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receive from Alnylam milestone payments and royal- ties on sales of product resulting from the license. No additional financial details were disclosed.

Furthermore, Arrowhead Research announced that the Investigational New Drug Application (IND) for its first obesity drug candidate, Adipotide™, was accepted by the U.S. FDA. Adipotide™ specifically targets and kills blood vessels supplying white fat tissue.

Total operating expenses of Arrowhead for the fiscal 2011 fourth quarter were $2.9 million, compared to $1.8 million from during the quarter ended Septem- ber 30, 2010. Net loss attributable to Arrowhead for the quarter ended September 30, 2011 was $2.8 million, or $0.39 per share based on 7,183,369 weighted average shares outstanding.

For the fiscal year ended September 30, 2011, Arrow- head reported revenues of $296,000, no revenue was recorded in the previous fiscal year. Net loss at- tributable to Arrowhead for the 2011 fiscal year was $3.1 million, or $0.44 per share based on 7,181,121 weighted average shares outstanding, compared with a net loss attributable to Arrowhead of $5.8 million, or $0.90 per share based on 6,434,245 weighted average shares outstanding in fiscal 2010.

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ollowing its success in the Red Herring Top 100 Europe challenge earlier this year, Beneq (FI)

has now been named as a Red Herring Global 100 Winner. The coating applications of Beneq are based

on two enabling nanotechnology platforms: Atomic Layer Deposition (ALD) and aerosol coating (nHA- LO®

and nAERO® ). http://www.beneq.com B

lue Spark Technologies has opened a new high- volume printing and production facility located

in West Bend, Wisconsin (U.S). The new facility extends Blue Spark‘s capability to produce large vo- lumes of its line of disposable, flexible carbon zinc batteries to meet growing demand for printed elec- tronics that power innovations in commercial and industrial packaging. Blue Spark‘s ultra-thin carbon zinc batteries are used as a power source in a host of traditional and printed electronics applications.

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ubbles & beyond, Germany, has created a patented technology called intelligent fluids®

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this includes liquids, which are build up of highly dynamic molecular super structures. The intelligent fluids®

even accomplish the usage of gentle ingre-

dients instead of hard chemicals. bubbles & beyond was founded in May 2006 in Leipzig, Germany. Advantages of the phase fluids:

• high penetration and diffusion; • a multiple absorption ability (water, oil, dirt); • low interfacial tension and high spreading ability; • gentle ingredients- powerful action; • easy and complete deactivation (by adding water); • extremely adaptable to divers needs. http://www.bubbles-beyond.com