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The yolk of the matter

19-Mar-2003 - The prospect of using chicken eggs as commercial 'biofactories' for the production of protein-based drugs has moved a step closer with the announcement of a...

Options for gene data mining?

13-Mar-2003 - A new approach to identifying patterns in gene expression analysis has been shown to be more effective than the most popular method in a joint...

Bacterial viruses for cheap vaccines

11-Mar-2003 - Genetically altered bacterial viruses appear to be more effective than naked DNA in eliciting an immune response and could be a new strategy for a...

Plants ooze vitamin C

11-Mar-2003 - Scientists in the US report this week that they have developed a new technology that increases the amount of vitamin C in plants, including grains,...

Mouth absorption - enhanced outsourcing

11-Mar-2003 - US outsourcing company Cardinal Health is to provide alternative drug formulation development and delivery capabilities for the biotechnology and pharmaceutical industries, the company announced this...

Guidance for best practice on drug labelling and packaging

11-Mar-2003 - The UK Medicines Control Agency has published a new guidance on best practice in drug labelling and packaging which is part of a broader Department...

Green tea compound from Roche

06-Mar-2003 - Roche Vitamins is to start production of pure epigallocatechin gallate (EGCG), the active compound in green tea, at a new production plant in Shanghai. Swiss...

Drugs from the sea, boost for marine research

03-Mar-2003 - An Edinburgh-based marine biotech business has been given a £50,000 (€73 000) boost in its bid to scour tidal areas such as rock pools to...

Sigma Tau with Thuris

03-Mar-2003 - Drug development and biomedical company Thuris and Italian pharmaceutical company Sigma-Tau Industrie Farmaceutiche Riunite on Monday announced an expansion of their ongoing research collaboration to...

Pharma development : DSM there from the outset

26-Feb-2003 - In the second news of the day on a European life science company, DSM announced this week that from now on it will supply technologies...

Collaboration in anti-fungal drug discovery

20-Feb-2003 - Japanese company Kaken Pharmaceutical and US Elitra Pharmaceuticals said yesterday that they are to collaborate on a multi-year research project for the discovery and development...

Novozymes: new funding for bioethanol project

12-Feb-2003 - Danish company Novozymes announced yesterday that the US Department of Energy (DOE) has approved the third year of funding for Novozymes' three-year subcontract to develop...

New method of controlled drug release

12-Feb-2003 - Isis Innovation, the wholly-owned technology transfer company of Oxford University, reports this week that researchers at the university's Inorganic Chemistry laboratory have found that they...

French lead in nanotechnologies under threat

12-Feb-2003 - France needs to invest more in the emerging 'revolutionary' science of nanotechnologies if it is to remain competitive in this promising field, a French parliamentary...

Research pursuits

11-Feb-2003 - Drug discovery company Pharmacopeia and healthcare business AstraZeneca have extended their research collaboration. The companies announced this week that they will shift their efforts from...

Vitamin A derivative could restore smokers' health

10-Feb-2003 - Use of a Vitamin A derivative could protect against lung cancer development in former smokers by restoring production of a crucial protein, claim researchers in...

Metabolism enzyme reveals anti-ageing function

10-Feb-2003 - The structure of a key energy-releasing enzyme found in all animals is designed to minimise free radical production, an international team of researchers report in...

Agreement in 3DP

06-Feb-2003 - 3-Dimensional Pharmaceuticals (3DP) said this week that the research term under its thrombin collaboration with two of the Johnson & Johnson family of companies, Centocor...

Inflammation investigated

06-Feb-2003 - US Pharmacopeia has entered into a research collaboration focused on inflammation with Celgene Corporation. The companies will work together to identify promising small molecule lead...

LSBC-Novozyme collaboration

06-Feb-2003 - Large Scale Biology Corporation (LSBC) has started a research collaboration with Novozymes Biotech to apply LSBC's gene shuffling and molecular evolution technologies to genes of...

Shea nut to beat swellings

05-Feb-2003 - Danish vegetable oils and fats company Aarhus Oliefabrik announced yesterday that together with Astion, it will increase the development portfolio of BSP Pharma - focusing...

Supplements spur growth in plant-derived chemicals

05-Feb-2003 - Demand for plant-derived chemicals in the US is expected to rise by 6.8 per cent per year, including price increases, to $2.7 billion (€2.5bn) in...

Ecopia discovery

28-Jan-2003 - Canadian drug development company Ecopia BioSciences on Monday announced that it had filed patent applications for the first two novel compounds using its proprietary drug...

Rice pest thwarted by mixed plantings

21-Aug-2000 - A study carried out in China revealed that farmers mixing rice varieties in the paddies were rewarded with bigger harvests than single rice variety plantings....