'Best-in-class' moisture barrier film
Klockner Pentaplast has introduced a film for pharmaceutical packaging that blocks out 25 per cent more moisture than any other thermoformed film on the market, according to the company.
Archives for March 17, 2004
Saving on excipients
UCB has been awarded a US patent on a formulation technology that could represent a low-cost means of achieving a difficult task - making a drug that needs to be absorbed in the stomach suitable for once-daily administration.
Consortium plans engineered rat models
A consortium of academic and industry researchers, headed by scientists from French company genOway, has started development of genetically-modified laboratory rats that can serve as models for human diseases.
BASF optimistic about '04 outlook
German chemicals giant BASF has beaten its own sales and earnings forecasts for 2003, prompting chairman Jurgen Hambrecht to suggest that the sector may be due for something of a recovery this year, writes Phil Taylor.
France seeks advice on encouraging R&D
The French government has embarked on a fact-finding exercise to try to work out ways it can address the country's diminishing standing as a centre for biopharmaceutical R&D.