotecan.

Article | 22 June 2014 Defining the T-Cell receptor repertoire Arnold Han et al.

Letter | 22 June 2014 Combinatorial cancer models with Cas9 Dirk Heckl et al.

Careers | 9 June 2014 Putting trainees at the center of academia’s mission Viviane Callier et al.

Commentary | 9 June 2014 The International Cancer Genome Consortium's evolving data-protection policies Djims Milius et al.

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• Research | 25 June 2014

  Decoding long nanopore sequencing reads of natural DNA

  Andrew H Laszlo et al.

  Laszlo et al. demonstrate sequence alignment, and proof-of-concept organism identification, genome assembly and polymorphism detection from nanopore analysis of natural DNA.
  
• Computational Biology | 22 June 2014

  Assessing the clinical utility of cancer genomic and proteomic data across tumor types

  Yuan Yuan et al.

  For several cancer types analyzed by The Cancer Genome Atlas project, predictions of patient survival were not substantially improved by using common data mining approaches to combine traditional clinical variables with molecular profiling data.
  
• Research | 15 June 2014

  Backbone modification of a polypeptide drug alters duration of action in vivo

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  The activity of a peptide agonist on a G protein–coupled receptor is readily modulated by altering its backbone structure without changing its side chains.
  
• Research | 9 June 2014

  Corrigendum: Rational drug repositioning by medical genetics

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• Research | 9 June 2014

  Erratum: Is this really the RNAissance?

• Research | 9 June 2014

  Corrigendum: Combinatorial discovery of polymers resistant to bacterial attachment

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• Research | 9 June 2014

  Erratum: The anatomy of successful computational biology software

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  Erratum: Biotech's wellspring: the health of private biotech in 2013

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