biotechnology industry

• News

Appeals court upholds retention of volunteered DNA

• Maryland

Advanced Biotechnologies relocates to Eldersburg

Advanced Biotechnologies relocates to Eldersburg

• Opinion

Destroying smallpox stocks would leave U.S. vulnerable to infection [Commentary]

In light of the recovery of smallpox from samples whose existence was unknown for such a long period of time, it would be irresponsible to even continue the discussion of viral stock destruction.

• Health

JHU students develop more comfortable defibrillator vest

For those waiting on surgery to place a defibrillator inside their body, special vests can deliver lifesaving shocks in the event of a heart arrhythmia. But the downside, some say, is that the vests are so uncomfortable some patients don't wear them all the time.

• Business

Biotech investors vie for $12 million in state tax credits

More than 100 applicants are vying for $12 million worth of Maryland tax credits available to biotechnology investors in fiscal 2015, state economic development officials said.

• Maryland

Stocks end lower as traders sell blue chips

• Opinion

Maryland is growing its GDP [Letter]

State is investing wisely in innovation, research and entrepreneurship for the 21

• Chemical Industry

Steven Hsiao, Johns Hopkins scientist

Dr. Steven S. Hsiao, a Johns Hopkins scientist who studied how the brain perceives the shape, size and texture of three-dimensional objects, died of lung cancer June 16 at Hopkins Hospital.

• Baltimore City Paper

DNA Test Fest: Free music festival July 25 and 26 in College Park

• Anne Arundel

North County students net national science prize

North County High School students Jack Andraka and Chloe Diggs recently captured the gold medal and $50,000 in the Siemens We Can Change the World Challenge, which encourages student teams to identify an environmental issue that has global impact and provide a viable, replicable solution.

• Health

MedImmune expands research with universities

Biotechnology company MedImmune said Tuesday it has expanded a bioresearch collaboration it started with the University of System of Maryland.

• News

Maryland police DNA tactics again at issue in top courts

A man found guilty of burglary based on DNA evidence asked a state appellate court Thursday to throw out his conviction, arguing that police improperly kept his genetic information in the database they used to link him to a Coke can from the crime scene.

• Opinion

Growing interest in STEM [Commentary]

It seems that many minorities do not give back to their communities to help develop the next generation pursue STEM fields, or that many minority kids are turned away from STEM fields because they do not believe it is possible to be successful in these fields. If our society wants to see more minorities in STEM fields then we as a whole have to contribute and not put the entire burden on the education system to train the next generation of minorities in STEM fields.

• News

Police charge man accused of raping women in N.E. Baltimore

Man charged with rape

• Harford

Suspected serial burglar's smash and grab in Aberdeen turned deadly

Before he broke into to the Target in Aberdeen in the early morning hours of March 21 and was later fatally shot by police following a high speed highway chase, Rajsaun McCray was already facing store burglary charges in three other Maryland counties.

• Health

Scientists produce synthetic yeast chromosome, with help from Hopkins students

With the help of Johns Hopkins biomedical engineering students who have spent years stringing bits of DNA together, scientists have built the world's first synthetic yeast chromosome, an advancement that could help production of drugs, vaccines, biofuels and even beer.

• Opinion

'Tender mercies' of MIA accounting [Commentary]

Public requests to speed up the process of identifying remains of missing U.S. soldiers misunderstand the science and risks of misidentification.

• Science

Hacker breaches Hopkins server, but officials say identity theft not a concern

Names and contact information of as many as 1,300 current and former Johns Hopkins University biomedical engineering students were posted online Thursday, stolen by someone claiming to be part of the hacker group known as Anonymous.

• Science

Osiris shares rise on news of quarterly, annual profit

Columbia biotechnology company Osiris Therapeutics swung to a profit in the fourth quarter, and for all of 2013, sending its share price surging by as much as 10 percent Wednesday.

• News

Lab analysis took more than a year to link Baltimore man to rape

It took the Baltimore Police crime lab well over a year to link a Southeast Baltimore man to a 2012 rape due to a backlog in DNA analysis. Before officers could arrest him, police say he attacked again.

• Opinion

Guilty until proven innocent [Commentary]

A record number of overturned convictions last year should remind law enforcement to build cases carefully and honestly

• Harford

DNA on gun used in 2013 Edgewood killing not conclusively matched, expert testifies

Defense lawyers for an Edgewood man accused of a 2013 fatal shooting during a drug deal have asked the judge hearing the case exclude DNA evidence prosecutors want to introduce.

• Harford

Trial begins in 2013 Edgewood murder, attempted murder

Nearly a year after the incident, the trial of an Edgewood man accused of a 2013 double shooting that left a 17-year-old boy dead and a now-19-year-old man seriously wounded began Friday in the Harford County Courthouse in downtown Bel Air.

• Science

Pixelligent searching for space to ramp up manufacturing

Nanotechnology developed in Baltimore could help brighten household LED light bulbs or touch screens in the new year as startup Pixelligent prepares to ramp up manufacturing.

• Laurel Leader

Professionals add credibility to STEM at Laurel High family night

Laurel High School science department holds first annual STEM Family Night.

