Tekmira Pharmaceuticals is giving diseases the silent treatment. The biopharmaceutical company is attempting to develop therapies that inhibit or "silence" certain disease-causing genes through ribonucleic acid interference (RNAi), a mechanism that disrupts the production of proteins that can lead to cancer, metabolic, and infectious diseases. Tekmira's lead candidates are being developed to treat tumors and high cholesterol. It also partners with other pharmaceutical companies, such as Alnylam Pharmaceuticals and Roche, to advance additional RNAi products using Tekmira's stable nucleic acid-lipid particles (SNALP) RNAi drug delivery technology.

BD Biosciences company, a division of medical equipment firm Becton, Dickinson (BD), provides research supplies to the life sciences market. Its primary Cell Analysis unit offers cell imaging devices, flow cytometers (for cell sorting), and chemical reagents and antibodies (proteins) for cellular analysis. The Discovery Labware unit makes basic lab supplies including pipettes, tubes, and cell culture kits. In addition to scientific researchers and drug developers, BD Biosciences counts among its customers blood banks, hospitals, and clinical labs. The company sells its goods around the world through direct and indirect marketing reps and independent distributors.

CSL Limited is a biopharmaceutical company engaged in the research, development, manufacture, marketing and distribution of biopharmaceutical and allied products. It operates in three segments: CSL Behring, which is engaged in manufacturing, marketing and developing plasma products; Intellectual Property Licensing, which is engaged in licensing to unrelated third parties of intellectual property generated by the Company, and Other Human Health, which comprises CSL Bioplasma and CSL Biotherapies. These businesses manufacture and distribute biotherapeutic products. It operates in Australia, United States, Switzerland and Germany.

Intervet/Schering-Plough Animal Health company develops, manufactures, and markets veterinary vaccines and pharmaceutical products. Its product portfolio includes vaccines for use in pets, livestock, poultry and aquaculture; treatment lines include antiparasitics, anti-infectives, and endocrine products. Intervet/Schering-Plough Animal Health also develops feed additives and animal productivity enhancers. Intervet/Schering-Plough Animal Health operates in more than 50 countries and sells its products around the world. Intervet/Schering-Plough Animal Health company is a subsidiary of Merck.

PLIVA wants you to remember its scientific research and business acumen, and less the names of its products. PLIVA company develops and produces generic pharmaceuticals, particularly in the anti-inflammatory and anti-infective areas. PLIVA also produces the active pharmaceutical ingredients used by other drug makers. Its products include both prescription and over-the-counter drugs, pills, creams, and injectables. PLIVA was founded in 1921 and operates in more than 30 countries. The company is a subsidiary of global generics firm Teva Pharmaceutical.

Upsher-Smith Laboratories, Inc. was founded in 1919 and is headquartered in Minneapolis, Minnesota with a facility in Denver, Colorado. Upsher-Smith Laboratories, Inc., a pharmaceutical company, engages in developing, manufacturing, commercializing, marketing, and distributing prescription and over-the-counter products. It offers drugs for cardiology, women's health, dermatology, neurology, and epilepsy and Parkinson's diseases. The company also provides prenatal vitamins. It serves patients, physicians, pharmacists, and healthcare organizations.

Elixir Pharmaceuticals concocts treatments targeting metabolic diseases and disorders. Dedicated to the discovery, development, and commercialization of treatments for such diseases as diabetes and obesity, the company has taken a dual approach to its work: licensing products from other pharmaceutical companies for development and pursuing proprietary products. Product candidates currently under development include Glinsuna and Metgluna as treatment for type 2 diabetes and a ghrelin antagonist as a treatment for a range of metabolic disorders (all in phase III testing). The company is also exploring the use of sirtuin modulators to treat metabolic disorders, cancer, and neurodegenerative disease.

Tetracore, Inc. company's FDA-approved Redline lab test can distinguish anthrax bacteria from similar microorganisms. Other bioterrorism countermeasures the firm offers include the BioThreat Alert testing kit used by first responders to detect various biological toxins including botulinum toxin (botulism) and staphylococcus aureus enterotoxin B (SEB). Tetracore also sells veterinary diagnostic (VetAlert) tests for foot-and-mouth disease, West Nile, and other diseases, and it markets antibodies (proteins) for use by research labs.

Hemagen Diagnostics, Inc. company was founded in 1985 and is based in Columbia, Maryland. Hemagen Diagnostics, Inc., a biotechnology company, develops, manufactures, and markets various proprietary medical diagnostic test kits and components worldwide. It offers two product lines, Virgo and Analyst. The Virgo product line of diagnostic test kits are used to aid in the diagnosis of autoimmune and infectious diseases, using enzyme-linked immunosorbence assay technologies, immunofluorescence, and hemagglutination technologies. The Analyst product line is a clinical chemistry analyzer system, which is used to measure important constituents in human and animal blood. The company also offers reagents and consumables for general chemistry analyzers, and medical diagnostic instruments, as well as provides maintenance services. Hemagen sells its products through distributors and directly to physicians, veterinarians, clinical laboratories, and blood banks, as well as on a private-label basis through multinational distributors.

Proteome Sciences plc is a United Kingdom-based company. The Company is principally engaged in biomarker research and development primarily in the field of applied proteomics, using techniques to detect and characterize differentially expressed proteins in diseases for diagnostic, prognostic and therapeutic applications. Through its ProteoSHOP toolkit, Proteome Sciences provides proteomics solutions, including traditional two dimensional gel-based electrophoresis (2DE) and gel-free protein sequence tag technologies (PST, qPST& TMT), to pharma, biotechnology and diagnostic companies. The Company has research facilities in London, the United Kingdom and Frankfurt, Germany. Its subsidiaries include Proteome Sciences R&D Verwaltungs GmbH, Proteome Sciences R&D GmbH & Co. KG, Xzillion GmbH & Co. KG, Proteome Sciences, Inc., Veri-Q Inc., Phenomics Limited and Electrophoretics Limited.

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