Highly-Targeted Nanoparticles Act as “Trojan Horse” to Deliver Powerful Chemotherapy Agent Without Affecting Healthy Cells

-- Enhanced Anti-Tumor Activity Achieved via Combination of Two Distinct Anti-Angiogenic Drugs presented at the AACR Annual Meeting 2012 --

Company: Bind Biosciences
Headquarters: Cambridge, MA
Founded: 2006
Employees: 30

ACOS (The American-European Congress of Ophthalmic Surgery) and Avedro, Inc. jointly announced today the initiation of a Phase 3, multi-center, randomized, controlled evaluation to study accelerated corneal collagen cross-linking in eyes with keratoconus or corneal ectasia after refractive surgery. ACOS is sponsoring the study, which will be conducted in 100 clinical centers across the United States.

Mascoma Corporation, a renewable fuels company, and Lallemand Ethanol Technology, a leading supplier of fermentation ingredients to fuel ethanol producers, announced today that they have entered into a commercial agreement with Pacific Ethanol Columbia, LLC, the owner of the ethanol production facility located in Boardman, Oregon and operated by Pacific Ethanol, Inc., (NASDAQ: PEIX), the leading marketer and producer of low-carbon renewable fuels in the Western United States.

BG Medicine, Inc. (Nasdaq:BGMD - News), a company focused on the development and commercialization of novel cardiovascular diagnostics, announced today the results of several new studies related to the galectin-3 protein. BG Medicine markets a blood test for galectin-3 called the BGM Galectin-3 test for heart failure, which was cleared by the FDA in 2010 and obtained the CE mark for commercialization in the EU.

 SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, Calif., Mar 16, 2012 (GlobeNewswire via COMTEX) -- LS9, Inc., a technology leader in the development of renewable and sustainable products, today announced the Company was chosen by an independent panel of judges as the winner of the Sustainable Biofuels Technology Award presented at the World Biofuels Markets Congress and Exhibition 2012 taking place March 13-15, 2012 at the Beurs-World Trade Center, in the Rotterdam, Netherlands ( www.worldbiofuelsmarkets.com ).<

 SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, Calif., Mar 16, 2012 (GlobeNewswire via COMTEX) -- LS9, Inc., a technology leader in the development of renewable and sustainable products, today announced the Company was chosen by an independent panel of judges as the winner of the Sustainable Biofuels Technology Award presented at the World Biofuels Markets Congress and Exhibition 2012 taking place March 13-15, 2012 at the Beurs-World Trade Center, in the Rotterdam, Netherlands ( www.worldbiofuelsmarkets.com ).<

BURLINGTON, Mass., March 15, 2012 -- Black Duck Software, the leader in open source software knowledge,