Archives for October 12, 2006

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Tecan makes automated cell culture easier

By  Wai Lang Chu

Tecan has made available to the scientific community a new Flask Flipper module, which has been designed to fit onto the company's Freedom EVO liquid handling workstations.

Integrated exploratory protocols crucial to pharma

By  Wai Lang Chu

Integrated exploratory protocols could be the way forward in carrying out early phase clinical studies, which not only reduces drug development time and cost but minimises risk of late phase failures.

Aesica snaps up Merck UK facility

By  Emilie Reymond

British pharma company Aesica has bought a chemical manufacturing facility from Merck Sharp and Dohme (MSD), Merck's UK subsidiary, in a bid to increase it manufacturing capacities.

Datatrak "on track" for 2007

By  Kirsty Barnes

Datatrak International said it has been offered a minimum of $3m (€2.4m) worth of contracts for next year out of a deal struck with its first "multibillion-dollar" pharma firm in the second quarter.