Cognis Nutrition & Health, a nutritional ingredients supplier,
has responded to claims made earlier this week by Dutch rival
Loders Croklaan regarding the infringement of several of its
patents.
Swiss pharmaceuticals company Roche yesterday said its vitamins and
fine chemicals unit, recently sold to DSM, fully complies with new
requirements for vitamin E issued this month by the Netherlands.
Danish company Novozymes announced yesterday that the US Department
of Energy (DOE) has approved the third year of funding for
Novozymes' three-year subcontract to develop more cost-efficient
enzymes for ethanol production.
Isis Innovation, the wholly-owned technology transfer company of
Oxford University, reports this week that researchers at the
university's Inorganic Chemistry laboratory have found that they
can intercalate a range of pharmaceutically...
US demand for combinatorial chemistry products and services is set
to increase by more than twelve per cent annually to reach $4
billion (€3.7bn) in 2006, according to a new report from market
analyst the Freedonia group.
France needs to invest more in the emerging 'revolutionary' science
of nanotechnologies if it is to remain competitive in this
promising field, a French parliamentary committee has recommended.
US company Biolog this week received a patent for its Phenotype
MicroArray technology. The patent, number US 6,472,201, is granted
for comparative phenotypic analysis of two or more microorganisms
using a number of substrates within...
In response to recent news regarding patent litigation surrounding
its drug ribavirin, biopharmaceutical company Ribapharm announced
this week that it believes its patent position to be unchanged by
Schering-Plough's recent action...
Roche Molecular Systems, the in vitro diagnostics element of
Swiss pharmaceutical company Roche said this week that its
supplement to the AMPLICOR(TM) HIV-1 Test, version 1.5 has been
accepted for review by the US Food and Drug Administration...
Large Scale Biology Corporation (LSBC) has started a research
collaboration with Novozymes Biotech to apply LSBC's gene shuffling
and molecular evolution technologies to genes of interest to
Novozymes Biotech.
The chemical cousin of vitamin A is thought to restore production
of a key protein, which has been damaged by cigarettes in the lungs
of former smokers, and protects the cells against lung cancer,
according to new findings published...
Danish vegetable oils and fats company Aarhus Oliefabrik announced
yesterday that together with Astion, it will increase the
development portfolio of BSP Pharma principally using oil from the
African shea nut.
Pharmaceutical and veterinary product manufacturer IVAX corporation
has acquired ChemSource, a manufacturer of active pharmaceutical
ingredients based in Puerto Rico.
Two suppliers to the life sciences industry, Amersham Biosciences
and Thermo Electron are to jointly market and sell mass
spectrometry-based proteomics solutions for protein scientists.
Growing and steady interest in herbal supplements, particularly in
the US, is spurring demand for plant-derived chemicals. According
to a new report figures show that in the US growth is expected to
rise by 6.8 per cent annually in...
Genicon Sciences this week launched its second Resonance Light
Scattering (RLS) technology product - an RLS-based two-colour
nucleic Acid microarray toolkit for gene expression analysis.
Genetronics Biomedical has completed the sale its BTX division to
Harvard Bioscience for $3.7 million. Genetronics Biomedical's
stockholders approved the sale in a meeting on Friday.
High Content Screening company Cellomics announced today that the
Canadian Intellectual Property Office has issued Cellomics'
Canadian Patent No. 2,328,194 entitled 'A System for Cell-Based
Screening.'
The structure of a key energy-releasing enzyme found in all animals
is designed to minimise free radical production, an international
team of researchers report in this week's Science.
US Valentis announced that its wholly-owned subsidiary, PolyMASC
Pharmaceuticals, has received a favourable ruling from the Japanese
Patent Office in regard to patent invalidation proceedings brought
by ALZA Corporation, a unit of...
Canadian drug development company Ecopia BioSciences on Monday
announced that it had filed patent applications for the first two
novel compounds using its proprietary drug discovery platform -
suggesting investments by the company...
AAC Consulting Group, the regulatory consulting subsidiary of
contract research organisation Kendle International, has signed an
agreement with two toxicologists to further expand its services to
the food and dietary supplement industries.
London zoo was the setting last week for UK inspection body Select
QA to formally receive certification from the United Kingdom
Accreditation Service, involving the company in a new scheme for
the food packaging industry.
Alcan Pharma Center, a US division of flexible packaging unit Alcan
Packaging, has installed a new four colour Rotomec 3000-5 ES
gravure printing press, with in-line coating from UK company Valmet
Converting.
Franco-German drugmaker Aventis and Germany's Bayer have agreed not
to pursue their plans to create a joint venture in the field of
biological products.
Emerson Process Management has received a multi-year contract from
Voridian, a division of Eastman Chemical, to upgrade automation
systems at Voridian's polyethylene terephthalate (PET) polymers
plants in Columbia and in Cosoleacaque,...
German chemicals company Degussa has sold its Frankfurt/Main-based
biopharmaceutical company Zentaris to Canadian firm AEterna
Laboratories for approximately €50 million, the company said last
week. The move marks the much-talked...
French chemicals company Rhodia is to sell its UK-based brewing and
enzymes businesses to US biotech company Genencor International in
a bid to strengthen its focus on food additives.
