Biopure changes trading symbol

Biopure (Cambridge, Massachusetts) said that the trading symbol for its Class A common stock will revert from BPURD to BPUR. Outstanding warrants that trade on the OTCBB will revert to the following ticker symbols: BPREW reverting to BPURW; BPREZ reverting to BPURZ; and BPREL reverting to BPURL. Biopure makes oxygen therapeutics that are intravenously administered to deliver oxygen to the body’s tissues.