ELGA Process Water has launched its new All-in-Pack water treatment
solution for pharmaceutical manufacturers wishing to reduce both
capital expenditure and associated running costs.
The Bio Affinity Company (BAC) has introduced two new products for
scientists who need to purify hard-to-separate antibodies such as
immunogloblins A and M.
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has revealed evidence
linking the heparin contaminant with the series of reported adverse
reactions, and has also now issued a warning letter to the Chinese
facility at the centre of the safety...
Analytical equipment specialists Waters made a solid start to 2008,
posting a 12 per cent increase in first-quarter revenues buoyed on
by higher margin expansions and strong global sales that build on
previous quarterly performances.
US drug giant Pfizer plans to close or sell off an additional 13
manufacturing facilities as part of an effort to cut its number of
production plants to 44 by the end of 2009.
You'll be unlikely to see them at your local cinema, but molecular
animations created using highly accurate information from X-ray
scattering images, will help explain how proteins and organic
molecules behave in a solution.
Frank Torti has been appointed to the newly created post of chief
scientist at the FDA, with a brief to "oversee, coordinate, and
ensure quality and regulatory focus of the intramural research
programs".
The contract manufacturing organisation (CMO) business model needs
to change if companies expect to remain competitive in this
evolving industry, which is tipped to see tough times ahead.
An $8.8m collaboration between two pharma companies and a leading
university has resulted in a project that uses fragment-based
crystallography and in silico fragment screening for lead
identification.
Febit has updated its Geniom microRNA analysis platform with the
latest version of the Sanger Institute's database of all known
miRNA elements. The upgrade should provide scientists with a more
detailed microRNA profile of their...
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) believes that the
contamination of Baxter's blood thinner heparin, which has been
linked to 62 deaths in the US, may have been due to the deliberate
replacement of some ingredients with...
The proposed split of the Celera Group from its parent Applera
Corporation to form a separate, publicly-traded company is
gathering momentum with a preliminary prospectus now filed with the
US Securities and Exchange Commission.
Buckyballs have the annoying tendency of sticking together in
floating clumps in water - a property that prevents them from
settling to be removed from waste water from industrial production.
LabTechnologist.com presents a round-up of new products that have
been introduced to the laboratory equipment market of late,
including items from Matrical, Millrock Technology, AnaSpec, Lab M
and ibidi.
Overall, 2007 was another stellar year for contract service
providers, particularly those at the early-stage end of
development, although companies are advised to watch out for a
tougher environment ahead.
The number of people whose deaths are associated with an allergic
reaction to heparin has shot up as the US Food and Drug
Administration (FDA) has updated its tally.
Pfizer has updated the US product labeling of its inhaled insulin
treatment Exubera to include a warning of increased risk of lung
cancer among those using it.
Actavis has purchased a 90 per cent stake in Zhejiang Chiral
Medicine Chemicals (CMC), a Hangzhou, China-based active
pharmaceutical ingredients (API) maker.
BioFocus DPI, a subsidiary of Galapagos, has launched a new
platform for drug discovery at the Society for Biomolecular
Sciences Annual Conference taking place this week in St Louis.
Two products aimed at enhancing the efficiency of process
development in biopharmaceutical manufacturing are the latest
offerings from GE Healthcare, the UK-based medical technology and
services company.
Olympus is planning to expand its European operations with a €15m
R&D centre in Munich, Germany, tasked with producing the next
generation of in vitro lab diagnostics and laboratory
automation equipment.
A rapid microbial detection kit presented as the only genetic-based
test on the market to quantify yeast and mould has been launched by
Switzerland's Lonza.
Invitrogen has immersed itself in yet more legal wrangling after
the life sciences firm filed a patent lawsuit against GE Healthcare
alleging 'wilful' infringement of its intellectual property.
India's Jubilant Organosys has made good on promises to make
acquisitions in the contract research and manufacturing services
(CRAMS) sector with a $255m deal to buy Draxis Health of Canada.
Three of India´s large pharmaceutical manufacturers, Dr Reddy's,
Ranbaxy Laboratories and Shilpa Medicare have just announced new
merger and acquisition (M&A) deals.
ESA Biosciences has struck a deal with Waters Corp to produce a
direct interface for ESA's HPLC detector that allows it to fully
integrate with Waters' chromatography control and data-analysis
platform.
The use of disposable manufacturing equipment in pharmaceutical
production and greater need for containment equipment were
recurring themes at the Interphex show in Philadelphia last week,
and both were addressed by new equipment...
Steven Liberty, senior vice president of operations for Patheon's
North American businesses spoke at Interphex on the strategies
contract manufacturing organisations (CMOs) can use to obtain a
competitive advantage.
The Department of Pathology at Uppsala University Hospital in
Sweden is evaluating Biotage's new pyrosequencing platform to
detect a genetic biomarker that indicates how well a cancer patient
will respond to targetted drug therapies.
Waters Corp unveiled a new concept in Process Analytical Technology
(PAT) at Pittcon 2008 when it released the new Patrol UPLC (ultra
performance liquid chromatography) process analyser, which can be
incorporated directly into a process.
A new laboratory technique can describe both the structure and
chemical composition of samples with a mass of less than one
femtogram (one quadrillionth of a gram) using standard laboratory
equipment.
With manufacturing productivity in the pharmaceutical sector widely
acknowledged as being in need of modernisation, a US firm believes
it has developed a technology that could carve days off the time
spent on microbial testing, a...
Life sciences equipment company Millipore says its new protein
detection system, SNAP i.d, can improve the time it takes to carry
out Western blots by as much as 80 per cent compared to
conventional immunodetection methods.
Sterile process engineering consultancy firm Isogen is taking a
maiden voyage into the manufacturing side of drugs with the
construction of its first facility, aimed to fill a gap in
small-scale injectables.
Millipore used Interphex in Philadelphia as a platform to launch a
new product in its Tangential Flow Filtration (TFF) range aimed at
removing impurities from biologic products.
Syft Technologies of New Zealand released the latest generation of
Selected Ion Flow Tube-Mass Spectrometry (SIFT) instrumentation at
Pittcon 2008 for the analysis of very low levels of organic
compounds in air (detection limits as...
Pharmaceutical manufacturers, distributors and retailers alike have
welcomed a unanimous vote by the California State Board of Pharmacy
to delay for another two years the implementation of electronic
pedigree requirements for tracking...
SGS has officially launched a new auditing service designed to
alleviate the quality, regulatory and safety issues in
pharmaceutical supply chains, which are increasingly extending
across the globe.
DSM Pharmaceuticals now has its new commercial scale cytotoxic
contract manufacturing facility up and running, and is only the
second company in the US to offer such a service on this scale.
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.
Biotage has used the American Chemical Society (ACS) Spring 2008
meeting to introduce its new batch microwave synthesiser that
allows the full automation of batch sequencing resulting in time
savings for users.
A new, freely available database has been launched that provides
comprehensive information about the 600 known bacteria living in
the human mouth. Many of these bacteria also cause infections
in the lungs, blood and skin, so the...