Archives for December 22, 2003

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An apple a day…

A small US company has been granted a patent on a novel delivery vehicle for pharmaceutical agents: fresh fruit and vegetables.

Nautilus collaboration bears first fruit

France's Nautilus Biotech says that it has achieved a key technical milestone in a collaboration with Aventis Pasteur, designed to improve the productivity of the latter's vaccine manufacturing process.

New owner for plant cell production firm

DFB Pharmaceuticals has acquired fellow US company Phyton to gain access to the latter's plant cell fermentation technology for the manufacture of pharmaceuticals.