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31-Mar-2005 - SupplyScape, a US company specialising in developing track and trace technologies for the pharmaceutical industry, has raised $7m in a private financing, writes Phil Taylor.
31-Mar-2005 - REPLICor is developing a broad spectrum antiviral drug, which has the broadest spectrum of activity in vitro ever reported for a single chemical entity and has proved to have a...
31-Mar-2005 - Croatian pharmaceutical company Pliva has forged another partnership in the generic biopharmaceutical sector, linking up with US firm Barr Laboratories to develop a generic version of Amgen's white blood cell...
31-Mar-2005 - Chemineer has launched a new mixer, called the Clean Sweep, which features a new type of mixing action claimed to prevent contamination and eliminate particle shedding from mechanical seals or...
30-Mar-2005 - Boehringer Ingelheim and Slovenian company BIA Separations have collaborated on a new separation and purification system that should improve the production of plasmid DNA.
30-Mar-2005 - Japanese pharmaceutical company Tanabe Seiyaku will set up a stand-alone production company later this year to make both its in-house products and medicines for third parties.
30-Mar-2005 - US company SurModics is evaluating a biodegradeable polymer technology, developed at Rutgers University, that could improve the delivery of drugs into the eye.
30-Mar-2005 - Ireland's largest home grown pharmaceutical company, Elan Holdings, could be split up into two separate units, one focussing on biotechnology and the other on manufacturing and drug delivery, according to...
30-Mar-2005 - UK company Atomising Systems Ltd has completed construction of a cleanroom facility at its plant in Sheffeld, UK, that will be used to produce a delivery vehicle used in Brachysil,...
30-Mar-2005 - Morphotek has announced the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has accepted its New Drug Application for a humanised monoclonal antibody, intended for the treatment of advanced ovarian cancer.
30-Mar-2005 - In response to industry and customer demand, Elsevier is to build an electronic notebook (ELN) designed for the life sciences industry and which will significantly reduce cycle time in biopharmaceutical...
29-Mar-2005 - Thermo Electron has introduced a high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) system - the Finnigan Surveyor Plus - for high-throughput sample processing.
29-Mar-2005 - Beckman Coulter introduces a new flow cytometry system that is aimed at the non-core lab, claiming the system's affordability and small footprint makes it ideal for cellular analysis in research...
29-Mar-2005 - Rhodia is facing two separate investigations for alleged accounting irregularities as well as insider trading, just as the financial difficulties afflicting the French chemicals group have started to abate.
29-Mar-2005 - Japan's Toppan Printing has developed a radio frequency identification (RFID) tag that can be embedded within glass containers such as test tubes, vials or medicine bottles.
29-Mar-2005 - A new formulation of the over-the-counter decongestant pseudoephedrine developed by drug delivery company SCOLR Pharma has successfully cleared a clinical trial, providing a validation of the firm's technology platform, reports...
29-Mar-2005 - The International Society for Pharmaceutical Engineering has launched a new technical publication to help pharmaceutical companies comply with new regulatory requirements on keeping electronic rather than paper-based records in the...
25-Mar-2005 - US researchers have found that three types of leukaemias are all caused by acquired mutations that alter a specific enzyme controlling blood cell proliferation. Identifying the genetic malfunction may give...
24-Mar-2005 - Danish analytical technology specialist Foss has reported a sharp increase in organic growth in 2004, helped in part by the merger of two of Foss subsidiaries, and the introduction of...
24-Mar-2005 - Eriez Magnetics will unveil a new metal detector for pharmaceutical applications at the upcoming Interphex show in New York, US, next month.
24-Mar-2005 - The decreasing number of truly original drugs approved by the Food and Drug Administration is becoming such a serious issue that the pharmaceutical market's tag as the 'innovator industry' is...
24-Mar-2005 - Belgian company Solvay is to buy Fournier Pharma for up to €1.6bn in a move that ties into the group's long-term strategy to boost its activities in the pharmaceuticals sector,...
