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Charles River Labs Says It Will Close San Diego Research Facility

Xconomy

Contract research organization Charles River Labs is shutting down its San Diego-area operations, moving the work done there to one of its two Northern California sites. Charles River says it was involved with about 85 percent of the drugs. Read more » Reprints | Share: UNDERWRITERS AND PARTNERS.

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Scientist.com Raises $24M for “Pharma Markets” that Outsource R&D

Xconomy

San Diego’s Scientist.com set out in 2006 to disrupt part of the pharmaceutical business by providing an Amazon-like approach to the business of hiring contract research organizations (CROs). Founding CEO Kevin Lustig said Scientist.com will use the additional cash to expand its operations.

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Dauntless Takes Flight with New Business Model for Starting Biotechs

Xconomy

First came Inception Sciences , a holding company for spinning out biotech startups established by Versant Ventures and Peppi Prasit, the veteran San Diego drug developer. We outsource everything. David Kabakoff, a Sofinnova partner in San Diego, also is a Dauntless board member. We don’t have our own laboratory.

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Why Friday’s Massive DDoS Attack Should Be Terrifying

Xconomy

DNS is a shared resource that almost all companies outsource, which means someone could cripple internet usage worldwide by targeting a relatively small number of companies. Editor’s note: this post first appeared on TrueVault’s blog. ]. In other words, if DNS isn’t working, their service is unusable.

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63 Los Angeles Entrepreneurs To Be Proud Of

SoCal Delicious

Charlie Capen is co-founder of HowToBeADad.com , an entertainment site and dad blog for “parents, soon-to-be parents and people who have no desire to procreate, whatsoever.” Heather McPhaul is the founder of AgingGal.com , a funny little blog about aging and other inconveniences. She just spoke at TED EX in San Diego.