NEW YORK, NY--(Marketwire - Jun 21, 2012) - Despite the recent economic turmoil in Europe, the Biotech Industry has been home to some of the strongest performers in the market in 2012. The SPDR S&P Biotech ETF (XBI) and the First Trust NYSE Arca Biotech Index ETF (FBT) year-to-date are up 28 percent and 34 percent, respectively. As the world continues to face evolving health challenges the discoveries of new therapeutics and vaccines are critical. Five Star Equities examines the outlook for companies in the Biotech Industry and provides equity research on Sequenom, Inc. (NASDAQ: [ SQNM ]) and TrovaGene, Inc. (NASDAQ: [ TROV ]).

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Expiring patents have been a major dilemma for pharmaceutical companies. New products that are being introduced are not expected to generate the same level of revenues of the products that have lost patent protection. In the last decade the Pharmaceutical Industry has spent $1.1 trillion on research and development as companies scramble to replace lost revenues from patent expirations. Mergers & Acquisitions activity is expected to pick up in 2012 as companies look to make up for loss revenues. M&A allow companies to acquire products that are already proven in the market place without the hassle and costs associated with research and development.

"Many of the pharmaceutical companies started producing everything in-house out of their own R&D organizations and over time they've failed to produce enough that way. So the industry is now coalescing around a 50-50 model of half on your own and half bought in. There are some things we'll do for ourselves but we need to be constantly on the lookout for new technologies," said Angus Russell, Chief Executive of Shire PLC.

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Sequenom designs, develops, manufactures and markets innovative technology, instrumentation and tests that target and serve discovery and clinical research, and clinical molecular diagnostics markets. Applications include translational research, oncology, agricultural genomics and in vitro diagnostics for prenatal and retinal disorders.

Trovagene is a molecular diagnostics company, headquartered in San Diego, California. The company dedicated to the development and commercialization of unique, proprietary, molecular in-vitro diagnostics technologies. The company's founding scientists were the first to report that cell free fragments of DNA from normal cell death that circulate in the blood can cross the kidney barrier and be detected in urine.

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