News & Analysis on Clinical Trial Services & Contract Research And Development
ChemGenex has teamed up with MolecularMD in a deal that focuses on a drug resistance mutation seen in chronic myeloid leukemia (CML) patients, which has seen these sufferers no longer respond to Gleevec, a popular cancer treatment.
Frost & Sullivan has awarded biopharmaceutical firm Cytogenix with its 2006 award for innovation in biotechnology processing for its cell-free manufacturing method that enables generation of large quantities of high-purity DNA in small highly...
New Brunswick Scientific (NBS) has introduced two new benchtop incubator shakers, the first in a range of eight new models replacing the original C-Line. The shakers have been designed to allow reproducible results all the way down the cell line.
A new generation of drugs that target specific areas of the body has created new challenges for dissolution testing, as many recent active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs) are poorly soluble in traditional media and need novel testing procedures.
As financial pressures continue to plague the pharma industry, firms should consider taking more advantage of sourcing staff in cheap labour markets in order to save a buck.
Sanofi pasteur's vaccine manufacturing plant in Pennsylvania, where half of America's influenza vaccines are made, has been served with a warning letter by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA), asking for measures to ensure batches of its flu...
Best Practices Research and Consulting have put together a toolkit to help pharma companies improve manufacturing quality assurance and efficiency.
Applied Biosystems (AB) is to acquire Agencourt Personal Genomics (APG) for approximately $120m (€94m) in cash in which the life science specialists will gain a novel, high throughput approach with applications in DNA sequencing, gene expression, and...
European life sciences received an unexpected boost as the European Science Foundation launched an initiative to help promote and coordinate interaction among European life sciences researchers and funders.
As clinical trial activity in the Asia Pacific region continues to boom, Novotech, the largest Australian owned contract research organisation (CRO) has presented a checklist to help pharma firms minimise risk when choosing a partner.
New guidelines for the import and manufacture of medical devices in India have now come into effect, aimed at increasing world confidence in medical devices made in the region.