24-Mar-2005 - India's new patent law, that will prevent domestic pharmaceutical manufacturers from making low-cost generic copies of in-patent drugs - has finally been passed by the lower house of the country's...
24-Mar-2005 - Savient Pharmaceuticals is selling its global biologics manufacturing division to Swiss biotechnology firm Ferring for $80 million (€61 million) in cash payments spread over two years.
23-Mar-2005 - Researchers at the Serono Genetics Institute have announced the identification of 80 genes involved in the inflammatory and neuro-degenerative pathways of multiple sclerosis (MS) forming a library of potential targets...
23-Mar-2005 - The world's number one pharmaceutical company, Pfizer, is to close a plant in Michigan, US, as part of a drive to reduce its global manufacturing capacity.
23-Mar-2005 - UK speciality chemicals firm C6 Solutions has said that it will be stopping production operations by the end of 2005 and has put its entire manufacturing plant and equipment up...
23-Mar-2005 - One of the most chemically benign separation processes could for the first time be made available to manufacturers in the pharmaceutical industry, thanks to pioneering work carried out by researchers...
23-Mar-2005 - There is speculation that the problems at GlaxoSmithKline's manufacturing facility in Puerto Rico may prove to be more costly for the company than originally thought.
23-Mar-2005 - GE Healthcare has expanded its AKTA range of chromatography amd filtration systems with the launch of AKTAcrossflow for membrane selection and process development at the research scale.
22-Mar-2005 - Waters has launched new software that provides instrument control for both gas chromatography and liquid chromatography machines in one package.
22-Mar-2005 - Researchers in the US have discovered a novel method of improving the solubility of carbon nanotubes, which could lead to new types of packaging with improved functionality.
22-Mar-2005 - Perrigo, a US manufacturer of nonprescription drugs and nutritional products, has completed its acquisition of Agis Industries, the second largest drug company in Israel, for $818m.
22-Mar-2005 - In France, sales of generic drugs are continuing to grow, helped by a favourable regulatory regime and a wave of patent expiries on top branded drugs, reports Phil Taylor.
22-Mar-2005 - Genetically modified (GM) plants are to be used to grow vaccines for use in the worldwide fight against HIV, tuberculosis, diabetes and rabies thanks to a grant of €12 million...
21-Mar-2005 - NJM/CLI has launched a system that simultaneously applies and verifies radiofrequency identification tags on bottles and other item level containers using a primary labeller, writes Phil Taylor.
21-Mar-2005 - Researchers in the US have developed a drug delivery technology that directs therapeutics directly to bone, raising the possibility of improved treatment for osteoporosis and other diseases affecting bone, including...
21-Mar-2005 - The prospect of using genomic analysis as a tool for studying trauma patients is a realistic prospect according to a new study, which says the tool can be used to...
21-Mar-2005 - French pharmaceutical company Pierre Fabre is to invest €30 million in its plant at Idron near Pau to bolster its contract manufacturing activities for injectable drugs.
21-Mar-2005 - As the US Food and Drug Administration continues its deliberations on generic biopharmaceuticals, the industry body representing generic drug manufacturers has said that the time has now come for the...
18-Mar-2005 - Swiss drugmaker Novartis says that its renin inhibitor drug aliskiren (SPP100), which potentially represents the first in a new class of orally-active drugs for high blood pressure, has shown promising...
18-Mar-2005 - The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is gearing up to publish its final guidance on the submission of pharmacogenomic data alongside drug marketing applications, first disseminated in draft form...
17-Mar-2005 - TASC Pharmaceuticals, which makes active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs), is to merge with fellow Indian company Glenmark Laboratories, a specialist in formulations and biological drugs.
17-Mar-2005 - The results of a UK pilot study of radiofrequency identification (RFID) and bar coding in pharmacies has shown clear evidence that the system can improve patient safety, reports Phil Taylor.
