19-Oct-2004 - A Cambrex subsidiary has formed an alliance with Epoch Biosciences to apply a technology usually applied in genomic analysis to microbiological quality control for manufacturing processes.
18-Oct-2004 - Applied Biosystems has launched a new system for carrying out polymerase chain reaction (PCR) experiments in 96-well plates that can dramatically cut the time it takes to carry out the procedure.
15-Oct-2004 - Thermo Electron has launched a new elemental benchtop analyser for use by researchers and quality control scientists in the petrochemical, plastics and high-grade chemical industries.
13-Oct-2004 - Fuji Photo Film has entered the worldwide nucleic acid extraction marketplace with a product which it claims can deliver DNA whole blood samples in as little as six minutes.
12-Oct-2004 - Medical diagnostics company Fujirebio is to combine its microarray platform with Carna Biosciences to create a series of new products for kinase studies.
06-Oct-2004 - The US Food and Drug Administration will start using a risk-based approach for prioritising site inspections for certain pharmaceutical products, the agency has announced in a final report on its current good manufacturing practice (cGMP) initiative.
06-Oct-2004 - Becton Dickinson is planning to sell of its Clontech molecular biology business, five years after purchasing it for $200 million.
16-Sep-2004 - Agilent has released a new module for its ChemStation Plus CDS (chromatography data plus) software that falls into compliance with internationally agreed guidelines on short- and long-term stability studies.
14-Sep-2004 - Analytical instruments company Thermo Electron has completed the acquisition of InnaPhase, a supplier of Laboratory Information Management Systems (LIMS) for the pharmaceutical and biotechnology markets, for approximately $65 million in cash.
08-Sep-2004 - GlaxoSmithKline are to commission the pharmaceutical industry's first in-house Accelerator Mass Spectrometry (AMS) facility, with the primary aim of providing information on human metabolite formation of new drug candidates and detail pathways of drug metabolism.
06-Sep-2004 - Researchers studying cell migration and the screening of drug compounds, can benefit from a new cell analysis system developed by Guava Technologies which places an emphasis on cell health profiling that is essential in the field of drug R&D.
03-Sep-2004 - A study, which compares the use of colormetric versus infrared detection for reverse-phase protein microarrays, concludes that the emergence of this infrared technology brings significant advantages to reverse phase array analysis.
13-Aug-2004 - Netherlands-based Qiagen achieved organic growth of 32 per cent for the second quarter of 2004, but profits fell by a fifth as the cost of restructuring took its toll.
13-Aug-2004 - Imaging Systems Company, Richardson Technologies, are to showcase its Real Time Microscope (RTM), a radical imaging system capable of providing real time, full colour images, providing improved sample detail, essential for pharmaceutical research.
13-Aug-2004 - Elchrom Scientific introduces a novel purification technology enabling a greater yield of ultra pure siRNA synthetic oligonucleotides at a faster turn around rate, rapidly increasing siRNA oligonucleotides (oligos) quantity required in medical, drug and therapeutic applications.
12-Aug-2004 - Fisher Scientific has completed its €3bn merger with Apogent Technologies, continuing an acquisitive period which has seen it become one of the top companies in the market for research tools.
12-Aug-2004 - Mettler Toledo, the world's largest manufacturer of weighing instruments, has reported a healthy 8 per cent hike in sales for the first half of 2004, helped by favourable currency factors.
10-Aug-2004 - Calling the next six months 'a critical period', the US Food and Drug Administration's Acting Commissioner Lester Crawford has unveiled a lengthy list of agency priorities, including continued work on Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP) standards.
20-Jul-2004 - Sartorius, a German manufacturer of laboratory equipment, is considering a possible initial public offering for its biotechnology unit Vivascience in the second half of this year, according to local press reports.
30-Jun-2004 - The market for generic drugs is going to expand from its present level of $35 billion (€29bn) to $80 billion in 2008, as cash-strapped healthcare payors turn increasingly to cheaper options.
24-Jun-2004 - Chilean conglomerate Cristalerias has announced plans to invest $210 million (€173m) over the next 10 years to double its glass container output to 600,000 tonnes a year, the company said in a statement.
24-Jun-2004 - Bolidt Synthetic Products and Systems of the Netherlands has launched a new synthetic flooring finish designed specifically to cope with aggressive chemical and pharmaceutical production environments.
25-May-2004 - Applied Biosystems has launched a mouse genome microarray that can be used to detect the expression of genes, even when they are expressed at very low levels.
24-May-2004 - UK-based chemistry specialist Syrris has developed a new microreactor that, it claims, can speed up the optimisation of process reactions used in the drug industry.
24-May-2004 - The use of animal testing in pharmaceutical research and development is to be revised after the UK government announced it was to establish a national centre to reduce use and raise standards of animal welfare.