Archives for May 31, 2004

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Safer connections from CPC

A new range of connector accessories for tubing used in the manufacture of pharmaceuticals, designed to improve the safety of processes that need high levels of containment, has been launched by US company Colder Products Co.

Drug delivery tech could improve haemophilia treatment

Belgium's Opperbas Holding has started a mid-stage clinical trial of a new formulation of factor VIII - used to treat haemophilia A - that should cut the number of injections that sufferers of the bleeding disease need to endure.

Rhodia hikes taste-masker production

Rhodia, the French speciality chemicals company, has expanded its capability to produce N-2,3-trimethyl-2-isopropylbutanamide (more commonly known as WS-23) with the recent addition of a second production stream at its UK facility in the Scottish town...

Protein structure studies at the double

Formulatrix and Bruker AXS have pooled their resources to speed up the process of high-throughput protein crystallography, a key process in the identification of protein structure and function.

Reagent cuts proteomics workload

Applied Biosystems has unveiled a family of reagents that speeds up proteomics and biomarker discovery experiments by allowing up to four peptides to be analysed in single sample, writes Wai Lang Chu.