23-Feb-2007 - A new biosensor developed by AlphaSniffer can detect viruses, bacteria, proteins, nucleic acids and aptamers in minutes leading to faster and more efficient analyses, according to the US company.
15-Feb-2007 - Materia's metathesis platform continues to excite the pharmaceutical industry as they follow their recent license to Merck with a license to Aileron Therapeutics.
12-Feb-2007 - A new start up company in the UK has been formed with ambitions to shape itself into a global early-phase drug development services group through an acquisition-based strategy.
09-Feb-2007 - Recent rapid advances in nanotechnology have allowed scientists, for the first time, to film gold atoms sinking into a surface in real time.
07-Feb-2007 - US-based nanotech process provider MFIC has announced a 35 per cent increase in revenue over the full-year 2006 to $15.7m (€12.1m), driven by a rising demand from drugmakers for microfluidics products.
05-Feb-2007 - US-based biopharmaceutical product providers Millipore has met its revenue and earnings target over the fiscal year, helped by its Serologicals acquisition in the fourth quarter and a solid performance by its main business driver: lab waters.
02-Feb-2007 - After acquisitions and new products to speed up drug discovery, winning an award was the icing on the cake for lab automation specialist Thermo Fisher.
29-Jan-2007 - UK based researchers have added another dimension to anti-counterfeiting with an alternative Raman imaging method that is powerful enough to detect fake drugs without opening the package.
29-Jan-2007 - Scientists hope to speed up the development of regenerative drugs for diseases such as cancer by using robotics to automate stem cell research.
23-Jan-2007 - Pfizer has announced it will axe 10,000 jobs and close facilities in a further effort to save on costs; the move comes in the face of patent expiries for their biggest drugs and the failure of a late-stage pipeline project.
17-Jan-2007 - BG Medicine will integrate Applied Biosystems' state of the art technology into its systems biology platforms to enhance its biomarker discovery and monitoring programs.
03-Jan-2007 - PerkinElmer has announced its acquisition of a line of Dynamic Mechanical Analysis (DMA) products from UK-based firm Triton Technology in its latest move following a busy year of purchases during 2006.
20-Dec-2006 - Fluidigm has launched its digital PCR technology, allowing scientists to analyse a single DNA template, which will give them the opportunity to detect cancer much earlier.
11-Dec-2006 - Biophage will soon release its PDS96 Biosensor, allowing fast and highly cost-efficient early stage pre-clinical screening of drug candidates.
06-Dec-2006 - New flow reactor heater allows high-speed, multi-step reactions in front of your eyes allowing users to monitor progress and intervene in case problems to avoid time and reagent waste.
01-Dec-2006 - In order to achieve their expected growth, gene expression markets must overcome the technical hurdles that are currently holding them back.
30-Nov-2006 - A new syringe-testing rig has been launched by texture analysis equipment provider, Stable Micro Systems.
29-Nov-2006 - The necessity for drug manufacturers to comply with increasingly rigorous regulations is driving laboratory information management systems (LIMS) growth, according a new study.
23-Nov-2006 - The growing inhaler device market is driving demand for automated quality control (QC) testing equipment for these products, according to Astech Projects.
21-Nov-2006 - Integra Biosciences is hailing its novel cell culture system as being responsible for dramatically transforming the effectiveness of small-scale antibody production.
16-Nov-2006 - Sunnex has launched a new range of stainless steel machinery mounts for pharma manufacturing equipment that are said to cut particle emissions.
15-Nov-2006 - Oxoid has introduced a new plate design for the Oxoid range of Contact Plates, which aims to make the microbiological testing of surfaces even easier to store, handle and use.
07-Nov-2006 - A new improved range of urethane-based floor systems that is claimed to help pharma manufacturers reduce the level of bacteria contamination in their production environment has been launched.
11-Oct-2006 - Raylo Chemical says that it has reduced its manufacturing cycles by up to 20 per cent and as a result saved hundreds of thousands of dollars per year after it installed new pH sensing technology.
04-Oct-2006 - UK-based Tepnel Scientific Services has launched a new pharmaceutical outsourcing solution - disinfectant testing - aimed at the pharmaceutical and biopharmaceutical industries, as well as disinfectant manufacturers.