Archives for April 1, 2008

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Technique takes chemical analysis to femtogram scale

By  David Robson

A new laboratory technique can describe both the structure and chemical composition of samples with a mass of less than one femtogram (one quadrillionth of a gram) using standard laboratory equipment.

Waters Patrol keeps a close eye on PAT

By  Huw Kidwell

Waters Corp unveiled a new concept in Process Analytical Technology (PAT) at Pittcon 2008 when it released the new Patrol UPLC (ultra performance liquid chromatography) process analyser, which can be incorporated directly into a process.

Novozymes licenses albumin technology to CSL Behring

Denmark's Novozymes has signed an exclusive worldwide licensing agreement with CSL Behring for albufuse, a proprietary albumin fusion technology that can extend the circulatory half-life of therapeutic proteins through genetic fusion to recombinant...

Microbial testing steps up a gear with Growth Direct

By  Phil Taylor

With manufacturing productivity in the pharmaceutical sector widely acknowledged as being in need of modernisation, a US firm believes it has developed a technology that could carve days off the time spent on microbial testing, a cumbersome but...