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	<title>Comments on: Merck buys cardio-drug maker NovaCardia for $350M</title>
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		<title>By: VentureBeat &#187; Agensys sells out to Astellas for $387M &#8212; but is it a pig in a poke?</title>
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		<dc:creator>VentureBeat &#187; Agensys sells out to Astellas for $387M &#8212; but is it a pig in a poke?</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Nov 2007 02:06:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] an early stage biotech whose technology has barely reached the proof-of-concept stage. When Merck paid $350 million for NovaCardia in July, it was getting a company with a new heart drug that had already completed [...]</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>[...] an early stage biotech whose technology has barely reached the proof-of-concept stage. When Merck paid $350 million for NovaCardia in July, it was getting a company with a new heart drug that had already completed [...]</p>
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		<title>By: VentureBeat &#187; Life sciences briefing: Wednesday, Nov. 14, 2007</title>
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		<dc:creator>VentureBeat &#187; Life sciences briefing: Wednesday, Nov. 14, 2007</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Nov 2007 18:13:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] its portfolio companies were acquired this year &#8212; Avidia, by Amgen; NimbleGen, by Roche; and NovaCardia, by Merck (the links point to our coverage). Four of its portfolio companies &#8212; Hansen Medical, Sirtris [...]</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>[...] its portfolio companies were acquired this year &#8212; Avidia, by Amgen; NimbleGen, by Roche; and NovaCardia, by Merck (the links point to our coverage). Four of its portfolio companies &#8212; Hansen Medical, Sirtris [...]</p>
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		<title>By: VentureBeat &#187; Life sciences briefing: Friday, Sept. 28, 2007</title>
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		<dc:creator>VentureBeat &#187; Life sciences briefing: Friday, Sept. 28, 2007</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Sep 2007 17:10:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] draws on $20M for heart drug &#8212; Fresh from the sale of NovaCardia to Merck (see our coverage here), officials of that heart-drug company founded a second startup, San Diego&#8217;s aptly named [...]</description>
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