17-Mar-2005 - Commercial League, the largest and fastest-growing pharmaceutical group in the Balkans, has opened a new primary and secondary packaging plant in Bulgaria to serve the domestic and, potentially, export markets.
17-Mar-2005 - Scientists at US biotechnology company Genentech have developed a rapid testing method for mycoplasma contamination in Chinese hamster ovary cells, one of the most common mammalian cell lines used in...
17-Mar-2005 - A team of gene researchers has sequenced the entire length of the X-chromosome, providing a starting point to explore the biological differences between men and woman and a plethora of...
16-Mar-2005 - A module has been designed for Niro's Courtoy MODUL tablet press that allows it to keep operating while the cleaning cycle runs.
16-Mar-2005 - Costs rises for raw materials and energy push Philadelphia-based FMC BioPolymer to hike up prices for its cellulose gel range.
16-Mar-2005 - A group of US researchers claim to have identified a fundamental mechanism that may facilitate the design of safer and more efficacious topical drug delivery systems, reports Phil Taylor.
16-Mar-2005 - Efforts by Pakistan to build a pharmaceutical sector to rival that of neighbouring India are being undermined by regulatory interference, according to representatives of the domestic drug industry.
16-Mar-2005 - GE Healthcare has launched two new products designed to meet growing industry needs for the purification of monoclonal antibodies, one of the fastest growing drug classes in the drug industry.
15-Mar-2005 - Thermo Electron has revamped its Array Automation software for Raman spectrometers, in a move which it says enables pharmaceutical companies to reduce the polymorph and crystal analysis workload in drug...
15-Mar-2005 - The European Investment Bank (EIB) is planning to lend around €40 million to Germany's Impfstoffwerk Dessau-Tornau - a developer and contract manufacturer of pharmaceutical and veterinary medicines - to help...
15-Mar-2005 - GE Healthcare has launched a range of prepacked columns designed to meet the growing need for pure proteins to use in functional and structural genomics and proteomics research.
15-Mar-2005 - Yesterday's headline suggesting that up to 1 in 7 drugs in the global marketplace provided a timely reminder of the problem as the second Global Forum on Pharmaceutical Anticounterfeiting gets...
15-Mar-2005 - The UK's Environment Agency has reminded all industrial operators who want to continue to burn waste after the end of this month that they must apply for a new permit...
15-Mar-2005 - Teva Hungary, a subsidiary of number two generic company Teva Pharmaceuticals, is to build a $100 million (€75m) factory for the production of active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs) in Sajobabony, Hungary.
14-Mar-2005 - A study has suggested the hypoxia inducible gene RTP801 may serve an important mechanistic role in the development of experimental chordial neovascularisation (CNV), the principal cause of Age-related Macular Degeneration...
14-Mar-2005 - French company Valois has developed a new dose counter that should improve the safety of inhalers used to delivery drugs to asthmatics and people with chronic bronchitis.
14-Mar-2005 - The International Society of Pharmaceutical Engineering (ISPE) has published a new guide detailing standardized methods for the containment of powdered materials in the pharmaceutical manufacturing environment.
14-Mar-2005 - Pharmaceutical companies and governments are not doing enough to combat the problem of drug counterfeiting, which is developing into an international health crisis, claim researchers.
14-Mar-2005 - Biologists have shown for the first time how histatin, the naturally occurring antifungal agent in saliva, kills the oral pathogen Candida albicans, a yeast responsible for most HIV-related oral infections.
14-Mar-2005 - A subsidiary of US firm PPi Technologies is is to collaborate with Germany's Leu-Tronic on a solution for food packagers and drug companies that get need to deal with returned...
14-Mar-2005 - Two top drugstores in the US state of Florida are seeking an exemption from legislation requiring a strict paper-based pedigree for drugs throughout the supply chain, on the grounds that...
10-Mar-2005 - Oxoid has launched a new meat-free culture medium to serve what it says is a growing demand by pharmaceutical companies for non-animal-derived materials for use in pharmaceutical production.
