30-Mar-2008 - Thermo Fisher has launched a new spectrometer that incorporates FT-IR technology for improved clarity and detail, aimed at pharmaceutical process scientists and other chemical disciplines.
27-Mar-2008 - The ageing population of the European Union (EU) could result in a stagnation in technological innovation, according to a new report. As science and technology professionals get older and less socially mobile, there are fears that it could result in a loss in scientific expertise.
27-Mar-2008 - Research and development investment by America's pharmaceutical and biotechnology research companies reached a record $58.8bn last year, a rise of $3bn since 2006.
26-Mar-2008 - The generic pharmaceutical industry has given short shrift to the latest congressional attempt to construct a viable approval pathway for biosimilars in the US.
26-Mar-2008 - The pharmaceutical industry has lost confidence in the UK as a place to do business to an "alarming degree" and the situation is only set to deteriorate, reveals new research.
25-Mar-2008 - The International Society for Pharmaceutical Engineering (ISPE) is offering a "unique training experience" for pharmaceutical professionals through a partnership with North Carolina State University in the US.
06-Mar-2008 - A joint development partnership between Malvern Instruments and imaging specialist FEI has produced what the companies claim is the first ever tool for determining the size and shape of sub-micron particles through direct analysis.
05-Mar-2008 - Dissolved charged particles frequently form the waste product of both industrial and biological processes, but while it has been easy to remove positive ions (cations) without disturbing the surrounding solution, it has been significantly harder to recover negative ions (anions).
05-Mar-2008 - Scientists have provoked a soil-dwelling bacteria into producing a potent antibiotic by pitting it against another bacteria, despite the fact that previously it had never been known to produce such products.
07-Feb-2008 - Germany put in a strong showing as category winners were announced for the fourth annual Facility of the Year Awards (FOYA) recognising innovation in pharmaceutical manufacturing projects.
07-Feb-2008 - Russian scientists have created a device that determines micro- and nano-particle size using a laser technology that claims to be more accurate than methods currently used in the laboratory and could find a role in pharmaceutical quality control.
05-Feb-2008 - GE Healthcare has agreed to purchase UK laboratory equipment maker Whatman for £363m ($718m) in a move aimed at advancing GE's life sciences business.
16-Jan-2008 - Processing specialist Sartorius Stedim Biotech today announced a cooperation and supply deal with systems manufacturing firm Paul Mueller Company for the US market, with a production facility in Pennsylvania set to close as a result.
15-Jan-2008 - UK separation technology specialists Whatman has confirmed it has received a number of preliminary approaches for the firm, sending its shares rocketing up.
10-Jan-2008 - Diagnostics firm bioMérieux has announced plans to shift activities at its facility in the Netherlands to France, shutting down the Dutch site as it continues to haemorrhage cash.
18-Dec-2007 - The technology used to decipher an organism's gene sequence has come on in leaps and bounds this year. So much so that the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) has now released funds to create new tools to analyse this wealth of data.
11-Dec-2007 - GE Healthcare and Novavax have a vision - a state-of-the-art pandemic influenza vaccine manufacturing facility solution with the ability to produce vaccines quickly, which can be marketed as a product to international countries.
07-Dec-2007 - In-PharmaTechnologist.com brings you a selection of recent headlines from around the pharmaceutical manufacturing industry.
05-Dec-2007 - Canadian researchers have devised a method of extracting the complete proton NMR (nuclear magnetic resonance) spectra for a component of a mixture without the need for physical separation.
23-Nov-2007 - In-PharmaTechnologist.com brings you a selection of recent headlines from around the pharmaceutical manufacturing industry.
09-Nov-2007 - Biopharmaceutical contract manufacturer Wacker will be expanding its German facility in Jena for €15m ($22m) as it meets demand for biologics.
08-Nov-2007 - US biotechnology company Genentech is filling its trophy cupboard again after being named the winner of the 2007 Facility of the Year Award.
26-Oct-2007 - In-PharmaTechnologist.com brings you a selection of other headlines from the pharmaceutical manufacturing industry.
24-Oct-2007 - As the fires in California continue to rage, Pfizer and other pharma and biotech companies all over Southern California are bracing themselves for closures and even evacuations of their facilities.
20-Sep-2007 - System Planning Corporation, Precision Stability Storage, ISPE, Ossid and NJM/CLI have all recently launched products used in the pharmaceutical manufacturing industry.