Archives for April 23, 2007

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New Novozymes unit backs animal-free protein production

By  Phil Taylor

Denmark's Novozymes has set up a dedicated business unit in the UK to make and sell ingredients that support companies wanting to produce biopharmaceuticals without using animal-derived constituents.

GSK may tap Futura for topical pain relief product

By  staff reporter

UK firm Futura Medical is in the running for a second license contract for one of its drug delivery platforms after pharma heavyweight GlaxoSmithKline came to the table to discuss terms.

Chiltern launches new clinical staff recruitment booster

By  Emilie Reymond

Contract research organisation (CRO) Chiltern has announced it is expanding its services with a new solution aimed at helping clients boost their clinical research staff recruitment process - an increasingly difficult task due to the growing number of...

E. coli offers short-cut to large-scale antibody production

By  Pete Mansell

A new method for generating large volumes of therapeutic antibodies direct from Escherichia coli bacterium could knock weeks off conventional mass-production processes that scale up to mammalian cells, US researchers believe.

Jeol puts viruses under the microscope

By  Dr Matt Wilkinson

The ever increasing sales of high-voltage field emission Transmission Electron Microscopes (TEMs) highlights the growing importance of understanding structure-activity relationships in structural biology.

Amgen posts strong results after Aranesp relief

By  Emilie Reymond

Biotech giant Amgen has posted healthy results for the first quarter following a positive performance by its blockbuster anaemia drug Aranesp (darbepoetin alfa).