News & Analysis on Clinical Trial Services & Contract Research And Development
A new report into pharmaceutical R&D has identified an emerging trend favouring outsourcing of discovery research, clinical trials and formulation manufacturing, providing pressure relief from consistent, high-growth financial returns faced by the...
A collaboration between CompleGen and DuPont is set to industrialize the pre-clinical drug development process and reduce the time to bring a drug to market. Under terms, CompleGen will gain access to a chemical library consisting of compounds...
Competition in the sweeteners market could move up a gear in the near future as Japanese scientists harness production capacity for the taste-altering protein miraculin that makes sour foods taste sweet,reports Lindsey Partos.
Researchers in the US have recognised one of the key functions of the c-myb gene, which leukaemia cells depend on for proliferation, is the formation of white blood cells. The discovery is sure to position the gene as a potential cancer drug target...
A molecular 'switch' allowing cancer cells to detach themselves from the host of other cancer cells and move away to a different parts of the body has been discovered Researchers believe this molecular step is a viable target of which drugs designed...
Ireland's pharmaceutical industry saw a return to strong growth in July, after a lengthy period in which the prevailing wisdom was that the sector had plateaued.
France-based ProSim has introduced a comprehensive database of the thermo-physicial properties of close to 2,000 pure compounds that should be valuable for researchers working in process simulation.
The port city of Visakhapatnam in India is to form a 'pharma city' to house bulk drug manufacturers, according to local news reports.
Medivative Technologies, a contract manufacturing and process engineering services supplier to the life sciences and medical device industries, has just been cleared for operations by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA).
Applied Biosystems has announced the introduction of a new workflow management and process automation solution software that integrates data form multiple sources for genomics and proteomics laboratories.