10-Mar-2005 - Italy's Recordati has reported flat turnover but a rise in operating income in 2004, while its pharmaceutical chemicals business managed to return to profit, reports Phil Taylor.
10-Mar-2005 - A scanning electron microscope with the world's highest resolution has been launched, which claims previously unobtainable resolutions of 0.4nm at 30kV and 1.6nm at 1kV. The product is aimed at...
10-Mar-2005 - German chemicals giant BASF reported strong earnings increases across the board yesterday, helped by pricing increases. The companies activities in pharmaceuticals, part of its chemicals and fine chemicals units, also...
10-Mar-2005 - Johnson & Johnson is planning to acquire TransForm Pharmaceuticals, a privately held company that specialises in the discovery of improved formulations and novel crystalline forms of drug molecules, in a...
10-Mar-2005 - The growth in the global pharmaceutical continued to slow in 2004, with a 7 per cent hike to $550 billion, as the sector felt the effects of increased pricing pressure...
10-Mar-2005 - Biopharmaceutical company deCODE genetics, announced the initiation of trials for a first-in-class compound used to treat atherosclerosis for which there is currently no effective drug treatment. The disease strikes almost...
09-Mar-2005 - A second market research report has found evidence that production capacity in the market for contract manufacturing of biopharmaceuticals is now in excess, in contrast to the hitherto prevailing wisdom...
09-Mar-2005 - BioAlliance Pharma, a biopharmaceutical company focused on the field of drug resistance may have discovered a novel way to overcome growing HIV resistance. They have developed a new family of...
09-Mar-2005 - Schneider Electric has teamed up with automated handling company PES Technology to develop a bespoke packaging line for a hazardous and time-critical pharmaceuticals process.
09-Mar-2005 - Sales of amino acids used in synthesis applications will reach nearly $1 billion in 2009 and represent the fastest-growing category in the $7 billion amino acids market.
09-Mar-2005 - The Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology (IBN) in Singapore has developed a method to cultivate cells cost-efficiently in a 3-dimensional configuration that mimics the cell environment in our body, paving...
09-Mar-2005 - A recent report into salaries within the pharmaceutical industry reveals that the Chief Scientific Officer (CSO) is paid amongst the lowest for all executives when compared to salaries paid to...
08-Mar-2005 - Pharmaceutical companies will be able to reduce their polymorph and crystal analysis workload in their drug discovery laboratories after Thermo Electron upgraded its array automation software for Raman spectrometers.
08-Mar-2005 - The world's largest drug company, Pfizer, is to make use of a gene expression system developed at Dowpharma for the production of one of its therapeutic proteins.
08-Mar-2005 - Xceleron has announced the long-awaited results of the CREAM trial into human microdosing in drug development, which demonstrates that microdosing provides a valuable insight into the human pharmacokinetics (PK) of...
08-Mar-2005 - UK company SkyePharma has shrugged off the news that production of a GlaxoSmithKline drug based on its drug delivery technology, the antidepressant Paxil CR (paroxetine), had been halted by the...
08-Mar-2005 - US company Flexicon has launched Flexi 6611, an ultra high-barrier foil-based structure for pharmaceutical and medical device applications.
08-Mar-2005 - Swiss drugmaker Novartis has started construction of a $180 million tabletting facility in Singapore, providing further evidence of the emergence of the island state as a pharmaceutical hub.
07-Mar-2005 - GlaxoSmithKline has become the latest drugmaker to fall foul of regulatory authorities for failing to meet manufacturing standards.
07-Mar-2005 - US researchers have discovered that cholesterol plays a key role in anchoring a signalling pathway, which has been linked to cell division and cancer. The findings could identify cholesterol as...
07-Mar-2005 - The emergence of nanotechnology is likely to have a significant impact on drug delivery sector, affecting just about every route of administration from oral to injectable, according to specialist market...
07-Mar-2005 - US pharmaceutical giant Pfizer and French drugmaker Sanofi-Aventis have filed with the US Food and Drug Administration seeking marketing approval for Exubera, an inhaled human insulin powder, for the treatment...
