SAFC buys Honeywell's Iropharm unit
Targeting the market for enantiomerically pure drugs, SAFC, a custom manufacturing group within Sigma-Aldrich, has acquired Honeywell International's Iropharm unit in Arklow, Ireland.
Archives for May 9, 2006
New flu vaccine answers supply and storage problems
A new vaccine, which can be distributed without refrigeration and is stable at room temperature for prolonged periods, could ease the threat of supply problems with pandemic influenza vaccines by allowing safe stockpiling of the treatment.
Falling innovation levels fuel pharma/biotech collaborations
A new report suggests the increasing number of collaboration between pharmaceutical and biotech companies is fuelled by a steep decline in innovation levels as well as the growing threat from generics and drug recalls.
PerkinElmer unveils new lab solutions at Analytica
PerkinElmer were out in force at Analytica 2006, with a wealth of analytical solutions designed with the laboratory in mind along with the applications relevant to the environmental, pharmaceutical, materials and academic research market segments
India set to overtake Italy in API production
While European producers of active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs) will see their share of the global market fall in the next few years, Asian markets are growing at phenomenal rates, with India set to supplant Italy as the second largest API...
Promising oligo purification method wins more cash
Biochemical firm Berry & Associates has been awarded $749,000 (€589,079) by the US government to further develop its oligonucleotide (oligo) purification technique which is operationally similar to conventional reverse-phase (RP) methods but offers...