Archives for April 15, 2003

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LION: improving drug discovery

LION bioscience this week launched the latest version of its open integration platform, LION DiscoveryCenter 3.2, with an enhanced chemistry functionality for integrated drug discovery.

Scientific progress and property rights, the right balance

An expert group on intellectual property rights (IPRs) has warned that rules governing the protection of copyrights, database rights and patents hamper scientific endeavour and must be changed 'in the interest of society', reports the European...

Shaving excess boosts Deltagen results

US provider of drug discovery tools Deltagen saw cutbacks in workforce and the closure of operating units help boost revenue by 93 per cent for the fourth quarter of 2002 to $4.7 million (€4.3m), compared to $2.5 million (€2.3m) for the same period in...

Millipore sales up in difficult environment

Millipore, which specialises in providing technologies, tools and services for the discovery, development and production of new therapeutic drugs, has reported first-quarter 2003 sales of $187 million (€173 million), up 13 per cent from the same...

Strong growth for protein array technology sales

Total revenues for the four emerging sectors of protein array, crucial antibody array, peptide biochip, protein biochip, and solution bead/particle array were estimated at $90 million (€83million) in 2002, writes market analyst Business Communications...