The Essential Biotech Sector Fall Preview

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The Essential Biotech Sector Fall Preview

BOSTON (TheStreet) -- Labor Day is over and Hurricane Earl is out to sea, which means Wall Street is returning to work in earnest for the last three months of the year. To put everyone in the right mindset, I've compiled a "Back to School" guide covering the essential information biotech investors need to profit from what should be a very busy fall season.

FDA approve's Dendreon's Provenge

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Here's Dendreon's newswire on it's approval of Provenge. Stock hit an all time high of 57.55 and has tapered off a bit around the 53 point range. This is a quality stock and it's profits should help the bottom line with this big news on April 29th, 2010.

SEATTLE, April 29, 2010 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ --Dendreon Corporation (Nasdaq: DNDN ) today announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved PROVENGE(R)
(sipuleucel-T), an autologous cellular immunotherapy for the treatment of asymptomatic or minimally symptomatic metastatic, castrate-resistant (hormone-refractory) prostate cancer (CRPC). PROVENGE is designed to induce an immune response against prostatic acid phosphatase (PAP), an antigen expressed in most prostate cancers, and is the first in a new therapeutic class known as autologous cellular immunotherapies.