Archives for May 23, 2007

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Inovio's electroporation tech delivers the goods in trial

By  Peter Mansell

Inovio Biomedical, a US company developing novel DNA immunotherapies and other treatments based on electroporation technology, has reported interim data from a Phase I/II clinical study showing that its MedPulser system significantly enhanced the...

YM's revamped MAb facility gets thumbs up

By  Anna Lewcock

YM BioSciences today announced that the upgraded manufacturing facility for the firm's humanized monoclonal antibody (MAb) for the treatment of cancer has successfully passed a series of regulatory reviews.

Acambis brings smallpox vaccine production in-house

By  Emilie Reymond

UK biotech firm Acambis has decided to bring the manufacturing of its soon to be approved smallpox vaccine in-house while its agreement with contract manufacturer Baxter comes to an end.

AMRI snaps up two manufacturing sites in India

By  Pete Mansell

Albany Molecular Research (AMRI) has followed up its push into new markets for its drug discovery operations by tapping into the well-established trend for sourcing contract pharmaceutical manufacturing from the lower-cost Asian region.

Alembic seals epilepsy drug delivery deal

By  Anna Lewcock

Indian firm Alembic has landed a licensing deal with biopharma heavyweight UCB to apply the company's novel drug delivery system for a once-a-day version of UCB's market leading epilepsy drug.

MFIC to bring microfluidics to drug formulation

By  Dr Matt Wilkinson

MFIC is looking to introduce a new microfluidic system that could help pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies to manufacture difficult to formulate drugs.

Advances in Microarray Technology

By  Dr Matt Wilkinson

The latest Advances in Microarray Technology (AMT) conference, held in conjunction with the Lab-on-a-Chip World Congress highlighted the movement of the fields from the research lab into diagnostics.