﻿<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><!--Firefox 2.0 and Internet Explorer 7 use simplistic feed sniffing to override desired presentation behavior for this feed, and thus we are obliged to insert this comment, a bit of a waste of bandwidth, unfortunately. This should ensure that the following stylesheet processing instruction is honored by these new browser versions. For some more background you might want to visit the following bug report: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=338621--><?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="rss.xsl"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Van Leeuwenhoeck Research - news</title><link>http://www.vanleeuwenhoeckresearch.com/</link><copyright>(c) 2009,  Van Leeuwenhoeck Research All rights reserved.</copyright><ttl>5</ttl><description>You can subscribe to this RSS Feed to keep updated on the latest news on Van Leeuwenhoeck Research.</description><item><title>Facet Biotech Stock Soars on Abbott Bid (at TheStreet.com)</title><description /><link>http://us.rd.yahoo.com/finance/external/tsmfe/rss/SIG=1314t9rqt/*http%3A//www.thestreet.com/_yahoo/story/10699212/1/facet-biotech-stock-soars-on-abbott-bid.html?cm_ven=YAHOO&amp;cm_cat=FREE&amp;cm_ite=NA</link><pubDate>Wed, 10 Mar 2010 04:50:00 GMT</pubDate><lastBuildDate>Wed, 10 Mar 2010 05:12:26 GMT</lastBuildDate></item><item><title>InterMune's Lung Drug Gets Backing From FDA Panel (at The Wall Street Journal Online)</title><description /><link>http://us.rd.yahoo.com/finance/external/xbwsj/rss/SIG=12srsroh6/*http%3A//blogs.wsj.com/health/2010/03/09/intermunes-lung-drug-gets-backing-from-fda-panel/?mod=yahoo_hs</link><pubDate>Wed, 10 Mar 2010 04:23:00 GMT</pubDate><lastBuildDate>Wed, 10 Mar 2010 05:12:26 GMT</lastBuildDate></item><item><title>Coughlin Stoia Geller Rudman &amp; Robbins LLP Files Class Action Suit against Medivation, Inc. (Business Wire)</title><description>SAN DIEGO----Coughlin Stoia Geller Rudman &amp; Robbins LLP today announced that a class action has been commenced in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California on behalf of purchasers of Medivation, Inc. common stock during the period between July 17, 2008 and March 2, 2010, inclusive .</description><link>http://us.rd.yahoo.com/finance/news/rss/story/*http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/100309/20100309007149.html?.v=1</link><pubDate>Wed, 10 Mar 2010 03:46:00 GMT</pubDate><lastBuildDate>Wed, 10 Mar 2010 05:12:26 GMT</lastBuildDate></item><item><title>[$$] Abbott to Buy Facet Biotech (at The Wall Street Journal Online)</title><description /><link>http://us.rd.yahoo.com/finance/external/wsj/rss/SIG=12i1kkikp/*http%3A//online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704784904575112090416314912.html?ru=yahoo&amp;mod=yahoo_hs</link><pubDate>Wed, 10 Mar 2010 03:31:00 GMT</pubDate><lastBuildDate>Wed, 10 Mar 2010 05:12:26 GMT</lastBuildDate></item><item><title>InterMune shares jump on FDA panel recommendation (at MarketWatch)</title><description /><link>http://us.rd.yahoo.com/finance/external/cbsm/rss/SIG=11kitjnkn/*http%3A//www.marketwatch.com/News/Story/Story.aspx?guid=%7b67F42578-3850-4571-ABCF-D75A52184494%7d&amp;siteid=yhoof2</link><pubDate>Wed, 10 Mar 2010 03:19:00 GMT</pubDate><lastBuildDate>Wed, 10 Mar 2010 05:12:26 GMT</lastBuildDate></item><item><title>Life Technologies CEO's 2009 compensation falls (AP)</title><description>Life Technologies Corp. Chairman and CEO Gregory Lucier's compensation fell 60 percent to just over $4.5 million in 2009 on a lack of stock awards, according to an Associated Press calculation of figures disclosed in a regulatory filing.</description><link>http://us.rd.yahoo.com/finance/news/rss/story/*http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/100309/us_life_technologies_executive_compensation.html?.v=1</link><pubDate>Wed, 10 Mar 2010 03:08:00 GMT</pubDate><lastBuildDate>Wed, 10 Mar 2010 05:12:26 GMT</lastBuildDate></item><item><title>Abbott Labs to buy Facet Biotech for $722 million (at MarketWatch)</title><description /><link>http://us.rd.yahoo.com/finance/external/cbsm/rss/SIG=11kitjnkn/*http%3A//www.marketwatch.com/News/Story/Story.aspx?guid=%7b2EF7DEE0-0C4A-4F8D-8711-BDD7DF886FF2%7d&amp;siteid=yhoof2</link><pubDate>Wed, 10 Mar 2010 03:06:00 GMT</pubDate><lastBuildDate>Wed, 10 Mar 2010 05:12:26 GMT</lastBuildDate></item><item><title>FDA approves InterMune lung drug (at bizjournals.com)</title><description 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per share in cash for a net transaction value of approximately $450 million, which includes a purchase price of approximately $722 million less Facet's projected cash and marketable securities at closing of approximately $272 million.  </description><link>http://us.rd.yahoo.com/finance/news/rss/story/*http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/100309/cg67861.html?.v=1</link><pubDate>Wed, 10 Mar 2010 02:52:00 GMT</pubDate><lastBuildDate>Wed, 10 Mar 2010 05:12:26 GMT</lastBuildDate></item><item><title>FDA panel favors approval for InterMune drug (AP)</title><description>Federal health advisers on Tuesday voted in favor of an experimental drug from InterMune Inc., despite mixed evidence of whether it provides significant benefits for patients with a rare lung disease.</description><link>http://us.rd.yahoo.com/finance/news/rss/story/*http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/100309/us_intermune_fda_panel.html?.v=4</link><pubDate>Wed, 10 Mar 2010 02:44:00 GMT</pubDate><lastBuildDate>Wed, 10 Mar 2010 05:12:26 GMT</lastBuildDate></item><item><title>FDA Advisory Committee Recommends Approval of InterMune's Esbriet(R) (pirfenidone) for Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis (PR Newswire)</title><description>InterMune, Inc. announced today that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's Pulmonary-Allergy Drugs Advisory Committee voted 9-3 to recommend approval of Esbriet® for the treatment of patients with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis to reduce decline in lung function.  </description><link>http://us.rd.yahoo.com/finance/news/rss/story/*http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/100309/sf67688.html?.v=1</link><pubDate>Wed, 10 Mar 2010 02:21:00 GMT</pubDate><lastBuildDate>Wed, 10 Mar 2010 05:12:26 GMT</lastBuildDate></item><item><title>[$$] FDA Panel Backs InterMune Lung Drug (at The Wall Street Journal Online)</title><description 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