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Merger Madness

Mar 17, 2009

As everyone is busy filling out their March Madness Brackets (and hoping that Duke loses), the Health Blog at the Wall Street Journal has come up with a bracket of their own, seeding pharmas against one another. Some of the results are already in -- Pfizer's taken down Wyeth and Roche's beaten Genentech -- but the winner of the "merger mania" isn't yet clear.

Breaking News
The Scan

Pig Organ Transplants Considered

The Wall Street Journal reports that the US Food and Drug Administration may soon allow clinical trials that involve transplanting pig organs into humans.

'Poo-Bank' Proposal

Harvard Medical School researchers suggest people should bank stool samples when they are young to transplant when they later develop age-related diseases.

Spurred to Develop Again

New Scientist reports that researchers may have uncovered why about 60 percent of in vitro fertilization embryos stop developing.

Science Papers Examine Breast Milk Cell Populations, Cerebral Cortex Cellular Diversity, Micronesia Population History

In Science this week: unique cell populations found within breast milk, 100 transcriptionally distinct cell populations uncovered in the cerebral cortex, and more.