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  • A male birth control pill that dramatically lowers testosterone levels is moving forward into a 3 ...

    The men's pill also needs to clear another major hurdle: a pharmaceutical company has to pay to make the drug. That's something other male birth-control makers have struggled with in the past. Last year, Indian biomedical engineer Sujoy Guha was ready to take injectable birth control gel — in…

  • SA biotech merges with Colorado company, keeps local HQ

    Gavin said the new company will keep its headquarters in San Antonio, and it's expected that shareholders will approve retaining the CytoBioscience name. Last year, CytoBioscience was engaged in discussions with a different company, Skyline Medical Inc., about a potential alliance. The two…

  • San Antonio in race for new biotech campus for multiple companies

    The Alamo City is in the hunt to land a new main campus to be developed by San Antonio-based biomedical incubator Watershed Idea Foundry, which needs space to accommodate additional growth. Through its founder, Fountainhead Investment Partners, Watershed Idea Foundry is launching a ...

  • The Latest: Budget bill excludes money for Yucca nuke dump

    The House has easily approved a bipartisan $1.3 trillion measure handing huge spending increases to defense programs and domestic initiatives ranging from road-building to biomedical research. Thursday's vote was 256-167. That shipped the 2,232-page package to the Senate. Passage there is…

  • House OKs compromise $1.3 trillion budget bill, Senate next

    Democrats touted spending boosts on biomedical research, child care and infrastructure projects. And Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., attributed part of the House's hasty work on the measure to GOP fears of being stuck in Washington on Saturday, when huge throngs of students and others…