HOPKINTON, Mass., Sept. 22 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Caliper Life Sciences, Inc.

AHMEDABAD, India, June 21, 2010 /PRNewswire/ -- Zydus Cadila, a global healthcare provider and one of India's leading healthcare companies has received Phase I clinical trial permission from the DCGI for ZYOG1 - a novel GLP-1 agonist.

NES-ZIONA, Israel, March 18 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- PROLOR Biotech, Inc., (OTC Bulletin Board: PBTH), a company developing next generation biobetter therapeutic proteins, today announced that it has raised $24.4 million in a private placement of 10,382,975 shares of its common stock, par value $0.00001 per share, to accredited investors at a price of $2.35 per share, which represents an approximate 17% discount to the average closing price of the common stock for the 30-day period prior to closing.

ArQule, Inc. (NASDAQ: ARQL) today announced that symptomatic and asymptomatic QTc prolongation, a measure of cardiac function, has been observed in a Phase 1 dose escalation trial with ARQ 171, a second generation product in its E2F-1 cancer therapy program.

Plexxikon Inc. and Roche today announced they have entered into an agreement to develop and commercialize PLX4032, Plexxikon's investigational targeted cancer therapy which selectively inhibits B-RafV600E, a mutated form of the BRAF kinase gene.