Look up the origins of the word "enzyme" in the dictionary and you'll find it has a possible Greek root, related to the word "juice." Look up "juice," and you'll find that it can be defined as "strength, vigor, vitality" - words seldom associated with the biotechnology sector these days. (BioWorld Financial Watch)

In these hard economic times, when you hear anybody in biotechnology say it's "not all about cash," you might suspect the speaker of being na ve or disingenuous. And when such words come out of the straitened genomics sector, they sound even much more suspicious. (BioWorld Financial Watch)

Several months after the company cut three late-stage programs, Chiron Corp. has set about the business of building its pipeline, nailing down a small-molecule partnership with GlaxoSmithKline plc to fuel research in the melanocortin 4 receptor pathway. (BioWorld Today)