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OCZ Technology Vertex 3 SSD Form Factor: Bigger isn't Always Better

When the original Vertex and Agility product lines were introduced, we were told that the Vertex had a specific BOM (Build of Materials) list and the Agility had a dynamic BOM. In the end we found the ...
Business Wire

Vertex Announces FDA Clearance of Investigational New Drug Application for VX-264, a Novel Encapsulated Cell Therapy for the Treatment of Type 1 Diabetes

BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Vertex Pharmaceuticals Incorporated (Nasdaq: VRTX) today announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has cleared the Investigational New Drug Application (IND) ...
STAT

U.K. patients form a buyer’s club to get a cheaper version of a Vertex cystic fibrosis drug

As a long-running battle over access to a pricey cystic fibrosis drug grinds on in the U.K., an advocacy group and several families have formed a buyer’s club in order to make a lower-cost version of ...
C&EN

Vertex and X-Chem form library pact

Vertex Pharmaceuticals will pay X-Chem an undisclosed up-front payment as well as milestones as part of a small-molecule drug discovery pact targeting severe, genetic diseases. X-Chem, based in ...
Science Daily

Molecules form 2-D patterns never before observed: Nanoscience experiments produce elusive 5-vertex tilings

Tessellation patterns that have fascinated mathematicians since Kepler worked out their systematics 400 years ago -- and that more recently have caught the eye of artists and crystallographers -- can ...