Brinker, CytRx, Cummins, Isis, KBR, SanDisk, Tyco: U.S. Equity Movers

(Bloomberg) -- The following is a list of companies
whose shares are having unusual price changes in U.S. exchanges
today. Stock symbols are in parentheses after company names.
Share prices are as of 2:40 p.m. New York time.

Alnylam Pharmaceuticals Inc. (ALNY US) rose $8.20, or 54
percent, to $23.40. Roche Holding AG (ROG VX), the world's
biggest maker of cancer medicines, may pay as much as $1 billion
for rights to Alnylam technology that may allow the companies to
find new tumor, liver and breathing treatments.


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Roche backs RNAi research with $1 bln Alnylam deal

(Reuters) - LONDON/ZURICH, July 9 - Roche Holding AG has signed a deal worth up to $1 billion with Alnylam Pharmaceuticals Inc. , giving it access to the U.S. firm's skills in the new science of RNA interference.



The agreement is the largest drug discovery partnership in the field to date and a further vindication of the emerging area of biotechnology research, which involves blocking disease-causing proteins.


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