• Science

Emergent BioSolutions seeks to buy land from city for expansion

Rockville biotechnology company Emergent BioSolutions is seeking to buy 8 acres next to its East Baltimore manufacturing facility for an eventual expansion that could add up to 100 jobs, a company official said.

• East Baltimore Development Inc.

East Baltimore development moves to next phase

When demolition begins next week on several blocks of rowhomes, it will mark the start of a new phase for the nonprofit created by the city and others to redevelop 88 acres in East Baltimore just north of the Johns Hopkins University medical campus.

• Science

Emergent BioSolutions strikes $222M deal to buy Cangene Corp.

Rockville biotechnology company Emergent BioSolutions Inc. has struck a deal to buy Canadian firm Cangene Corp., which employs 100 people in Baltimore, for $222 million in cash, the companies said Thursday.

• Baltimore City Paper

Two men want detectives made famous by David Simon to pay after flawed murder convictions put them in prison for decades

• Health

State weighs regulations for research labs

State health officials are weighing new safeguards for research laboratories and biotechnology companies that handle potentially deadly infectious pathogens, but whether they will impose any remains a question because they don't know how big a threat there is.

• Howard County

Howard's Applications and Research Lab is not your parents' vo-tech

Students from across the 12 high schools in the Howard County Public School System take part in career academies at the Howard County Applications and Research Laboratory, which has come a long way from its days as a vo-tech center.

• News

Man charged in multiple sex offense cases acquitted fourth time

• News

Sex offender again claims consensual encounter with alleged victim

As he has done in three recent trials, the attorney for convicted sex offender Nelson Bernard Clifford told jurors Wednesday that he had a "consensual encounter" with a woman who says he broke into her home and attacked her.

• Health

Couple joins forces to research breast cancer genetics

• Harford

Edgewood man found guilty in 2004 rape case

An Edgewood man was found guilty of raping a woman in 2004, closing a case that had gone cold until he was arrested in a New York jail last year, the Harford County Sheriff's Office reported.

• Health

Osiris strikes deal to sell marquee stem-cell drug for $100M

Columbia biotechnology company Osiris Therapeutics has reached a deal to sell its marquee stem cell drug, the first to win government approval, for up to $100 million.

• Harford

Haggerty, Valdes reappointed to Harford Community College board

John F. Haggerty and James J. Valdes have been reappointed to the Harford Community College Board of Trustees by Gov. Martin O'Malley.

• Science

Examiner out, R2integrated in for downtown skyline

The name of defunct Examiner newspaper will no longer adorn the building at 400 E. Pratt St. , visible throughout the Inner Harbor. R2integrated's name will go up on the Commerce Street side of the building.

• Laurel Leader

Police make arrest in South Laurel double homicide

Four months after two South Laurel residents were found dead inside their home, Prince George's County Police have made an arrest in connection with the double homicide.

• News

City prosecutors lose three trials with accused rapist on stand

Nelson Bernard Clifford has been tried in three separate rape cases in recent years. Each time, he was linked through DNA to the scene and his accuser said she had been bound, blindfolded and attacked.

• News

Half a million in grants to reduce Baltimore's DNA processing backlog

The Baltimore Police Department will get more than $500,000 in federal grants to reduce a significant backlog in processing DNA evidence, according to Maryland's two U.S. senators.

• Baltimore City Paper

Shakespeare's substantial pageant is marred by last-minute cast change

• Harford

New STEM center at Aberdeen Proving Ground open to students

At the start of a formal ceremony opening the STEM and Education Outreach Center at Aberdeen Proving Ground Tuesday morning, Chaplain Lt. Col Juan Crockett gave an invocation. "Lord of science," Crockett said, "thousands of children will come here seeking truth. We pledge to use this center to guide and heal."

• Baltimore City

In the age of DNA, paternity testing hits the street

As the sky-blue Winnebago makes its way though midday traffic in downtown Baltimore, many pedestrians can't help but stare.

• Baltimore City Paper

A Baltimore lab aims to take the science of growing clean, healthy salt-water fish to the global marketplace

• Harford

With convictions for notorious 1981 Harford murders vacated, John Huffington could leave prison

Lawyers for John Norman Huffington, a Bel Air man who was twice convicted of killing a young man and young woman in Harford County in 1981, will argue for his release from prison on Thursday while Huffington awaits a new trial, granted this spring on the basis of discredited hair evidence presented at his two earlier trials.

• Opinion

Obama policies could stifle Md.'s biotech industry

Price controls and diminished patent protections would harm one of the state's major economic drivers.

• Opinion

The human cost of our flawed experiment with gene patents

The Supreme Court made the right decision in outlawing patents on human genes, but its verdict came too late for many.

• Science

Md. biotech companies and investors have until Friday to apply for tax credits, state says

Early-stage Maryland biotechnology companies and investors must submit applications by Friday to be considered for a first-round of up to $10 million in state biotechnology investment tax credits, the state department of Business and Economic Development said Wednesday

• Laurel Leader

DNA match leads to charges in Laurel cold case killing

After nearly 31 years of mystery, rumors and speculation regarding the disappearance and murder of Laurel resident Stefanie Watson; the case has finally been put to rest.