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BIOTECH

Nektar presents study in San Diego

San Francisco-based Nektar Therapeutics announced at a San Diego conference Wednesday positive top-line results from a study for NKTR-181, an opioid analgesic molecule with a slow rate of entry into the brain.

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FINANCE

Encore Group to sell notes

Encore Capital Group Inc. (Nasdaq: ECPG) priced a private placement of convertible senior notes.

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MEDICAL

SpectraScience presents optical system

SpectraScience Inc. said its WavSTAT4 Optical Biopsy System is being demonstrated at the 31st annual Gastroenterology and Endotherapy European Workshop (GEEW).

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DEFENSE

Cubic awarded $30 million Navy contract

Cubic Corp.'s (NYSE: CUB) Orlando-based Simulation Systems Division announced Wednesday it has received two separate $15 million delivery orders from Naval Air Warfare Center Training Systems Division.

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GENERAL

'Spectacular' events proposed for Balboa Park celebration

A big water show will splash into San Diego as one of the Balboa Park Centennial Celebration's events in 2015.

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DEFENSE

Vetstarter aims to raise money for veteran businesses

Move over, Kickstarter. A new San Diego-based nonprofit crowdfunding platform called Vetstarter.org aims to get veteran-owned startups off the ground.

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LAW

Attorney's loyalty can't be divided, SD Bar says

A lawyer's responsibility to engender trust and loyalty are at the center of two recent ethical opinions released by the San Diego County Bar Association.

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CONSTRUCTION

SANDAG hosting workshop on Rose Creek Bikeway, open house on bus rapid transit

A public workshop is planned for Thursday on the Rose Creek Bikeway Project -- a bike path along Interstate 5 that will connect the University City area in the north to southern beach communities.

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LAW

CWSL professor, attorneys complete Innocence March

California Western School of Law professor Justin P. Brooks and two staff attorneys from the California Innocence Project will be joined by the public on Thursday, June 20, at noon for the final mile of their 700-mile Innocence March.

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BIOTECH

Santarus says FDA accepts Ruconest application

Santarus Inc. (Nasdaq: SNTS) and Pharming Group said Tuesday that the Food and Drug Administration accepted their marketing application for the hereditary angioedema drug Ruconest, and will make a decision in 10 months.

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SINGAPORE (June 11, 2013) -- Lance Cpl. Darren Clay, assigned to the U.S. 7th Fleet flagship USS Blue Ridge (LCC 19) Fleet Anti-terrorism Security Team, Pacific, uses a Jacob's ladder to board the littoral combat ship USS Freedom (LCS 1) during a joint visit, board, search and seizure exercise. Freedom is in Singapore on an overseas deployment. Fast, agile and mission-focused, littoral combat ships are designed to operate in near-shore environments and employ modular mission packages that can be configured for surface warfare, mine countermeasures, or anti-submarine warfare. Freedom is homeported in San Diego. U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class Cassandra Thompson