Investopedia: The Week In Healthcare

The last week of August proved to be a relatively significant one for multiple med-tech companies. Although the Labor Day holiday is likely to keep a lid on the news flow in the first week of September, there are a few upcoming earnings reports. What's more, the timing of restructurings, acquisitions and the like are inherently unpredictable and I would not be surprised to hear more news along these lines.

Helicos Looks Like It's Out of Moves
Few readers are going to be familiar with Helicos BioSciences (OTC:HLCS), as this tiny life sciences company has failed to successfully commercialize its direct DNA and RNA molecule sequencing technology. Although the technology is legitimately interesting, the company's execution mistakes left it with basically a long-shot survival strategy - suing other, larger, life science companies like Pacific Biosciences (Nasdaq:PACB), Life Technologies (Nasdaq:LIFE) and Illumina (Nasdaq:ILMN) for patent infringement.

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