The Challenge of Change - Managing Excipients Control
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10-Apr-2007 - A round up of recent product releases from across the industry, including new offerings from ABI, Affymetrix, Agilent, Aspectrics, Bio-Rad, Millipore and Waters.
10-Apr-2007 - A new range of preparative scale supercritical fluid chromatography (SFC) and extraction (SFE) products promises cheaper and faster separations and extractions.
10-Apr-2007 - Mar Cor Purification has bought GE Water and Process Technologies' dialysis water business for $30.6m (€22.8m) to become the largest provider of dialysis water in the US, and plans to expand their presence in industrial life science markets.
10-Apr-2007 - An initial ruling on the validity of three key US stem cell patents could lead to human embryonic stem cells becoming cheaper and more accessible in the US.
10-Apr-2007 - A new millimetre-sized cantilever biosensor has been developed that can detect cells and proteins at lower levels than ever before even under flow conditions, opening the way for new biomarker applications.
05-Apr-2007 - US firm Fullscope has announced the availability of a new software and services package to help pharmaceutical and life science companies achieve and maintain US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) validation.
05-Apr-2007 - Akorn, a US pharmaceutical company that develops, manufactures and markets branded and generic diagnostics and therapeutics for niche segments such as ophthalmology, rheumatology and anaesthesia, has received a warning letter from the Food and Drug Administration about significant deviations from current Good Manufacturing Practice (cGMP) regulations at its Decatur, Illinois facility.
05-Apr-2007 - A round up of recent industry news from Abbott Laboratories, Bio-Rad, Horiba, MDS Nordion, Nimblegen, Roche Diagnostics and Thermo Fisher Scientific.
05-Apr-2007 - The first step towards true in-line glucose monitoring for cell culture bioprocesses has been made that will allow greater control over the bioprocess manufacturing.
05-Apr-2007 - PerkinElmer have continued to expand their cellular imaging portfolio with the acquisition of software company Improvision.
04-Apr-2007 - German contract manufacturer Vetter Pharma-Fertigung has been bestowed with a "facility of the year award" for the processes employed at its new injectables plant.
02-Apr-2007 - GE Healthcare and the Bio Affinity Company (BAC) have extended their biopharmaceutical partnership to develop purification media for Factor VIII (FVIII) for the treatment of haemophilia A.
30-Mar-2007 - The expansion of a Russian laboratory exhibition highlights the growth in the Russian analytical and laboratory equipment market.
30-Mar-2007 - It's been a busy week for acquisitions in the sector, with Beckmann Coulter purchasing Biosite, Roche acquiring 454, and Shimadzu agreeing to buy the assets of Evolved Digital Systems.
30-Mar-2007 - A new inductively coupled plasma (ICP) optical emission spectrometer (OES) brings the technique into the hands of the non-expert for the first time.
30-Mar-2007 - Artel is sending three of their employees to the most extreme environments in the US to demonstrate the impact of environmental conditions on pipetted volumes.
29-Mar-2007 - Process development is the key when outsourcing clinical supply biomanufacturing to a contractor, according to an industry player.
26-Mar-2007 - Canada's Chromos Molecular Systems plans to step up the human resources behind its cell-line engineering business in anticipation of securing further clients within the next few months for its ACE (artificial chromosome expression) System.
26-Mar-2007 - A Brazilian firm has signed a licensing deal to take advantage of a biopharmaceutical manufacturing technology which will allow the company to locally manufacture complex biopharmaceuticals destined for the South American market.
23-Mar-2007 - Both Agilent and Applied Biosystems (ABI) have announced new facilities in Asia and are looking to gain from the increasing pharmaceutical industry presence in the region.
23-Mar-2007 - MDS is nearing completion of its $615m (€461m) acquisition of the bio-analytical instrument maker Molecular Devices.
23-Mar-2007 - On the face of it, the UK's 2007 budget looks good for the technology sector with increased R&D tax relief - but is it all as good as it seems?
22-Mar-2007 - AstraZeneca is leveraging the process chemistry expertise accumulated in India's generics industry and universities by opening a $15m (€11.3m) process research and development (PR&D) laboratory next to its existing research centre for tuberculosis in Bangalore.
20-Mar-2007 - The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has proposed loosening requirements regarding certain types of recycling activities involving hazardous solid waste materials produced in chemical and pharmaceutical manufacturing.
20-Mar-2007 - Pall has filed a patent infringement case in the US, claiming another firm is manufacturing and selling a device that violates patent protection of one of Pall's sterile connector products.