12-Jan-2005 - Thermo Electron has launched a new FT-IR spectrometer specifically targeted at quality control and assurance laboratories in the pharmaceutical, chemical and polymer industries.
12-Jan-2005 - Microfluidics company Nanostream has introduced a new range of cartridges designed specifically for quantitative applications such as solubility assessment and dissolution testing using its micro parallel liquid chromatography (mPLC) system.
12-Jan-2005 - Molecular Devices Corporation has announced the launch of the first assay kit that addresses the need for a single step, homogenous in vitro assay for fatty acid uptake for use in the identification of potential new drugs via high-throughput screening.
03-Jan-2005 - GE Infrastructure, a business unit of General Electric, is to acquire US water purification and wastewater treatment company Ionics for around $1.1 billion (€813m), plus the assumption of debt.
22-Dec-2004 - UK-based Microplate manufacturers Porvair Sciences, adds to its range of microporous products that are suitable for a range of industrial and domestic applications including drug discovery, protein purification and high throughput screening.
22-Dec-2004 - ESA has successfully employed its electrochemical (EC) systems in conjunction with a mass spectrometer to greatly expand the number and types of molecules for analysis.
20-Dec-2004 - This month will see the launch of the second generation of Esco's Airstream Class II (AC2) biosafety cabinet, used for potentially hazardous applications such as cell culture, virus propagation and animal tissue handling.
15-Dec-2004 - Miltenyi Biotec strengthened its presence in the Asia-Pacific Rim by opening new headquarters in Suntec City, Singapore. The magnetic cell separation and cellular therapy specialists already have a presence in several European countries as well as the US.
15-Dec-2004 - Japan's Insent has developed an artificial tongue - said to be the first of its kind - that can be used to analyse the taste profiles of pharmaceuticals, foods and beverages.
14-Dec-2004 - Shimadzu Scientific Instruments has launched a new high-throughput gas chromatograph injection system that is designed to allow GCs to easily switch from one task to another.
08-Dec-2004 - Italy's Chiesi Farmaceutici has signed a deal with Ontario, Canada-headquartered Trudell Medical International for the latter's MDI actuation indicator, designed to make it easuer for asthmatics to see when their inhaler is empty.
01-Dec-2004 - Japanese drugmakers Dainippon Pharmaceutical and Sumitomo Pharmaceuticals are to merge in an attempt to increase their standing in international markets and fend off competition at home.
22-Nov-2004 - RTS life science has developed a high throughput tube picking system that the company claims is able to pick and place multiple tubes faster than current methods. The equipment becomes the first system to incorporate 384-tube technology that is free from concerns about the freeze-thaw cycle.
22-Nov-2004 - The Lab Automation Europe show held earlier this week saw Thermo unveil a number of new products, including a new spectral scanner that can handle all wavelengths, without needing filters, and has an integrated dispenser for reagents.
17-Nov-2004 - In the race to develop therapeutics based on RNA interference, Alnylam Pharmaceuticals has claimed a first with the publication of a study showing in vivo RNAi-mediated gene silencing in mammals by a method that potentially can be applied to systemic RNAi therapeutics for human disease.
15-Nov-2004 - Dharmacon has launched a range of small interfering RNA (siRNA) transfection reagents designed specifically to enhance transfection efficiency, a crucial procedure in initial drug target identification to late-stage therapeutic development.
05-Nov-2004 - UK researchers have developed a technique that could be used to analyse membrane proteins, capturing them in their natural structural state to make it easier to develop drug candidates to target them.
03-Nov-2004 - MatriCal has introduced its SonicMan sonication system to the European compound management market with versions that can handle 384- as well as 96-well microwell plate formats.
03-Nov-2004 - Agilent Technologies has launched what it claims is the industry's first fully automated, high-throughput 'lab-on-a-chip system' for basic life science research and drug discovery. The Agilent 5100 Automated provides unattended analysis of thousands of DNA and protein samples per day.
02-Nov-2004 - Charles River Laboratories third quarterly performance in the third quarter of 2004 reflected the current market climate for products and services that support the drug discovery and development process, with notable increases in operating income and earnings per share.
01-Nov-2004 - Cambrex has recorded a loss in the third quarter of this year after writing down goodwill in its biopharma division in a move that paints a pessimistic picture of the market for outsourced manufacturing of biological drugs.
29-Oct-2004 - Bruker Daltonics, has launched a new MALDI-TOF and TOF mass spectrometer that offers improved sensitivity, resolution and mass accuracy of TOF/TOF systems for expression proteomics, quantitative proteomics and biomarker discovery.
28-Oct-2004 - Mettler Toledo introduce a set of weighing modules which precision and speed make it ideal for a variety of industrial applications, including the chemical and pharmaceutical industry.
25-Oct-2004 - QTL Biosystems announced the introduction of its QTL LightSpeed Kinase platform and four new kinase Activity Assays, which uses a unique polymer technology that does not require antibodies or radioactive labels, providing a distinct advantage over current homogeneous high-throughput kinase assays.
20-Oct-2004 - Magellan Biosciences' expressed interest in the life science, research and clinical diagnostics market turned to action after the life sciences company confirmed the acquisition of Dynex Technologies.