Discovery could make protein manufacture more efficient
US researchers have found a way to improve the yield of biopharmaceutical production by freeing up protein trapped in bacterial stores known as inclusion bodies.
Archives for January 5, 2009
Residents fume about waste drug processing plant
Residents in the Indiana town of Anderson, US are up in arms about Peat International’s plans to build a waste drug vaporizing plant.
CMOs fall foul of FDA regulations
Two contract manufacturing organisations PrimaPharm have been cited by the US Food and Drug Administration for not adhering to Good Manufacturing Practice standards.
Synthesis of aromatic polyketides in E. coli solved
US researchers have for the first time synthesised an important class of drug compounds - the aromatic polyketides - in Escherichia coli, a bacteria widely used in microbial production.
Pharma outsourcing: people on the move
Outsourcing-Pharma.com presents its periodic round-up of executive appointments in the contract services sector.
$10bn savings from follow-on biologics; CBO report
Implementation of an abbreviated approval pathway for follow-on biologics could result in savings of almost $10bn over a decade, according to a report from the Congressional Budget Office (CBO).
Recipharm firms up French position
Recipharm hopes that its new tablet and capsule manufacturing facility in Fontaine-Les-Dijon, France, which significantly expands its dry powder production capacity, will help it broaden its European client base.
Consortium formed to improve QbD software
Blue Reference has formed a Quality by Design Product Development Consortium (QbD PDC) to provide a forum for the improvement of its process analytics software.
Perceptive licenses EQ-5D for use in ePRO
Perceptive Informatics has gained the right to use EQ-5D, which will allow the company to offer clinical study sponsors the option to collect health-related quality of life outcomes using a telephone.