News & Analysis on Clinical Trial Services & Contract Research And Development
In 2003, Freeman Technology launched its new-generation FT4 rheometer in Europe for testing the flow properties of powders, an important measurement in the pharmaceutical and chemical industries where most processes involve the extensive use of...
Virologists in China have said that a man suffering from fever and a respiratory infection is infected with severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS), the viral disease that caused nearly 800 deaths around the world in the first half of 2003.
A Scottish life sciences company specialising in the development of bioinformatics software has been sold to QbioCom, a rival firm based in England, for £1 million.
Owens-Illinois has developed a new generation of plastic bottles and vials for pharmaceutical applications that have significant advantages over glass counterparts, including shatter resistance and low rates of damage in production runs.
UK drug delivery company SkyePharma expects to make a loss in 2003, a disappointing result given that it chalked up its first profitable year just a year earlier, and will cut 10 per cent of its workforce as a result.
Norway's Norsk Hydro has agreed to sell 80.1 per cent of its shares in omega-3 producer Pronova Biocare to Norwegian industrial company Ferd for NOK 165 million (€19.4m).
US chemicals firm Aceto has bought the German Pharma Waldhof business from Switzerland's Roche, making its first foray into the market for biologically-derived active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs).