Archive for February, 2011

Most Innovative Companies in 2011 – Organized by Industry

Top 10 in Biotech:

1. Amyris For deploying novel methods to fight an old foe, the malaria parasite
2. Omeros For a new test to identify potential drug receptors
3. Synthetic Genomics For its multi-application approach to synthetic microbes
4. Galapagos For its super-efficient drug pipeline
5. Amgen For a new osteoporosis drug that could also battle hormonal breast cancer
6. Fate Therapeutics For devising an innovative way to test drugs on human cells
7. NovaBay For antibiotic-like compounds that fight their battles by mimicking the human immune system
8. Oncogenex For protein-targeting, chemo-boosting cancer treatments
9. Myelin Repair Foundation For its unorthodox, highly collaborative approach to drug development
10. Kane Biotech For a wound-care spray that could aid and speed healing

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Employment Situation Summary

Total nonfarm payroll employment changed little in January (+36,000). Manufacturing and retail trade added jobs over the month, while employment declined in construction and in transportation and warehousing. Since a recent low in February 2010, total payroll employment has increased by an average of 93,000 per month.

Manufacturing added 49,000 jobs in January. Over the month, job gains occurred in durable goods, including motor vehicles and parts (+20,000), fabricated metal products (+13,000), machinery (+10,000), and computer and electronic products (+5,000). Employment in nondurable goods manufacturing declined by 13,000 over the month.

Employment in retail trade rose by 28,000 in January, after changing little in December. Retail trade has added 123,000 jobs since its recent low point in December 2009. In January, employment in clothing stores increased by 15,000.

Health care employment continued to trend up over the month (+11,000). Over the prior 12 months, health care had added an average of 22,000 jobs per month.

In January, construction employment declined by 32,000. Within construction, there were job losses among nonresidential specialty trade contractors (-22,000) and in construction of buildings (-10,000). Employment in construction may have been impacted by severe winter weather affecting parts of the country during the survey reference period.

Transportation and warehousing employment fell by 38,000 in January, reflecting a sharp decline among couriers and messengers (-45,000). Couriers and messengers had an unusually large job gain in December, followed by layoffs of a similar magnitude in January.

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