Best of the Blog: Start-Up April 2008

"Best of the Blog" is a monthly column highlighting the best of our free online content at www.windhover.com/blog. In May: cell therapy for Parkinson's, the difficulty of SPACs, Roche buys Piramed, and another boost for microRNA.

Best of the Blog is a monthly column highlighting the best of our free online content at www.windhover.com/blog. In April Windhover’s editorial staff posted 44 articles to the site, covering biopharma, device and diagnostics R&D, business development, regulatory, and commercial news. Highlights in April included Friday’s Venture Round: Weekly Wrap Up and an interview with the CEO of the new fibrosis play Stromedix Inc. Here are a few of our favorite blog posts for stories not covered elsewhere in this month’s START-UP.

Last month’s "Science Matters" column in START-UP highlighted some newly reported cell therapy work in Parkinson’s disease, but suggested that...

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