Archives for July 23, 2006

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Researchers revel in real-time cell action via new tool

By  Wai Lang Chu

Researchers in the US have developed an exciting new tool that enables scientists to watch cell chemical activity in real-time. The tool's development has major implications for speeding up new drug design.

Fake Lipitor lingers in supply chain

By  Gregory Roumeliotis

Pfizer has issued another recall for packs of its blockbuster cholesterol drug Lipitor after UK regulators found evidence of more counterfeit product in the legitimate supply chain from a batch whose withdrawal was supposed to have been completed a...

MedImmune and Micromet report positive data on cancer drug

By  Wai Lang Chu

MedImmune and Micromet have provided details on a novel drug molecule that targets a tyrosine kinase receptor that is frequently overexpressed on solid tumours and provides the opportunity to develop an anti-cancer therapeutic, which may minimise...

Rentschler steps up contract antibody capacity

By  Kirsty Barnes

Rentschler Biotechnologie has heralded the start of a €50m expansion to increase its capacity to produce antibodies and mammalian cell culture-derived proteins on a commercial scale.