Archives for July 26, 2004

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Antibiotics market hits result at DSM pharma unit

Dutch group DSM, one of Europe's top three ingredient suppliers to drug makers, increased sales of pharma products during the second quarter but continued losses from the antibiotics market halved the Life Sciences operating profit.

Lonza to use novel biocatalysis process for chiral compound

Switzerland's Lonza Group said yesterday that it will use a novel process developed by US-based biocatalysis company Codexis for the synthesis of a key chiral pharmaceutical compound used in one of the world's major human therapeutics products.