Analytical instrument maker Thermo is promising to make separation
more efficient with its new Sorvall RC-6 Plus centrifuge, which
offers 4-L capacity and operating at speeds of up to 22,000 rpm,
enabling extremely fast processing...
Chemical companies Solvay and Akzo Nobel have coughed up $72.8m
(€59.7m) to settle a lawsuit from the US Justice Department while
having to plead guilty of fixing prices for sodium perborate, an
oxidising agent used mainly in detergents,...
At the Achema exhibition in Frankfurt this May, UK powder
instrumentation company Freeman Technology will unveil software
upgrades for its FT4 Powder Rheometer that allow 'real time' bulk
density measurement, improving QC...
Canadian drug outsourcing company Patheon has reported its first
quarterly loss since its inception in 1974, swinging from a net
profit of $6m (€4.9m) in Q1 of 2005 to a net loss of $11.5m in Q1
of 2006, as problems with production...
Oracle has introduced a new software program to help pharma
companies integrate clinical data from multiple sources and
streamline regulatory compliance in the clinical development
process. Pharma giant Boehringer Ingelheim is the...
Parexel, one of the world's leading clinical research organisations
is under investigation after six men in a UK drug trial being run
by the company were admitted to intensive care on Tuesday.
Medidata Solutions, a global provider of e-clinical data capture,
management and reporting solutions, benefited from the drive from
paper to electronic technology in clinical trials, picking up
several lucrative contracts and expanding...
Researchers in the UK think that knowledge of 'movement routes' is
the key to predicting patterns of spread of infectious diseases in
humans, which would enable scientists to administer effective drug
therapies that are...
Thermo has upped the stakes at the Pittcon exposition taking place
this week in Orlando by unveiling QuickQuan, a fully automated,
high-throughput software solution for the analysis of chemically
diverse compounds, speeding up the...
ChemAxon and FMC has announced a global all product license
acquisition of ChemAxon's complete product line and the switching
over to JChem cheminformatics platform.
Bayer Healthcare has selected Genedata's Bioinformatic platform for
its target research and biomarker activities in which the deal will
involve the mechanistic analysis of cardiovascular and cancer
biomarker genes.
Filtration systems specialist Pall's net profit barely moved in Q2
compared to the similar period last year, up only $400,000
(€331,328) to $32.4m, still its Biopharmaceuticals business, driven
by a steady demand in consumables,...
Looking for an advantage in the high-value generics market and a
boost to its contract development services for research-driven
pharmaceutical companies, Swiss chemicals and pharmaceuticals group
Schweizerhall has bought German drug...
In its first venture outside the subcontinent, though certainly not
the last of its kind for India pharma companies, contract
pharmaceuticals manufacturer Kemwell has bought for an undisclosed
sum Pfizer's production plant in...
A new laboratory method, which looks for a spinal fluid protein,
may identify people with the earliest stages of multiple sclerosis
(MS), greatly increasing the effectiveness of drug therapies to
treat the 10,000 Americans, who are...
In what is shaping up to be a new promising area in the
verification of drugs, Analytical Spectral Devices (ASD) has
received another patent for its RxSpec technology which uses near
infrared spectroscopy (IR), as rival company CDEX...
A $30.1m drop in licence and research revenue and the expensive
removal by rebel shareholders of its former CEO Gerard Soula last
June have taken drug delivery company Flamel from a net profit of
$12.5m (€10.3m) in 2004 to a net loss...
As the outsourcing craze continues to sweep the pharma industry,
those participating should learn the secrets to establishing and
managing successful outsourcing relationships and be aware of the
key legal issues. A new guide to pharma...
Phoenix Data Systems has recently launched an interactive voice
response (IVR) system and a range of new services to accompany its
current electronic data capture (EDC) technology.
German drug maker Schering has rejected Merck's unsolicited
takeover offer of €14.6 billion ($17.4 billion), claiming the deal
undervalued the company.
Bruker Daltonics announces the release of its MALDI Molecular
Imager, a system for in-vitro imaging of peptide and protein
biomarker distributions in tissue sections and cell clusters. The
imager addresses the need for high-sensitivity...
A member of a new class of drugs may increase survival in patients
with myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS), and could become the new
standard of therapy for this group of pre-cancer disorders, said
researchers.
Kreatech has launched the first complete miRNA isolation and
labelling kit, which combines the upstream isolation of small RNA
and the reagents necessary to label these DNA samples for
microarray analysis, offering a more complete...
A new method has revealed that a discovery involving menthol could
point towards new therapies to treat chronic inflammatory and
neuropathic pain indications by targeting the temperature-activated
ion channels.
Anticipating a US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval this
year, Dendreon has awarded Diosynth Biotechnology with a long-term
contract to supply the recombinant protein antigen component of its
novel vaccine for prostate cancer...
