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The discovery of a naturally occurring protein could play a pivotal role in the fight against autoimmune diseases with the possibility of developing this compound into a practicable treatment for rheumatoid arthritis (RA), which currently afflicts one...
Agilent Technologies has entered into an agreement to acquire Silicon Genetics, a provider of software solutions for life science research.
The European Union has granted nearly €25 million to two large-scale research projects coordinated by the University of Helsinki in the area of protein kinases, a promising class of new drug targets.
A leading consultancy firm has predicted the use of radio frequency identification (RFID) within the pharmaceutical industry could prevent most of the 1.25 million adverse reactions and 7,000 patient deaths annually in the United States as a result of...
Potential cost savings from the use of radiofrequency identification (RFID) will spur increasing use of the technology within pharmaceutical company supply chains during the next 18 months, according to new research.
A new information database consisting of genes associated with multidrug resistance in cancerous tumours has been created which identifies transport protein expression and drug resistance in cancer cells.
In its first set of financial results after failing to find a buyer for its pharmaceutical division, Danish packaging firm Superfos has reported a healthy increase in earnings helped by the resolution of delivery problems that plagued it last year.
Guava technologies have introduced two new turnkey assays for their suite of personal cell analysis systems, which intends to make drug discovery applications in the areas of immunology and oncology more sensitive and accurate.
Germany's LION bioscience has made a foray into the market for cheminformatics software with a new package designed to help pharmaceutical companies identify, select and priortise compounds, based on data emerging from the medicinal chemistry function.
Netherlands firm Pharming has acquired the patent portfolio of former transgenic protein production specialist PPL Therapeutics, at a stroke enhancing its proprietary position in this emerging market.
BASF has officially inaugurated a new production plant for the fine chemicals intermediate citral at its Ludwigshafen site in Germany. The world-scale plant, which has an annual capacity of 40,000 metric tons, replaces an existing one of 10,000 metric...
The emergence of cases of mad cow disease in North America has not raised any public health concern from animal-derived medicinal materials such as bovine blood derivatives and gelatin.
A novel, non-radioactive, quantitative cell-based assay, which uses the In-Cell Western technique, has determined the functional potency of agonists and antagonists for D2 and D3 receptors, allowing drug researchers to quantify multiple proteins in...