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The US advanced drug delivery market will grow more than 18 per cent and exceed $76 bn (€62 bn) by 2014, spurred on by new technologies emerging from the biotech and biopharmaceutical pipelines, according to a new report by Kalorama Information.
Scientists have devised a way of using live' bacteria in yoghurt to deliver therapeutics that can prevent HIV infection, potentially opening up a new avenue for probiotic dairy to play a more prominent role in drug delivery.
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The big pharma companies may have dreamed of launching the world's first non-injectable insulin, but it has been Canadian biotech company Generex that shattered this dream, bypassing EU and US regulatory processes and launching its inhaled insulin in...
After raising £2.1 m (€1.7) in venture capital in December, Oxford-based Caretek Medical has now also secured the support of a major global pharma company to help Caretek run a feasibility study on its innovative needle-free drug delivery system.