Id Counterfeit Pharmaceuticals with Portable Raman
Rigaku
| « Previous month | Next month » |
31-Mar-2003
Biomedical nanotechnology gains pace
31-Mar-2003 - Until recently nanotechnologists -- scientists who build devices and materials one atom or molecule at a time -- concentrated almost entirely on electronics, computers, telecommunications,...
Portugal to open 20 life science centres
31-Mar-2003 - The Portuguese Minister for Science and Higher Education, Pedro Lynce, confirmed his government's commitment to investing in science with the announcement today that the ministry...
GlaxoSmithKline signs €41 million deal with Flamel
31-Mar-2003 - GlaxoSmithKline has entered into a new drug formulation agreement with Flamel Technologies of France that could see the latter firm receive up to $45 million...
Biotechnology, European perceptions
31-Mar-2003 - The Eurobarometer 2002 survey on 'Europeans and biotechnology' reveals that despite the impression that Europeans are sceptical about this technology, the majority are optimistic that...
Dow obtains new oligonucleotides contact
31-Mar-2003 - Dow Chemical has agreed for Dowpharma, Dow's pharmaceutical manufacturing services business unit, to supply select, proprietary oligonucleotides to Montreal, Canada-based Topigen Pharmaceuticals for use in...
28-Mar-2003
EU R&D keeps active
28-Mar-2003 - There has been 'unprecedented development' in terms of the Community's research policy in the last year claims the European Commission's 2002 annual report on technological...
RNA interference - moving from lab to clinic
28-Mar-2003 - A collaboration between Cenix BioScience of Germany and the USA's Ambion has been formed to co-develop and market the first commercially-available, human genome-wide library of...
Biogen digs into Europe
28-Mar-2003 - Biotechnology company Biogen this week celebrated its 25th anniversary by breaking the ground on a large-scale manufacturing facility in Hillerød, Denmark, marking the company's first...
New paradigm for lead optimisation
28-Mar-2003 - Pharmaceutical researchers used to begin their evaluation of drug leads by looking at affinity and potency, but a genomics/informatics-based research culture is now growing which...
Biochip accelerates drug development
28-Mar-2003 - Germany's Infineon Technologies has launched a biochip, with a surface of just one square centimetre, that can simultaneously analyse the reaction of up to 400...
26-Mar-2003
Intercare revenues rise strongly in 2002
26-Mar-2003 - UK contract pharmaceutical manufacturer and distributor Intercare Group has reported 2002 turnover of £275.1 million (€406m), an increase of 27 per cent year-on-year, and pretax...
Pharma boom for Denmark
26-Mar-2003 - Data published by the Danish Association of the Pharmaceutical Industry (LIF) reveals a boom in pharmaceutical exports in 2002. Sales totalled DK30.3 billion (€4.3 billion),...
Proteome Sciences boosts mass spec sensitivity
26-Mar-2003 - Anglo-German company Proteome Sciences has developed a new reagent that it claims can dramatically enhance the sensitivity of mass spectrometers for the identification of proteins....
Bioscience - economic driver for UK ?
26-Mar-2003 - UK Science Minister Lord Sainsbury this week announced a new initiative to develop 'a strategic approach' to the future of the bioscience industry in the...
Computer aided drug discovery
26-Mar-2003 - Scientists in Australia report this week that they have developed a powerful software modelling tool, MolSAR, which could have the potential to reduce drug development...
24-Mar-2003
RNAi tools
24-Mar-2003 - Dharmacon, a US supplier of RNA and RNA-interference research products, announced today it has launched Cell Cycle siARRAY, a collection of ready-to-use siRNA duplexes designed...
Biotech appeals to the angels
24-Mar-2003 - Venture capital investments in biotechnology and medical device companies combined to total $4.7 billion (€4.4bn) in 2002, or 22 per cent of all investing, representing...
Elan and Ingenium embark on pain alliance
24-Mar-2003 - Ireland's Elan Corp has inked a deal with Ingenium Pharmaceuticals of Germany that will see the companies apply Ingenium's functional genomics technologies to the discovery...
Forging genomics
24-Mar-2003 - Biotechnology service group SeqWright has entered into an agreement with Fisher Scientific that combines SeqWright's genomic services with Fisher's scientific research products. Under the terms...
British Biotech to merge with RiboTargets
24-Mar-2003 - British Biotech, once the darling of the UK biotechnology industry but now suffering the after-effects of a string of major drug development failures, is having...
21-Mar-2003
Swallowing loss
21-Mar-2003 - Losses continue for buccal drug delivery company Generex Biotechnology with the company yesterday reporting a net loss of $4.6 million (€4.3m), or $(27) per share...
Akzo carves further into Asia
21-Mar-2003 - Akzo Nobel has opened a new powder coatings factory in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam in partnership with Chang Cheng Securities, marking the 12th powder...
Go with the flow...
21-Mar-2003 - A series of new flow cytometry products will soon hit the market with the announcement yesterday from US companies BD Biosciences and Molecular Probes that,...
A LEAP ahead
21-Mar-2003 - Specialists in cellular analysis Cyntellect this week announced the issuance of a new patent covering the company's Laser Enabled Analysis and Processing (LEAP) technology platform....
Xenogen in Japan
21-Mar-2003 - SC Biosciences is to be the exclusive distributor of sensitive tools for drug discovery with the announcement this week that it will distribute in vivo...
19-Mar-2003
Softly, softly...
19-Mar-2003 - German pharmaceutical company Boehringer Ingelheim has signed a long-term agreement with software company MDL Information Systems to use its software technology for managing and deploying...
Flaming results
19-Mar-2003 - French drug delivery company Flamel Technologies reported a significant leap in revenues for 2002 jumping from €12.3 million in 2001 to €19.8 million in 2002....
