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China reports 6th human bird flu case this year

BEIJING (Reuters) - January 25, 2009 - A man in the southwestern Chinese province of Guizhou has been infected with bird flu and is in a critical condition in hospital, the Health Ministry said on Sunday. It is the sixth human case of bird flu to be reported in China this year.
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HX DIAGNOSTICS AND NANOGEN EXPAND COLLABORATION
License and Development Agreement to Include Rapid, Point-of-Care Diagnostics for Additional Respiratory Infectious Disease.
EMERYVILLE, Calif. – August 5, 2008 – HX Diagnostics, Inc. announced today that it has expanded its license and development agreement with Nanogen, Inc. (Nasdaq: NGEN) to include the development of additional rapid, point-of-care diagnostics for respiratory infectious diseases. As part of the three-year agreement, the companies will employ the same underlying technology used in their previously announced joint project, a diagnostic for the differential diagnosis of seasonal and pandemic influenza.
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Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers Forms $200 Million
Pandemic and Bio Defense Fund
MENLO PARK, CA., February 16, 2006 – Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers (KPCB) – a leader in providing relationship and venture capital SM services to entrepreneurs – announced the formation of a new fund, the KPCB Pandemic and Bio Defense Fund.
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HX Diagnostics

HX Diagnostics, Inc. is a San Francisco Bay Area diagnostics company with a mission to be a global leader in rapid diagnostics for seasonal and emerging infectious diseases.

HX Diagnostics, Inc. currently has 2 products in clinical trials planned for market release in the latter half of 2009:

The fluIDTM Rapid Influenza Test for rapid point-of-care detection of influenza A, B, and subtypes A/H1 and A/H3

The panfluIDTM Rapid Influenza Test for rapid point-of-care detection of avian influenza

 
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