Archives for July 11, 2006

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End in sight for Discovery's manufacturing nightmare?

By  Gregory Roumeliotis

Discovery Laboratories is claiming progress in its struggle to correct manufacturing problems related to Surfaxin, its experimental respiratory treatment for infants, yet the goal of overcoming the process validation issues that prevent it from...

Cardinal joins Roche's 'bird flu crew'

By  Kirsty Barnes

Cardinal Health is the latest firm to benefit from Roche's global recruitment drive for manufacturers to help boost its supplies of the bird flu drug coveted by governments across the world - Tamiflu.

Maryland fails to seduce Novartis

By  Gregory Roumeliotis

Maryland is no longer in the running for a $500m (€392m) vaccine manufacturing plant Novartis is seeking to build in the US, as speculation about which state will host America's first cell culture-derived influenza vaccine plant is reaching fever pitch.

Spherics helps the medicine go down

By  Kirsty Barnes

Takeda Pharmaceutical has jumped at the chance to use a new technology that its developer, Spherics, claims can improve the efficacy of a drug while reducing side effects, providing more consistent drug levels and enhancing compliance.

Thermo introduces enhanced pipetting aid

By  Wai Lang Chu

Thermo Electron introduces its solution for researchers involved in large volume pipetting, making available a pipetting aid that incorporates a motor to allow faster pipetting of volumes saving time and cost without compromising accuracy and safety.

Morphosys strikes gold with another HuCAL deal

By  Wai Lang Chu

Chemicon are to supply drug targets for MorphoSys in a licensing agreement that will see MorphoSys develop antibodies from its proprietary HuCAL Gold antibody library.

Locus partners up with Ono in drug discovery deal

By  Wai Lang Chu

Locus Pharmaceuticals has announced it has entered a drug discovery agreement with Ono Pharmaceuticals in a deal that will focus on protein kinases as a molecular target.