Insightful analysis
19-Mar-2003 - A collaboration between a team of researchers in the field of microarray data analysis has resulted in new microarray analysis module from US company Insightful...
Fund setback for world leader
19-Mar-2003 - Applied Biosystems group, the world's number one maker of gene-analysing equipment, warned on Tuesday that it would report lower-than-expected fiscal third-quarter revenue and earnings due...
The yolk of the matter
19-Mar-2003 - The prospect of using chicken eggs as commercial 'biofactories' for the production of protein-based drugs has moved a step closer with the announcement of a...
17-Mar-2003
Bar codes to reduce errors
17-Mar-2003 - Patient safety, care quality, and efficiency in the supply chain are likely to improve with new proposals from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA)...
Asia-Pacfic focus
17-Mar-2003 - Singapore is the location for the first 'Drug Discovery Technology' event organised by IBC Life Sciences in the Asia-Pacific region. Entitled 'Biomedical Research Applications in...
EU: Investment in R&D slipping
17-Mar-2003 - European scientists continue to be strong in areas such as medical research and chemistry and Europe may produce the highest number of science graduates but...
Life science boost
17-Mar-2003 - US biotechnology company Enzo Biochem that specialises in gene identification technologies, announced continued growth in operating results for the fiscal second quarter and six months...
Britannia: a nose for success in drug delivery
17-Mar-2003 - For years, it has been common wisdom in the pharmaceutical industry that delivery of drugs via the nose only really works if the compound can...
13-Mar-2003
Spectrometer for proteomics
13-Mar-2003 - In the second mass spectrometer news of the week, life science product company Agilent Technologies has introduced an ion trap mass spectrometer that is approximately...
Genomics tech grows with drug target validation
13-Mar-2003 - Drug target validation has become the critical step in maintaining profitability for the pharmaceutical industry, claims a new report from market research company Business Communications....
Toxicology applications
13-Mar-2003 - Aclara BioSciences, a US company involved in tools for drug discovery, this week introduced new toxicology applications that expand the capabilities of the eTag Assay...
Options for gene data mining?
13-Mar-2003 - A new approach to identifying patterns in gene expression analysis has been shown to be more effective than the most popular method in a joint...
Amersham Biosciences unveils protein purification system
13-Mar-2003 - Amersham Biosciences has launched a new bench-top separations system for purifying proteins, äKTApilot, which for the first time allows scientists to carry out process development...
11-Mar-2003
New tool for proteomics
11-Mar-2003 - Bruker Daltonics, a developer of life science tools, introduced a new research instrument for proteomics research at the laboratory science exhibition Pittcon, taking place in...
Bacterial viruses for cheap vaccines
11-Mar-2003 - Genetically altered bacterial viruses appear to be more effective than naked DNA in eliciting an immune response and could be a new strategy for a...
Plants ooze vitamin C
11-Mar-2003 - Scientists in the US report this week that they have developed a new technology that increases the amount of vitamin C in plants, including grains,...
Mouth absorption - enhanced outsourcing
11-Mar-2003 - US outsourcing company Cardinal Health is to provide alternative drug formulation development and delivery capabilities for the biotechnology and pharmaceutical industries, the company announced this...
Guidance for best practice on drug labelling and packaging
11-Mar-2003 - The UK Medicines Control Agency has published a new guidance on best practice in drug labelling and packaging which is part of a broader Department...
06-Mar-2003
Merck OK's CyDex drug delivery
06-Mar-2003 - CyDex, a US company working in drug delivery technologies, has signed announced an agreement with Merck regarding its advanced formulation system Captisol. According to CyDex,...
UK diagnosis for Nestlé
06-Mar-2003 - UK microbial testing company Celsis International announced this week that food giant Nestle has selected Celsis' recently launched milk and cream diagnostic system for its...
Green tea compound from Roche
06-Mar-2003 - Roche Vitamins is to start production of pure epigallocatechin gallate (EGCG), the active compound in green tea, at a new production plant in Shanghai. Swiss...
Commission calls on states to intensify efforts in life sciences and biotechnology
06-Mar-2003 - In its first progress report since adopting the EU strategy on life sciences and biotechnology in 2002, the European Commission yesterday indicated that the risk...
Generic formulation from Amarin
06-Mar-2003 - Amarin corporation this week confirmed that its Swedish subsidiary Amarin Development AB, as part of an agreement with Watson Pharmaceuticals , has developed a generic...
03-Mar-2003
Outsourcing to help SME's ride the economic storm?
03-Mar-2003 - "The current confluence of negative factors facing the chemical manufacturing industry could be called 'the perfect storm'," said Andrew N. Liveris, president of Dow Chemical...
Drugs from the sea, boost for marine research
03-Mar-2003 - An Edinburgh-based marine biotech business has been given a £50,000 (€73 000) boost in its bid to scour tidal areas such as rock pools to...
New quality assurance module for WineScan
03-Mar-2003 - Foss, a Danish manufacturer of analytical instruments, announced recently that it has improved the quality assurance (QA) module for its instrument WineScan. When a WineScan...
Sigma Tau with Thuris
03-Mar-2003 - Drug development and biomedical company Thuris and Italian pharmaceutical company Sigma-Tau Industrie Farmaceutiche Riunite on Monday announced an expansion of their ongoing research collaboration to...
Green light for Pfizer
03-Mar-2003 - The European Commission has given Pfizer the all clear to acquire Pharmacia corporation - paving the way for the creation of the largest pharmaceutical company...
| « Previous month | Next month » |
Most Popular News
Key Industry Events
Products
On demand Supplier Webinars
Discover innovative single-use mixer for efficient mixing of low shear and particulate sensitive solutions in cGMP environment
ATMI Life Science
ATMI Life Science
