27-Jul-2005 - Germany's Evotec is to provide a broad range of pharmaceutical discovery and chemical development services to Procter & Gamble Pharmaceuticals in a lift for its outsourcing business.
19-Jul-2005 - Invitrogen has opened a bioproduction facility in Australia to make bovine sera products and reagents used in basic research and the production of vaccines and biotherapeutic drugs.
15-Jul-2005 - Sigma-Aldrich is reorganising its operating structure, although its fine chemicals unit SAFC will be unaffected by the restructuring.
30-Jun-2005 - Suppliers in the RNA purification market seeking to win market share are posed with the challenge of overcoming strong levels of customer loyalty. A survey reveals that Qiagen and Invitrogen came out top as to primary suppliers to laboratories for commercial reagents.
21-Jun-2005 - The combined use of laboratory automation and laboratory information management software (LIMS) has been shown to increase productivity, reduce human error and improve tracking and traceability in a microbiology lab in a recent case study.
20-Jun-2005 - According to a new study, the microscopy sector is set to capitalise on recent technological breakthroughs, with the large-scale digitalisation and advances in image reconstruction and restoration having a positive effect on the market.
10-Jun-2005 - Roche has opened the world's largest polymerase chain reaction (PCR) manufacturing site in the world, investing more than $150 million and creating approximately 350 new jobs.
07-Jun-2005 - Agilent Technologies has launched what it says is the industry's first gas chromatograph/mass spectrometer (GC/MS) system with a user interface that allows the electronic sharing of application methods.
31-May-2005 - France's AES Laboratories has developed a system for the rapid monitoring of air in the cleanroom or pharmaceutical production facility for microbial contamination, without having to wait days for culturing, reports Phil Taylor.
26-May-2005 - Agilent Technologies is to acquire SSI in a move that will combine the former's analytical instrumentation, data systems and services with SSI's strong position in chromatographic data systems and informatics.
24-May-2005 - The primary difficulty facing anyone given the task of designing a state-of-the-art laboratory is that they generally don't have access to a crystal ball to tell them exactly what will be at the leading edge of technology in two to three years time - the average time it takes to design and construct a facility, reports Phil Taylor.
19-May-2005 - Nanotechnology has the potential to radically alter the quality and cleanliness of laboratory and pharmaceutical workplaces.
16-May-2005 - Genevac has introduced new technology for its Model HT-4X centrifugal evaporator whereby the system can be used to accelerate lyophilisation of water and water mixtures by as much as three hundred per cent.
27-Apr-2005 - Sigma, a division of Sigma-Aldrich Corporation has launched a new offering of Custom AQUA Peptides for use with Protein-AQUA Quantitative Proteomics, enabling important applications as differential protein expression, biomarker quantification and RNAi functional validation to be performed more accurately.
21-Apr-2005 - ESA will officially launch its universal detector for use with high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC), based on a technology called CAD (charged aserosol detector), in Europe at the HPLC 2005 exhibition in Stockholm in June.
14-Apr-2005 - Agilent has launched a Laboratory Resource Management (LRM) service for life science and pharmaceutical laboratories that promises to improve productivity, reduce service costs and simplfy administration.
04-Apr-2005 - Applied Biosystems has launched two new mass spectrometers, which extend the firm's existing product line providing improved performance for proteomics and small molecule applications.
29-Mar-2005 - Thermo Electron has introduced a high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) system - the Finnigan Surveyor Plus - for high-throughput sample processing.
22-Mar-2005 - Agilent Technologies claims a 95 per cent sample recovery with the introduction of its liquid chromatography column (LC) that separates and desalts protein samples. This enables proteomics researchers to detect and identify potential biomarkers in samples such as serum or plasma, writes Wai Lang Chu.
18-Mar-2005 - While the Drug Discovery Technology Europe show placed an emphasis on issues surrounding drug research, companies serving the pharma and biotech industries took the opportunity to showcase the latest technologies that are set to prove useful in future drug discovery.
01-Mar-2005 - Varian has launched a manual dissolution testing product for pharmaceutical, food and academic laboratories seeking a low-cost, workhorse system.
01-Mar-2005 - Researchers at the Salk Institute for Biological Sciences have discovered a way of making membrane proteins in bacterial cells, opening the door to new and improved treatments for a host of human diseases.
17-Jan-2005 - German BioMicroscopy supplier ibidi GmbH has launched a range of "Lab-on-a-Slide" micro-slides (µ-Slides) that can be used for cell analysis and biomolecules. The slides allow cell culturing and high-resolution microscopy to be performed on the same slide for cell-based assay procedures in research and high throughput applications.
17-Jan-2005 - GeneGo has launched an ADME/Tox platform which combines software for predicting metabolites and over 40 ADME/Tox properties properties with visualization and analysis of toxicogenomics and metabolomics data.
14-Jan-2005 - The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has given clearance to a new product, which simplifies the process, offers improved specificity and decreases the time to result in the identification of methicillin-resistant Staphyloccus aureus (MRSA) identification.