Despite a 3 per cent drop in sales to SFr8.181bn (€5.212bn),
specialty chemicals maker Clariant has posted a 29 per cent rise in
net profit for 2005 to SFr192m, thanks to lower interest charges,
currency gains and lower taxes, but...
Analytical technology company Ometric has demonstrated real-time,
in-line compliance testing of powders and instantaneous monitoring
of blending of pharmaceuticals with its SpectrInline Processware
system at the Pittcon exposition...
Glemser Technologies has released a new version of its labelling
software, designed to reduce the costs, complexity and regulatory
risk involved with producing pharma product inserts.
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has linked its
Counterfeit Alert Network (CAN) to SafeMeds Alert System, an
electronic mailing list backed by pharmaceutical manufacturers that
sends warnings about fake drugs to anyone who...
Swiss QC specialist SGS has opened a laboratory in Singapore for
the contract testing of pharmaceuticals, biopharmaceuticals and
medical devices, eying a budding market which seems hungry for
outsourcing.
Tevopharm, a Bosch Packaging Technology Company, introduces a new
control platform for its Pack-2000 (BM) flow-wrapping machine. The
controller is designed to enable users to comply with GAMP and 21
CFR Part 11 regulations when feeding...
The first clinical laboratory based test for saliva-based oral
cancer detection has been developed by scientists, who believe that
the clinical value this test demonstrates, could reduce the 350,000
- 400,000 new cases recorded each...
Reforms do not come cheap, certainly not for Croatian
pharmaceutical company Pliva, whose strategy of abandoning its
proprietary drugs in favour of generics may pay off in the long
term, but, along with manufacturing consolidation...
The ReNeuron Group has announced it has completed the scale-up and
cell banking of its lead stem cell product for stroke, which gives
the Company the potential to progress this therapy without the need
to re-derive the cells from...
TimeMed Labeling Systems has acquired Automatic Business Products
(ABP), a provider of business forms and labeling solutions,
expanding both its product portfolio and its customer base.
With a 30 per cent grip on the $100m (€84m) global customer
relationship management (CRM) market from its dealings in the US,
C3i is now taking on Europe - a market that holds similar potential
to the US - and finding little competition...
FEI and Sidec have entered into an agreement to commercialise a
range of Protein Tomography solutions that could provide drug
companies with services that could increase the chances of success
in early stage drug development.
Datatrak's $18m (€15m) acquisition of ClickFind fulfills the
company's strategy of offering the broadest multi-component
eClinical capability in the clinical trials market.
Researchers in the US think they have identified a compound that
interferes with the pathogenic effects of Huntington's disease that
could lead to the development of a new treatment for the disease as
well as making an impact...
VGX and Dowpharma have signed an agreement to advance the
development of a novel cancer compound currently in pre-clinical
development that initial clinical studies will target individuals
with Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma.
Nucryst Pharmaceuticals has been granted a new patent that covers
the company's proprietary nanocrystalline silver for use in the
treatment of acne. This latest addition strengthens the company's
patent portfolio, which...
Stem Cell Sciences have launched the first complete, defined medium
that enables the large-scale, consistent production of mouse ES
cells. The announcement closely follows the formation of an
exclusive agreement completed last year...
Its upcoming inhalable insulin drug may prove a blockbuster but
Nektar's 2005 results brought the biopharmaceutical company further
in the red, with a net loss of $108.2m (€91m) in Q4 more than five
times higher than the $19.3m...
Swiss custom manufacturing firm Lonza has entered into a joint
venture with investment management company Bio*One Capital to built
a $250m (€210m) large-scale mammalian cell culture plant in
Singapore, underlying Lonza's confidence...
Chemical manufacturing giant BASF is building an alkylethanolamine
(AEOA) plant at its US site in Louisiana, as increasing American
demand pushes the company to increase worldwide production
capacities for these important intermediates...
Warwick Analytical Services has made available a service that
allows the investigation and measurement of the optical activity of
samples with an accuracy of +/- 0.002 degrees for optical rotations
of less than 1 degree.
Finnish packaging company Stora Enso and pharmaceutical group Orion
are carrying out a trial of pharmaceuticals packages equipped with
RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) tags for every stage of the
supply chain using a system that...
A new laboratory method for distinguishing pathogens from harmless
relatives has been developed by scientists in the US. The
high-throughput technique will enable the quick identification of
pathogens, which could be used for bioterror...
Perceptive Informatics, a subsidiary of Parexel, has released the
latest version of its web interface for data capture, patient
randomisation and the management of study drug inventory for
clinical trials.
Agilent introduces its next generation of assay kits for its 2100
Bioanalyser Lab-on-a-Chip platform that aims to replace
labour-intensive SDS-PAGE and capillary gel electrophoresis (CGE)
methods providing faster microfluidic analyses.
