CAMBRIDGE, Mass., March 1, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- NeuroPhage Pharmaceuticals, Inc.

DURHAM, N.C., Dec. 21, 2010 /PRNewswire/ -- bioMerieux, a world leader in the field of in vitro diagnostics, announced the results of a survey demonstrating that most critical care nurses are unaware of a simple diagnostic test that may dramatically improve outcomes for sepsis patients.

PARIS, December 13, 2010 /PRNewswire/ -- Institut Merieux strengthens its commitment to medicine and global public health via an ambitious innovation policy, the structuring of a food safety/nutrition hub and the creation of a company dedicated to diagnostics in developing countries. One year after reinstating the historic name of Institut Merieux for the family holding devoted to industrial biology, Alain Merieux and the management teams of the companies, bioMerieux, Transgene, Merieux Nutrisciences and Merieux Developpement, have presented the actions implemented within the scope of their innovation and international development strategy with: - the structuring of a food safety/nutrition hub based around Merieux NutriSciences, completing and supporting the diagnostic and therapeutic Areas covered by Institut Merieux - the Group's innovation policy with, in particular, the first holdings by its investment company, Merieux Developpement - the deve

MARCY L'ETOILE, France and LAUSANNE, Switzerland, November 4, 2010 /PRNewswire/ -- - Co-development of Assays and Co-distribution of a Fully Integrated Molecular Platform due for Launch in 2012 - bioMerieux Gains Exclusive Rights in Microbiology - bioMerieux Takes Equity Stake in Biocartis bioMerieux and Biocartis announced today that they have entered into a strategic agreement to co-develop assays on Biocartis' fully integrated molecular diagnostics system, which the two companies will co-distribute starting in 2012.

KYOTO, Japan and MARCY L'ETOILE, France, May 21 /PRNewswire/ -- Shimadzu and bioMerieux announce today that they have entered into a partnership to commercialize a mass spectrometry system for bacterial identification in microbiology laboratories.