Archives for February 6, 2008

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Spirax Sarco acquires Flexicon aseptic filling business

By  Pete Mansell

Spirax Sarco Engineering, the UK-based group focused on systems for the use and control of steam and industrial fluids, is boosting its activities in the biopharmaceuticals sector through the acquisition of Denmark's Flexicon A/S for DKK 141m (€18.9m).

Cellexus extends rental plan for disposable bioreactor

By  Pete Mansell

Cellexus Biosystems, the UK company that designs, manufactures and sells disposable cell growth technology for the biopharmaceutical industry, is extending the rental plan offered on its CellMaker Lite2 single-use bioreactor in response to significant...

IDT can link your lab to collaborators online

By  staff reporter

Integrated DNA Technologies (IDT) has launched LabLinker, a free online system for sharing genome sequence data and even share shipping costs of orders.

Gerresheimer flashes the plastic with Allplas acquisition

By  Pete Mansell

German pharmaceutical packaging group Gerresheimer has once again extended its reach in the plastic packaging space, this time acquiring Allplas Embalagens, the market leader for pharmaceutical plastic packaging in Brazil.

Synthesis stumbling blocks in pharma licensing

By  Anna Lewcock

With increasing pressures on pharma pipelines leading to greater interest in compound licensing, firms can be caught out by failing to give scalability issues due attention, according to Joseph D'Antuono speaking at last week's Informex trade show in...

Biomatrica storage solution keeps RNA fresh

By  Wai Lang Chu

Biomatrica has launched the RNAstable - a piece of kit that preserves RNA samples at ambient and elevated temperatures with minimal degradation.