Pharmaceutical manufacturing: news in brief
In-PharmaTechnologist.com brings you a selection of other headlines from the pharmaceutical manufacturing industry.
Archives for October 18, 2007
Discarded body parts used to cut animal testing
A team of US scientists have used typically discarded body parts to create a 'joint in a test tube', which can be used to test arthritis drugs instead of using animals.
Viracept back on the market in selected countries
Roche heard early this morning that the European Commission (EC) has decided to reinstate the marketing authorisation for the company's HIV drug, Viracept (nelfinavir), but countries outside the EU have yet to make a final decision.
Study your rats so the results don't bite
New research has shown that even if laboratory rats are genetically identical they can still develop distinct metabolic profiles that could skew drug toxicity and metabolism studies.
Pfizer counts the cost of Exubera, Nektar suffers
With yesterday's perhaps unsurprising news that Pfizer has cut its losses and pulled out of the inhaled insulin market by dropping Exubera and giving up on second generation devices, the world's biggest pharma firm is in the process of scrabbling to...