Archives for April 13, 2004

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New player in Indian API supply

India's Dishman Pharmaceuticals and Chemicals has set up a company specialising in the contract manufacture of active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs) and intermediates that is specifically aimed at winning business from foreign multinational...

Improving flow cytometry with microspheres

A new method to improve the accuracy and speed of fluorescent flow cytometry has been developed. The technique, which is tipped to become a new industry standard, promises to dramatically increase the accuracy and speed of the technique, used in the...

Sanofi gearing up for Aventis bid

France's Sanofi-Synthelabo has announced plans to sell two of its products to GlaxoSmithKline in a deal which forms part of its strategy to take over Aventis.

UK says it is still a nanotech player

The UK's Science and Innovation Minister, Lord Sainsbury, has defended his government's record on nanotechnology, after last week's report from the House of Commons science and technology select committee blamed policy makers and the scientific...