07-Mar-2005 - Metabolex has announced positive clinical trial results for its oral insulin sensitiser for type 2 diabetes, which is primarily designed to eliminate the dose-limiting side effects of the currently marketed sensitisers.
07-Mar-2005 - Although US biotechnology company, Chiron, fully intends to be able to provide its Fluvirin flu vaccine for the 2005/6 flu season, it says it is difficult to predict the number...
07-Mar-2005 - There is no doubt that the introduction of stents, and latterly those that deliver pharmacological agents, has revolutionised the treatment of coronary artery disease over the last 10 years and...
04-Mar-2005 - A team of researchers have discovered how a key enzyme involved in repairing DNA is put together and how it works, a development that opens up new drug therapies for...
03-Mar-2005 - A desire by pharmaceutical companies to concentrate their resources on marketing products, rather than production and drug discovery, will drive global revenues for contract manufacturing and research to nearly $168bn...
03-Mar-2005 - A high-ranking US Food and Drug Administration official has told a Senate advisory committee that the agency needs more authority to force drug companies to change labelling for their drugs...
03-Mar-2005 - BioProgress of the UK says that the commercial version of its TABWRAP tablet-coating machine should be launched at this year's Conference on Pharmaceutical Ingredients (CPhI) meeting in November, reports Phil...
03-Mar-2005 - The UK regulatory authorities have cleared Chiron to resume production of its influenza vaccine Fluvirin at its facility in Liverpool, lifting a ban imposed in October because of contamination problems...
03-Mar-2005 - Sud-Chemie Performance Packaging has launched a new desiccant joint to keep pharmaceutical products safe from moisture damage.
03-Mar-2005 - Ultrasonic Scientific has released an ultrasonic analyser, described as the 'first of its kind' as the only ultrasonic analyser of sedimentation stability. The product brings the benefits of ultrasound to...
02-Mar-2005 - Denmark-headquartered Niro is finalizing a €10 million investment programme centred on the expansion of its drying test site, located at its main facility in Copenhagen, that will extend its reach...
02-Mar-2005 - Neurocrine Biosciences has announced positive Phase I clinical trial results with its proprietary, orally active small molecule Gonadotropin-Releasing Hormone (GnRH) receptor antagonist that could diminish bone demineralisation.
02-Mar-2005 - UK company Archimedes Pharma has signed the first licensing deal for its nasal delivery platform since acquiring the technology from West Pharmaceutical Services last month.
02-Mar-2005 - JEOL USA has unveiled a new technology for analysing the chemical composition of solids, gases, and liquids in real time, with applications across a broad range of industries including the...
02-Mar-2005 - In the US, Wave Biotech and ILC Dover have launched a new version of their disposable mixing device for use in the pharmaceutical, biotechnology and other industries.
02-Mar-2005 - The Netherlands has set up a programme to boost its biotechnology sector by helping small and medium-sized biopharma firms to develop and manufacture products, writes Phil Taylor.
02-Mar-2005 - VIRxSYS report the results of its latest clinical trial, testing VRX496, a HIV-derived lentiviral vector that could represent a novel HIV gene therapy. The trial results also showed patients with...
01-Mar-2005 - Thermo Electron has launched an X-ray analyser in response to the needs of laboratories dealing with unpredictable samples. It incorporates a non-destructive analysis with sensitivity at single-digit ppm levels for...
01-Mar-2005 - Polychromix, a company specialising in optical systems, has branched out into the spectroscopy sector with a new range of near infrared (NIR) spectrometers that are targeted at users who need...
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 - Claims that allowing parallel trade in pharmaceuticals is opening the door to counterfeiting and bioterrorists have been refuted by a senior executive at Pfizer in testimony to the US Senate's...
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...
01-Mar-2005 - Owens-Illinois has received an Ease-of-Use Commendation from the Arthritis Foundation in the US for its 1-Clic Packaging System, first introduced in 2002.
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