Life sciences briefing: Friday, Aug. 24, 2007

(UPDATED at 11am PT on Sunday, 8/26/07: See below.)

Featured companies: Clinical Data, Epidauros Biotechnologie, Precision Therapeutics, UMD, Zars Pharma

UMD to close $8M for menstrual pain and osteoporosis — Cincinnati’s UMD, a developer of vaginal drug-delivery technologies, expects …

Life sciences briefing: Wednesday, Aug. 8, 2007

Featured companies: NeurAxon, TechniScan Medical Systems, ViewRay, Advion BioSystems, NanoTek, Cerionx, Ionscope, EncorePath

NeurAxon to raise $25M for pain treatment – Waltham, Mass.-based NeurAxon, which just named Lawrence Bloch as its new CEO last week, now plans to raise $25 …

Lipomics raises $2.8M for metabolic diagnostics

Lipomics, a West Sacramento, Calif., biotech, raised $2.8 million in a fourth funding round, VentureWire reports (subscription required). Among the investors was DFJ Frontier.

Lipomics is developing diagnostic tests for important measures of metabolic function that may be useful in …