Archives for September 8, 2005

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Inhaled insulin gets green light from FDA panel

By Phil Taylor

Diabetics moved a step closer to having an alternative to injections for their insulin therapy yesterday, after a US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) advisory committee gave its backing to an inhaled formulation of the drug developed by Pfizer,...

MorphoSys announces agreement with Shionogi

By  Wai Lang Chu

Biotechnology firm, MorphoSys, have announced an agreement with pharmaceutical company Shionogi, in a deal that fits into MorphoSys' effort to expand geographically into the Japanese market - currently the second largest individual pharmaceutical...

Researchers discover PUMA protein suicide role

By  Wai Lang Chu

US researchers think they may have solved the puzzle as to why p53 activity occurs in both the nucleus and cytoplasm during apoptosis. The discovery could form a basis in the development of new anti-cancer therapies that target protein p53's activities.

Wyeth licenses expression system from XOMA

US biotechnology firm XOMA has granted Wyeth a non-exclusive, worldwide license for a technology used to make biologic drugs such as antibodies in bacteria instead of mammalian cells.

Andrx under scrutiny as FDA finds production problems

By Phil Taylor

Generics manufacturer Andrx Corp has become the latest generic drugs manufacturer to fall foul of the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) because of quality issues at a manufacturing plant.

Bayer selects InforSense for its R&D infrastructure

By  Wai Lang Chu

Bayer Healthcare has selected InforSense technology for the development of its integrative analytics infrastructure on a deal that sees InforSense provide a workflow-based cheminformatics platform.